Having emulated the game, its not a real solution. It crashes and freezes often even after lots of manual optimization, not to mention you have to find all of the dlc files online if you want to play anything outside of the base game
@@spoonkus5893 maybe TT games could look at the programming codes of the game and even the character/vehicle packs and somehow program the characters and vehicle to a digital flat down version of them. And then in the game they could create a character or vehicle wheel option in the game. But this is just me guessing, I don’t know how they specifically make video games.
As someone who used to play Lego Dimensions on the Xbox 360 before switching to Xbox One, I can confirm the Xbox 360 version is very glitchy, and it often would crash, forcing me to close and reopen the game, without being able to save. Xbox One version was always superior to it.
Yup, same situation here! I had the game since day 1 on xbox 360 and I was missing all the same content as shown in this video (year 2, the level packs, and their adventure worlds). I just couldn't install the additional content and it drove me nuts!!
Licencing issues will hold back a port. The Sonic pack for instance should be easy to acquire, but other properties like Ghostbusters and Portal may take some money
@signoredelladistruzioneST2why? portal was on lego dimensions outside of steam before so what would change? also valve has allowed portal on other consoles before
The main 3 are gonna be difficult to even use. The particular batman used is owned by the lego batman director who left to make funko fusion out of spite of tt games, lotr has been sold back to its residence and theyre quite stingy on lotr. Lego movie moved to universal.
@signoredelladistruzioneST2 didn't they re-release the portal duology for the Nintendo switch? I don't think It would be hard to get the license for portal
Thanks for the Skylanders community, the problem of losing data from dying NFC chips is partially fixed. All that’s needed is the community made program and an NFC reader/writer and the data can be taken off an old figure
Yeah, lots of love from the Skylanders community ❤ and thankfully, all the tools needed to do this with Dimensions are really accessible. you just need a phone
It would be AMAZING if we got something like a sequel or official digital re-release for the 10th Anniversary of LEGO Dimensions this year, but I don't see it happening because of all the franchise licensing involved. I hope the LEGO Dimensions community continues to grow because I love the game. I want to commend the community for all progress made preserving it through NFC technology, emulators, obtaining the DLC data, and uncovering the scrapped content. The reality is that eventually all the Toypads, original NFC tags, and discs will be gone, along with the rest of the online shops to download DLC. At that point, we will all have to use emulators and our own NFC tags. It does take a bit of research, so if anyone has questions about emulators or making LEGO Dimensions NFC tags, feel free to reply to this comment 👍
Here's the good news. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment renewed the trademark for LEGO Dimensions in 2022, which could indicate that they're still interested in the brand and may be developing a reboot. Hopefully the reboot will have the first 30 franchises from the original and I wonder what new franchises will be in the LEGO Dimensions reboot.
I’m sure the NFC Technology used for LEGO Dimensions won’t be gone, as I’ve found out that reports of the toy tags not working goes further back to 9 years ago, when Dimensions was nearly done with its Year 1 content. Plus as a Skylanders fan, you know that Skylanders can still work, even though by that logic, the technology used for the Skylanders games would’ve been vanished by 2015.
@ShockwaveFPSStudios yeah, I can confirm the skylanders community talks about this too and we don't worry much, even 14 year old characters still work lol
I usee to want this and sky landers so much but I hade a skylander toy but not the actual game because my mother didn't know how the game worked I wanna play the doctor who level of this tho apparently it's the best doctor who game which sounds kinda absorb but most doctor who games beely work
This game in particular is screwed due to the many different IP's involved. If it was a single IP or original, there might have been a chance of relerelease, but it's unlikely that anyone would bother to pay money needed to renew licenses for a digital port, made worse by the fact that one third of the starter pack is Lego Movie related, but Lego and WB's contract ran out years ago, and Universal has the rights to make Lego based movies these days.
I think it’s flawed since the play pad was used in the level design like making you move the characters for a puzzle it feels clunky and replaced a decent puzzle segment in a regular tt game but at least you can play with ghost busters characters and Simpson characters in the same level. If only another toys to life game did that with their story modes cough Disney infinity cough
@@staringcorgi6475nah I bough all the characters off eBay and the game has a lot of puzzles that don’t need the pad. Even certain abilities that need the pad just gives you the option to press a button even tho the pad flashes. At the moment I’m doing free play stuff and there’s a lot I’m sure people didn’t get to play through.
I remember reading that they had planned on releasing Vortech (the main villain) as a playable character who would have been able to access all of the hub worlds as the final character in a 10th wave or as part of a 3rd year but he was canceled last minute. There’s unused voice lines for him being spawned in and using items leftover in the files. Real shame he was scrapped as not only would it have been a great way to send off the game but it would have helped solve the problem we’re having now with content not being accessible. (Though I bet scalpers would have gone crazy over him if released)
After completing the Lego Dimensions story yesterday, after 9 years of playing it. Im now on a speed run to play it more often as one of my first brought characters called Zane has broken down after being used for 9 years. And honestly, this game must survive no matter the costs. It deserves a second chance.
that sucks because it's below the average lifespan of the NFC tech being used. Did you use the Zane tag every year for 9 years? If this happens with more of your characters I highly recommend you replace their chips but hopefully that was just a bad apple.
@ I think most people agree LEGO Dimensions is way better than disney infinity.. as much as I love star wars, dimensions offers more cool franchises and characters and more content overall. Disney infinity felt like a collection of half-baked side quests
Preservation aside. Do you guys realize that once we get Dimensions up and running on PC with NFC tags for each character, that there's an actual possibility of adding our own mods into the game? Like, being able to add in characters and giving them original animations for entering and exiting the portals? Obviously, they won't be able to interact with the other characters, but it's still an interesting possibility. Finally being able to mod a game that was never possible to mod. *YET!*
For the Wii U, as it's the version I played for Lego Dimensions before buying a disk for the PS4, all year 1 levels are fully playable and requires no download whatsoever Year 2s are completely inaccessible, obviously, but you can still play as them
@Mega_765 Well as someone who's too scared to mod my WiiU... Much rather spend the extra $40 on a PS4 version. So for people like me it might as well be inaccessible.
Can confirm that emulating Dimensions is a nightmare. I had to go to different sites just to get all of the DLC (no, I don’t remember where I got them, so plz don’t ask). There are many things that can go wrong during the installation process as well and could very well require you to start over. Dimensions with all of its DLC takes up a lot of room. I would recommend installing it on an external hard drive. The virtual game pad is clunky and glitches a lot. Oftentimes, it's hard to move characters and vehicles around. Sometimes, it even duplicates those objects. I can't imagine what it would be like with a physical game pad. The biggest problem with the WiiU emulator is that certain vfx are not loaded in properly or are just straight up missing. I didn’t realize this until I saw a ps4 walk-through of the game. Now let me address some fallacies in the video. Emulating consoles with the exception of the WiiU is not hard. People make it sound like it is way harder than it actually is. A lot of the resources are also easy to use and find online. You don’t need a high-end computer with an i9 core or RTX series graphics card, etc. Lego games as a whole are one of the lowest rankings when it comes to performance requirements. You can run Dimensions on a potato. It'll be fine. Idk if it was mentioned, but you can also buy all the stands (idk what they're called) that the figures and builds stand on bricklink for 10 cents or less. Now they're without the figures and builds, obviously, but it’s pretty inexpensive. The last fallacy is that children won't be interested in a gams like this. I've seen lots of parents on Reddit trying to set up the emulated game for their kids. I mean you could argue that some kids might not want to deal with the glitchy virtual game pad, and I don’t blame them. But to say that no kid is playing this game is simply untrue. I know this is a lengthy comment, but I seriously wanted to thank you for bringing this up. I hate it when Lego games get lost to time.
I feel like the only way to preserve Lego dimensions would be hacking/homebrewing consoles, the Wii U in particular isn't hard to homebrew (Though this wouldn't be as accessible to kids)
I used to play this as a kid with my sister. By the time we were playing it, they weren’t really selling it in stores anymore. When I played it sometimes I thought, this would be so much better if it was just like any other Lego game where you just unlocked the characters in the game.
This is why toys to life is inherently flawed: while it's a novel idea, the sheer amount of money spent when buying everything is pointless when the game's services are shut down.
