devilution VS REDRIVER2

Reverse engineered from some partial leaks: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution#introduction

Diablo 1 https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

Devilution is a reversed-engineered recreation of the Blizzard's Diablo engine. Still need the original game, and optionally Hellfire, for maps and assets.

For Diablo you might be interested to learn about https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution - and, if you like both Icewind Dale and Diablo, you might be interested in the in-between game that is Nox by Westwood, which is also native on Linux thanks to https://github.com/noxworld-dev/opennox

> Now imagine the code base of original Diablo.

No need to imagine! https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

This is >99% binary exact when compiling with the original toolchain.

This github issue is continually adding to that list:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution/issues/64

If you get really nostalgic, check out my links page. There are well over 600 links. Many thanks to archive.org!

Making games is hard. Code is never going to be perfect and you could always contrive corner-case scenarios that break your design at any given point. For some perspective, Diablo 1 declared all the items and spells in a giant array. Do what ships the game.

Super Mario 64 and Diablo come to mind.

Please include ReDriver2! A recompilation of PS1's Driver 2. I finished it a few days ago and has a good set of advantages over emulating. There's a mini guide in an old post in this sub but I wanted to make a more datailed guide

But now there's NSA's Ghidra which has accelerated decompilations/reverse engineering a ton, it means that within a few years any active community can fully reverse engineer into human readable code and make major changes, it's why now there's a Driver 2 PC port and a Jak & Daxter PC port with 2 and 3 being in the works despite these games having basically no community before it, Nintendo games have a bigger modding community and a lot of games are on the way to being fully decompiled (bonus in that some games share a lot of stuff, so as one project completes it also makes it so that multiple games also advance faster

Driver 2, which is a PSX exclusive, was disassembled and rewritten so that it runs natively on Windows. Link: https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2

https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2/wiki/Installation-instructions (proof of your stupidness and laziness)

Heres a link to the projects Github page: https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2

Redriver2 - Driver 2

+ Analog stick should work, as well as remapping: https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2/wiki/Controls Try "Moving the left stick DOWN and pressing SELECT+START enables ANALOG mode

Driver 2 has been reverse engineered and is playable: https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2