Dark Forces Port

[ruffnutts]

Please someone make a dark forces port just like quake 2 and duke nukem the
game rocks B)

 

[WrongEyedJesus]

Due to the fact that it does indeed rock I find it highly unlikely you will be able to find the source code.

 

[ruffnutts]

Well yeh there is that, i thought that it mite have .pak files just like quake

maybe if zodttd makes the psone emu work better i can just play that version

 

[WrongEyedJesus]

Now that would be cool

 

[Anhaedra]

If it is based off of the source of Doom or Duke3D, then you might be able to modify the source code to run Dark Forces. They did that with some of the source code mods of Doom to run Strife.

 

[ruffnutts]

You never know

 

[Series-8]

Supposedly Lucasarts RE'ed the Doom engine then built DF from that knowledge.

Nag Lucasarts for the source, its quite old so perhaps they might think about it. (not likely as they have never cared about such things in the past)

 

[ravuya]

It's sadly not open-source, nor is it based off of any portal/raycasting engine I've ever come across.

Your best hope would be to attempt to reverse engineer the game from the datafiles and a disassembly of the game executable, something which is not a lot of fun and takes entirely too much time to justify.

Asking LucasArts to liberate the source would be a good idea, though I seriously doubt they'll follow through on it.

 

[LIZARDKING]

Never happened before.