Astérix Speedrunning: xxl2

hesopesomeso

Omg

failentin

yoo what a privilege!

failentin

Btw did you check out the fan-made restoration of the Beta Rome sectors?

failentin

thanks to the remaster that early chunk of the level could be made playable ^^

failentin

was restoring Beta Rome ever considered during development of the remaster?

gwennaterasu

And on that note, when Microids wanted to remaster xx2 and xxl, they didn't have the source code... The managers at Osome (Mathieu Fremont and Domenico Albani, who worked at Étranges) were still in contact with another Étranges employee who had kept the original source code for xxl and xxl2 on a hard drive, and that's how we got hold of it

gwennaterasu

except that this employee had left before the end of the development of xxl2 at the time (one month before the end), so for the remaster they had to debug things that they had fixed at the end of the development of the original xxl2 :obelul:

hesopesomeso

Ahhhhhh that's why!!!

gwennaterasu

That's probably also why there's no remaster of Olympic Games, because no one has the source code :obelul:

baku69

oh man xDDD

baku69

That's hilarious

gwennaterasu

yes 😄

failentin

Yeah I remember hearing that they worked with an unfinished version, though I didn't know tge reason haha

baku69

We thought that they didn't make og remaster cause of some movie copy rights or smth

baku69

but well

baku69

xD

hesopesomeso

Exactly§

gwennaterasu

We've seen a few videos, yes, and we've always thought it was so cool that people without the source code can do things like that!

gwennaterasu

We've seen a few videos, yes, and we've always thought it was so cool that people without the source code can do things like that!

gwennaterasu

Yes, it was planned at the very beginning, but the development time for the remaster was very short (about 6 months), so it was quickly forgotten

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