I’ll have a Google and edit this later with the exact reasoning.ĮDIT:- Apparently it has something to do with GGPO which is middleware for emulated arcade and fighting games, designed to create a lagless experience. Now while I don’t know why the classic KI games weren’t ported in kind with the PC release, I do know however that KI 1 and 2 arcade edition have never been available via the fightcade platform and supposedly there was some sort of difficulty with getting them to work there.
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I’m 400% sure that Code Mystics could port KI Classic to the Windows store, and I can’t help but to wonder if that could be on the table in the future if we wished hard enough… I’d just really like to know why the KI Classics didn’t get the Play Anywhere treatment alongside the main game straight from the KI Team. (That’s a game purchased via the Xbox/Windows ecosystem, allowing it to be played on both PC and Xbox One.)Ĭode Mystics has done Xbox One to Windows ports before, and even then, Code Mystics offered to add characters that weren’t in KI2 into the game, such as Thunder, Mira, and/or Aganos, but for some reason, the KI Krew decided to give a heaping helping of KI Gold as the bonus for Season 3 instead. The rockstars at Code Mystics were responsible for the brilliant ports of KI & KI2 Classic to the Xbox One, and it wasn’t too long before the core KI Krew made Killer Instinct one of Microsoft’s first “Play Anywhere” games. You get all my respect, but that’s simply conjecture on your part.