I See where i went wrong. Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for the Links to Dark Forces.
I 'll add that to the list and change the names
Thanks again
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 months ago
Star Wars Jedi Knight I and II: Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast (Not stable) - OpenJK github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
Despite the official name being “Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy” it is not Jedi Knight I. It is actually a sequel to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It came out only a year after JO and was announced in April. At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke because the screenshots looked like something that could easily be made with the mod tools at the time.
Anyways, the real Jedi Knight I was “Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II”. An open source implementation is available at github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2
And to round it off, the open source implementation of Dark Forces is available at theforceengine.github.io. I think it even supports the remaster.
OTINOKTYAH@feddit.org 10 months ago
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I actually really appreciate someone clarifying the chronology of these games, I’ve got them all in my steam library and can never remember the order they go in.
Do the OS remakes have any QoL improvements? I tried playing through them recently and had a very hard time with the manual save system since I’m used to autosave points in linear games like that.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 months ago
As far as I know they don’t add autosaves. I think the priority was things like proper wide-screen support and higher resolutions for the older games.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Got them working, and was pleasantly surprised to find most of them had flatpack installers! Manual saving is still a pain but the engines running smoothly does make a big difference.
Although the dark forces installer doesn’t work with the steam install so you have to copy the game data to the data folder to make it work.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Honestly anything to deal with the horrendous friction and instability of the original, even modded I think I had to stick with 4:3 which even with black bars was still not quite right on my modern system. It would have to be a better experience, even if I have to re-learn manual quicksaves.