Playing it via an emulator is also a huge pain. Even if your pc can run it, the digital toypad is very slow (and often completely unresponsive), and it crashes frequently
I said as much in my original video, I’ve since heard that you can use a real toy pad with emulators now but regardless I’m just not that big into the idea of using a gaming pc to play the Wii u version of Dimensions…
And what makes this worse Is the scanning pads for characters will just eventually stop working due to time because the tech used eventually just give out from use
Best case scenario, LEGO partners with literally ANYONE to release a Definitive Edition on all current gen consoles and PC. Realistic best case scenario, you buy/make your own NFC tags for all the content in the game and use a PS3 emulator with a most likely pirated copy of the game with all of the DLC. Worst case scenario, the game somehow becomes unemulatable, and all physical media for the game rots beyond salvaging with no digital backups of the data. If it hasn't been done already, I'd HIGHLY recommend a team of people to gather all of the game files (DLC included) and back them up, as well as scanning and archiving the NFC data for every game tag. If it isn't archived already, and we don't do it soon, it WILL be gone forever over time. Hell, upload all the NFC data to the Internet Archive, since Telltale Games and LEGO don't seem to care about this game. All it takes is one upload to the Internet Archive and fans to download it, and the data will NEVER be lost again, since countless people will just be able to reupload it if it ever gets taken down. That's what we need to do, take the hydra approach to this. That and also maybe petition for TTG and LEGO to release that aforementioned "Definitive Edition," since it's highly unlikely to happen unless enough people make enough noise about it.
It should also e noted that the tags for the characters should take priority over vehicle tags because due to possible loss of abilities if a character nfc dies I.e chell
@@JamesTDG Then we should probably as a community have a single place where they're collected, like uploading a zip of them all to the Internet Archive or something.
It’s sad to see one of the best Lego games slowly dieing out with its only remains being that 1 pack about sonic did a butterfly effect that gave us the Sonic sets all the rest will be lost to time I hope his game gets a pc version like Disney infinity or atleast a 2nd installment we can’t let this game become dust
All that crap is downloaded onto my Xbox 360, I did it right before the shutdown, I also have the Simpson packs and I have never played the game before except to download the dlc. I should test if I can even access the dlc with it downloaded.
You should be good to go as your account “owns” the DLC and therefore you can redownload it as you please until Microsoft eventually stop supporting the console completely.
At the time it was the console many of the youngest players would've owned being that it was cheaper, tonnes of them out in the wild etc,. So aiming for a release on a console full of children made perfect sense for a toys to life LEGO game!
I lot of people where still playing 360 and PS3 back in 2015 and they where still regularly getting new releases. I believe the last Lego game of this generation would of been Star War: Force Awakens in 2017.
this was THE game for me as a kid. I have sunk so many hours into just messing around in the Portal 2 world alone, even with the weaker WII U hardware and a losing a lot of the pieces for the sets. It was the gate to finding loads of new franchises to get into, and it built on top of ones i already knew. I really hope Dimensions finds a way to live on, as Lego games really were what made me want to get into video games in the first place.
My parents bought me the 360 version the Christmas that was launched and I was a faithful follower of this game up until like the first wave of year 2. The packs began to be stupidly expensive and yeah downloads took forever and since I was a toddler back then I thoght that without those extra downloads the game wouldn't work, so I left the console downloading at night and the next day everything would be ready to use. I'm missing most of year 2, I think I only have the Powerpuff girls and they still work normally. So yeah if you downloaded everything before the marketplace shutdown in a non modded 360 everything should be good to go...
I played LEGO Dimensions a lot as a kid. Didn't have as many characters but had fun with them. ( I still have the game and a few of the characters). I do hope someone manages to port the game to PC.
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I have a question. Since Ghostbusters 1984, The Simpsons, Doctor Who, and Back to the Future all released with a level pack AND at least one fun pack, could characters like Slimer, Bart, Cyberman, and Doc Brown be used to access those worlds on the Xbox360?
I am lucky and have the PS4 version of the game, so I can’t test it myself. Either way. The levels are still inaccessible, and so are the Portal 2 and Midway Arcade worlds since Chell and Gamer Kid are the only way to access either world respectively.
In theory yes since the download that's still possible and prompted before entering the game includes most (if not all) of the year 1 content and fun packs seem to be the only ones working without extra downloads...
@@GoblinBricks And for the puzzle section moving my character on the toy pad is a pain in the neck. And even building the toy pad and vehicle even though it’s in lego dimensions personally didn’t enjoy the toy pad and toy tag and building the toy pad took me 1 hour to complete because I started the toy pad from 11:00 🕚 am to 12:00 🕛 pm which is pain in the neck and i cannot take the toy pad much longer just wanted to explore the hub world with every character really enjoyed wizard of oz and doctor who hub world and the tardis even though it’s in the video game 🎮 and don’t have to build the vehicle for it. I enjoyed the Simpsons level pack because it was taken from the tv show but just don’t like building the vehicle it’s the worst thing i ever done as a teenager-Luke. And for me I want to play every single character from every single hub world 🌍 no more 7 characters and no more toy pad or toy tag just wanted every single character and wave1-9 and year 1-2 and story,level,team,and fun pack if lego dimensions got reboot which means Reboot: Modernizes and brings new life to a beloved series, attracting new audiences. That would be interesting but if TT Games went and done a completely remake from the ground up they would have to build the game from the ground up level design hub world 🌍 design character design and hub world 🌍 too. A remake is a game recreated with new assets, resulting in significant changes to graphics, gameplay, and sometimes story. This process essentially breathes new life into an older game, making it more appealing to contemporary audiences. This process takes advantage of technological advancements to give an older game a modern feel, enhancing its graphical fidelity and gameplay mechanics. "Sword of Mana" is a classic example of a video game remake. It was rebuilt from scratch, faithfully recreating the original while enhancing graphics and gameplay. Similarly, the Secret of Mana remake stayed true to the original game's graphics and map design but received mixed reception due to changes in gameplay. Another example of an exciting remake is the remake of Resident Evil 2. This beloved survival horror game was given a fantastic makeover, injecting new life into the chilling storyline and terrifying gameplay. With enhanced graphics, revamped controls, and even scarier zombies, players were able to relive the spine-tingling experience of the original game in a whole new way. The remake received high praise for its faithful recreation of the iconic Raccoon City and its intense atmosphere. It's a perfect example of how a remake can breathe fresh excitement into a classic title. If lego dimensions came back it would fall into a reboot A reboot is a game recreated with a new story in a new universe, often with significant changes to gameplay mechanics and character design. It aims to refresh the franchise and attract new players while still maintaining some familiar elements. This represents a more radical reinvention of the game, often offering a fundamentally different experience from the original. Imagine a world where iconic characters and familiar gameplay mechanics are reimagined in a fresh and innovative way. That's exactly what a reboot aims to achieve. It's a chance for developers to flex their creative muscles and explore uncharted territories within a well-established universe. which means every single developer would work the whole thing just like lego Star Wars the skywalker saga from the ground up character design hub world design and even level design too. And same thing for year 1-2 and wave 1-9 and story level team and fun pack and it has to include every character from every hub world not 7 characters and no lock it needs to be unclock for every character from every hub world 🌍-Luke.
Got into the game last week via PS5, been having a blast got some great deals and have characters such as Sonic, Homer, Sloth, Ethan Hunt, Raven, so much fun
I say since you have brought attention to the issue I think your the most suitable person to make a real petition so we get a digital version or all in one physical edition
@@harrytaylor9702They'd have to renew so many licenses and if it's all in the one game they probably won't agree cause the money they'd make isn't that much
I am so glad I went through the trouble of 100%ing this game on Wii U a few years ago. Sad to know it will be nearly impossible for newer players to experience most of the game
Well now because of these comments and your video, I was able to download and use all the DLCs for Lego Dimensions on RPCS3. The base game on the emulator is fine from what I've experienced, but adding the DLCs did make the frames drop when on some of the open worlds, noticeable but not a big issue. So now I can play the entire game on PC, with every character and no limitations which is amazing. So for anyone who wants the best chance of playing this game to its full potential, I would recommend playing it on RPCS3 with the included PS3 DLC on the internet archive :)
I think the sad reality is every toys to life game is at some form of risk of being lost or at least having content be inaccessible without using outside software like nfc readers or writers its just the reality of these games being incredibly inaccessible and the only one that is fully accessible is starlink battle for atlas probably the most forgotten toys to life game, even Disney infinity's gold edition is missing content such as the circular power discs from 1.0 aren't included in any game and 3.0 is missing all the content they added after the games release such as the finding dory play set. However dimensions is definitely the worst of it because of the content manager system heck when year 2 first came out I remember running into a lot of problems on the PS3 version of the game and couldn't even access the harry potter world despite having it installed (although I'm unsure if this was because of how old my PS3 is) but the main problem I had and the reason why I moved over to PS4/5 was because of how glitchy the game was with constant crashes I couldn't even complete the adventure time level pack because of just how often it crashed out of nowhere. I absolutely love Lego dimensions but I think the only way it can be saved is by the efforts of the community as we can't expect Tt or WB to port the games to pc like Disney done purely because of how many licenses are in this game.
