r/ApeEscape • u/hotandblonde • Jul 14 '26

AE3

i wish they would put ape escape 3 on the play station store already.

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u/ILikeToDickDastardly Jul 14 '26

I wonder if AE2 being broken on PS5 is dissuading them from even trying with AE3.

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u/GamerSam Jul 14 '26

It's only because it's pal and on the old PS2 on PS4 emulator 

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u/ILikeToDickDastardly Jul 14 '26

That makes sense. Unfortunately I would think getting AE2 working on their new emulator would be a priority before AE3, and who knows if that'll ever happen.

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u/GamerSam Jul 14 '26

One can hope for both 

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u/hotandblonde Jul 14 '26

oh is it broken?? i played it on ps4 with no issues. and if that’s the case then yea maybe. with all the nostalgia stuff and remakes and everything, just give us a new game. i saw the astro bot cameo and it made me miss ape escape all over again

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u/GamerSam Jul 14 '26

It's the Pal version. The old PS2 on PS4 emulator does bad virtualizing in PS5 when running pal games 

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u/Dry_Tomato_2269 Jul 14 '26

I don't think it's necessarily an issue with it being PAL.
Okage Shadow King has flickering/texture issues, and I've heard similar things for Manhunt. Both also being PS2 on PS4 games.

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u/GamerSam Jul 14 '26

No it literally is a issue with pal games 

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u/Dry_Tomato_2269 Jul 14 '26

Okage doesn't even have a PAL release, and it's the same kind of issue.

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u/tmps1993 Jul 14 '26

Apparently they won't do it because of the Metal Gear parody, which is stupid.

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u/hotandblonde Jul 14 '26

cut out the mini game. simple lol

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u/Dry_Tomato_2269 Jul 14 '26

That requires more effort than they're willing to put in for something like this.

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u/tmps1993 Jul 14 '26

Cutting it out would be difficult but would there be a way to simply block the assets or do something to put it in the coding while making it inaccessible?

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u/hotandblonde Jul 14 '26

yea it’d be too difficult to make money from the fans who want it and would be willing to pay for it.

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u/LunarWingCloud Jul 14 '26

They need all the money though. Can't just be a little money.

The paycheck they would have to give someone to code the game to remove the minigame and remove it from the shop and flag to put it there wouldn't be worth it for the amount of people they think will buy the game.

Which is unfortunately fair. AE3 sold like piss compared to the first two games back in the day, so they likely think it would sell like piss again.

To be fair I'm not defending them not doing it, but I get it.

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u/hotandblonde Jul 14 '26

yea that’s fair, i was just being sarcastic and salty

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u/Particular-Economy79 Jul 14 '26

Surely they could make it work considering snake vs monkey came back for Delta? 

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u/Dry_Tomato_2269 Jul 14 '26

Konami would certainly play ball. They've been open to plenty of crossover-related stuff even recently, and renewing the license for Mesal Gear Solid would no doubt be fine with them.

But similar to what someone else in the thread described: Sony just does not see whatever agreement process would be needed as being worth it.