openrw
OpenRW "Open ReWrite" is an un-official open source recreation of the classic Grand Theft Auto III game executable (by rwengine)
OpenJK
Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software (by JACoders)
| openrw | OpenJK | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 16 | |
| 1,094 | 1,946 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 1.3 | 8.2 | |
| about 3 years ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
openrw
Posts with mentions or reviews of openrw.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-28.
- OpenRW – a cross-platform, open-source re-implementation of Rockstar Games' GTA3
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Anyone actually using Unreal on Linux? Or other game engines? What do you recommend?
Also the OpenRW engine uses SDL2, which is a partial recreation of the RenderWare engine.
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GTA Modders to Court: Our Game Fixes & Enhancements Are Fair Use, Not Piracy
They looked at the reverse engineered source code and used it to write the code for RE3 and reVC, code which technically infringes on Rockstar's copyright. If they had used clean room design like OpenRW they wouldn't have ended up with a lawsuit in the first place.
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The entire source code of GTA Trilogy - The Definitive Edition has been leaked, was included in the Switch game files
At least we still got OpenRW which can't be taken down as it doesn't use any original code.
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Rockstar should be ashamed of the GTA Trilogy Remaster
support projects like openrw instead. 2k nuked a ton of the other ones that used decompiled ps2 code, but they can't touch OpenRW because it's a rewrite from scratch.
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Luxtorpeda Version 43 is Already Out, with Several Improvements Around Controller Support
Is there a reason this one hasn't been nuked like re3/revc were?
- Release v3.6 · GTA-ASM/SanAndreasUnity - reimplementation of GTA San Andreas game engine in Unity
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Open source re-implementation projects and game clones.
OpenRW - Grand Theft Auto III
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re3, GTA/RenderWare reverse-engineering project taken down by Take-Two
Well, hopefully the owner of the now-closed openrw repository sees this and re-opens it.
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GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered, with ports to many platforms
RIP OpenRW
OpenJK
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenJK.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.
- Microsoft could cram more ads into Windows 11 – this time in the Settings app | Recent moves with the Start menu are now being echoed within the Settings panel in testing
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JK-XR: Outcast - The Standalone VR port of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
JK XR is a VR port of the Jedi Knight games using OpenXR (the open standard for virtual and augmented reality devices) and is based on the excellent OpenJK port, originally forked from: https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
- What old video game would you like to see get a remake or a sequel?
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Available on MacBook?
Although you'll probably need to install OpenJK anyway afterwards.
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Jedi Academy: Enhanced v1.1 Trailer - While you wait for JEDI: Survivor, check out lots of customization options, Force Powers and even lightsaber dismemberment option for Jedi Academy
It's still active.
- When I was a kid, I imagined the sequels would be something like that. Oh well...
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[Prime Gaming/Twitch Prime] Prime Day: Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Origin), Need for Speed Heat (Origin), GRID Legends (Origin), STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, STAR WARS Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, STAR WARS Republic Commando (Included with Amazon Prime/Prime Gaming membership)
Pro tip the source code was released a few years ago and some fans made some updates: https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK you only need to download the files from Amazon and then execute from the openjk to enjoy the game fully on modern systems, works with mods too.
- Vanilla or mods?
- ELI5 What are all the Microsoft Visual C++ 20005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015-2019... different versions currently on my Windows computer for?
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New @ Steam
There's the OpenJK engine for those. Same way people can play them on the Pi.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing openrw and OpenJK you can also consider the following projects:
re3 - GTA III, Vice City [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
OpenClaw - Reimplementation of Captain Claw (1997) platformer
OPHD - OutpostHD - Open source remake of Sierra On-Line's Outpost
OpenRA - Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.
dmca - Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about our DMCA policy can be found at
daggerfall-unity - Open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine
SanAndreasUnity - Open source reimplementation of GTA San Andreas game engine in Unity
OpenLara - Classic Tomb Raider open-source engine
OpenTESArena - Open-source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena.
vkQuake - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm
V.Rainbomizer - Randomizers for Grand Theft Auto: V
REDRIVER2 - Driver 2 Playstation game reverse engineering effort