8:49 No, it is not. I have played that version a lot. Every pack, character stuff, DLC games, sandbox, and the main story at least twice. Haven't encountered a single bug. I don't even know what "bugs" people claim it has.
I played the Wii U version back in the day and while it wasn't buggy the slow down was really bad to the point it made the Sonic world unplayable because Sonic was too fast for the game to handle
I'm so glad I have the PS4 version and went on a mad spree a few years ago to collect every set. I've loaded them all in, but already my Harry Potter tag won't work, and some of the normal bases are failing. I bought spare blue and gold ones, but can't do much for the characters. Thanks for bringing more attention to this!
You never even mentioned the fact that the toy tags decay over time. I never knew this until like last year when I wanted to replay the game and tried placing a few of my old figures from when I was a kid onto the toy pad and was devastated to learn that the NFC Chips inside the figures decay and I cannot play as some of my favorite characters in the game
You know… a long while ago when Dimensions was first discontinued. I thought “Damn.. all I ever wanted was a Lego Lord Vortech.” But now we’re at this state.
I never played Lego Dimensions even thought I have a Wii U, but thank you for letting people know about the situation, I hope it doesn't become lost media.
Id be cool if TT re-released Lego Dimensions, and to solve the licensing problems they could just sell the worlds and all their content like characters, vehiacles and toy pad stuff as DLC. Namco did that in an arcade collection where they still selling Ms.Pacman as DLC for that collection, since they don't really own ms pacman and her arcade game
if they were to make a fully digital version of the game to fix the toy pad interaction issue they'd probably have a screen pop up in the corner were you could move stuff much like is done when emulating the game just in game instead of another window
Dunno if its a problem with my disc or the NFCs but last year i was in a wiiu binge and opened up lego dimensions again to play it and it would take a REALLY long time to either load in a specific vehicle or just load into the levels in the first place. The fact that a lot of content is locked behind having the extra sets is also one of the big reasons why I wish it got a rerelease on Steam like disney infinity
Toys to Life games really came and went in a blur and while unlikely to return I think Lego Dimensions did it best. But it's going the way of...honestly a lot of games from that era in the sense that everyone's playing it safe console/accessory wise so there won't be a good way to play them in the future.
7:46 no, No, not the shut down games I never got the chance to play. We have a new mission this is beyond Lego Dimensions, WE MUST SAVE ALL THE GAMES, WE MUST SAVE: DEADPOOL, WAR FOR CYBERTRON, FALL OF CYBERTRON, LEGO DIMENSIONS, EVERYTHING WE CAN POSSIBLY SAVE WILL BE SAVED OR RETURNED
Man as a guy that never got into Lego Dimensions because the market was so filled with toys to life games at the time, Skylanders and Disney Infinity was enough for me at the time lol. Its sad to see if I wanted to check the game out on 360 it would be harder access all the content. Luckily I have a modded 360 so I probably can still get the dlc, as long as it was preserved. I also don't know the price range the figures are currently sitting at. I honestly might check out the game if making NFC cards for it, is as easy as it is for Skylanders.
NGL, I don't have high hopes for this. Lego Dimensions is such a licensing nightmare that I don't think WB or whoever owns the game would go the distance for preservation of a game they expected to be a platform for years to come and it couldn't last 3. Either they do it with a heavily stripped down roster (we're talking no Sonic, no Portal, no movies WB doesn't own) or they don't do it at all.
This is now the worst day ever in my life because I used to play it on my Wii u and my favourite characters to play as are Shaggy, Homer, Harry Potter and Peter Venkman and I am now sad that the DLC's are now gone and we didn't get year 3.
WB has always been the absolute worst when it comes to game preservation. 4thsnake made a video regarding which MK game you can currently play on pc and newer consoles. To put it simply: The arcade versions for the original trilogy are only available on the Arcade1UP cabinet, with a fatal bug that bricks one of the games if you try putting in your initials at the name entry screen. Not to mention the GOG versions are DOS ports, and the only other way to play the arcade trilogy was delisted from Steam years ago while the Xbox 360 listing got taken down along with the 360 store. MK4 and Trilogy are available on GOG but not Gold; Mythologies, Special Forces, Shaolin Monks, and the 3D era trilogy were never re-released, and neither was MK Vs DC; and MK9, the first MK game made since WB bought the franchise, is no longer available on Steam.
I'm quite lucky to have an Xbox One and complete figure collection with all DLC downloaded. My brother has a PS4, maybe we should see about downloading the game onto that before it's lost for good. Also, the emulators support the actual toypad now!? That's great news! Still nowhere near as good as an official PC port, but the physical aspect of Dimensions was one of the things I really liked about it. I hope we get something official, but with licensing being how it is I strongly doubt it.
5:54 I have the Wii U version of the game, and let me tell you: it's BAD. Around the same as the XBox 360 version. Ever since the Wii U eShop went down back in early 2023, you can no longer purchase or download anything free; including updates, meaning if you didn't already download the DLC level packs beforehand, it's gone for good without mods or hacks.
"including updates"...? you mean the dlc, right?! i swear update data works for me, but i can't really remember when i last downloaded an update for a game past splatoon 1's 2023 patch.
I have the Wii U version of the game too, and let me tell you: No, it is not. I have played that version a lot. Every single pack, character stuff, DLC games, sandbox, and the main story at least twice. Haven't encountered a single bug. I don't even know what kind of "bugs" or problems people claim that version has.
Just to confirm, what do you mean by not getting the in-game downloads to work? Although the store is shut down, already "owned" content that still requires claiming such as season pass dlc should still be able to claim through the in-game store. Just the other week I was able to add the level packs for Star Wars TFA to my account by having bought the season pass before the shutdown, although it took a couple attempts. If it can't download while the game is running, you can find the dlc in your download history.
I don’t already own the DLC for 360. As a “new” player, or even as someone that didn’t claim all of the dlc before the shutdown you will never be able to get it legitimately. The content manager does nothing from the main menu now, the store doesn’t list dimensions dlc at all and even if it did it wouldn’t let you install it unless you already have it in your download history section.
as someone who spent hours messing around in this game, getting to play as some of my favorite characters in all of fiction as a child, hearing about this is really really sad. I sold my copy awhile back, and have been looking to re-buy it at some point. I just hope that I can play it before its too late. (I played on the Wii U version)
I really miss this game and I think there should be some kind of a movement to make TT reconsider making a digital version of it although regaining the licenses required won't be easy
Well, this is distressing news for someone like me who has had umpty million LEGO Dimensions sets I got for Christmas one year sitting around for years that I meant to get around to playing one day.
6:22 Oh good i was planning on playing the Sonic DLC on my series X nice to know that works. edit: uh I’ve heard talk that the Xbox one version doesn’t work on series x, you got anything to shut that rumor down? Last thing i wanna do is spend money on something that doesn’t work
The whole thing about this is-- especially with that awful clickbait title-- it implies these games are actually at risk of becoming lost media. They simply aren't, because lost media is stuff you literally cannot access in any format at all. The situation with Lego Dimensions is unfortunate, but it's not that.
I remember even before the eshop went down it was too buggy on the Wii U. I tried playing as Sonic and it kept asking me to download his stuff and that message just kept popping up over and over for me. What I think is we should get a port of the game for the new Consoles plus the Switch 2 whenever that releases. However, it should just be the full content right away and make the extra stuff like the toy pad unnecessary and just have it be like the regular LEGO games. I think if they also plan to take the stuff off the digital stores it should have a required update to instantly unlock all of the content but still require the characters to access it. Now it’s already on there, you just need the characters to play in the world.
It's such a massive shame to see this game slowly fizzle out. A definitive version with all content that doesn't require the use of a Toy pad would be really beneficial.
The 360 store is shut down so any chance to download is literally impossible now as of July 2024 it’s not broken or anything just that you literally can’t do anything even if you wanted
That's really sad. Never played the game but the whole lost media situation is really sad. Games should have a way to be preserved for future generations. I didn’t knew they had Lego City Undercover pack, that sounds like the coolest pack ever. And is really sad that is lost media now.
Is there a way that we could create some kind of online collective of all the dlc files? With how many people have enjoyed this game, surely a lot of us have a good chunk of the downloaded dlc somewhere
Wait if the issue is you can't access the adventure world because the character was in a level pack couldn't you use Bart doc brown slimer and cyberman? I know that doesn't access the level and portal and midway arcade is still gone but at least it's more adventure worlds then before
This content isn't "lost" but it's no longer legally accessible. You can find it all fairly easily if you know where to look, but the dodgy nature of this adventure turns many off.
