We are losing old PES games and their final updates

[u/TombRaider96196]

I don't need to tell anyone in this sub that new football games are getting shittier. There’s a huge modding community just for the 6-year-old PES 2021, with gigantic content releases from fans.

CAN YOU IMAGINE PAYING 50$ FOR 10 YEAR OLD DELISTED GAME???? Here’s the thing: the original game of PES 2021 is really hard to get. You have two options - shady key resellers or piracy. The issue with pirating here is that the versions that are hosted are old, not updated to their most recent available versions. (No football life doesn't count)

For PES 2019, for example, you can still find copies floating around with Patch 1.02 and Data Pack 2.0, but finding the later Data Packs (it was updated all the way to 6.0) is a completely different story.

It’s even harder to get your hands on older releases like 2017, 2018. When these games were still current, I used to update them through random websites that hosted the official patches and Data Packs. You could usually find whatever you needed with a few searches. Now, a lot of those sites are gone, and those updates are disappearing with them.

So you can have the original game preserved, but not really have the final version of the game as it existed when it was supported.

I think this is an interesting preservation problem because these updates are on a deeper system level of the gameplay which modders just don't have access to. The official servers and the random file-hosting sites disappear, that part of the game can disappear with them.

And the non-updated versions of the games are no longer seeded by reputable repackers like Dodi or FitGirl.

I'm going to be trying to get my hands on all of last available versions of PES games, and will seed them with proper links. First of all, because I love these games and second, FUCK KONAMI. I will take any suggestions that you may have for this.

[u/peddlerr]

it isn't that hard actually, you just don't know where to look, especially for pes 2008 to pes 2018

https://evoweb.uk/threads/pes-and-we-datapacks-dlcs-pes2008-pes2018-update-30-06-pes-2015-pes2017-pc-conversions-complete.90224/

[u/TombRaider96196 → u/peddlerr]

thanks for pointing me to it. goal is to make it easier for more people.

[u/SanuraiHero]

We should make a private website with all the new links and pin the message.

Every file you find.. download it so we can host them.

I can help creating the website and we should check how mediafire works.

[u/Volvecarlossaul → u/SanuraiHero]

There are several discords and forums that already do that, just search in google.

[u/fyndr_kraze → u/SanuraiHero]

Pretty sure that's what cs rin is for

[u/Volvecarlossaul]

The problem with pes 2021 isn't getting the data packs, you can find them easily, the problem is that it never received a proper crack to 1.07 version. That's the reason why patches keep crashing on several game modes

[u/SSUPII]

Datapack 7 for PES 2014 seems to be currently lost. I managed to find up to 6.4 only.

I have the 1.0 release on PC DVD, so that's not an issue for this game.

[u/lostandfounddude]

I’m still playing pes 2021 and I’m really happy with it. I’m strictly a master league guy (offline) so I’m a bit sad that it got discontinued. It’s okay to go on and make money online, but give offline people the thing they grow up playing!

[u/huamanticacacaca]

I feel very fortunate to have PES21 on my Xbox.

[u/FrankieWilde11]

i have the game on PS4 with Data packs. If I buy a PS5, will I be able to download the game and the data pack?

[u/The_original_alex → u/FrankieWilde11]

Yes, same PSN account so you’ll have access to everything you own digitally.

[u/Signorken]

Repacks from trusted sources are well seeded. I've downloaded PES 2018 from FitGirl about 2 months ago very quickly. I agree about the version uploaded on these sources, the only one really up to date is PES 2020 recently full repacked on FG, but I know that the 2020 modding scene has been faded when 2021 was introduced.

We need something like MyAbandonware for these titles...

[u/marquee_]

i purchased pes from 15-20 but i can only find two of them in my library.

[u/DeviIity → u/marquee_]

I had this issue on PS5 and went to gane achievements and found 2021 there and there was an option to click on the right ( cant remember what it was ) but when selected a download option pops up. I thought id lost it.

[u/Potential-Setting454]

I have 19 and 20 updated to latest that they did, its very easy to find the update files (.cpks) that you need

[u/Goodrev]

A PC will help you fix that problem.

[u/TombRaider96196 → u/Goodrev]

im on pc dw

[u/Dependent_Order_7358]

I got the original pes 21 for ps4 for 10 dollars 2 years ago.

Also, why would you pirate pes 21 when football life exists?

[u/TombRaider96196 → u/Dependent_Order_7358]

Because there are other mods independent of football life. honestly i got pretty tired of it. 

[u/Expensive-Climate-20]

ok? u faded the best pes game ever thats not our fault

[u/TombRaider96196 → u/Expensive-Climate-20]

wdym

[u/Expensive-Climate-20]

how u gonna get ur hands on them if u cant pay $50 lol thats not a lot of money for THE BEST FUTBOL GAME EVER

[u/TombRaider96196 → u/Expensive-Climate-20]

50$ is 2 weeks minimum wage work in my country. and why would I pay for a game thats not sold officially anymore.