Due to fatal crash bugs, Medievil, Crash Bandicoot 2 and Spyro 2 were removed from the PlayStation Store. Emails have started being sent out to people who bought the games detailing the current situation. Sadly, it doesn't look great for those of us who actually wanted to play them. Anyone who bought the PS1 titles from the EU PSN Store will be getting a refund within the next seven days. The money will go straight back into your wallet on the Store and the games will be removed from your download list. Curiously, there is no mention of the games ever being put back on to the Store. The deletion from your download list has a strong sense of finality about it.
Hopefully these three PS1 classics will be but back on eventually, but without any sort of timeframe announced, we're not going to hold our collective breath for too long.













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8-10-2007 @ 10:31AM
adam said...
What about Hot Shots Golf? It was removed shortly after it was released to the PSN as well.
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8-10-2007 @ 10:33AM
Dahk said...
Just to extend our summer drought.
Hmmmm so maybe this is all intentional and its REALLY a marketing ploy! Make the PS3 suck HARD during the summer.
And then when september hits, blow your customer base away with some massive triple A titles, and it'll exponentialitize the growth! Seemed to work with the DS, maybe it'll work with the PS3 =P.
... which SUCKS cuz I'll be busy in september. So much for my summer *sigh*. I guess I can't actually vegetate on my couch for once.
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8-10-2007 @ 10:34AM
russ said...
sony are really embarassing themselves over the whole PSN and onlinr thing. My prediction for Home = late and broken.
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8-10-2007 @ 12:22PM
OrganicShadow said...
Refunds and the removal from download list sounds to me like they either don't know how long it will take to fix the games and want to play it safe, or they realized that the only way is to completely go through and do it over again- which would be time consuming, especially considering how few games we have on there to begin with.
I'm still waiting on my Resident Evil Director's Cut(dual shock?)...
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8-10-2007 @ 12:28PM
a.j. said...
@4 why? because they put things up and 2 or 3 of them aren't working so they're issuing refunds? i think they've handled it pretty well. it's not worth acting like this is only a PSN thing too, i've seen things on XBL get yanked and reposted as well.
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8-10-2007 @ 12:29PM
jp said...
i have all three of them games on disc as well as a perfectly working ps1 from the original release. you can have them dont plan on ever playing them again.
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8-10-2007 @ 1:16PM
russ said...
@4
Because the psn barely ever updates. When it updates its rubbish. The network always crashes out, a mere shadow of the 360's system.
And I'm not a 360 fanboy, I sold that piece of crap because it broke on me.
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8-10-2007 @ 1:43PM
TrainXIII said...
I've completed Crash 2 at 100% with no problems what-so-ever. Can they can actually forcefully delete a game from the hard drive?! That has to be breaking some law.
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8-10-2007 @ 1:54PM
Andy said...
YAY! its covered by warranty.
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8-10-2007 @ 3:07PM
secret said...
Good question, TrainXIII
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8-10-2007 @ 4:06PM
Tru-blue said...
Anybody have any info on why they took down the downloadable Flow game? All that's in the store is the trailer, but the game is non-existent.
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8-10-2007 @ 4:57PM
a.j. said...
@8 "Because the psn barely ever updates. When it updates its rubbish. The network always crashes out, a mere shadow of the 360's system. And I'm not a 360 fanboy, I sold that piece of crap because it broke on me."
it updates once a week, the network hasn't crashed on me once (and i use it daily) and for a free service that you aren't paying for, aside to some demos and a few arcade games, what are you expecting? good thing you sold that 360 so you can hang out on this site and educate everyone.
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8-11-2007 @ 10:13AM
au815 said...
flOw is still up there Tru-blue, I downloaded it the other day. Awsome game if a little short and very easy, doesn't stop me playing again tho.
My crash 2 seems to work fine without any problems, oh well I get a free game w00t guess i'll get something else...no wait...nothing else to buy.
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8-11-2007 @ 1:55PM
joey2joey said...
If you want to see bugs and crashes take a look at the xbox 360 you dumb shits. 30% are defective when bought. Also it is on its third major crash. One or two games dont work on psn and you guys bitch over it like crazy.
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8-11-2007 @ 4:49PM
Mr Khan said...
@ TrainXIII In america, i doubt it would violate any law. The way Digital Rights law works around here, everything on your HDD isn't "yours" its "Sony's" you just own the right to play it (under Sony's approved conditions), and as long as whatever they do to it is within their EULA, you're basically screwed
But that's beside the point. The few VC games that were broken just got "updated." Nintendo didn't have to do anything this drastic. Or are the PS1 downloads individually (software) emulated, not batch (firmware) emulated? Its odd that they wouldn't just issue patches in either case
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8-11-2007 @ 6:40PM
Ian said...
"Can they can actually forcefully delete a game from the hard drive?! That has to be breaking some law." -- TrainXIII
You misread the post: "the games will be removed from your download list."
Not deleted form your hard drive but from the PSN download list that you can use to re-download an item should you delete it from the HDD. You can keep the PS1 game downloads if you like - they just won't work because they're so buggy :) Should you choose to delete the installs from your hard drive, you won't be able to re-download them because (a) you've been refunded and (b) Sony have pulled the downloads, hence it makes sense not to be on your download list anymore.
Nothing illegal or untoward is happening here, move along folks.
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8-11-2007 @ 10:57PM
snsr said...
You could always pick up a used copy for like $2 at any used place/ebay..
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8-12-2007 @ 2:17PM
Mak said...
Anyone know if these issues are down to Euro PS3 Software EE emulation?
If so, it's good news, as Sony have a reason to continue to improve EE emulation, so they can sell PS1/PS2 games on PSN.
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