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For those unaware, back in May the Entirety of the PS1's port of Warcraft 2 (The Dark Saga) was Discovered online (in a reference for a Wikipedia article about another game leaked via a collection of Climax Studios Discs.) It's been not very much talked about Due to it really being overshadowed by Nintendo leaks at the time. What do you think the Future of this game looks like now that this has been floating around for a while? Are we Going to see a Source Port similar to OpenRA or GZdoom? Are new quality of life stuff such as Widescreen, key rebindings and Zoom dooable? I hope something cool can come of this. Other games like Diablo had similar stuff made via Devilution, and that project had even less information to work with to make a source port.
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realNicolbolas: For those unaware, back in May the Entirety of the PS1's port of Warcraft 2 (The Dark Saga) was Discovered online (in a reference for a Wikipedia article about another game leaked via a collection of Climax Studios Discs.) It's been not very much talked about Due to it really being overshadowed by Nintendo leaks at the time. What do you think the Future of this game looks like now that this has been floating around for a while? Are we Going to see a Source Port similar to OpenRA or GZdoom? Are new quality of life stuff such as Widescreen, key rebindings and Zoom dooable? I hope something cool can come of this. Other games like Diablo had similar stuff made via Devilution, and that project had even less information to work with to make a source port.
As for me, the project looks promising!
At the same time i know several good programmers who could be able to work on that project, they refused to take part for different reasons.
I don't know who else can do that.
I'd definitely be glad to see new war2 built for win/linux/mac platform, i'd say it's a resolvables task for experienced programmer.
All we need is to rewrite several dozens of functions dependent on PSX platform, some work with memory management and several more tasks as i see from my point as not so experienced programmer.

Also note that this version looks like early version that is not compatible with the existent data-files (different indexes in maindat.war and others).
So, looks like have to reimplement all the PSX-dependent functions, then to update war2 to make it compatible with current version and after that, here we are to make it better than the existing one!
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realNicolbolas: For those unaware, back in May the Entirety of the PS1's port of Warcraft 2 (The Dark Saga) was Discovered online (in a reference for a Wikipedia article about another game leaked via a collection of Climax Studios Discs.) It's been not very much talked about Due to it really being overshadowed by Nintendo leaks at the time. What do you think the Future of this game looks like now that this has been floating around for a while? Are we Going to see a Source Port similar to OpenRA or GZdoom? Are new quality of life stuff such as Widescreen, key rebindings and Zoom dooable? I hope something cool can come of this. Other games like Diablo had similar stuff made via Devilution, and that project had even less information to work with to make a source port.
Thank you for posting this. I snagged it up the moment i read this.
Wargus is the closest youre going to get in a legal way

https://wargus.github.io/
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realNicolbolas: For those unaware, back in May the Entirety of the PS1's port of Warcraft 2 (The Dark Saga) was Discovered online (in a reference for a Wikipedia article about another game leaked via a collection of Climax Studios Discs.) It's been not very much talked about Due to it really being overshadowed by Nintendo leaks at the time. What do you think the Future of this game looks like now that this has been floating around for a while? Are we Going to see a Source Port similar to OpenRA or GZdoom? Are new quality of life stuff such as Widescreen, key rebindings and Zoom dooable? I hope something cool can come of this. Other games like Diablo had similar stuff made via Devilution, and that project had even less information to work with to make a source port.
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Ankois: Thank you for posting this. I snagged it up the moment i read this.
I am not able to find it. Is it still online? Can it be downloaded? If yes, could you share a link?
Post edited February 23, 2021 by Sulibor