Chances of Dragon Ball Early Days Collection?

[GreatSaiyaJeff]

So I bought the Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days Collection and I'm loving going back playing older games and ones I've never played before. It made me think, what are the chances Dragon Ball can get that? It did have quite a few games for both the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance. Maybe I'm just being hopeful on my part

[Vegeta th3 4th]

One of the reasons we never got a Tenkaichi collection was due to some rights issue with Atari, as that was the company that published games outside of Japan.

[TechExpert2021]

One of the reasons we never got a Tenkaichi collection was due to some rights issue with Atari, as that was the company that published games outside of Japan.

Atari* published the Dragon Ball video games only in North America (as well as Australia and New Zealand) from 2002 until 2009, when the publishing rights of Dragon Ball games in North America, Australia, and New Zealand were transitioned to Bandai Namco Entertainment's American and Australian branches respectively (Bandai Namco Entertainment's Australian branch was formerly OziSoft Pty Ltd., the original distributor of Sega home consoles and games in Australia and New Zealand). Bandai's European branch published those games in Europe (Infogrames Entertainment (Atari S.A.) only handled the distribution of DB games in Europe until 2009).

*Atari, Inc. (no relation to the original Atari from 1972-1992 (original Atari, Inc.) and 1984-1996 (Atari Corporation), but it does currently own the Atari brand) is the North American branch of French company Atari S.A. (known as Infogrames Entertainment S.A. from its founding in 1983 until 2009). It was originally founded as GT Interactive Software in 1993 as the video game publishing division of GoodTimes Home Video. Infogrames Entertainment S.A. acquired it in 1999 and renamed it to Infogrames, Inc. in 2000, and then to its current name (Atari, Inc.) in 2003.

[Hellspawn28]

One of the reasons we never got a Tenkaichi collection was due to some rights issue with Atari, as that was the company that published games outside of Japan.

Atari has nothing to do with that as we did get a HD remaster of Budokai 1 & 3 from Bandai Namco in 2012. As for a Dragon Ball Early Days Collection, the music from Kenji Yamamoto will make it hard to sell. They would have to go back and re-edit any of his music that he worked on. As shitty as UB22 and GTFB are, the music in those games make them somewhat playing for how good they are.

[TechExpert2021]

They would have to go back and re-edit any of his music that he worked on.

Or they can just hire another video game music composer to compose new, non-plagiarized background music to replace the background music in all the Dragon Ball games Kenji Yamamoto worked on.

[tinlunlau]

They could easily replace it with the BGM from the Japanese releases of those games.

[omegalucas]

They could easily replace it with the BGM from the Japanese releases of those games.

Only the Budokai and Tenkaichi (and Raging Blast) games had different soundtracks between the Japanese and overseas releases. The older games had the same soundtrack in all versions (aside from maybe the openings like in the case of Final Bout), most of them by Yamamoto.

[coola]

I remember reading about one of Japan only collections that had games from Super Famicom era, and those with Yamamoto soundtrack had OST replaced as well, so unfortunately, i'd imagine it would be too much pain in the butt to make such collection. I would probably wait for hacks that bring back original OST as well

[tinlunlau]

Need a re-release of Super Dragon Ball Z

[ThunderPX]

They would have to go back and re-edit any of his music that he worked on.

Or they can just hire another video game music composer to compose new, non-plagiarized background music to replace the background music in all the Dragon Ball games Kenji Yamamoto worked on.

The other times they did that, it was dreadful. Look up the Switch version of SB1 if you wanna be bored out of your skull.

[The Dark Knight]

Need a re-release of Super Dragon Ball Z

I think all of the franchise's previous games should be preserved in some way, but unfortunately, the only games we have access to are exclusively from the past decade. The Budokai and Tenkaichi trilogies are some of the most successful anime games ever produced, yet there's absolutely no way to experience them legally.

[Hellspawn28]

A DB collection would probably have:

Epoch Super Cassette Vision: Dragon Daihikyou
Famicom: Shenron no Nazo, Gokuden 1-3, Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans
NES: Dragon Power
Super Famicom: Super Gokuden 1-2, Super Saiya Densetsu, Super Butōden 1-3 and Hyper Dimension
Mega Drive: Buyū Retsuden
Gameboy: Goku Hishōden and Goku Gekitōden
GBC: Legendary Super Warriors
PS1: UB22, Legends, and GTFB.

Not sure how PS2 emulation can work on non Sony systems.