Remakes - Sorting the good from the crap

[mtb]

Originally Posted by IanS

Ok, so not Win32, but my Sony P800 had a good version of Stunt Car Racer, although the controls were fiddly. Witty spoonerisms are not required thanks :-)

Even this stunts remake seems good, even if i haven't tried it yet. It supports linux and windows, it's actively developed and open source.

[ant512]

There's my Flash IK+ remake here, which I've posted before:

http://ant.simianzombie.com/games/ik/ik.php

There's also a Win32 binary if you look here:

http://ant.simianzombie.com/dir.php?path=games

[JohnnyWalker]

Head Over Heels... amazingly slick and faithful remake! Amazing!

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/

WOW!

[mtb]

Originally Posted by mtb

I don't know ( can someone please test it? - via dial-up it's a pain to download it ( i need to add python to my linux distro also ), but the screenshots are promising ):

The Bub's Brothers: open source, linux mac and windows, similar to Bubble Bobble

Really good too ( i tried the x11 version ).

I have also changed the music with the amiga one, even if after doing it i realized that after 15 minutes it's "a bit" boring.

There's my Flash IK+ remake here, which I've posted before:

http://ant.simianzombie.com/games/ik/ik.php

I have downloaded it but with flash player linux ( v 6 ) seems to be a scat scat. But i have just seen v7 has been released, when i'll be at home i'll try with that.

It looks really good anyway, even if the collision detection is a bit different from the amiga one ( this doesn't mean is bad, it means that i moreless always loose ).

The only thing that would be welcome is the music ( but i don't know if it's possible to play mp3 / ogg files with flash, anyway if you want i have no problem to stream it ).

[Bombjacker]

I agree with JohnnyWalker

Head Over Heels has to be the best remake!

Considering the game is freeware the gfx are fantastic.

Everyone should check this one out.

[tomcat666]

:-)

[gary]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned (I did a search but couldn't see it).
If you have a reasonably modern PC (1ghz+ and a 3D graphics card) and like arcade style games then please check these out:

Star Wars - Battle of Endor (Return of the Jedi)
Star Wars - Battle of Yarmin (A new Hope)

Found at: www.bruneras.com/
(They are around 15 meg each to download)

They are excellent 3D arcade shoot'em'ups that replicate battle scenes from the star wars movies without all the crap usually put into commercial games of this type (eg: Create a pilot, must complete training missions before starting, have to sit through boring 'movie' sequences, must earn points/money to improve pilot abilities, etc, etc). They are the old style - just load and start playing - and they're free.

My machine is a Athlon 2ghz with an ArcadeVGA (Radeon 7000) card and runs these fine (and is fun to play in an arcade cabinet )

[Galaxy]

There is a pretty good remake for Windows of the BBC Micro Game Xor (also released on several other platforms and on the Amiga as Prospector in the Mazes of Xor).

The Amiga version is still better though - better GFX, and a second set of levels (not included in any of the other versions of Xor).

It is the only version of Xor available for Windows, and is available for download at: http://xor.ovine.net/ Ovine design also have several other games available for download (although I have not tried any of them). see: http://ovine.net/games.php

Hmm those star wars games run like shit on my 9700 pro

[ST Dragon]

Any links with SWIV Decimation?
Those in that site are dead.

Is it a complete game or just the 1st level?

Thanks in advance.

[Critter]

if anyones interested theres a c64 remake for 'cops and robbers' classic!!..

its not bad either.. find the link @ remakes.org

[s2325]

Soko Ban - really good & free Amiga remake of old classic

[alexh]

http://retrospec.sgn.net/

All are of above average quality. Whilst not all Amiga titles (some are speccy) I have enjoyed a lot of them.

Atic Atac is quite cool, but I still prefer the original

The remakes of Freescape games Driller and Total Eclipse on http://Ovine.net are very good too.

[Minuous]

Of games that were released for Amiga, some good remakes are:
Katakis (Takatis)
Space Harrier
Star Wars
Stunt Car Racer
Jumping Jack'Son
Afterburner
Cybernoid
Millenium 2.2
Head over Heels

and some from C64:
Delta
Zaxxon
Sword of Fargoal
Ant Attack

I think I would have got most of them from remakes.org...

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by Adeptus

Found some Paradroid remakes on Sourceforge:
Freedroid has 3 variants:

I've tried Classic, and it is quite faithful to the original.
Was going to try RPG, bit it's ~50MB... bit much over dialup...
I think World is new, don't remember it being there last time I looked...
edit: Oh yeah, they have Win32 binaries, & source for compiling on *nix etc.

Just tried it. It is indeed quite faithful to the original. I recommend Freedroid, much better than Paradroid '90 for the miggy.

[s2325]

I saw Lost Dutchman 3D somewhere...

[Ironclaw]

Donno if it qualifies as remakes... but: games

[Shoonay]

Originally Posted by s2325

I saw Lost Dutchman 3D somewhere...

Ha? You did? WOW, where? One of my all time favorites!

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This one?
http://www.atticgamez.com/

[s2325]

here http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f2038.html

[TCD]

Originally Posted by 5h00n4y

---=== EDITED ===---
This one?
http://www.atticgamez.com/

That one looks rather nice Gonna grab it and have a look tomorrow Thanks for googling this one Shoonay