I'm really glad I never threw my PS3 away. I still have all of LEGO Dimensions and all the DLC installed. I also have the Scott Pilgrim game (I know it came back now) and the BTTF Telltale game. I didn't realize how much of the game was lost now. I guess I'm one of the few people who still has the entire game.
As someone with absolutely no technical or digital knowhow, maybe the solutuon could be to essentially stitch it onto another Lego game? Using a Lego game that has the same engine, taking the code from Dimensions, and then grafting it onto the other Lego game? That way the whole thing is running natively on PC. It still doesn't solve the issue of accessibility but it's a hypothetical I thought of.
i own the wii-u with lego dimensions and i can confirm that all the dlc content for the game became lost when the wii-u e-shop was shut down. all the same content as the xbox 360 version is lost on wii-u aswell. futher more all content was over 30 GB worth of content, i had to buy a external hard drive just to play all the content.
Seeing all the loss of this content will always break my heart. People were never big fans of this game, but even it doesn't deserve to be shredded into obscurity!
A few months ago I picked up my WiiU again to finally complete the main story and also play around with some other characters I still had but rarely used. I was so disappointed that I could not download the content for a lot of characters and worlds which I bought years prior. Even if this game would get a fully digital re-release, I wouldn't be able to download the additional contant as the WiiU online shop shut down. And I wasn't aware that it shut down until I played dimensions again. If I had known prior I would've claimed all DLCs so I could still download them in the future
i swear this the best example of how it does not matter after a certain point of having physical or digital on consoles. although i think anyone should have a disc tray lol. maybe i’m crazy but seems like it’s more about having the full game being finished at release and it not requiring an internet connection or continuous patches/dlcs
It's a weird mismash of the two with Dimensions. It's a physical product that relies heavily on extra updates... I wish they'd just done a Year 2 version of the game with all of the content on disc.
My experience with dimensions: When I was around 6 I got Lego dimensions for the Wii U. I don't remember a whole lot, but I had a bad habit of breaking my legos for pieces. I broke my portal and figures and lost the tags for wyld style, gandalf, and the dlc I got which were shaggy, scooby doo, and peter venkman. Fast forward to 2024 I find the biengamers tutorial about emulating dimensions. Even though I am not experienced whatsoever in emulating I was desperate becuase I love lego games and lego dimensions is the magnum opus of lego games. After 3 days of work understanding the process I played it. It felt amazing. some bugs here and there and the digital toypad isn't perfect, but lego dimensions is becoming lost media. Emulation is not something I would recommend trying as its not an easy process even with help and it can be buggy at times, but it may be one of the last options we have to prerserve this game
I remember when I got Lego Dimensions for the PS3. (It was also kinda recent too) I started downloading the other DLC levels to try to preserve the game. Though, I'm hoping to find a copy for the PS4. I've always hated to see something great left unfinished.
I remember playing this game like 9 years ago on Xbox 360, it literally took like hours to download most of the new worlds and levels and by the time they did download it would be a boring empty world , I got bored of it in like a couple months and never played it again
And there we have the reason why unauthorized copies will always exist. We already lost so much media to the ether with no chance to get it back, save for somehow traveling back in time and then making a copy. We simply do not want to lose even more if we can help it. I still hope that people saved the update data for most games because mid-revisions are harder and harder to find legitimately and there are legit reasons to want them available. Even a good bunch of Switch games have me cry in the corner because I couldn't find the update data besides the newest patch online.
The sad thing is that on the Xbox 360 version, you couldn’t even 100% it anyway. In the adventure time world, there was a skin that Finn could obtain (fern). But fern was never implemented in that version…
This is insanely upsetting as someone who loved this game. I really wish they would rerelease this game on the pc without the toys to life element. They'd most likely only give you the base game and sell every pack as dlc, but even that would be fine compared to losing the entire game completely. It BAFFLES me that lost media is even POSSIBLE in the modern era of gaming we live in. As you said, these companies don't give a shit anymore if their game isn't making money. It's really depressing.
As much as I’d love to do that, I don’t think talking explicitly about piracy is a good idea (legally) and there are definitely better people out there who have done that already! Also, I’m just not that personally bothered about emulating the worst versions of the game when my Xbox Series X is currently playing it ok!
@ Weird I was able to get it running on Cemu just fine, and with my own save data brought out of my old Wii U, as well Maybe when you started it in Cemu, you had an empty save data folder that needed something in it?
Are you on the original 360 I bet the store works on emulated 360 of the Xbox One that’s how I got the dlc for new Vegas before Microsoft bought Bethesda and added them ? If it doesn’t work that would be sad
Having emulated the game, its not a real solution. It crashes and freezes often even after lots of manual optimization, not to mention you have to find all of the dlc files online if you want to play anything outside of the base game
Just gonna pin this one and leave it here... thank you!
even emulation is not the answer. we are fucked
@@ValenCCV its not horrible but its a port of the wiiu version which was badly optimised
Is that the xenia? Yes, very unstable
It's still definitely better than nothing.
Lego dimensions needs to have a fully digital re-release like Disney Infinity did
The problem is that gameplay relies a lot on the toy pad, not sure how they’ll get around it
@@spoonkus5893it’s a real conundrum
@@spoonkus5893 maybe TT games could look at the programming codes of the game and even the character/vehicle packs and somehow program the characters and vehicle to a digital flat down version of them. And then in the game they could create a character or vehicle wheel option in the game. But this is just me guessing, I don’t know how they specifically make video games.
@@spoonkus5893 Virtual Toy Pad menu wouldnt be too hard imo, getting the rights however is very hard
What? Disney infinity has a full digital version?????
As someone who used to play Lego Dimensions on the Xbox 360 before switching to Xbox One, I can confirm the Xbox 360 version is very glitchy, and it often would crash, forcing me to close and reopen the game, without being able to save. Xbox One version was always superior to it.
Yup, same situation here! I had the game since day 1 on xbox 360 and I was missing all the same content as shown in this video (year 2, the level packs, and their adventure worlds). I just couldn't install the additional content and it drove me nuts!!
I remember that I lost my save and had to replay the entire game again on the 360
Wii u edition:
I've never played it but I've watched playthroughs and, yes on most consoles it will crash or delete something
I have it on the 360 and it would always crash on a Simpson cutscene
Licencing issues will hold back a port.
The Sonic pack for instance should be easy to acquire, but other properties like Ghostbusters and Portal may take some money
Definitely not portal considering how chill Valve is,however id imagine they’d only release the game on steam if they did put the portal content
@signoredelladistruzioneST2why? portal was on lego dimensions outside of steam before so what would change? also valve has allowed portal on other consoles before
The main 3 are gonna be difficult to even use. The particular batman used is owned by the lego batman director who left to make funko fusion out of spite of tt games, lotr has been sold back to its residence and theyre quite stingy on lotr. Lego movie moved to universal.
@@cutekyuu1 out of spite? but isn't funko fusion also by tt games
@signoredelladistruzioneST2 didn't they re-release the portal duology for the Nintendo switch?
I don't think It would be hard to get the license for portal
Thanks for the Skylanders community, the problem of losing data from dying NFC chips is partially fixed. All that’s needed is the community made program and an NFC reader/writer and the data can be taken off an old figure
Yeah, lots of love from the Skylanders community ❤
and thankfully, all the tools needed to do this with Dimensions are really accessible. you just need a phone
There's even a portal emulator that allows you to plug a raspberry pi onto your console (or emulator)
@Fancy2209Real dolphin emulator (Wii) has a built in skylanders dock with every character in a scroll list. It’s amazing!
But skylander is kinda simple
To replicate like you just put toy in portal and boom
On cemu you don’t need any of that and can just play off of a file
It would be AMAZING if we got something like a sequel or official digital re-release for the 10th Anniversary of LEGO Dimensions this year, but I don't see it happening because of all the franchise licensing involved. I hope the LEGO Dimensions community continues to grow because I love the game.
I want to commend the community for all progress made preserving it through NFC technology, emulators, obtaining the DLC data, and uncovering the scrapped content. The reality is that eventually all the Toypads, original NFC tags, and discs will be gone, along with the rest of the online shops to download DLC. At that point, we will all have to use emulators and our own NFC tags.
It does take a bit of research, so if anyone has questions about emulators or making LEGO Dimensions NFC tags, feel free to reply to this comment 👍
Here's the good news. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment renewed the trademark for LEGO Dimensions in 2022, which could indicate that they're still interested in the brand and may be developing a reboot. Hopefully the reboot will have the first 30 franchises from the original and I wonder what new franchises will be in the LEGO Dimensions reboot.
