Kefren on 28/9/2006 at 19:18
Quote Posted by Lanael
So, there's three obvious options to recreate SS1 without the sources :
1) remaking it entirely by hand.
Last week I had a hankering for some old Dungeon Master action, so downloaded the 'Return to Chaos' re-write from (
http://ragingmole.com/RTC/). I had no problems running it; and in the one package was the re-write of Dungeon Master; a tweaked version called 'Return to Chaos'; Chaos Strikes Back; and various demos. I was impressed by how faithful it was to the original, and how smoothly it played.
I'm just mentioning this because the author apparently wrote the whole thing himself from scratch (though presumably importing the graphics, because they look identical). In his notes I think he said he did it alone, and in many cases guessed slightly at how much damage weapons and enemies did, since he didn't have the source code - but on playing it I was impressed that I could hardly see any differences between this and the original game.
I realise it is a much simpler game, but it does give me hope that we will end up with a 're-written' or updated SS1 at some point.
Lanael on 28/9/2006 at 20:48
Quote Posted by Kefren
Last week I had a hankering for some old Dungeon Master action, so downloaded the 'Return to Chaos' re-write
I was aware about a java remake of Dungeon Master :
(
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~alandale/dmjava/screenshots.html)
I know a lot of people loved this game, but at that time I prefered true 3D First-person adventure games ( Castle Master anyone ? :) ). I always did.
Quote Posted by Kefren
I realise it is a much simpler game,
You said it !
Anyway, with (a lot of ) time and (a lot of ) will a single person would be able to remake any game.
If I was paid during several months ( years ? ;) ) to do a System Shock 1 remake, I'll do it :)
kodan50 on 1/10/2006 at 04:03
yeah, I would to, providing I had talent. TSSHP's work is praised amongst a lot of people, and I belive their hard work has paived the way for possible modifications to the system shock game. I just wish I had more time, and a better computer, then I would try something, but I don't have a lot of time anymore, and I even think I lost the HL SS remake files. Well, it looked like crap anyways. You can see my progress at (
http://www.geocities.com/kodan50) just look around. If I find the original files I might just do a simple overhaul ...
