While this thread asked for the best remakes people knew, a better-controlled listing of remakes is in order.

When posting, please add at least these bits of information:

1. Name of the original game, and the name of the remake
2. Website of the game (and possible other sites to download the game from)
3. Operating system (DOS, XP, Linux..)


Optionally, you may add also these things to make your entry more interesting for others:

4. A screen shot (or several) of the game. Thumbnail size will do just fine.
5. Your personal opinion of the game


- Commercial games are accepted (but do not post a download link if the game is not abandonware).
- Please do not post games have not been released for public in any form and are still under development (as many projects never finish).


Here's an example:


Name: International Karate +
Remake: International 64-karate plus
System: Windows

http://www.poke53280.de/ (under the downloads section)

http://www.herd.fi/cutenews/data/upimages/ikplus.jpg

A fairly decent remake of the old beat-em-up classic. The controls are a bit clumsy, and the music is different from the original, but it still manages to entertain.

Original Title: Wizard of Wor
Remake Title: Wizard of Wor
By: iteration games
OS: Windows

link: http://iterationgames.com/
direct download
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3451/wowfe6.jpg
an old school arcade classic by midway. can get realy addictive, especially when playng multiplayer

Original Title: Star Control 2
Remake Title: Ur Quan Masters
Website: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
AR link: http://www.reloaded.org/download/Ur-Quan-Masters/84/
Operating System: Windows, MAC OS

http://i20.tinypic.com/4gqdzq.png

A remake of legendary Star Control 2, works perfect under windows XP, support for higher resolution and there's not really much more that needed to be changed anyway.

Hey, this is reloaded stuff, innit? :unsure:

It should, but this topic is mainly borned to give info about remakes.
So it's ok :)
(We can always pass those info to AR)

SystemShock
Remake title: SS1-portable v0.8d
Website, download link, screenies:
http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php?...1.msg481#msg481

Runs in XP, not Vista.
Excellent remake, runs flawless in XPsp2 in 1024x768, SFX and music through my onboard AC97.
Listed as 'portable' but works flawless from HD.
BTW: read the readme ;)

If you liked SystemShock, you're gonna love this remake, really.

Original: Turrican
Remake: Hurrican
OS: Windows
WWW: http://turrican.gamevoice.de/hurrican_site/

http://www.spielenutzen.de/i/hurrican1.jpg

Original: Turrican I / II
Remake: Turrican 2002
Systems Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP with DirectX 7 or higher
Abandonia Reloaded

Even musics are the same of this great series :)

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3...2710023zr4.png

Name: Manic Miner
Remake: Manic Miner for Windows
OS: Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP
WWW: http://www.xmixdrix.com/manicminer/

http://www.xmixdrix.com/manicminer/level1sm.gifhttp://www.xmixdrix.com/manicminer/level17sm.gif

Name: Head Over Heels
Remake: Head Over Heels
OS: Windows, Mac OS, BeOS, Linux
WWW: http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/

Excellent remake! Available also at Reloaded.org.

http://www.herd.fi/cutenews/data/upimages/hoh.gif

Name: Rambo - First Blood Part II
Remake: Rambo
OS: Windows
WWW: http://home.exetel.com.au/j_brown/rambo.html

http://home.exetel.com.au/j_brown/ramboscreen.jpg

Ah, you mean one of the games available on Abandonia as well :unsure: ... at least the server is the same...
Head over Heels

Wow, this one was really impressive, thanks for the link.

Not exactly; it's featured on Abandonia, but available only on Reloaded. ;)

http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/31...es/getonar.gif

Name: Ghostbusters
Remake: Ghostbusters
OS: Windows
WWW: http://www.auld-games.co.uk/auldbl0g/?p=44

A pretty well-executed remake of a very average Spectrum/Amstrad CPC/C64/whatever game.

http://www.herd.fi/cutenews/data/upi...usters_iso.jpg

Name: Trailblazer
Remake: Blazing Trails
OS: Windows
WWW: http://www.btinternet.com/~Allan.Bentham/blazingtrails.htm

http://www.btinternet.com/%7EAllan.B...es/iceshot.jpg http://www.btinternet.com/%7EAllan.B.../CrateShot.jpg

This one is like the original
Rick Dangerous

http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/shot02.gif http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/shot03.gifhttp://www.bigorno.net/xrick/shot05.gif

Name: SpeedBall 2 - Brutal Deluxe

Remake: SpeedBall Tournament 2 (27.11.2007)
Published by FIP Publishing GmbH
Developed by Kylotonn Entertainment

OS: Windows
Official site: http://www.speedball2.com/

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1...dingfv3.th.jpg http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/5...tingjl9.th.jpg

Name : Wings of Fury

Remake : The inspiringly titled Wings of Fury Remake

Very Tiny Review : Originally by Brøderbund, then remade by Blue Byte - it sticks to the original formula, the only slight letdown being the sounds, especially the machinegun.