I’m sure the NFC Technology used for LEGO Dimensions won’t be gone, as I’ve found out that reports of the toy tags not working goes further back to 9 years ago, when Dimensions was nearly done with its Year 1 content. Plus as a Skylanders fan, you know that Skylanders can still work, even though by that logic, the technology used for the Skylanders games would’ve been vanished by 2015.
I’m just leaving a reply here both to boost this and so I can see what others say :)
Are the NFC tags for the DLC/characters? How do I male the tags? Can all Xbox/Playstation emulators get LEGO Dimensions on play?
@ShockwaveFPSStudios yeah, I can confirm the skylanders community talks about this too and we don't worry much, even 14 year old characters still work lol
I can’t be happy with this slowly being lost…
A digital port without toys to life and a soft reboot need to happen ASAP!
I usee to want this and sky landers so much but I hade a skylander toy but not the actual game because my mother didn't know how the game worked I wanna play the doctor who level of this tho apparently it's the best doctor who game which sounds kinda absorb but most doctor who games beely work
This game in particular is screwed due to the many different IP's involved. If it was a single IP or original, there might have been a chance of relerelease, but it's unlikely that anyone would bother to pay money needed to renew licenses for a digital port, made worse by the fact that one third of the starter pack is Lego Movie related, but Lego and WB's contract ran out years ago, and Universal has the rights to make Lego based movies these days.
Lego Dimensions was the greatest LEGO crossover and was my favorite game.
I think it’s flawed since the play pad was used in the level design like making you move the characters for a puzzle it feels clunky and replaced a decent puzzle segment in a regular tt game but at least you can play with ghost busters characters and Simpson characters in the same level. If only another toys to life game did that with their story modes cough Disney infinity cough
@@staringcorgi6475nah I bough all the characters off eBay and the game has a lot of puzzles that don’t need the pad. Even certain abilities that need the pad just gives you the option to press a button even tho the pad flashes. At the moment I’m doing free play stuff and there’s a lot I’m sure people didn’t get to play through.
Agreed
I remember reading that they had planned on releasing Vortech (the main villain) as a playable character who would have been able to access all of the hub worlds as the final character in a 10th wave or as part of a 3rd year but he was canceled last minute. There’s unused voice lines for him being spawned in and using items leftover in the files.
Real shame he was scrapped as not only would it have been a great way to send off the game but it would have helped solve the problem we’re having now with content not being accessible.
(Though I bet scalpers would have gone crazy over him if released)
Fun fact! There is a lego dimensions app that is as i know fully intact but unfortunately VERY VERY ABANDONED
I actlly saw it when I was younger. I believe it was to buy & save sets?
What's the name of the app?
by app, do you mean it gives you all the toys/ figures or is it the full game with all packs?
@@Flipside2099 I have to check what it was as I don't have it since like 7 yrs ago
It looks like it was to explore packs, add to wishlist & keep track of your own collection
After completing the Lego Dimensions story yesterday, after 9 years of playing it. Im now on a speed run to play it more often as one of my first brought characters called Zane has broken down after being used for 9 years.
And honestly, this game must survive no matter the costs.
It deserves a second chance.
that sucks because it's below the average lifespan of the NFC tech being used. Did you use the Zane tag every year for 9 years?
If this happens with more of your characters I highly recommend you replace their chips but hopefully that was just a bad apple.
Just play Disney infinity 😂 Lego dimensions isn’t THAT good of a game. But it was fun until it corrupted my data
@ I think most people agree LEGO Dimensions is way better than disney infinity.. as much as I love star wars, dimensions offers more cool franchises and characters and more content overall. Disney infinity felt like a collection of half-baked side quests
Bro I would download all of the year 2 dlc, but my ps3 keeps messing up on the update for Lego dimensions😭
I got an app on an iphone that reads nfc tags and found that after I had it read one of my tags that died, it started working again.
Preservation aside. Do you guys realize that once we get Dimensions up and running on PC with NFC tags for each character, that there's an actual possibility of adding our own mods into the game? Like, being able to add in characters and giving them original animations for entering and exiting the portals? Obviously, they won't be able to interact with the other characters, but it's still an interesting possibility. Finally being able to mod a game that was never possible to mod. *YET!*
For the Wii U, as it's the version I played for Lego Dimensions before buying a disk for the PS4, all year 1 levels are fully playable and requires no download whatsoever
Year 2s are completely inaccessible, obviously, but you can still play as them
No? It’s technically abandonware so if u mod it and download all the dlc ur good in my case it works fine except for the actual port
@Mega_765
Well as someone who's too scared to mod my WiiU... Much rather spend the extra $40 on a PS4 version.
So for people like me it might as well be inaccessible.
@@brovideogaming9447 that’s completely understandable but the Wii u version is kind of accessible because of modding
Can confirm that emulating Dimensions is a nightmare. I had to go to different sites just to get all of the DLC (no, I don’t remember where I got them, so plz don’t ask). There are many things that can go wrong during the installation process as well and could very well require you to start over. Dimensions with all of its DLC takes up a lot of room. I would recommend installing it on an external hard drive. The virtual game pad is clunky and glitches a lot. Oftentimes, it's hard to move characters and vehicles around. Sometimes, it even duplicates those objects. I can't imagine what it would be like with a physical game pad. The biggest problem with the WiiU emulator is that certain vfx are not loaded in properly or are just straight up missing. I didn’t realize this until I saw a ps4 walk-through of the game. Now let me address some fallacies in the video. Emulating consoles with the exception of the WiiU is not hard. People make it sound like it is way harder than it actually is. A lot of the resources are also easy to use and find online. You don’t need a high-end computer with an i9 core or RTX series graphics card, etc. Lego games as a whole are one of the lowest rankings when it comes to performance requirements. You can run Dimensions on a potato. It'll be fine. Idk if it was mentioned, but you can also buy all the stands (idk what they're called) that the figures and builds stand on bricklink for 10 cents or less. Now they're without the figures and builds, obviously, but it’s pretty inexpensive. The last fallacy is that children won't be interested in a gams like this. I've seen lots of parents on Reddit trying to set up the emulated game for their kids. I mean you could argue that some kids might not want to deal with the glitchy virtual game pad, and I don’t blame them. But to say that no kid is playing this game is simply untrue. I know this is a lengthy comment, but I seriously wanted to thank you for bringing this up. I hate it when Lego games get lost to time.
Maybe you could send all the DLC into a specific site for the community, that'd actually help a lot
I feel like the only way to preserve Lego dimensions would be hacking/homebrewing consoles, the Wii U in particular isn't hard to homebrew (Though this wouldn't be as accessible to kids)
Nopay station
I used to play this as a kid with my sister. By the time we were playing it, they weren’t really selling it in stores anymore. When I played it sometimes I thought, this would be so much better if it was just like any other Lego game where you just unlocked the characters in the game.
This is why toys to life is inherently flawed: while it's a novel idea, the sheer amount of money spent when buying everything is pointless when the game's services are shut down.
Yeah that sums it up nicely
Playing it via an emulator is also a huge pain. Even if your pc can run it, the digital toypad is very slow (and often completely unresponsive), and it crashes frequently
I said as much in my original video, I’ve since heard that you can use a real toy pad with emulators now but regardless I’m just not that big into the idea of using a gaming pc to play the Wii u version of Dimensions…
I'm emulating the Wii U version but using a real toypad with custom NFC tags - works perfectly @@GoblinBricks
At this point just install the dlc through cfw/HEN on ps3
And what makes this worse Is the scanning pads for characters will just eventually stop working due to time because the tech used eventually just give out from use
We need a sequel to this game or something, it would be so awesome
Best case scenario, LEGO partners with literally ANYONE to release a Definitive Edition on all current gen consoles and PC.
Realistic best case scenario, you buy/make your own NFC tags for all the content in the game and use a PS3 emulator with a most likely pirated copy of the game with all of the DLC.
Worst case scenario, the game somehow becomes unemulatable, and all physical media for the game rots beyond salvaging with no digital backups of the data.
If it hasn't been done already, I'd HIGHLY recommend a team of people to gather all of the game files (DLC included) and back them up, as well as scanning and archiving the NFC data for every game tag. If it isn't archived already, and we don't do it soon, it WILL be gone forever over time. Hell, upload all the NFC data to the Internet Archive, since Telltale Games and LEGO don't seem to care about this game. All it takes is one upload to the Internet Archive and fans to download it, and the data will NEVER be lost again, since countless people will just be able to reupload it if it ever gets taken down. That's what we need to do, take the hydra approach to this. That and also maybe petition for TTG and LEGO to release that aforementioned "Definitive Edition," since it's highly unlikely to happen unless enough people make enough noise about it.
I would like to note that the DLC is all uploaded online, BUT, it is super difficult to find them all because it is scattered
It should also e noted that the tags for the characters should take priority over vehicle tags because due to possible loss of abilities if a character nfc dies I.e chell
@@JamesTDG Then we should probably as a community have a single place where they're collected, like uploading a zip of them all to the Internet Archive or something.
@@BlitzLego Yes. All tags are important, but characters should 100% take priority.
It’s sad to see one of the best Lego games slowly dieing out with its only remains being that 1 pack about sonic did a butterfly effect that gave us the Sonic sets all the rest will be lost to time
I hope his game gets a pc version like Disney infinity or atleast a 2nd installment we can’t let this game become dust
All that crap is downloaded onto my Xbox 360, I did it right before the shutdown, I also have the Simpson packs and I have never played the game before except to download the dlc. I should test if I can even access the dlc with it downloaded.
You should be good to go as your account “owns” the DLC and therefore you can redownload it as you please until Microsoft eventually stop supporting the console completely.
The most surprising thing to me is that the game was released on 360 to begin with
And that was the version I played while the game was still alive.
and ps3. The fact those consoles got attention was surprising.
At the time it was the console many of the youngest players would've owned being that it was cheaper, tonnes of them out in the wild etc,.
So aiming for a release on a console full of children made perfect sense for a toys to life LEGO game!
I lot of people where still playing 360 and PS3 back in 2015 and they where still regularly getting new releases. I believe the last Lego game of this generation would of been Star War: Force Awakens in 2017.
something else to keep in mind: if you download the dlc packs? make backups of your hard drives since they can also stop working or get corrupted
I have Sonic. That’s all the matters to me.
(but I regret not getting Gremlins during my last minute Wii U eShop spree)
this was THE game for me as a kid. I have sunk so many hours into just messing around in the Portal 2 world alone, even with the weaker WII U hardware and a losing a lot of the pieces for the sets. It was the gate to finding loads of new franchises to get into, and it built on top of ones i already knew. I really hope Dimensions finds a way to live on, as Lego games really were what made me want to get into video games in the first place.
In my head this game came out like, a year ago. Like, it’s still new to me. The fact it’s basically becoming lost media is wild.
My parents bought me the 360 version the Christmas that was launched and I was a faithful follower of this game up until like the first wave of year 2. The packs began to be stupidly expensive and yeah downloads took forever and since I was a toddler back then I thoght that without those extra downloads the game wouldn't work, so I left the console downloading at night and the next day everything would be ready to use. I'm missing most of year 2, I think I only have the Powerpuff girls and they still work normally. So yeah if you downloaded everything before the marketplace shutdown in a non modded 360 everything should be good to go...
I played LEGO Dimensions a lot as a kid. Didn't have as many characters but had fun with them. ( I still have the game and a few of the characters). I do hope someone manages to port the game to PC.
Man I really hope that the stopkillinggames movement catch on to prevent that in the future.
Nintendo: "Stop Pirating our Games."
Fans: "Ok, will you give us easier ways to play your games that are being phased out?"
Nintendo: "I don't know. Doubt it."
Fans: "Then I guess we will keep Pirating your Games."
Nintendo: "You Son Of A. . . "
This isn't just a Nintendo problem.
Besides the Wii U being mentioned, this Nintendo is barely mentioned in this video.
I have a question. Since Ghostbusters 1984, The Simpsons, Doctor Who, and Back to the Future all released with a level pack AND at least one fun pack, could characters like Slimer, Bart, Cyberman, and Doc Brown be used to access those worlds on the Xbox360?
I am lucky and have the PS4 version of the game, so I can’t test it myself. Either way. The levels are still inaccessible, and so are the Portal 2 and Midway Arcade worlds since Chell and Gamer Kid are the only way to access either world respectively.
In theory yes since the download that's still possible and prompted before entering the game includes most (if not all) of the year 1 content and fun packs seem to be the only ones working without extra downloads...
More testing is needed but from what I remember using Bart or Doc Brown makes no difference as those hub worlds are tied to the level pack updates.
@@GoblinBricksI think you have to do the level to unlock the hub world
@@GoblinBricks And for the puzzle section moving my character on the toy pad is a pain in the neck. And even building the toy pad and vehicle even though it’s in lego dimensions personally didn’t enjoy the toy pad and toy tag and building the toy pad took me 1 hour to complete because I started the toy pad from 11:00 🕚 am to 12:00 🕛 pm which is pain in the neck and i cannot take the toy pad much longer just wanted to explore the hub world with every character really enjoyed wizard of oz and doctor who hub world and the tardis even though it’s in the video game 🎮 and don’t have to build the vehicle for it. I enjoyed the Simpsons level pack because it was taken from the tv show but just don’t like building the vehicle it’s the worst thing i ever done as a teenager-Luke. And for me I want to play every single character from every single hub world 🌍 no more 7 characters and no more toy pad or toy tag just wanted every single character and wave1-9 and year 1-2 and story,level,team,and fun pack if lego dimensions got reboot which means Reboot: Modernizes and brings new life to a beloved series, attracting new audiences. That would be interesting but if TT Games went and done a completely remake from the ground up they would have to build the game from the ground up level design hub world 🌍 design character design and hub world 🌍 too. A remake is a game recreated with new assets, resulting in significant changes to graphics, gameplay, and sometimes story. This process essentially breathes new life into an older game, making it more appealing to contemporary audiences. This process takes advantage of technological advancements to give an older game a modern feel, enhancing its graphical fidelity and gameplay mechanics.
"Sword of Mana" is a classic example of a video game remake. It was rebuilt from scratch, faithfully recreating the original while enhancing graphics and gameplay. Similarly, the Secret of Mana remake stayed true to the original game's graphics and map design but received mixed reception due to changes in gameplay.
Another example of an exciting remake is the remake of Resident Evil 2. This beloved survival horror game was given a fantastic makeover, injecting new life into the chilling storyline and terrifying gameplay. With enhanced graphics, revamped controls, and even scarier zombies, players were able to relive the spine-tingling experience of the original game in a whole new way. The remake received high praise for its faithful recreation of the iconic Raccoon City and its intense atmosphere. It's a perfect example of how a remake can breathe fresh excitement into a classic title. If lego dimensions came back it would fall into a reboot A reboot is a game recreated with a new story in a new universe, often with significant changes to gameplay mechanics and character design. It aims to refresh the franchise and attract new players while still maintaining some familiar elements. This represents a more radical reinvention of the game, often offering a fundamentally different experience from the original.
Imagine a world where iconic characters and familiar gameplay mechanics are reimagined in a fresh and innovative way. That's exactly what a reboot aims to achieve. It's a chance for developers to flex their creative muscles and explore uncharted territories within a well-established universe. which means every single developer would work the whole thing just like lego Star Wars the skywalker saga from the ground up character design hub world design and even level design too. And same thing for year 1-2 and wave 1-9 and story level team and fun pack and it has to include every character from every hub world not 7 characters and no lock it needs to be unclock for every character from every hub world 🌍-Luke.
Got into the game last week via PS5, been having a blast got some great deals and have characters such as Sonic, Homer, Sloth, Ethan Hunt, Raven, so much fun
I can assure you as a child I was pirating. But admittedly I was not an normal child
If LEGO gets the money and licenses for a remastered LEGO Dimensions I would be happy.
You can still acquire all the dlc through some less official ways on WiiU.
Yep, Hshop.
I say since you have brought attention to the issue I think your the most suitable person to make a real petition so we get a digital version or all in one physical edition
It’s never gonna happen unfortunately. Disney was united under one company, but the brands in Lego Dimensions have all gone in different directions.
@@harrytaylor9702They'd have to renew so many licenses and if it's all in the one game they probably won't agree cause the money they'd make isn't that much
I am so glad I went through the trouble of 100%ing this game on Wii U a few years ago. Sad to know it will be nearly impossible for newer players to experience most of the game
I have the PS4 version and have all characters.
Nice
That's awesome! I've got the PS4 version as well and have a pretty large collection, but certainly not ALL of them.
That makes you the last Lego Master Builder.😨
@@Lemuel928 Wait. I didn't realize that 😳
Make sure you keep it. It'll be necessary for future preservation.
Well now because of these comments and your video, I was able to download and use all the DLCs for Lego Dimensions on RPCS3. The base game on the emulator is fine from what I've experienced, but adding the DLCs did make the frames drop when on some of the open worlds, noticeable but not a big issue. So now I can play the entire game on PC, with every character and no limitations which is amazing. So for anyone who wants the best chance of playing this game to its full potential, I would recommend playing it on RPCS3 with the included PS3 DLC on the internet archive :)
being someone who grew up with the 360, and despite never having played lego dimensions(i really want to) this really breaks my heart
I think the sad reality is every toys to life game is at some form of risk of being lost or at least having content be inaccessible without using outside software like nfc readers or writers its just the reality of these games being incredibly inaccessible and the only one that is fully accessible is starlink battle for atlas probably the most forgotten toys to life game, even Disney infinity's gold edition is missing content such as the circular power discs from 1.0 aren't included in any game and 3.0 is missing all the content they added after the games release such as the finding dory play set.
However dimensions is definitely the worst of it because of the content manager system heck when year 2 first came out I remember running into a lot of problems on the PS3 version of the game and couldn't even access the harry potter world despite having it installed (although I'm unsure if this was because of how old my PS3 is) but the main problem I had and the reason why I moved over to PS4/5 was because of how glitchy the game was with constant crashes I couldn't even complete the adventure time level pack because of just how often it crashed out of nowhere.
I absolutely love Lego dimensions but I think the only way it can be saved is by the efforts of the community as we can't expect Tt or WB to port the games to pc like Disney done purely because of how many licenses are in this game.
8:49 No, it is not.
I have played that version a lot.
Every pack, character stuff, DLC games, sandbox, and the main story at least twice.
Haven't encountered a single bug.
I don't even know what "bugs" people claim it has.
I played the Wii U version back in the day and while it wasn't buggy the slow down was really bad to the point it made the Sonic world unplayable because Sonic was too fast for the game to handle
I'm so glad I have the PS4 version and went on a mad spree a few years ago to collect every set. I've loaded them all in, but already my Harry Potter tag won't work, and some of the normal bases are failing. I bought spare blue and gold ones, but can't do much for the characters. Thanks for bringing more attention to this!
You never even mentioned the fact that the toy tags decay over time. I never knew this until like last year when I wanted to replay the game and tried placing a few of my old figures from when I was a kid onto the toy pad and was devastated to learn that the NFC Chips inside the figures decay and I cannot play as some of my favorite characters in the game
You know… a long while ago when Dimensions was first discontinued. I thought
“Damn.. all I ever wanted was a Lego Lord Vortech.”
But now we’re at this state.
I never played Lego Dimensions even thought I have a Wii U, but thank you for letting people know about the situation, I hope it doesn't become lost media.
9:51 ah yes the glowing sea 😭
Honestly, I loved lego dimensions, but it's highly unlikely there will ever be a sequel
Id be cool if TT re-released Lego Dimensions, and to solve the licensing problems they could just sell the worlds and all their content like characters, vehiacles and toy pad stuff as DLC.
Namco did that in an arcade collection where they still selling Ms.Pacman as DLC for that collection, since they don't really own ms pacman and her arcade game
I used to watch LEGO dimensions vids a ton as a kid, so this is pretty sad
if they were to make a fully digital version of the game to fix the toy pad interaction issue they'd probably have a screen pop up in the corner were you could move stuff much like is done when emulating the game just in game instead of another window
Dunno if its a problem with my disc or the NFCs but last year i was in a wiiu binge and opened up lego dimensions again to play it and it would take a REALLY long time to either load in a specific vehicle or just load into the levels in the first place.
The fact that a lot of content is locked behind having the extra sets is also one of the big reasons why I wish it got a rerelease on Steam like disney infinity
From my understanding, Nintendo seems to be the only company sticking to have physical copies
Toys to Life games really came and went in a blur and while unlikely to return I think Lego Dimensions did it best. But it's going the way of...honestly a lot of games from that era in the sense that everyone's playing it safe console/accessory wise so there won't be a good way to play them in the future.
7:46 no, No, not the shut down games I never got the chance to play. We have a new mission this is beyond Lego Dimensions, WE MUST SAVE ALL THE GAMES, WE MUST SAVE: DEADPOOL, WAR FOR CYBERTRON, FALL OF CYBERTRON, LEGO DIMENSIONS, EVERYTHING WE CAN POSSIBLY SAVE WILL BE SAVED OR RETURNED
WFC and FOC are on the internet archive
If you have a wii u. You can play it by modding it &getting the dlc.
Man as a guy that never got into Lego Dimensions because the market was so filled with toys to life games at the time, Skylanders and Disney Infinity was enough for me at the time lol. Its sad to see if I wanted to check the game out on 360 it would be harder access all the content. Luckily I have a modded 360 so I probably can still get the dlc, as long as it was preserved. I also don't know the price range the figures are currently sitting at. I honestly might check out the game if making NFC cards for it, is as easy as it is for Skylanders.
NGL, I don't have high hopes for this. Lego Dimensions is such a licensing nightmare that I don't think WB or whoever owns the game would go the distance for preservation of a game they expected to be a platform for years to come and it couldn't last 3. Either they do it with a heavily stripped down roster (we're talking no Sonic, no Portal, no movies WB doesn't own) or they don't do it at all.
Sega will probably allow Sonic to be included since it will promote the new Sonic Lego sets.
This is now the worst day ever in my life because I used to play it on my Wii u and my favourite characters to play as are Shaggy, Homer, Harry Potter and Peter Venkman and I am now sad that the DLC's are now gone and we didn't get year 3.
I’ve still not tested Wii U, but I think the year 1 stuff *should* be fine on there? Can’t say 100% but hopefully it works
WB has always been the absolute worst when it comes to game preservation.
4thsnake made a video regarding which MK game you can currently play on pc and newer consoles. To put it simply:
The arcade versions for the original trilogy are only available on the Arcade1UP cabinet, with a fatal bug that bricks one of the games if you try putting in your initials at the name entry screen. Not to mention the GOG versions are DOS ports, and the only other way to play the arcade trilogy was delisted from Steam years ago while the Xbox 360 listing got taken down along with the 360 store.
MK4 and Trilogy are available on GOG but not Gold; Mythologies, Special Forces, Shaolin Monks, and the 3D era trilogy were never re-released, and neither was MK Vs DC; and MK9, the first MK game made since WB bought the franchise, is no longer available on Steam.
This game seriously needs a remake, or just a sequel.
I'm quite lucky to have an Xbox One and complete figure collection with all DLC downloaded. My brother has a PS4, maybe we should see about downloading the game onto that before it's lost for good.
Also, the emulators support the actual toypad now!? That's great news! Still nowhere near as good as an official PC port, but the physical aspect of Dimensions was one of the things I really liked about it. I hope we get something official, but with licensing being how it is I strongly doubt it.
5:54 I have the Wii U version of the game, and let me tell you: it's BAD. Around the same as the XBox 360 version. Ever since the Wii U eShop went down back in early 2023, you can no longer purchase or download anything free; including updates, meaning if you didn't already download the DLC level packs beforehand, it's gone for good without mods or hacks.
"including updates"...? you mean the dlc, right?! i swear update data works for me, but i can't really remember when i last downloaded an update for a game past splatoon 1's 2023 patch.
@DillyzThe1 As far as I know, as long as you've downloaded it before, it should still work even if you deleted and redownloaded it.
I have the Wii U version of the game too, and let me tell you:
No, it is not.
I have played that version a lot.
Every single pack, character stuff, DLC games, sandbox, and the main story at least twice.
Haven't encountered a single bug.
I don't even know what kind of "bugs" or problems people claim that version has.
Have you tried accessing the Simpsons and Ghostbusters adventure worlds using the fun packs for those franchises?
Just to confirm, what do you mean by not getting the in-game downloads to work? Although the store is shut down, already "owned" content that still requires claiming such as season pass dlc should still be able to claim through the in-game store. Just the other week I was able to add the level packs for Star Wars TFA to my account by having bought the season pass before the shutdown, although it took a couple attempts. If it can't download while the game is running, you can find the dlc in your download history.
I don’t already own the DLC for 360. As a “new” player, or even as someone that didn’t claim all of the dlc before the shutdown you will never be able to get it legitimately.
The content manager does nothing from the main menu now, the store doesn’t list dimensions dlc at all and even if it did it wouldn’t let you install it unless you already have it in your download history section.
I always wanted to play the Portal Pack because I loved Portal 2 as a kid.
Portal 2 is E L I T E
as someone who spent hours messing around in this game, getting to play as some of my favorite characters in all of fiction as a child, hearing about this is really really sad. I sold my copy awhile back, and have been looking to re-buy it at some point. I just hope that I can play it before its too late. (I played on the Wii U version)
I really miss this game and I think there should be some kind of a movement to make TT reconsider making a digital version of it although regaining the licenses required won't be easy
Well, this is distressing news for someone like me who has had umpty million LEGO Dimensions sets I got for Christmas one year sitting around for years that I meant to get around to playing one day.
