Mastering Remasters
Every few years, a new form of media comes out for movies. It started with VHS, Laser Discs, DVDs and now Blu-rays and digital formats. Unless you are watching a George Lucas or Steven Spielberg movie, you are technically watching the same movie albeit with an increase in visual and audio quality. If you were a film buff, you would be happy to just throw away the old formats so that you could get the latest and best way to experience the movie you love. For games, it’s different. Consoles have been using specially designed architectures and processors up until the latest generation of consoles and porting the code that was specifically targeted for those consoles might prove to be a challenge with each one being so wildly different from each other that it might even be impossible to get the game up and running at all without doing a lot of legwork to redo the underlying engine that runs the game. Which is why one of the most common ways that developers might choose to allow new p...