(It's possible there could have been issues with asking permission for Douglas Cartland's VO, as the actor has past away). It's far more likely it was legal issues, considering Heather Morris (voice of Heather Mason) was never even contacted by Konami, presumably after Guy Cihi brought up legal issues and Konami had no intention of negotiating with the actors they didn't even bother. In Matt McMuscles' 'What Happened?' video he claims sources said the original studio recordings were lost (unfortunately he doesn't provide a source so I'm not sure where he got his from)Įven ignoring that, the original 'Technical and Logistical' explanation never made sense, why couldn't the audio files just be ripped from the PC version or PS2 version, this is something fans have been doing for years? Then SH3HD has no original voices at all, Tomm Hulett at the time claimed it was 'technical and logistical reasons' and 'not a legal issue' but has refused to ever clarify. The problem is, even after some of the SH2 and SH3 cast did sign their rights away retroactively, there are original performances missing from SH2HD, 2 examples being the elevator game show host and the doctor from a hospital flashback, if Konami owned the rights why are these performances replaced?

So to flashback to HDC, if you remember the reason why Guy Cihi and other SH2/SH3 cast members were considering suing Konami was because they had been sent letters asking for permission to reuse their performances and none of the actors had been asked when they were reused for the PC/Xbox versions. (Just the fact SH4 is the one they re-released, probably the least popular of the original 4, instead of starting with 2 or 3 points to it being the only one they could re-release) To be blunt, I don't see any way the original SH2 and SH3 can be rereleased.

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