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Old 01-04-2022, 08:19 PM   #9
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Re: They should of expanded on APF 2K8

They have all the coding somewhere, if they could accurately implement or recreate it onto the next gen I have no doubts the gameplay would Deebo Maddens.
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Old 01-04-2022, 09:10 PM   #10
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They have all the coding somewhere, if they could accurately implement or recreate it onto the next gen I have no doubts the gameplay would Deebo Maddens.
Allegedly in 2020 the developers of Maximum Football reached out to Visual Concepts about licensing the source code of All Pro Football. They were told that, even if VC could license out the code (they can't, Take-Two owns and controls it), the code base had decayed beyond recovery:

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The tools they used to create the game are obsolete and do not work on new operating systems. The file system they used was proprietary and to generate them you needed to use special plugins - which are no longer supported and the software they plugged into is obsolete. The graphics API used is no longer supported on any platform. It would need to be replaced.

There is nobody left at the studio that understands the game logic. One of the developers that worked on 2k8 is actually dead.

None of the current game engines - unity or unreal - that I would have access too support the animation system that 2k uses. They've built a game engine and animation system designed for sports games. Unreal and Unity have animation engines designed for mobile games and first person shooters.
Basically, they might as well not have the source code anymore.
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