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Game Revival Projects?

So, there are projects like these;

www.dfworkshop.net

vcmi.eu

github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

zdoom.org/index

Projects that in one way or another aim to modernize a classic, or try make it more playable on modern machine, or just try to expand on things (like gzdoom does)

what other projects are out there in a similar vein?

I find this a little difficult to search for, even with specific terms (i tried finding myself)

Lampenoel ,

There’s also OpenMW a recompilation project of Morrowind.

xyzzy ,
Mandy OP ,

a fellow ultima enjoyer, very nice

GrappleHat , (edited )
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DevilutionX (Reverse engineered Diablo I)

OpenMW Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

ace_garp ,
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Prince of Persia 1 - SDLPoP

Sonic in 3rd person - Sonic Robo Blast 2

ZosoRocks3 ,

I see you’ve mentioned Zdoom, I"ve sank many hours into Brutal Doom (Extermination Day), Blade of Agony and Golden Doom. Found the Hakros Launcher recently which opened some doors (though not the most up to date, still a decent gateway).

ZosoRocks3 ,

(on reread I see it was gzdoom, oh well)

JamesBean ,
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Dunno if this is exactly the kind of thing you have in mind, but a person known as 'Yuvi' has been singlehandedly maintaining publicly available servers for the original Demon's Souls for about 4 years (the official servers shut down about 5 years ago).

Thanks to Yuvi, you can still play the original game with all online functionality, regardless of whether you're playing on PS3 or RPCS3.

Mandy OP ,

any and all kind of project keeping an older game alive are welcome, thank you

Krulsprietje ,

Oh you have found a rabbit hole now… enjoy! :)

B0NK3RS ,
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CorsixTH - Theme Hospital

OpenRCT2 - Rollercoaster Tycoon 2

RVGL - Re-Volt

Rollcage

Rollcage 2

The Zod Engine - Z

Mandy OP ,

so many choices coming in, thank you for the contribution

B0NK3RS ,
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Also found this buried in my bookmarks!

trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/index.html

Mandy OP ,

now thats a treasure trove

Peffse ,

osgameclones.com is also a good one

Mandy OP ,

bu gawd, thats lie the library of alexandria, thank you

theinternetisforporn14 ,

There is forged alliance forever . It revived supreme commander 1

hihellobyeoh ,

So fun, I need to look into it again.

naevaTheRat ,
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beyond all reason is a remake/successor to total annihilation too btw

DosDude ,
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Eduke32 - eduke32.com

OpenTTD - openttd.org

Commander Genius - github.com/gerstrong/Commander-Genius

Open Lara - github.com/XProger/OpenLara/releases

Open Jazz - github.com/AlisterT/openjazz

City of Heroes - cityofheroes.dev

Scummvm - www.scummvm.org/downloads

Red Nukem - github.com/nukeykt/NRedneck/releases

OpenRA - github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/releases

SDLPoP - github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP

Among others.

Mandy OP ,

thats a very nice list, thank you but im also VERY interested in “among others” lol

DosDude ,
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There’s loads of source ports and game engine recreations. I think if you search for “source port” you can find most. For example

Ship of Harkinian an Ocarina of Time port

SpaceCadetPinball from windows 9x/xp

Rigel Engine for a native higher res Duke nukem 2.

Lemmini a Lemmings port

DXX Retro a descent 1/2 port

RVGL a re-volt port

Among others.

echo64 ,

Freespace 2 Open, the games source was released in the early 2000’s under a … dubious licence that may or may not be legal to work with but no one really knows and it’s been more than 20 years so eh

Freespace 2 far and away my favourite space game, nothing else comes close to the tension of war that game setup so it’s great that you don’t have to run a .exe from the 90s to play the game. lots of mods for it now too thanks to this project

Mandy OP ,

havent played freespace in so long, ill check those out too

simple ,

There’s OpenGOAL which makes the Jak and Daxter games run on modern PCs natively. AFAIK only the first game works flawlessly so far. They’re such great games, I’m glad someone is going for it.

Someone also ported Mario64 to PC a while ago. You need to jump through some hoops to get it yourself, or sail the high seas to find an exe file that’s already compiled.

Mandy OP ,

oh, interesting, ill check em out

squirrel ,
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Discovery Freelancer is a multiplayer Freelancer mod. I’ve only discovered it today, but I’m already a couple of hours in.

Mandy OP ,

havent played the game in a hot second, guess i gotta dust up the old drive lol

Teknikal ,

I was really into this at one point I’m glad it’s still about. Played plenty of x3 style games since and none have really been as fun as freelancer was.

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