Links Awakening was a nice one as well but the majority is usually painfully lame. And the constant lawsuits are just not a good image of a player loving company.
It would literally not hurt them to open source anything <= 3DS now after the eshop closure. The act of doing that and everything that would come of it (e.g. rom hacks) would actually be a pretty good PR move imo and maybe they'd even find new developers, acquainted with their code, that could be hired by them so they have developers that actually know how to develop good and optimized games.
Note that this is only the game code that allows people to develop mods, and not engine code that allows people to do ports. The re-release engine code is still proprietary.
They did the same with Quake 1 re-release game code
true, in the official source code they say that was only tested the build in linux lol, and in the first doom they said that was only playable on linux :b
IIRC the guy who was doing the official Linux builds of the old id games was also the one who was publishing the code, so that's probably why.
They could never publish everything they had internally, as they used proprietary or patented bits in places, so the code always needed cleaning up before GPLing it. That's why Doom engine source was released without the sound, the Doom 3 engine had the shadowing code replaced, Quake 3 code didn't have the single-player parts because people were still licencing it in the mid-00's, and other such stuff.
And yes, Doom was originally developed for *nix, I think they were using NeXT machines or something like that, for development.
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LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 3y
This is amazing! Hey Nintendo…
VanillaGorilla@kbin.social · 65 pts · 3y
Yeah, Nintendo here? What do you need, a lawsuit?
dinckelman@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 3y
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 3y
And their remaster looks worse than the fan HD texture packs.
rich@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 3y
UprisingVoltage@feddit.it · 8 pts · 3y
XCDE was a work of love
Mario 3DAS was a cash grab assigned to five interns for it to be completed by the end of the month
rich@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 3y
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Links Awakening was a nice one as well but the majority is usually painfully lame. And the constant lawsuits are just not a good image of a player loving company.
rich@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3y
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Wind Waker original looks nicer on Dolphin with 4K hack and textures than the Wii-U version.
rich@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3y
dinckelman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
genoxidedev1@kbin.social · 12 pts · 3y
It would literally not hurt them to open source anything <= 3DS now after the eshop closure. The act of doing that and everything that would come of it (e.g. rom hacks) would actually be a pretty good PR move imo and maybe they'd even find new developers, acquainted with their code, that could be hired by them so they have developers that actually know how to develop good and optimized games.
One can sadly only dream.
AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
The thing is that they want to continue to milk those classic titles (see for example the Chrono Trigger Android port)
JPiolho@lemmy.jpiolho.com · 44 pts · 3y
Note that this is only the game code that allows people to develop mods, and not engine code that allows people to do ports. The re-release engine code is still proprietary.
They did the same with Quake 1 re-release game code
NecoArcKbinAccount@kbin.social · 22 pts · 3y
good shit
recursive_recursion@programming.dev · 10 pts · 3y
if Quake II is under GPL-2.0...
doesn't it mean that Quake II has a good to high potential to be supported on Linux?
WhoRoger@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y
Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.
I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that's why they kept it open.
recursive_recursion@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
never knew till today and also that's pretty cool!
GreenMario@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Remaster uses "The Kex E.ngine", however I don't know if that's an actual game engine or a portability layer of some kind.
AProfessional@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Vilian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
true, in the official source code they say that was only tested the build in linux lol, and in the first doom they said that was only playable on linux :b
WhoRoger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
IIRC the guy who was doing the official Linux builds of the old id games was also the one who was publishing the code, so that's probably why.
They could never publish everything they had internally, as they used proprietary or patented bits in places, so the code always needed cleaning up before GPLing it. That's why Doom engine source was released without the sound, the Doom 3 engine had the shadowing code replaced, Quake 3 code didn't have the single-player parts because people were still licencing it in the mid-00's, and other such stuff.
And yes, Doom was originally developed for *nix, I think they were using NeXT machines or something like that, for development.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3y
Someone needs to make quake ii run doom just to prove a point
library_napper@monyet.cc · 1 pts · 3y
When Quake 3?
MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Are you looking for this?
chili1553@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
Based