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How can a game be updated(patched) if there's no Internet connection? - Pagen_HD - 06-03-2014 03:49 PM
How can a console game be updated(patched) if there's no Internet connection?
e.g. older game consoles did not have Internet connections. If a game had a bug, how could it be fixed?
on the PC, this was done by an additional CD-ROM or floppy disk I think. This is part of my question too: how did they patch a PC game before Internet was around?
- heartsbluekingdom - 06-03-2014 03:59 PM
it can't, it needs an internet connection to download
- heartsbluekingdom - 06-03-2014 04:04 PM
Sometimes they use CDS to patch, and there used to be an old chip on consoles, which can receive communication waves from the Center itself...
Like your mobile, you dont need Internet to chat , video call, message and stuff...
You just need a Communication center, and a SIM card,
and the chip on the old consoles are like a SIM card.
Note: they still put those chips, im not sure of their names, on some consoles.
- MagicianTrent - 06-03-2014 04:19 PM
Older consoles didn't get patched. Most PC games didn't before the internet was widely avbailable either. In the case of serious bugs, they might make a disk with a patch on it and send that to any purchasers who called for tech support.
But without the option of simple downloading, companies were WAY more cautious about releasing a game without proper testing.Nowadays, the bug counts in some games makes it seem like certain companies don't even hire game testers.