The Importance of Source Ports (& Game Remakes)
The third in a series of videos. This time James discusses the differences between remakes, source ports and total conversions, and how the lines are often blurrier than you'd suspect! He then goes on to state just how important source ports and game recreations are when it comes to preserving the past. A shoutout to NightDive studios for all the stolen promotional footage for this video, and to NoClip for their excellent documentary on the efforts of GOG to resurrect old titles.
Nightdive Studios: / nightdivestudios
NoClip GOG documentary: • GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future
List of source ports, remakes, mods, and total conversions in this video (in order of appearance):
The Freespace Port: https://fsport.hard-light.net/
Freespace Port MediaVPS: https://fsnebula.org/mod/fsport-mediavps
OpenTTD: https://www.openttd.org/
Dune Legacy Alpha Builds: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dune...
GZDoom: https://www.zdoom.org/
Beautiful Doom: https://www.moddb.com/mods/beautiful-...
Bstone: http://bibendovsky.github.io/bstone/
CatacombGL: https://github.com/ArnoAnsems/CatacombGL
OpenRA: https://www.openra.net/
System Shock Enhanced Edition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/41...
TIE Fighter: Total Conversion: https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighte...
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/10...
Daggerfall Unity: https://www.dfworkshop.net/
Battle Chess: Enhanced Edition: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bat...
Red Faction Guerilla Re-Mars-tered: https://store.steampowered.com/app/66...
Outcast 1.1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/33...
Outcast Second Contact: https://store.steampowered.com/app/61...
SiN Reloaded: https://store.steampowered.com/app/63...
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection: https://store.steampowered.com/app/12...
Max Payne Widescreen Fix: https://thirteenag.github.io/wfp
Wargus: https://stratagus.com/
Vanquish: https://store.steampowered.com/app/46...
Shadow Man Remastered: https://store.steampowered.com/app/14...
Strife: Veteran Edition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/31...
Turok: https://store.steampowered.com/app/40...
Doom 64: https://store.steampowered.com/app/11...
Dune Dynasty: http://dunedynasty.sourceforge.net/
OpenTyrian: https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian
Dark Forces II Unreal Engine: • Jedi Knight - Dark Forces 2 - Unreal Engin...
Wing Commander Privateer Gemini Gold: http://privateer.sourceforge.net/
CorsixTH: http://corsixth.com/
Grayface Patch: https://grayface.github.io/mm/
Julius: https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
OpenMW: https://openmw.org/en/