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Games that were ported using another engine
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD was developed using UE3. Pro Skater 1 + 2 uses UE4. The originals were developed using Neversoft's proprietary engine.
There's also the Crash and Spyro remakes.
There's also the Crash and Spyro remakes.
If I recall Duke Nukem 3D for the Sega Saturn used the Lobotomy Software's proprietary engine as opposed to the Build Engine.
:( indeed. With a competent dev, budget, and realistic deadline the move from Renderware to Unreal could have worked. Instead R* farmed it out to a third party and based it off the mobile code. 3 of the biggest games of all time just absolutely shit on by their own parents.
Nightdive Studios : Kex engine. Every old game they've ported over from Doom 64 to Shadowman
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Quake 1, I think for both N64 and Saturn. At the very least, Saturn was a must. The console couldn't run the Quake engine.
Didn't the ffix pc port use unity in some capacity?
feel free to correct me on this if you have better info
dang, ya beat me
feel free to correct me on this if you have better info
dang, ya beat me
Yes. They're excellent remakes held back by technical issues due to the engine switch, although you have to be sensitive to framerate judder to notice.
On the same topic : Duke Nukem 3D Saturn also used the PowerSlave Engine.
I'm all for that.
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Kex is described as almost like a modern framework that the original game engines get wrapped in. It handles inputs and final output to screen, but a lot of the OG game code is still running, nested inside it.
Doom on SNES runs on a custom engine called Reality Engine or RAGE (Reality Advanced Gaming Engine) made by one guy, making it one of the only Doom ports that doesn't use a ported Doom engine to run (the other being Doom II GBA).
It's pretty interesting too, because it also make it the first console port of Doom to not be based on Jaguar Doom, which was used as the template for the other 16/32-bit conversions due to it having reduced complexity in level geometry and texture variety. As a result there's a lot of places where the maps are actually closer in shape, layout, and color to the DOS original than the much more technically proficient ports on other systems.
Also, beaten to it but:
It's pretty interesting too, because it also make it the first console port of Doom to not be based on Jaguar Doom, which was used as the template for the other 16/32-bit conversions due to it having reduced complexity in level geometry and texture variety. As a result there's a lot of places where the maps are actually closer in shape, layout, and color to the DOS original than the much more technically proficient ports on other systems.
Also, beaten to it but:
What are the non-Definitive PC ports running on? Still Renderware?
Same thing for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, apparently.
My understanding is they are running a version of the original engine (specifically coming from the mobile ports) weirdly wedged into Unreal4. Kind of in a strange way, it using the original engine has become the problem for it. The code base has been degrading worse and worse over time.
These run the original engine. Kex allows for full abstraction of the game loop, so we can turn the game loop into whatever we like, including another engine. Shadowman notably is the PS1 codebase (the only codebase left, it appears), turned back into the PC code base done through reverse engineering and disassembly. Doom64 meanwhile is kind of the reverse; the PC Doom codebase compared with the N64 disassembly. That codebase itself seemingly being an iteration of JagDoom->PSX Doom->Doom 64, and JagDoom itself coming from PC Doom v1.2.
Almost. The code base has the same lineage however. You can easily argue that Source is just a newer version of the Half-Life code base.
i really think the concept of an "engine" starts to degrade when we're talking about ports of games that weren't on modern uber-editor/core tech packages like unreal or unity or something.
saying games are "ported" to different engines can mean everything from "we just needed a cross-platform renderer / audio output" to "we completely rewrote the game". it's not a really useful way of thinking about it imo.
i'm probably just a pedant for this sort of thing though.
saying games are "ported" to different engines can mean everything from "we just needed a cross-platform renderer / audio output" to "we completely rewrote the game". it's not a really useful way of thinking about it imo.
i'm probably just a pedant for this sort of thing though.
Batman Arkham Asylum and City were rebuilt in UE4 as opposed to UE3, which the rest of the series (Even Arkham Knight, albeit a custom variant by Rocksteady) used.
