And the leaks keep on coming. In May 2022, the 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever got leaked online. Then, earlier this month, we got a leaked version of PREY 1995. Afterward, the source code for the arcade version of Mortal Kombat 2 found its way to the Internet. And this week, the source codes for the classic PC games, Dungeon Siege and Blood 1996, have been leaked online.
Dungeon Siege is an action RPG that came out in 2002. The game has both single-player and multiplayer modes, and was a big hit back in the 00s.
On the other hand, Blood is a first-person shooter using the Build Engine. In 2019, Nightdive released a remastered version of it, Blood Fresh Supply. However, and similarly to all of Nightdive’s remasters, it does not bring any major graphical improvements to the game.
In theory, now that the source codes are out in the wild, we might get native Ray Tracing versions of these two games. We’ve already gotten Doom Ray Traced, so we’d really love to see a similar project for Blood. Modders may also be able to replace the game’s sprites with HD versions or replace them with voxels.
You can download these source codes from here and here.
Have fun!
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Woohoo, Blood source code is HUGE! Hopefully source ports can be released without Atari squashing them with DMCA’s.
What would it need that the port didn’t fix?
Graphics mods that barely change anything or just ruin the original artstyle?
I’m not the most knowledgeable person in the world regarding Blood, but my understanding is there’s a number of fan made engines that were done by reverse engineering. This includes BuildGDX, nBlood, and the KEX Engine in the official Fresh Supply re-release. There’s debates among the community about how accurate to the original these “ports” are, some people favoring one port over others.
The source code would allow these engines to more accurately replicate the original experience, and make much more in depth and significant mods like you see with DOOM and Quake (both of which had their source codes officially released a few years after they came out).
NICE! Now someone can hopefully take both the Blood source code + Eduke32 and hammer out a decent source port. The Night Dive “remaster” was never a 1:1 reproduction, from what I understand.
They fixed it.
To be clear, the Nightdive port “problems” were things that only a speedrunner or modder would notice, not a regular fan, much less a new player.
After some bug fixes, they adjusted the very most of those differences and it’s done.
Much like how “imperfect” the Quake 1 port is.
It’s only a problem for basement dwelling goblins.
Wow.. Dunegeon Siege.. that game got me into aRPGs when I was a kid.
Sadly when i got it as a kid i was looking for a Diablo 2 experience so i never got into it. Plus i could never get the MP to work.
Use the Dungeon Siege 2 mods. someone converted the first DS game and imported it into DS2 works great and so does MP. do a google search for it.
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
Nice! that can only bring about more awesomeness.
Feels like a single guy doing this.
It’s been in a row.
needs a crown.
I mean BuildGDX already did an amazing job as a re-implementation of Blood but this is great!
Someone really got a hold of a big stash of source codes for all these classics…this is awesome!
BLOOD is one of the greatest classic FPS games ever made, and Dungeon Siege another RPG classic from the golden days!
maranax infirmux !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHlJOMjon4Y
BloodGDX is great. High res. Fluent but still pixels. However, sometimes pixels are better than the candyish graphics.
Of course a certain someone in the comments doesn’t understand that ND recreated the game in their in-house Kex engine, they weren’t allowed to update the game anymore due to the way they licensed the game with Atari. But of course they downvote my comment since it’s not what they wish to hear.
Of course a certain someone in the comments doesn’t understand that ND recreated the game in their in-house Kex engine, they weren’t allowed to update the game anymore due to the way they licensed the game with Atari. But of course they downvote my comment since it’s not what they wish to hear.