darkSpyro

Wait, what. this is like discovering a child separated at birth, THERE WAS A SKYLANDERS FOR THE PC? how come i could never find it?

what stores carry it? and is it normally put with the other skylander games, or by pc games?


what skylander games are on the PC?

Aside from the flash web games at Skylanders.com, the only official game released for the PC was Spyro's Adventure. It was sold in stores, but the location varied based on the store. Generally, it was displayed with the rest of the Skylanders stuff.

It sold horribly. Giants was rumored to have a PC release, but it's unsure if there was actually any real plans and they were cancelled because of how poorly the PC version of SSA sold or if there was just never plans for a PC release of Giants at all.

The game itself is the same game that was released for the consoles.

Originally, Skylanders.com was home to a horribly buggy website/game called "Spyro's Universe" (later renamed "Skylanders Universe"), where you had your own island that you could decorate along with the ability to travel to a mainland that acted as a portal to the above mentioned crappy flash/web games. Playing these games unlocked items that you could use to decorate your personal island. I don't think this version of the website ever officially made it out of beta phase and was greatly trimmed down to what's left up there now.

And wasnt the pc version of ssa responsible for corrupting figure data? I remember a topic where many figures were corrupted and the PC version was the reason.

I have the PC version of SSA. It has always worked fine for me.

Despite the HORRIBLE copy protection that demands the CD is in the drive in order to play (UGH) I loved it.
Best thing is the quality of the graphics, I play on a full HD screen. Also, I have a 3D monitor and Skylanders on the PC works fine in 3D mode.
It's pretty amazing playing the whole thing in full real 3D.

If I could work out how I would screen shot it for you all in 3D, but then you wouldn't be able to view it anyway

I recommend it in 3D on the PC as a fun game. Picked mine up cheap on ebay shortly after Giants released.

You should be able to grab a screen shot by holding the boxed fn(next to the left Ctrl key) then hitting the boxed print screen key.

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I have the PC version of SSA. It has always worked fine for me.

Despite the HORRIBLE copy protection that demands the CD is in the drive in order to play (UGH) I loved it.
Best thing is the quality of the graphics, I play on a full HD screen. Also, I have a 3D monitor and Skylanders on the PC works fine in 3D mode.
It's pretty amazing playing the whole thing in full real 3D.

If I could work out how I would screen shot it for you all in 3D, but then you wouldn't be able to view it anyway

I recommend it in 3D on the PC as a fun game. Picked mine up cheap on ebay shortly after Giants released.

you can play the game without the cd
just remove it when you start the game

I picked up my copy at sams club around june it was only $9 you might be able to find one if you search hard enough.
I never play it I need a better video card its choppy on my machine.

It's quite an old game, I would expect most recent GFX cards to knock it out at a good frame rate.
Taking the CD out of the box, into the PC every time I start the game is a PITA.

I really liked the PC version, but i can see why they cancelled it.

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It's quite an old game, I would expect most recent GFX cards to knock it out at a good frame rate.
Taking the CD out of the box, into the PC every time I start the game is a PITA.

yeah I bet I have too much stuff running in the background,I mean I can run gears of war like a champ but not skylanders.

I don't get the complaints about having to put the CD in everytime, though... That's been the standard for copy protection ever since CDs became the main way of distributing games, nearly 20 years ago! And, technically, that's the case on consoles, too. I mean, I took the option to copy both games to my XBox's hard drive, and I still need the CD every time.

PC version was the one I completed the first game on.

It's definitely the best version graphic-wise (mainly because you have a PC to back that up, so a decent gaming type PC works very well for this).

Also, Daemon Tools, using it's highest DPC measurement, can fool the disc check if you make an mdx format image (Timing based stuff and all that Jazz), and use common precautions to avoid having that program detected by the AP stuff.

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I don't get the complaints about having to put the CD in everytime, though... That's been the standard for copy protection ever since CDs became the main way of distributing games, nearly 20 years ago! And, technically, that's the case on consoles, too. I mean, I took the option to copy both games to my XBox's hard drive, and I still need the CD every time.

Well, it is a pain to do. And it punishes legitimate buyers, pirates don't have to do that. Besides, this isn't really a game you would pirate, after all the figures and portal are a big part of the fun - and you cannot download those. Skylanders has built in physical copy protection, so it just seems ... unnecessary.

