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i dont know CRAP about programming! i tried to learn c++ once apon a time and i almost died from an anurysm. i cant really create much for the dc... but mabey i can point some things out for you smart and patient coders to think about.
Cube - its a pretty advanced 3d game
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=91993
super mario war - its open source and its cool
http://jnrdev.weed-crew.net/smw/
any rts open source games?
Interesting question, that actually made me go and look at what non-console oriented opensource games are around. I haven't played either of these, but they look really cool..
T1 Car Racing Simulation - http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_detail.php?id_item=616 / http://t1-crs.sourceforge.net/ - this isn't actually a finished game yet, but runs on Linux with low poly gfx, so it might translate reasonably easily(?) however I haven't done any coding since I left college, and while it was in C it wasn't exactly what you'd call advanced..
YSFlight looks like a particularly spangly piece of GPL opensource software, www.ysfLIGHT.com if you like flight sims..
Oh, and I've seen that Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is available as freeware on Linux, but I'm not sure if it's opensource (more likely not I suspect). Also, it might just stretch the DC a wee bit, but it'd be nice :P
:o Super Mario War looks very sweet! Would be nice to have it as a 4 player game on DC!
The others sound very interesting too! Would be great to have some of them ported to DC...
*searches the web for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory*
I am a big fan of the original Castle Wolfenstein 3D!
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I see, it's freeware, but the system specs are little high for DC. Could be possible but not without hard and time consuming optimizations and extended down tuning.Quote:
ET is a full free multiplayer first person shooter game. The game was originally going to be a retail expansion pack for Return To Castle Wolfenstein but the project was cancelled and the good folks at Activision decided to give it to us for free!
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* Intel® Pentium® III 600Mhz processor or AMD equivalent
* 128 MB RAM
* 32 MB 100% fully OpenGL® compliant 3-D video card
you can find alot of open source games at
www.freshmeat.net
http://freshmeat.net/browse/80/ - 2097 games/projects
not bad, though most of them are unfinished, there are some interesting projects!
it's not exactly open source (not to mention legal) but the a conversion half life 2 or Doom 3 betas that are floating about would be sweeeeeeeet (though I'm joking of course!)
If you're looking for an open source RTS game, try "Freecraft". It was halted by Blizzard because its name was too similar to Starcraft and it "had gameplay too similar to that of Warcraft II", but the source is still out there.
I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, so I don't know what kind of shape it's in, but the source and binaries can be downloaded at:
http://www.savefree-aft.4t.com/
Cube looks quite interesting. I remember seeing it months back.
and it says this:
absolute minimum spec: p200 with tnt2/v3 (15-20 fps @640 depending on map)
so it could be possible. depending on the ram it requires.
what exactly is required of open source games to be ported to the dreamcast?