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NEWS: Sega's Panzer Dragoon Game Gets Remake in 2019

While original fans might enjoy, I suspect these games won't hold up to modern audiences. Like every game now has a huge open world. Who wants a rail shooter where you don't get to actually control the dragon?

I am looking forward to this.

Uhh… every copy should have the source code....

Sega must be lying and could be holding a grudge I think.

You can copy any game as it is. The RPG Panzer is no different.

If i'm not mistaken the source code for the first three panzer dragoon games where lost in a fire which is why the older games have never ported to any modern hardware

Remington Steele wrote:

I am looking forward to this. Uhh… every copy should have the source code.... Sega must be lying and could be holding a grudge I think. You can copy any game as it is. The RPG Panzer is no different.

Uhh... That's not how games work. The finished copy you own on disc or in your console digitally does not have the source code in its data. What you have is code that is (ideally) optimized for the console/computer that you are playing it on. The source code is not really meant to be played, and really is only truly playable on a computer, since that's what video games are actually developed on. That's why such a big deal was made earlier this year when a fan came across the "gold disc" for Starcraft, which was effectively the source code that Blizzard somehow lost, and Blizzard got in contact with that fan to get it back. If Starcraft's source code was simply on every single physical copy, then there'd be no need for a gold disc, not to mention anyone with a knowledge of how to work code could illegally port any old game to any system, theoretically. Source codes exist partially to make sure something like that doesn't happen.

Going by your logic, any movie you own on DVD, or at least just VHS, has the original master on it, so you should be able to remaster any movie using any old home video release. No, just like movies, games have their own original "source", and they can be lost, damaged, or downright destroyed. Similar to how movies sometimes become lost over time because the original masters either got misplaced or were destroyed in some fashion, on purpose or by accident,, the same happens to video game source codes, and the Panzer Dragoon series (especially Saga) is one of those incidents.

Now, to be fair, could Panzer Dragoon Saga be technically ported over to other consoles by using the code on the finished Saturn CDs that saw release? Yes, technically, but that would be even harder & time-consuming than it would be to work off of the already difficult Saturn source code. The team that ported Panzer Dragoon 1 to the PS2 tried doing just that in order to include a "Saturn Mode" , but even that wound up being different from the original Saturn version.