System : Now only runs on XP, and I guess Vista, but well worth a look if you can run it.

http://www.abandonia.com/games/349/d...%20Remake6.jpg

Here are remakes of King's Quest I and II by AGD Interactive:

http://www.agdinteractive.com/games.php

They are free, and apparently it is all legal.

KQ1:
http://www.agdinteractive.com/images/feature-kq1-01.jpg

KQ2:
http://www.agdinteractive.com/images/feature-kq2-01.jpg

Sorry, forgot to mention these remakes will run under WinXP.

They are already on Reloaded. :p


KQ1 - http://www.reloaded.org/download/Kin...-for-Crown/20/
KQ2 - http://www.reloaded.org/download/Kin...ing-Stones/21/

:cool:

And they are highly recomended. they are very well done. by the way the "Quest for glory 2" is coming very soon from the same people.

It's coming very soon for a very long time now. But the beta state is a good sign.

Yes, that's why i think it may come very soon.

Another good remake
King quest III
works on windows xp
get it all here
has very good reviews
it is freeware
and from the same producers is coming space quest 2.
lets see....;)

Ultima V: Lazarus

http://lazarus.planetdungeonsiege.ga...2_17_48_01.jpg

This one's a hybrid, a remake that requires Dungeon Siege as its platform. That said, it is beautifully done, with extra dialog and new features, as well as a real attention to the balance, character and plot of the original. You can check it out here.

oooo good, I own Dungeon Siege :)

:( does anyone know if theres a remake of Shadow President? (not talking about Cyber Judas here..) If not, what kind of program could one use to create something similar to this, so he/she could have a map of the globe..

Who's righ
 

The linked site says it'; NOT a remake;'could you confirm or deny, please? :confused:
I only ask 'cos I've got the original.

Why don't you try it? It will not bite you (maybe).

It's all relative ....
When is it a remake? When not?
Look at the screenshots I would say ....

Monuments Of Mars
 

http://news.retroremakes.com/2009/02...kes-part-1/16/


This remake version was made by Ed Britton [EDITED]

I wonder, should this thread include those games that started as remake and kinda developed over the original game, like OpenTTD, or Oolite?

Here's a whole bunch of various Dune II remakes (in no particular order):

Arrakis by Stefan Hendriks: a Dune II-inspired game with custom graphics. The site also features various Dune II-related downloads, as well as the older version of Dune II The Maker (see below).

Dune IV by Amonit: a Dune II recreation with a Starcraft-like interface and a variety of missions resembling Dune 2000.

Redux 3 by Justin Anstead (neonext): a multipurpose RTS engine capable of running Dune II, Command & Conquer and Red Alert-like games. The older versions of this project, Redux 2 and Dune 2 Redux, are also available.

Charge by Ferenc van den Ham: a Dune II "imitation" (as the author himself puts it) written in Java. Single player.

Dune II The Maker by Stefan Hendriks: a Dune II remake with updated high-resolution graphics, currently aimed at recreating Dune II as close to the original as possible.

Dune Legacy by TonyD et al.: this project's main goal is to make Dune II playable under high resolutions and a Command & Conquer-styled interface. Dune Legacy requires the original Dune II game files to run.

Dune 2: The Golden Path (previously known as Dune 2: The Sleeper Has Awakened) by Drackbolt: a Dune II remake with various improvements, originally focused on multiplayer but now also featuring the singleplayer aspect as well.

OpenDune by Xaroth, TrueBrain et al.: to quote the official site, this is "an open source re-creation" of Dune II that "attempts to re-create the original game and apply modern technology to it to allow it to be run natively on most operating systems".

OD2 by Segra: a project aimed at accurate engine recreation of Dune II, based on results of disassembling and analysis of the original EXE of the game.

Well, not remakes, but de-makes :D

http://www.tigsource.com/features/demakes/index.html

Some of these are utterly brilliant and fantastic, check them out, they're worth it.

