You know what, tankcat? I'm sick of you're know-it-all attitude... go f--k yourself. The point of the thread was to get a good discussion going. I didn't seriously think that an online community would actually get together and buy the rights to a $10k+ game. But I am serious, however, about buying the source code. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HAND IT OVER WITHOUT GAINING ANYTHING! Especially with the followers it still has. Most PC games die completely after a couple years. That is why they become freeware. This game has lived past it's expectancy, and I'm sure that Atari knows that. So as I said before, they aren't going to just give it away. Edit: Haven't you ever heard of the saying "Money talks, bulls--t walks"?
you can only decompile a normal .exe file to assembly code and not to the original source
it could be something to investigate, i just downloaded a multipurpose extractor and tried but the process stopped half way through with an error message also found this on a website
hmmm is there anyway to decompile the .exe? that might work better.
The first step in any of this is contacting Atari. That in itself is a battle, just ask Goose or ACAMS.
I guess everyone is an idiot to tankcat
Yeah, I guess so. His statemnt does nothing but reinforce the truth of my "know-it-all attitude" comment.
Wow roboman do you not understand copyright? We would be issued cease and desist letters if we made a clone "RA3" game in the quake3 engine. Everything concerning "robot arena" is ATARI's intellectual property, you can't use it for whatever the you want...We could use the quake3 engine to make a robot arena-type game and call it something like "DSL" with no robot arena attached, but that would still take a ridiculous amount of effort... and it also wouldn't cost any money or require the rights to the game, which is the opposite of what this thread suggests we do...
If anyone wanted to make a new version of this game using a open source engine would be the best idea. Quake 3 engine might be good - im not a coder i have no idea but its definitely better than buying the RA2 game.You dont have to call the game RA3 and even if you do i doubt anything will happen. Robot Fights, Arena Of Robots, Robotic Arena. Any stupid name will work.Selling it is not viable. Modders have a inherent problem that they lose interest and arent real coders. Unless you make a real company and hire people you wont be able to finish or sell it.
Back in the days of the old forum... oh, about 2 years ago. The concept of forum members designing and coding a new robot combat game from scratch was tossed around. There was a ton of debate, a billion suggestions... A few of the members actually started working on the code... and then it just fizzled off. There was a ton of initial effort put into it. Believe it or not, the biggest thing was that the members wanted to figure out a good name for the game. Heck, they were trying harder to name it than actually contribute to make it. It was pretty lame. If any of you make a thread of "what should we name our upcoming robot combat game?" Acams will kill you... he seriously will.
That's unfortunate, I would've liked to have seen what results that would've brought about...
I've had legal run-ins with Atari in the past, they aren't going to sell you a damn thing. They will probably laugh at you... er not "probably", they WILL. Atari stopped being the easy-going "have fun and smoke weed all the time" game company it was in the 70's a LONG time ago.
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