Porting old PC games

[wraggster]

Uberjack posted this news on his blog:

When I was just starting to program for the PSP, I envisioned first doing a port of fMSX, then a port of an emulator specifically for emulating arcade versions of Mortal Kombat games 1-3. Since I don’t think any emulators other than MAME support the games (and MAME’s source is a tangled mess), I doubt that phase will ever come to fruition.

Most recently I’ve also considered porting older games, however, and if someone else doesn’t do them first (I hope they do), I just might do a port myself. Two obvious choices right now are OpenTyrian, a rewrite of Tyrian, and Wargus, the Warcraft II-compatible RTS engine based on Stratagus. I prefer not to port these projects myself, as they’re both based on SDL, and I happen to have an inherent dislike for hardware abstraction frameworks.

If you’re looking for an interesting port project, both of these games should be a welcome distraction from the many flavors of DooM already ported to the PSP.

[Tesseract]

Here's a pair of long shots, but done well, they'd be golden:

Master of Orion II
Thank god there was a DOS version of this game. The main reason I suggest this as opposed to the original MOO is for multiplayer support. Ad-Hoc and Infrastructure support would be fantastic.

Also, the game appears to be something that may be somewhat portable due to the fact that the DOS and Windows versions use the same resource files. The only difference is the main executable.

For the same reason (Multiplayer support) as MOO2, I'd love to see a port of CivNet as well. The Play-by-Email feature that's built into the multiplayer mode would be PERFECT for the PSP in that you can play your turn, save, then shut off until you're at a Wi-Fi spot again.

While CivNet didn't have a DOS version, it certainly isn't too complicated of a program, being just a straight port of the original Civilization.

[Dorian]

For the love of God,if you can get Master of Orion 2 or Loom working on the PSP I would be eternally grateful

[SpacemanSpiff]

Uhh, you can already play Loom in ScummVM... or PSPUAE... or DosBox... or CaSTaway... or PCEP...

[andwhyisit]

A PSP port of RPG_RT.exe (exe file for RPG Maker 2000 games) into an eboot.pbp file would be the greatest thing ever.
RPG_RT.exe is the same for every RM2K game but I have no idea how easy or hard it would be to make it. Is it possible?

[Murdock]

Well .. how about a nice little port of Shadow Warrior, the good old DOS game

There is already a Duke 3d port, which is not bad, but has some errors. And for some reason, the coder din't port SW right away after Duke.

They both use the same engine (I think Shadow Warrior is a little more advanced than Duke), so a port should be possible. It also features multi player support, which could also be implemented into a possible port. That'd be really great! :thumbup:


Oh, an even better choice for a port would be REDNECK RAMPAGE .. but I think this game has too high system requirements (such as RAm usage) to be ported .. anyway, it'd be awesome.

Oh, and PLEASE no Slim only crap ... n1 want such bs ...

[deniska]

I'll do a port of Tyrian.. remember it playing many years ago - nice game..
anyway, I just checked the source - porting should be a no brainer... I'll post binaries once I tweak controls a bit..
[EDIT] after 20 minutes I got it to the point where I could watch the demo playing.. looks good so far :-)

[Zourn]

There really needs to be a port for Fallout.

[deniska]

TYRIAN playing on PSP :-)

[jurkevicz]

I would love to see a port of Alone in the Dark 1 and 2. although Ultimate Mortal Kombat would be cool.