Game Decomps, Recomps and Ports Projects

[Epic Fail Man]

Bloodborne needs a recomp. The emulator is cool and it is better than playing it on the PS4 since you can play at 120fps 1440p. But there's still issues like vertex and not being able to customize your character.

A recomp of Bloodborne would be a dream cum true.

 

[Two Dollars]

Decomps are in a weird legal spot as you aren't downloading the game but rather downloading something that modifies it from reverse engineered work. Most companies make a stink about it for physical items but, I haven't seen any video game devs take action on it, yet. No doubt Nintendo will be the first, especially if it's a major Pokemon decomp that eclipses the original game the decomp is based on.

I wish this meme would finally die. Nintendo has already shown beyond any doubt that they can’t do shit about decomps. Back when Mario 64’s first PC port released (technically leaked a few days early before the repo went public), they shot down precompiled binaries that already included ROM data but never touched port-specific code, decomp code, or tools that assist in building a port from your own rom. Because they’re all legal.

 

[Rust Troony]

I wish this meme would finally die. Nintendo has already shown beyond any doubt that they can’t do shit about decomps.

The issue is the law is gray since there is no actual lawsuit that talks about this specific use case, only other ones that are similar enough, and no one is brazen enough to fight a company in the court room to make it set in stone. Its nice that Nintendo seems to get the memo, too bad every other company doesnt. Take Two shot down the RE3 project and continue to take down other miscellaneous project, like the gta vc port to the gta 4 engine, essentially killing the entire grand theft auto decomp community outside a handful of russians.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

Bloodborne needs a recomp

I second this. I've had heaps of issues getting it to run in ANY fork of ShadPS4, even the most refined and fully-featured ones where character creation and shit is working. It's the one FromSoft game I haven't played that I really wanna.

I do need to test it again because I refreshed my OS last night and it's given me amazing performance boosts in everything I've done today, but nah yeah I'd rather prefer just a fucking recomp port of BB: Twilight Princess Dusk runs so fucking well it's getting benign visual bugs as I'm pushing up to 180fps and above.

Also, they're changing the name from "Dusk" to "Dusklight" because New Blood asked them to:

 

[Battlefield42]

https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakBlack
New decomp for Black Ops 1

 

[BONECRUSHER]

https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakBlack
New decomp for Black Ops 1

Note if you want to just play Black Ops, use Plutonium with a pirated copy instead. They fixed the security issues and such

 

[Dan of Steel]

I love projects like these. As someone who primarily plays old games having the ability to click an executable and it just run is a godsend. Some that haven't been mentioned so far ITT:

Augustus is a fork of another project called Julius for Caesar 3. Implements proper widescreen, along with rebalances the community has decided on, and the ability to zoom in, amongst other things. Still being worked on and updated to this day.

Flame is a patch to a decomp of Dungeon Keeper 2, one of my favorite games to play as a kid. Technically, DK2 works "fine" out of the box on modern PCs if you buy it on GOG, but there's still some little niggles that don't make it perfect, like no widescreen support, HUD scaling, etc. Flame fixes all that. It's fairly new, but I'm enjoying it so far.

The original Dungeon Keeper has a well-known sourceport called KeeperFX, so you don't have to run it in DOSbox or some other godawful implementation.

Multiverse Launcher is more of a client wrapper for Populous: The Beginning but makes it a much more enjoyable experience, and includes mod support as well.

syndwarsfx ports Syndicate Wars to PC, pretty barebones just gets the game running but it's another Bullfrog classic so that works for me.

CorsixTh is a port of Theme Hospital (I love Bullfrog games if you can't tell). Widescreen support, zooming, improved game logic, mod support and more.

Gardens of Kadesh is an SDL sourceport of Homeworld that incredibly enough, can be ran in your browser if you're so inclined. If you're a grognard like me and prefer playing the original and not the HD remaster this is the definitive way to play Homeworld. (Unfortunately doesn't work with Homeworld Cataclysm)

OpenXCOM is the best way of playing the original X-COM today, along with its expansion. Includes tons of mods as well, you do whatever the fuck you want with the basegame if you're so inclined. Really streamlines the process of playing one of the best strategy games ever made.

TRX is a sourceport for Tomb Raider 1, 2, and their expansion packs with development in the process of getting Tomb Raider 3 to work as well. IMO, this is the best way to play these games it includes mod support, controller support, and all sorts of other goodies.

 

[Penguin Sandwich]

Slowly, but surely. And then waiting ages for it to be ported.

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

I love projects like these. As someone who primarily plays old games having the ability to click an executable and it just run is a godsend.

I agree with you, and it's why I got frustrated at this random blog post a friend woke me up with this morning, from some 80 year old woman who talks about gaming.

Her making fun of reddit casuals is a little funny but it starts turning into this elitist faggotry about how if you're not playing 40 year old games on 40 year old hardware and having to manually assign IRQ and DMA values in a dos setup, you're incapable of appreciating any videogame (she also says some other shit I think is dumb but isn't relevant to this thread).

Bitch I grew up doing that shit, it was tedious as fuck and I'm glad we dont have to do it anymore, same as password entries in old console games. The golden element of Def Jam FFNY is not PS2 limitations meaning it takes 5 loading screens to go from the main menu to playing. If that's what she thinks real gaming is I don't think it's actually the videogames she cares about.