Case study
MechRewired: rebuilding MechWarrior 2 from original game data
MechRewired rebuilds the MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat experience around data imported from a user's DOS copy. Its code loads original resources and missions, while providing a new cockpit, terrain rendering and combat simulation for modern platforms.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: Requires the user's own MechWarrior 2 DOS game data; the author identifies PC English MS-DOS v1.1 as the checked package.
- License: MIT License for the project source.
About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · deanthecoder/MechRewired · Revision 2151bce
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