History Main / FanRemake

* AGDInteractive's remakes of KingsQuestI and [[KingsQuestII II]] (was more like a total different game than a remake) and [[KingsQuestIII III]], and QuestForGloryII: Trial by Fire. (You can find 'em [[http://www.agdinteractive.com/ here]] if you like adventure games.)
** [[http://www.infamous-adventures.com/kq3/ King's Quest III by Infamous Adventures]]. The group is also doing a SpaceQuest II remake.

* [[http://retrospec.sgn.net/ RetroSpec]] are a group who spent a lot of time recreating old ZXSpectrum and [[{{Commodore64}} C64]] games (their ''HeadOverHeels'' and ''{{Wizball}}'' are ''awesome''), although they unfortunately seem to have gone quiet.
** Not quite, just less active than in the past. 2009 was completely devoid of new releases, but in 2010 they released remakes of ''Knight Lore'' and the isometric ''Batman'' from Ocean (the original was made by the same authors of ''Head Over Heels'').

* AGD Interactive's remakes of KingsQuest I and II (was more like a total different game than a remake) and III, and QuestForGlory: Trial by Fire. (You can find 'em [[http://www.agdinteractive.com/ here]] if you like adventure games.)

** There's also [[UFOAlienInvasion UFO: Alien Invasion]], which is cross-platform.

* [[http://www.darksaber.pnma.co.uk/craftpacktftc2.html TIE Fighter Total Conversion]] is a fan-made mod pack which completely remakes [[TIEFighter TIE Fighter]] using the X-Wing Alliance engine. Unusually for a fan remake, you require both X-Wing Alliance and TIE Fighter (or the X-Wing Collectors Series) original discs to install and play TFTC, both to try to keep on the right side of copyright and as sources for voice and data files.

* The umpteen-million free remakes of games such as ''{{Tetris}}'', {{Pacman}} and SpaceInvaders.

* ''[[http://s2hd.sonicretro.org/ Sonic The Hedgehog 2 HD]]'' is an in-progress remake of the original game with entirely redrawn HD graphics, taking cues from both the game itself and official artwork. The project has a rather storied history of setbacks, most notably regarding the redrawing of the sprites; when the project first began in 2008, redrawn artwork was submitted and modified on a collaborative basis by the ''Sonic Retro'' community. However, after numerous disagreements about the art direction began to hinder progress, the main development team took matters into their own hands; artwork submissions were closed and all of the then-final art was redrawn to an internally-agreed standard. As of early 2011, progress is slow but apparently steady, and the game is looking largely better.

* [[http://osu.ppy.sh/ osu!]] is a (well done, I might add) PC remake of the Nintendo DS games {{Osu Tatakae Ouendan}} and {{Elite Beat Agents}}. With over a quarter of a million players and almost 100 million ranked plays, what more proof does Inis need to see that we want a sequel.

* There has been a recent remake project for the classic SonicTheHedgehog games. [[FanDumb The fanbase being what it is,]] it has been used repeatedly by disgruntled fans of the originals to attack Sonic 4 and DIMPS (who are the people who made Sonic 4.)

* The SoBadItsHorrible NES game ''{{Action 52}}'' has seen new life on the internet as prime SnarkBait. More recently, it's been given a much kinder treatment in the form of [[http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12439 ACTION 52 OWNS]], a collaborative effort to remake all 52 games indie-style, which has produced some legitimately good titles: particularly recommended are ''Streemerz'' (which even received a 2.5D sequel), ''Illuminator'' and ''Sombreros''.

Also like a FanSequel, the bane of a Fan Remake is the dreaded [[ScrewedByTheLawyers cease-and-desist order]]. Corporations don't do this ''just'' from greed. Perhaps they think the fan programmers messed up severely. And then, any new elements in a FanRemake belong to the fans who wrote it, and so the ''public and accepted'' existence of {{Fan Remake}}s hinders what the corporation can do with its own remakes; thus, the need for corps to make examples of high-profile fan remakes. Finally, copyright law in many jurisdictions, including the United States, is based on the "use it or lose it" principle; if a corporation knows about a fan remake and ''doesn't'' take the first chance they get to nuke it from orbit, even if IDoNotOwn is put in the remake, the company can lose the rights entirely.

* MechWarrior Living Legends, a remake of the MechWarrior series on the Crysis engine.
* [[{{Marathon}} Marathon: Aleph One]] is a remake/port of the original Marathon to the new engine.
** More accurately, it is a fan made update of the Marathon 2 source code, with improved features and ports to platforms other than the "classic" Mac OS (including OS X, which is rather incompatible with it's predecessor).