Dude just get all the DLC you can downloaded asap! (avoid Xbox 360 and Wii U)
@@GoblinBricks Wii U is what I have it on.
@@GoblinBricks horrible advice they can get it by modding.
6:22 Oh good i was planning on playing the Sonic DLC on my series X nice to know that works. edit: uh I’ve heard talk that the Xbox one version doesn’t work on series x, you got anything to shut that rumor down? Last thing i wanna do is spend money on something that doesn’t work
Xbox One version definitely works on Xbox Series X, that's what I use it on.
I’d like to say because you showed it, I miss the transformer war of cybertron game, it was so good
Never really played it myself, but a friend suggested it as a good example!
@@GoblinBricks Well I’m glad they did, if it ever becomes available again, you should totally try it if you’re interested, it was pretty cool
The whole thing about this is-- especially with that awful clickbait title-- it implies these games are actually at risk of becoming lost media. They simply aren't, because lost media is stuff you literally cannot access in any format at all. The situation with Lego Dimensions is unfortunate, but it's not that.
The whole point of titles and thumbnails is to draw in viewers, I have also made it very clear in the video what the current state of the game is.
What about the Xbox one version?
I remember even before the eshop went down it was too buggy on the Wii U. I tried playing as Sonic and it kept asking me to download his stuff and that message just kept popping up over and over for me. What I think is we should get a port of the game for the new Consoles plus the Switch 2 whenever that releases. However, it should just be the full content right away and make the extra stuff like the toy pad unnecessary and just have it be like the regular LEGO games. I think if they also plan to take the stuff off the digital stores it should have a required update to instantly unlock all of the content but still require the characters to access it. Now it’s already on there, you just need the characters to play in the world.
It's such a massive shame to see this game slowly fizzle out. A definitive version with all content that doesn't require the use of a Toy pad would be really beneficial.
The 360 store is shut down so any chance to download is literally impossible now as of July 2024 it’s not broken or anything just that you literally can’t do anything even if you wanted
That's really sad. Never played the game but the whole lost media situation is really sad.
Games should have a way to be preserved for future generations.
I didn’t knew they had Lego City Undercover pack, that sounds like the coolest pack ever. And is really sad that is lost media now.
Is there a way that we could create some kind of online collective of all the dlc files? With how many people have enjoyed this game, surely a lot of us have a good chunk of the downloaded dlc somewhere
Wait if the issue is you can't access the adventure world because the character was in a level pack couldn't you use Bart doc brown slimer and cyberman? I know that doesn't access the level and portal and midway arcade is still gone but at least it's more adventure worlds then before
This content isn't "lost" but it's no longer legally accessible. You can find it all fairly easily if you know where to look, but the dodgy nature of this adventure turns many off.
It's "lost" in it's original format, yeah it's available through piracy/modding - I said as much in the video!
I'm really glad I never threw my PS3 away. I still have all of LEGO Dimensions and all the DLC installed. I also have the Scott Pilgrim game (I know it came back now) and the BTTF Telltale game. I didn't realize how much of the game was lost now. I guess I'm one of the few people who still has the entire game.
We lost Springfield AND HILL VALLEY AND GREEN HILL ZONE, THE MAIN 3 REASONS I WANTED TO PLAY THE GAME, NOOOOO!!!!
Only currently lost on 360!
That's why you mod your console guys
As someone with absolutely no technical or digital knowhow, maybe the solutuon could be to essentially stitch it onto another Lego game? Using a Lego game that has the same engine, taking the code from Dimensions, and then grafting it onto the other Lego game? That way the whole thing is running natively on PC. It still doesn't solve the issue of accessibility but it's a hypothetical I thought of.
I think it would’ve been fine if he had the third and final game of this
i own the wii-u with lego dimensions and i can confirm that all the dlc content for the game became lost when the wii-u e-shop was shut down. all the same content as the xbox 360 version is lost on wii-u aswell. futher more all content was over 30 GB worth of content, i had to buy a external hard drive just to play all the content.
Is there a way to get TT Games' attention?
I'd like to pitch an "All digital Version".
No more toy pad and toy tag lego dimensions need to be reboot.
Seeing all the loss of this content will always break my heart. People were never big fans of this game, but even it doesn't deserve to be shredded into obscurity!
A few months ago I picked up my WiiU again to finally complete the main story and also play around with some other characters I still had but rarely used. I was so disappointed that I could not download the content for a lot of characters and worlds which I bought years prior. Even if this game would get a fully digital re-release, I wouldn't be able to download the additional contant as the WiiU online shop shut down. And I wasn't aware that it shut down until I played dimensions again. If I had known prior I would've claimed all DLCs so I could still download them in the future
i swear this the best example of how it does not matter after a certain point of having physical or digital on consoles. although i think anyone should have a disc tray lol. maybe i’m crazy but seems like it’s more about having the full game being finished at release and it not requiring an internet connection or continuous patches/dlcs
It's a weird mismash of the two with Dimensions. It's a physical product that relies heavily on extra updates... I wish they'd just done a Year 2 version of the game with all of the content on disc.
My experience with dimensions: When I was around 6 I got Lego dimensions for the Wii U. I don't remember a whole lot, but I had a bad habit of breaking my legos for pieces. I broke my portal and figures and lost the tags for wyld style, gandalf, and the dlc I got which were shaggy, scooby doo, and peter venkman. Fast forward to 2024 I find the biengamers tutorial about emulating dimensions. Even though I am not experienced whatsoever in emulating I was desperate becuase I love lego games and lego dimensions is the magnum opus of lego games. After 3 days of work understanding the process I played it. It felt amazing. some bugs here and there and the digital toypad isn't perfect, but lego dimensions is becoming lost media. Emulation is not something I would recommend trying as its not an easy process even with help and it can be buggy at times, but it may be one of the last options we have to prerserve this game
I remember when I got Lego Dimensions for the PS3. (It was also kinda recent too) I started downloading the other DLC levels to try to preserve the game. Though, I'm hoping to find a copy for the PS4. I've always hated to see something great left unfinished.
I remember playing this game like 9 years ago on Xbox 360, it literally took like hours to download most of the new worlds and levels and by the time they did download it would be a boring empty world , I got bored of it in like a couple months and never played it again
And there we have the reason why unauthorized copies will always exist. We already lost so much media to the ether with no chance to get it back, save for somehow traveling back in time and then making a copy. We simply do not want to lose even more if we can help it.
I still hope that people saved the update data for most games because mid-revisions are harder and harder to find legitimately and there are legit reasons to want them available. Even a good bunch of Switch games have me cry in the corner because I couldn't find the update data besides the newest patch online.
The sad thing is that on the Xbox 360 version, you couldn’t even 100% it anyway.
In the adventure time world, there was a skin that Finn could obtain (fern). But fern was never implemented in that version…
OK if you have discord I can show you all my lego dimensions because I have a lot of the game unlocked on my ps3
Crazy this game released a decade ago. Maybe since TT is focusing on WB properties now we can get a port, maybe even with Year 3 unreleased content.
This is insanely upsetting as someone who loved this game. I really wish they would rerelease this game on the pc without the toys to life element. They'd most likely only give you the base game and sell every pack as dlc, but even that would be fine compared to losing the entire game completely. It BAFFLES me that lost media is even POSSIBLE in the modern era of gaming we live in. As you said, these companies don't give a shit anymore if their game isn't making money. It's really depressing.
I think all dlc and content etc might be accessible to the Wii U version, maybe you could give it a try there ?
It would be amazing if you made a video talking about how to play the game on the Cemu emulator, and where to safely find all the needed files
As much as I’d love to do that, I don’t think talking explicitly about piracy is a good idea (legally) and there are definitely better people out there who have done that already!
Also, I’m just not that personally bothered about emulating the worst versions of the game when my Xbox Series X is currently playing it ok!
I tried emulating it on both Cemu and Ps3 emulator but the game doesn't even start. It's a black screen 😅
@ Weird
I was able to get it running on Cemu just fine, and with my own save data brought out of my old Wii U, as well
Maybe when you started it in Cemu, you had an empty save data folder that needed something in it?
@@justsomefox8910 It was empty. At least i didn't import any save data files.
Are you on the original 360 I bet the store works on emulated 360 of the Xbox One that’s how I got the dlc for new Vegas before Microsoft bought Bethesda and added them ? If it doesn’t work that would be sad