Refunds for broken PS1 games on their way

by Jem Alexander { Aug 10th 2007 at 10:00AM }

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.

Tags: PS1games, PSNStore

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

adam @ Aug 10th 2007 10:31AM

What about Hot Shots Golf? It was removed shortly after it was released to the PSN as well.

Dahk @ Aug 10th 2007 10:33AM

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.

russ @ Aug 10th 2007 10:34AM

sony are really embarassing themselves over the whole PSN and onlinr thing. My prediction for Home = late and broken.

OrganicShadow @ Aug 10th 2007 12:22PM

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?)...

a.j. @ Aug 10th 2007 12:28PM

@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.

jp @ Aug 10th 2007 12:29PM

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.

russ @ Aug 10th 2007 1:16PM

@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.

TrainXIII @ Aug 10th 2007 1:43PM

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.

Andy @ Aug 10th 2007 1:54PM

YAY! its covered by warranty.

secret @ Aug 10th 2007 3:07PM

Good question, TrainXIII

Tru-blue @ Aug 10th 2007 4:06PM

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.

a.j. @ Aug 10th 2007 4:57PM

@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.

au815 @ Aug 11th 2007 10:13AM

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.

joey2joey @ Aug 11th 2007 1:55PM

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.

Mr Khan @ Aug 11th 2007 4:49PM

@ 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

Ian @ Aug 11th 2007 6:40PM

"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.