There are few community of fans as devoted as that behind Marvel vs.Capcom, the combat game franchise between the characters of the Japanese publisher and the American comic book giant.Many consider Marvel vs.Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes as one of the best titles in the story of the genre, and yet - managing to get their hands on a legal copy of the game is not a task within everyone's reach,which seems very strange when you consider its popularity in the United States.

But it seems that a movement launched on Twitter could contribute to a possible return of the game on today's consoles ...

The public demands a portage

The #FreeMVC2 movement started on August 2 at the initiative of Maximilien Dood, famous YouTuber specializing in combat games.This big fan of Marvel vs.Capcom 2 wants to alert the public and the publishers on the extraordinary request fans for a return of the title on current game platforms.He thus asked the attention of Digital Eclipse, one of the Studios Reference of the Portage of Old Video Game on Modern Consoles.

Play Marvel VS.Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes in a legal manner is not an easy task currently.This versus Fighting released in 2000 on international arcade rooms experienced several portes - first on Dreamcast the same year, then on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2002 in 2003.It was not until a good number of years before seeing the title go to the next generation of console through a high definition port on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

This porting, only available in a dematerialized version, included the original game as well as a particularly practical online mode using the Netcode to "Rollback".Alas, the game was removed from the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Arcade in December 2013, four years after its online, after the expiration of the contract which linked Capcom to the editor Marvel Comics.Without a physical version, the disappearance of this digital version of dematerialized sales shops makes the task very complicated for who wants to embark on the game in a completely legal manner ...

But it seems that these calls for attention fell into the good ears.Mike Mika, director of the Digital Eclipse studio, said on Twitter that he would also be interested in a return from the title on current consoles."We have what I think is the latest console version of MVC3 while we were still called backbone.[…] We will have to chat with Disney and Capcom to realize it.We are ready if they are also.#Freeemvc2 ".If it is not an official confirmation, it is a step in the right direction for a possible return of the game ...