Also I'd like to point out the U6 Project, from the makers of Lazarus, the next installment, U6 on the Dungeon Siege engine.

Well, let's liven op this thread :p

http://rg-software.livejournal.com/39876.html#cutid1

:)

Two Dune II remake projects have been updated recently. First, Drackbolt has released version 1.78c of Dune 2: The Golden Path.
Changelog since 1.77:

• MAP LOADING - Whenever you start a new game and a map is generated, it will dump a .TGP file to your drive (same folder as the EXE). If you like the map you just played with, keep this file and feel free to rename it (but keep the same extension). You now have an option to load a map inside the chatroom. This is only map data and game settings, not units or player info. Future functionality is planned to include a tool for creating your own maps/scenarios. This feature has been nominally tested
• NEW SOUND FX - Courtesy of TheRaffy we have a new set of cleaned sound fx. The overall size of the packed file has gone up slightly to 2.5mb, but it is well worth it. Some new sounds have also been added to the game
• BUGFIX - Fixed bug with units "stacking" when being produced into enclosed areas
• BUGFIX - Fixed bug with health bar drawing oddly upon unit death
• BUGFIX - Fixed bug with persistent menus for Trading Posts

Secondly, Dune Legacy version 0.96 is out. Singleplayer is now much more similar to the original Dune II.
Changes in version 0.96:

• Cutscenes are now integrated
• Score at the end of each mission
• Decoding music on the fly
• Capturing buildings is now possible again
• Fixes for gcc 4 (Thanks to David Geier)
• Structures are degrading
• Fix: Carryalls bring badly damaged units to the repair yard
• Packaging deb-files (Ubuntu/Debian)
• spec-files for packaging rpms (Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE)
• NSIS Installer Script (Windows)
• Prepared dmg (Mac OS X)
• Check for missing PAK-files
• Begin of chating system

Widelands: an open source freeware remake of Settlers II.
The Settlers II.5: Return to the Roots: an engine recreation (and improvement) of Settlers II which requires the original data files.
Freedoom: A project to create a completely free data WAD for use with the Doom engine, resulting in a freeware Doom lookalike.
Blasphemer: Just like Freedoom, but for Heretic.
FreeLords: A Warlords II remake/clone.
LordsAWar!: Another Warlords II clone.

Update: latest version runs on Vista and Win7 too.

Not exactly a remake, but Return of the Triad is a Rise of the Triad-themed TC that uses the Doom engine. It uses the original graphics from ROTT, but does not recreate the levels (which is officially prohibited BTW). So far, it looks very nice :smile2:

http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/...016_133334.png http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/...016_133352.png http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/...016_133520.png http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/...016_133752.png http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/...016_133557.png

Not exactly a remake, but Cyber-Wing is a spiritual sequel of sorts to the old classic "RTS precursor" Herzog Zwei.

Just stumbled upon a remake of and old classic game which is none other than Karateka (a precursor, of sorts, to Prince of Persia, also by Jordan Mechner), made by a certain Flavio Smirne. The remake seems to rather accurately reproduce the original, and it has some neat looks too!

http://www.smirne.com/karateka/new1.jpg http://www.smirne.com/karateka/new2.jpg

Karateka Remake Homepage

I wonder why no one has yet mentioned Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded:
http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/upl...80-600x337.jpg
It's a very promising (still WIP) non-commercial project aimed at remaking the original Duke Nukem 3D in high-quality true 3D, using the Unreal Engine 3. This project has been officially sanctioned by the current copyright holders of the Duke Nukem franchise, and it is going to be a freeware stand-alone game. The primary objective of the development team for now is to recreate the original episodes of Duke Nukem 3D with both single- and multiplayer capability. A multiplayer-only beta demo is expected to be released in the near future.
Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded Official Website
Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded Official FAQ
Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded Developers' Blog at the Official Forums
Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded Wikipedia article
Duke Nukem 3D: Reloaded at ModDB

In the meantime, Return of the Triad has reached an official release (and had been already updated several times, as it seems). Return of the Triad is a fan recreation of Apogee' FPS classic, Rise of the Triad that uses the Doom engine (more accurately, the ZDoom port. It uses the original resources (graphics, sounds and music), and tries to keep close to the original game while utilizing the features of more advanced engine to the game's advantage. The current release, v1.5, has 11 single-player levels which are completely new, and 6 multiplayer maps.
Return of the Triad Home Site (has download links)
Return of the Triad at ModDB
Return of the Triad gameplay video on YouTube

I dont see this, strange..

