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Originally Posted by SquawkBox
Let me rephrase : As far as the canonical cracked versions are concerned e.q. melnok's, the game loads fine. Trouble is it doesn't transition from Disk 1 (intro) to Disk 2. That's why a Scoopex version bearing the intro and the game on the same disk image is most welcome.
Just curious, what prevents this batch of IPF's from gaining official status then ? Some kind of reluctancy to cross the red line that was drawn by the big cheese @SPS  ? |
SPS made it clear right from the off, they would preserve any and all Amiga disks with the intention of them being able to be written back to floppy in the future.
There are 5 or so Psygnosis games where although SPS understands the format and knows it inside out, because this format was written blind with no checking of the data as it wrote to floppy, means that SPS cannot guarantee that what is in the IPF, will be correctly written to floppy.
So these 5 or so games were never officially released as IPF because of this issue.
Its basically SPS ensuring that anything contained in the IPF format is 100% verified so that its a trusted format.
They don't modify IPF files, they don't fix broken versions of games, they preserve them warts and all.
Its simply SPS being meticulous.