Warcraft 2 on psp?

[Kaiser]

Agreed

This game would be worthwhile to port and probably a great Dream On Compo entry.

[Broadus]

Definitely.
All we need is some brave soul (or souls) to do the porting.

[publicprivates]

are you serious? what about the controls? the game would be unplayable with the nub.

[Broadus]

Use your imagination, buddy.
Blizzard made Warcraft 2 for the Playstation 1 and Sega Saturn, and they controlled well without the joystick, just using the D-pad instead.
Though it's definitely true that the PSP nub isn't very good at all for precision movement like you'd need to select things in Warcraft 2. But the D-pad would be all right, for the most-part. That, and the awesomeness of Warcraft 2 would make up for the slightly inconvenient controls.

[BelmontSlayer]

It seems that the only way Starcraft could be for PSP would be if there's an N64 emulator capable of running the N64 version.

There never was a WarCraft for N64. You're probaly thinking of StarCraft 64. As for a port of the game, I would pay money to see it become a reality.

[Broadus]

Dude, I never said there was a Warcraft 64. If you read the entire post, I was saying that Starcraft was much better than Warcraft 2, but Warcraft 2 could be ported, unlike Starcraft.

[PSPdemon]

well....

I dont think Warcraft 2 would be able to be used.... ( only because the site says you require a cd to use those textures.......so we dont want to have ripped textures, sprites, ect...... ) BUT......the engine - Stratagus - is a well looking into and could be very well ported.... i would probably make that into a starcraft/advanced wars style game ( meaning its not based on the futureistic look of starcraft but has the same feel as it )

i will look into this more....

Thanks for Everything,
PSPdemon

[fnx]

Yeah, that Stargus looks great! I bet some talented PSP coders could make a lot of it. If I'm not wrong there aren't any RTS-games for the PSP? I bet there are a lot RTS-lovers here though

[Nafogel]

I like warcraft, but a rts game that I would really like to see ported would be Age of Empires. I know some dude once tried to do it, but he never finished. Age of Empires was awesome, i still play it from time to time.

[Broadus]

Yeah, PSPdemon, Warcraft 2 itself couldn't be supplied, but the PSP-ported engine and some instructions could. I myself happen to own the old Warcraft 2 game on some ancient CD, so I'm all set for testing or whatever.

Age of Empires was really good, but it bugged the heck out of me how you couldn't tell your units to "aggressive move". As in, they go somewhere, but automatically fight enemies along the way. You'd have to tell them to defend themselves like in Command and Conquer. Though that movement problem could be fixed by the patrol command.
And the dude that was "porting" Age of Empires didn't actually do anything, just took the Starcraft PSP source and changed some pictures. Kind of disappointing...