Original: King´s Quest III
Remake: King´s Quest III Redux
OS: Windows
WWW: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/.../overview.html

Dune Legacy v0.96.2 has been released yesterday. The big news is that multiplayer over LAN and Internet has been added, which makes the new version the first release of this branch of the project to support multiplayer. The full list of features is as follows:

• Added LAN multiplayer mode
• Internet multiplayer mode with metaserver (Beta!)
• Use scale2x for scaling
• Make game scalable ingame (Zoomlevel x1, Zoomlevel x2 and Zoomlevel x3)
• Add mentat help
• Scroll build list with mouse wheel
• Loading maps is more fault tolerant and shows only warnings in most cases
• Loading maps now checks for non-standard features (see Section "Features" in the Dune II Format Specification)
• Confirm window for game restart and game exit
• Added 13 maps by Rippsblack
• New options "Structures Degrade On Concrete", "Start with Explored Map" and "Instant Build"
• Earthquake ("Window shaking") on large explosions (e.g. death hand explosion)
• French translation (incomplete and only a machine translation)
• Bugfix: Loading SCENH008.INI of Dune II V1.0 failed
• Bugfix: Dune Legacy.log was not used on Windows
• Bugfix: Support non-ascii characters in paths and filenames on Windows
• Bugfix: Infantry units could not trigger spice blooms
• Bugfix: When playing as the Sardaukar, the announcer still says "Harkonnen", e.g. "Harkonnen harvester deployed"
• Bugfix: Sardaukar Reinforcements did not work
• Refactoring: Drop Visual Studio 6.0 support completely and start using C++0x features

Dune Legacy v0.96.2 Download Page
Supported platforms are Ubuntu / Debian, Fedora / Mandriva / SuSE, Gentoo, Windows, Mac OS X and MorphOS.

Gods Deluxe is a remake of the classic platform game Gods by Bitmap Brothers. Despite being labelled v0.8, the game is already complete with faithful recreations of all original levels, plus several new levels made by the author of the project. The graphics are scaled up (either through the use of filters or manually, I'm not sure), and there's an optional MP3 music pack available for download as well. Here are some screenies (the top one is from the recreation of the first level, the second is from one of the new levels):
http://jotd.pagesperso-orange.fr/god.../view_0001.jpg http://jotd.pagesperso-orange.fr/god.../view_0003.jpg

Recently I've stumbled upon two custom campaigns for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne that are accurate recreations of the campaigns in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans:
Warcraft: Humans
Warcraft: Orcs

This is not the same thing as The Dawn of Chaos (speaking of which, here's their new website), and the two projects appear to be unrelated.

Name: Z
Remake: The Zod Engine
OS: Windows, Linux, Mac OS
WWW: http://zod.sourceforge.net/

1.Daggerfall remake,it's called DaggerXL mod
2.http://www.moddb.com/mods/daggerxl
3.Windows, Linux and OS X

1.Darklands remake
2.http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=68919.0
3.Windows?

Original: Bruce Lee
Remake: Ultimate Bruce Lee
OS: Windows
WWW: http://ovine.net/392/ultimate-bruce-lee/

http://ovine.net/wp-content/uploads/..._2-300x225.jpg

An excellent Bruce Lee remake. Such a smooth-playing, splendid-looking, atmospheric lantern-collecting, kick-boxing gaming marvel - with many unlockable game modes!

Special Agent - a classic platform game inspired by Apogee's Secret Agent. Thanks to Scpm of 3D Realms Forums for mentioning this one! ^_^

Wolfram is a project to faithfully recreate Wolfenstein 3-D with modern graphics. Take a look at the screenshots here.

Renegade X is a creative re-imagining of Westwood Studios' FPS in the C&C universe, Command & Conquer: Renegade, made on the Unreal 3 engine.

Neil79 has posted a link at Reloaded.org Forums to a list of indie retro games at Overclockers UK, which includes many a remake of some oldies (Amiga & PC).

Chaos Reborn is a remake of the old classic game Chaos by Julian Gollop.

Here's a rather lengthy thread in a German forum that lists various classic game remakes (some links might be dead/broken though):
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...d.php?t=289931