* [[http://www.blackmesasource.com/ Black Mesa]] (formerly Black Mesa: Source) is a fanmade rebuild of ''{{Half-Life}}'' in the Source engine, spurred by disappointment in ''Half-Life: Source''. Valve approved of the rebuild but requested they remove "Source" from the title so it would not be confused for an official release. Don't be surprised if the creators [[strike:end up working for Valve]] are assimilated by Valve, adding their biological and technological distinctiveness to Valve's own.

* AGD's remakes of KingsQuest I and II (the latter of which was more like a total differnet game than a remake), and QuestForGlory: Trial by Fire. (You can find 'em [[http://www.agdinteractive.com/ here]] if you like adventure games.)

* [[http://fsport.hard-light.net/ FreeSpace Port]] is, unsurprisingly, a port of {{FreeSpace}}: The Great War on the improved FreeSpace 2 Open engine.
** Said fans also took the first game's lackluster expansion pack ''Silent Threat'' and gave it an extreme makeover into ''SilentThreatReborn'', which has been universally declared better than the original product. The fans even voice acted the whole thing!

* The SoBadItsHorrible NES game ''{{Action 52}}'' has seen new life on the internet as prime SnarkBait. More recently, it's been given a much kinder treatment in the form of [[http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12439 ACTION 52 OWNS]], a collaborative effort to remake all 52 games indie-style.

* [[http://fsport.hard-light.net/ FreeSpace Port]] is, surprisingly, a port of {{FreeSpace}}: The Great War on the improved FreeSpace 2 Open engine.

* There are countless ROM hacks of games from old consoles, especially the NES. While some of them are the exact same game with [[RuleThirtyFour naked sprites]], others are proper fan sequels, such as [[http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/63 Mario Adventure]], which is based on SMB 3 but has totally different levels, maps, suits, enemies, etc, and even has weather and a sound test cheat. It even has a new GameBreaker to replace the raccoon tail (the wand).

* ''ZeldaClassic'' was a DOS clone of the original ''[[Game/TheLegendOfZelda Legend Of Zelda]]''.

* * [[http://fsport.hard-light.net/ FreeSpace Port]] is, surprisingly, a port of [[FreeSpace]]: The Great War on the improved FreeSpace 2 Open engine.

** ''{{Tetris}}'' is probably the single most remade game in the history of video games. It probably also sees the greatest number of cease-and-desist orders, in a case that actually ''is'' motivated by greed - CorruptCorporateExecutive Henk Rogers of The Tetris[[TradeSnark ™©®]]⑨ Company[[TradeSnark ™©®]]⑨ doesn't hide the fact that he doesn't care about anything but money, and virtually every interview with Rogers has him going out of his way to gloat about how rich Tetris[[TradeSnark ™©®]]⑨ has made him. As a result, any game which uses the name without giving him royalties will prompt him to threaten to sue, thinking the fan is out to get his money and force him to fill up his solid gold Ferraris with regular gas instead of premium.

Also like a FanSequel, the bane of a Fan Remake is the dreaded [[ScrewedByTheLawyers cease-and-desist order]]. Corporations don't do this ''just'' from greed. Perhaps they think the fan programmers messed up severely. And then, any new elements in a FanRemake belong to the fans who wrote it, and so the ''public and accepted'' existence of {{Fan Remake}}s hinders what the corporation can do with its own remakes; thus, the need for corps. to make examples of high-profile fan remakes.

* [[http://www.blackmesasource.com/ Black Mesa]] (formerly Black Mesa: Source) is a fanmade rebuild of ''{{Half-Life}}'' in the Source engine, spurred by disappointment in ''Half-Life: Source''. Valve approved of the rebuild but requested they remove "Source" from the title so it would not be confused for an official release. Don't be surprised if the creators end up working for Valve.

Also like a FanSequel, the bane of a Fan Remake is the dreaded cease-and-desist order. Corporations don't do this ''just'' from greed. Perhaps they think the fan programmers messed up severely. And then, any new elements in a FanRemake belong to the fans who wrote it, and so the ''public and accepted'' existence of {{Fan Remake}}s hinders what the corporation can do with its own remakes; thus, the need for corps. to make examples of high-profile fan remakes.

* ''ScorchedEarth'', Mother Of All Games, has Scorched3D and Xscorch.

* ''{{Tetris}}'' is probably the single most remade game in the history of video games. It probably also sees the greatest number of cease-and-desist orders, in a case that actually ''is'' motivated by greed - CorruptCorporateExecutive Henk Rogers of The Tetris[[TradeSnark ™©®]]⑨ Company[[TradeSnark ™©®]]⑨ doesn't hide the fact that he doesn't care about anything but money, and virtually every interview with Rogers has him going out of his way to gloat about how rich Tetris[[TradeSnark ™©®]]⑨ has made him. As a result, any game which uses the name without giving him royalties will prompt him to threaten to sue, thinking the fan is out to get his money and force him to fill up his solid gold Ferraris with regular gas instead of premium.