Team Ninja Explains Why Ninja Gaiden Black And Ninja Gaiden 2 Couldn t Be Remastered
The team couldn t salvage the varying assortment of data for the two Ninja Gaiden games.
Developer Team Ninja, after announcing the Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection in a February 2021 Nintendo Direct presentation, has clarified why two particular entries in the franchise couldn t be remastered. It all boils down to the inability to salvage the varying assortment of data the studio left behind.
When asked in a GameSpot interview whether Team Ninja had considered updating Ninja Gaiden 2 and Ninja Gaiden Black, producer Fumihiko Yasuda said the studio couldn t recover both games data. Sigma and Sigma 2 were chosen for the Master Collection because Team Ninja had collected and organized their source codes.