Alias11 Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Hello, So I've rented the collector's edition through gameaccess and I want to be able to play the DLC, which I have purchased. It's got the whole "older version" issue happening (for which I've found the workaround online). HOWEVER, that workaround doesn't seem to work for the version of Flow that's on the collector's edition. So, anybody else encountered this or have any idea how to make it work?? I can't believe that it would be designed in such a way that it's impossible to play the DLC (which of course would mean that I can't get the last trophy ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminator Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Have you tried the info in the Road Map? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alias11 Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Yep, I completed deleted the game (even the save file although it shouldn't have been necessary). Re-installed the game, did not enter it. Then go to install the expansion I still get the "you already have the newest version, it is not necessary to install this version" message. I'm thinking that the version on the disc is considered "newer" than the expansion, whereas the old version you get off PSN is not (as long as you don't patch it). It's quite frustrating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminator Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Try installing the expansion first then the game . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alias11 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 (edited) Thanks Terminator, that's actually what I did first, when I installed the expansion I seem to recall that it told me that the full game is required but I only tried that once so going to give it another go now. UPDATE: I can confirm that this didn't work either, the install off the disc seems to completely over ride the install of the DLC. I've posted on thatgamecompany's forum and they indicated that they will "contact sony staff" about it, that .... sounds like it'll take a while. Edited September 6, 2012 by Alias11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neophenom Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Hum...I was planing on renting this game to play Flow, and Journey, but after reading this I might just play Journey since I already own Flower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alias11 Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 Yeah I mean it depends on how OCD you are about 100%, it's only one bronze trophy in the dlc, but it bothers me enough that I'm probably just going to end up paying to download Flow from PSN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francofone Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Yeah I mean it depends on how OCD you are about 100%, it's only one bronze trophy in the dlc, but it bothers me enough that I'm probably just going to end up paying to download Flow from PSN. That's so ridiculous. You figure that for such an old game they would release all the damn content in the collector's edition. Dumb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blah604 Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 (edited) does the reinstall glitch work w/ the collectors edition? Because i got flow for free from SONY before and if i deleted it i would need to install the one off the disc which requires the disc to play afters wards. I need someone to confirm if the reinstall works w/ the collectors before attempting because im stuck with 54% and flow seems so hard. ;_; and does it come w/ the expansion? o-o EDIT: yay 95% too bad they didnt include the DLC on the journey collectors. Edited October 8, 2012 by blah604 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisguy Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Does anyone know if they have fixed this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho-DioXx Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 does the reinstall glitch work w/ the collectors edition? Because i got flow for free from SONY before and if i deleted it i would need to install the one off the disc which requires the disc to play afters wards. I need someone to confirm if the reinstall works w/ the collectors before attempting because im stuck with 54% and flow seems so hard. ;_; and does it come w/ the expansion? o-o EDIT: yay 95% too bad they didnt include the DLC on the journey collectors. So Journey collector's edition doesn't have the flow DLC and if I download it from the ps store it won't work? Guess I won't get that trophy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rennelf Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Posted this in the trophy info as well: I was hearing conflicting reports on whether the expansion pack could work with the Journey Collector's Edition disc or not, so I figured for $2.09 I'd just give it a shot. For me, it worked fine. I deleted all flOw data (including save data, though I doubt that was necessary) then reinstalled the game off the disc and then the expansion pack (without first starting the game). The expansion pack installed with no complaint. I haven't done any tinkering to see if those steps were really necessary. It did freeze my PS3 a few times (the screenshots always freeze the screen for a second or two, but a few times, it didn't unfreeze), but I was able to get the trophy. There are plenty of people online saying it doesn't work, so I dunno what the deal is, just reporting that it did work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiKy Peacemaker Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Personally I had no problem with using the expansion pack for flOw on Journey Collector's Edition, even though I feared trouble based on what I had read here. But no worries, it seems to work just fine (is my experience). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winkuru Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I wonder why the DLC wasn't on the retail version in the first place. 20 euros for three PSN games is quite a lot so they should thrown that bone. Well at least there are some avatars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundskeeper Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 For what it's worth, I can confirm that you can install the DLC with the Journey Collector's Edition disc. You just have to install the game, NOT start it, THEN download the expansion, THEN run the game. Likewise you can also do a glitch install (obvs). If you want to glitch some trophies (in a good way) do a glitch-install. Then delete everything (the game and your save file) and then do a proper install, don't run, RE-download DLC and install that and then run the game and you're good as gold. I'm not sure if this is a tell tale sign that it works but I THINK the expansion brings rumble to the table? Maybe it was always there and I just never noticed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NECROSMOKE_ Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 What a shame, they didn't put the FlOw DLC in the Journey Collectors Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldJimiDini Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Can confirm that it works for the European version of Collector's Edition + DLC too. Sony support had no idea and basically told me to "just buy it". What the hell. And I didn't have to delete the saved game. just delete install data. Reinstall without starting. Install DLC. Start game. Works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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