Capcom: No Rival Schools on PSN now or ever

Hey, Rival Schools fans. If you still have your old Rival Schools PSone disc, hang on to it. Love it. Treasure it. According to Capcom’s Chris Svensson, we won’t be seeing that game as a PSOne Classic anytime soon. In fact, we may not see it ever.

Hey, Rival Schools fans. If you still have your old Rival Schools PSone disc, hang on to it. Love it. Treasure it. According to Capcom’s Chris Svensson, we won’t be seeing that game as a PSOne Classic anytime soon. In fact, we may not see it ever.

“To put at least one question to rest, unfortunately Rival Schools will not be making an appearance,” said SVensson. “There are IP clearances and rights we no longer have (particularly pertaining to voicework/soundtrack I believe) so our IP management group has told us it can’t be re-released. I’m sorry as it’s one of the ones I really wanted to see be put back up.”

“So if you still have that PS1 Rival Schools disc in your collection, it’s unfortunately going to be the only way that gets played for the forseeable future.”

“Forseeable future” seems to give some hope but I wouldn’t recommend holding your breath. Still, Capcom did manage to come through for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, which was in danger of never getting an overseas release due to IP-related issues. Of course, homebrewers can always just rip their game cds and play the game on PSP.

[Capcom-Unity via Destructoid]