Do any of these PC games have there source code out

[garethofthedead]

Do any of these PC games have there source code out and if they did could they be ported to the Pandora.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Beyond Good & Evil
Metal Gear Solid 2
Fable: The Lost Chapters
Psychonauts
Jade Empire (Special Edition)
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 4: The Room
Sonic Heroes

 

[atomicthumbs]

From what I can find:

• No
• No
• No
• No
• No
• No
• No
• No
• No
• No

 

[Bronek]

Certainly respective vendors do have source code, you might ask them

 

[A_Llama]

Um, these are all console games that were ported to PC. People don't release the source code for console games

 

[Kyosys]

Um, these are all console games that were ported to PC. People don't release the source code for console games

Not necessarily true

It's just that most big devs don't release their source code

 

[amnesiasoft]

The only major dev that releases source code is id. I believe there has been at least one occasion that Microsoft released a games source code, if so it was probably shared source anyway. For those unaware: That license sucks.

 

[fischju]

From that list, Psychonauts is the most likely for a source code release. And that still isn't very likely.

 

[Kyosys]

wouldn't it be great if devs just started releasing their source codes?

 

[mkinzler]

Yes but not very realistic

 

[Kyosys]

who knows? The industry is moving in the right direction...

 

[Ostsol]

The only major dev that releases source code is id.

What they released was the code for their obsolete engines. In the case of Quake 3, this occurred seven years after the game's release. In any case, being the base engine's code, it does not necessarily allow games that licensed the engine to be ported, as those developers likely made their own extensive modifications that were not incorporated into the main codebase (which has, on rare occasions, been the case with Epic's Unreal Engine).

Full commercial games that have been open-sourced post-release (like Freespace 2) are very rare and sometimes this is actually the result of a leak, as was the case with Falcon 4. The release of such source code is never to be expected of any developer that does not begin the project as open source to begin with. The only way most games will see ports is via open-source implementations of the engine. There's a list of such projects at Wikipedia: LINK.

 

[mkinzler]

What they released was the code for their obsolete engines. In the case of Quake 3, this occurred seven years after the game's release.

id is a primary engine developer. Their games promote the engines.
The only 3D-engine procuced by an commercial game producer I know which is fully OS is Nebula Device of RadonLabs

 

[garethofthedead]

Do any these games have source code and/or could be ported to the pandora

Maniac Mansion
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Loom
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Full Throttle
The Dig
The Curse of Monkey Island
Grim Fandango
Escape from Monkey Island
Alone in the Dark
Cave Story
Ikachan
Knytt Stories
Hurrican
Avalanche
Fraxy
Alien Hominid
I Wanna Be The Guy
Last Scenario
Platform: The Game
Doomed Planet
Halo Zero
Paper Bowser World
Bowser World: Operation G.R.O.M.
Metroid:Confrontation

 

[cosam]

A lot of those will be playable with ScummVM (see the compatability list) which is being ported to Pandora already. Some others should be playable on emulators of various systems (e.g. Amiga, DOSBox, etc.).

 

[VRAndy]

Here is a quick rule of thumb :

Did you pay money for it?
- If Yes : Source is not available unless the game has "Quake" in the title.
- If No : Maybe!


This rule is virtually always true.

Hope this helps.

 

[Kyosys]

Let me extend that

Is it a game for DOS and/or a console that is equally or less old than the PS1 (assuming we'll get n64 emulation, excluding saturn): Yes

 

[VRAndy]

Let me extend that

Is it a game for DOS and/or a console that is equally or less old than the PS1 (assuming we'll get n64 emulation, excluding saturn): Yes

Wait, wait wait!

First of all : The question asked about source code.

Second : Less old than the PS1? That's obviously wrong. The PS3 is less old than the PS1 but that certainly won't be emulated on Pandora.

Third : Many DOS games will not run properly on Pandora. DosBox is rather slow.