And some copy protection can cause problems. A lot of time they do low level things that is not very compatible between versions of Windows, or they do things they really shouldn't be doing (root kits/modifying files in restricted locations/etc.). I remember a long time back I had Age of Kings (great game) and it wrecked two WD hard drives due to the way it did something weird to the controller if the hard drive was the master and your CD drive a slave. Stardock also has a long history of problems. Another example is Turbo Tax, about ten years ago they had to make a bunch of refunds because their copy protection installed software that wouldn't be removed when uninstalling the program - it permanently modified your system.

Pirates crack the games anyways, then they don't have to deal with that mess. The only people it inconveniences is those that play by the rules. I'm a software dev, so I'm definitely not a fan of pirates, either - but it's easy to see this is the wrong solution to the problem.

I totally agree. I am against piracy, but the problem is they get around ALL forms of copy protection anyway!
The only people that have to deal with it are the legitimate customers who often resort to a pirate version to get away from the DRM.

The ONLY people in the world who don't get forced to sit through a message about not pirating a movie are the PIRATES watching a pirate copy with the message removed. The irony is strong here.

Agree on the point of physical copy protection. Why pirate a Skylanders game when you still need the portal and figures? As I said before, it would end up costing more than buying the starter pack

What really killed the PC version wasn't just sales but the hacking. Consoles are far more secure. Poor sales+hacking=no more PC versions.
Sad.

Seriously... if the numbers I saw were any indication, it wouldn't matter if no one hacked or pirated the games... the sales were baaaaad.

Can you share those numbers?

I would assume they made quite a lot so why are they not everywhere being cleared out cheap?

eh... I'd say no.

But, for what it's worth, I picked up a copy at Sam's for $10. Doesn't get much cheaper than that.

So what would be the odds of me finding one? i really would like to play it again, as my wii is at my relative's house. and i'd much rather play on laptop than PS3

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So what would be the odds of me finding one? i really would like to play it again, as my wii is at my relative's house. and i'd much rather play on laptop than PS3

I got one on eBay for five euro, I think the guy is still selling them.

Came without a portal, but then again I'm sure you'd have one or two of those lying around.

Indeed, plenty on eBay.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skyl...C-/380728139098
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skyl...PC/331055401039

So good luck and have fun with it.

Thanks! definitely buying one.

Don't get me wrong, I get irritated with copy protection too, but I find "The original CD must be in the drive" to be the least obnoxious method around, and wish everyone would just stick to THAT instead of trying to get inventive, LOL! A few years ago I worked at EA, so I used my employee privilege to buy a few games, only to find THEIR copy protection was to connect to the internet to log the installation or whatever, that I would be limited to 5 installations thusly (I figure if I BUY the game, it's mine, I still only have one CD, I can still only use one installation at a time... And what if one is lost - formatting, Windows gets corrupted - without being able to un-authenticate?). At a time when I didn't have an internet connection. Great. Actually, this was a few years ago, I STILL haven't tried these games (one was Mirror's Edge, I recall, but I can't remember the others). Even if I had a connection, I find this protection style to be too intrusive. I wish we could do without copy protection at all, but unfortunately I can't help understand the need.

But you're right, copy protection is fairly unnecessary in this case, due to the physical necessities. Though a couple of bucks on eBay gets you a portal, then you just have to buy the figures, as opposed to the game AND the figures like us legitimate people do.

I'm pretty sure, though, that copy protection is only part of the reason, there's usually also that some stuff is kept on the CD to reduce installation size. Since stuff is only on the disc, the disc needs to be in the drive to play, in order for the game to use that data.

defpally: "it did something weird to the controller if the hard drive was the master and your CD drive a slave." Really? That's weird, nobody EVER had that configuration! *rolls eyes*, Wow, that's terrible!

Hoooo boy, don't forget THIS copy protection...
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The Commodore 64 had a truly nefarious form of protection instigated by several publishers. It involved placing a deliberate error on a game disk, which, being that it was an error, could not be reproduced by the copy software. However, this also caused the head of the system's disk drive to knock repeatedly against a stopper every time it tried to load the program. Over time, this would cause the head to become misaligned and be unable to read anything anymore until the drive was repaired. That's right, a copy protection scheme that caused legitimate customers (and legitimate customers only, as this required pirates to hack the software and eliminate the need to read the error — hardly unlike today's cracks that remove pesky DRM) to experience actual hardware failure. Yikes.