devilution VS DevilutionX

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.

Diablo is the original "anti-souls" game.

The slot machine mechanics, the lacking of significant strategic elements and that sense of hollow progression have always been key factors for my dissatisfaction with it.

That said, the beautiful / dreadful / horror vibe and simplicity of the first game to this day regularly pulls me in – only to ultimately dissatisfy me greatly. Each time. There is "no there there".

So I agree on many fronts with this article.

Diablo could have been so much more but they turned it into a highly engineered form of drug that can potentially destroy you with little to nothing to gain for it (nicotine?).

So depending on the person and with the right .mpq file in hand this could either mean getting addicted to or maybe getting off "cigarettes" completely:

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/blob/master/docs/...

(Devilution/X is amazing and maybe more interesting than playing the game itself, complete clean-room reverse engineered version of Diablo).

Devilution X (Diablo)

Diablo 1 with https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX

DevilutionX is a relatively recent project which supports the original Xbox, amongst other platforms.

There basically is already with DevilutionX: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX works great on the deck

I would recommend to use DevilutionX, which is an Open Source Port to modern platforms. It has some quality of life adjustments if you like to use them and also has controller support. https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX