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Famicom game 'Rockboard' was considered for Mega Man Legacy Collection, 3DS to have special features

by rawmeatcowboy
21 August 2015
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Coming from a USGamer interview with Capcom's Rey Jiminez and Digital Eclipse's Frank Cifaldi...

USG: It also makes sense from a tech perspective to just go with the NES games because they're the same hardware being reproduced. I know it's not emulation, technically, but it's working to the same spec. Did you consider throwing in [Japan-only Famicom game] RockBoard as a sort of bonus, given that it's the odd one out on the same technology or platform?

Rey: The answer isn't no. We definitely had thought about it, but there wasn't really a way for that to fit in for us, especially since it was in Japanese, right? So…

Frank: We even looked at translating it, if I could speak to that for a second.

Rey: As close to the technological images, you could theoretically do it, but you're starting to go away from everything we're trying to do, which is to keep everything authentic. We couldn't release an all-Japanese board game here in the U.S., so…

USG: Well, that's what I've been curious about. Also, is the 3DS version going to have any special challenges with it, given that it's a less capable platform than PS4?

Frank: We're going to have second skin support and have some 3D elements. Otherwise, we'll talk about the 3DS more later on. Content-wise, it will be the same.

Full interview here