Not only are they not all player characters, they're not even all "Hand-pixeled", just look at the Pac-Man
EDIT: Looking further, a lot of these are TERRIBLE. Earthworm Jim (1994), Spyro (1998), Sora (2002), The Prince (2004), and Quote (2004)...
Friend managed to crack the archive password, it's just "171185", so I got to take a look at thatfile, aaaaaand it's just Retail. Not Russian Translated at all
Are you being serious? Supply and Demand is shit you get taught in like, third grade.
It's like Pokemon cards, if a certain card is super desirable, and not everyone can get it, people are willing to spend more money to make sure that they get...
Not strictly, all of Sony's PS2 remasters are pretty poorly done, not just the Ratchet & Clank games. The Sly HD collection also has a fair share of issues as well. Hell, some of Sly 3's multiplayer modes just revert to 4:3 because they couldn't...