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https://zealouschuck.com/active-switch-bounties

Hello gentlemen,

I am really inspired by Vita community and they offer bounties. I am also insane and saved up some lil money so I want to give back to community. Already supporting some stuff so we can all gain from it but I thought HOS deserves some love too.


I will pay you to ko-fi/paypal/patreon/revolut if you manage to port∗ following stuff:

Bully - 50$ (30+20) - finished! Bounty paid out
link: https://github.com/givethesourceplox/bully_nx
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ARMSX2 (preferably after 2.6 rebasing) - 150$ (50+100)
link: https://github.com/ARMSX2/ARMSX2
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Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - 10$
link: https://github.com/Northfear/homm3hd-vita
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The Dark Mod 2.0 or later - 30$
link: https://svn.thedarkmod.com/publicsvn/darkmod_src/trunk/
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Banjo Kazooie PC Recomp - 10$
link: https://github.com/BanjoRecomp/BanjoRecomp
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Better graphical API for Scummvm, HPL1 engine (Penumbra Overture) - 10$
link: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm
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REDriver 2 - 10$
link: https://github.com/OpenDriver2/REDRIVER2
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Driver Syndicate - 30$
link: https://github.com/InspirationByte/eq2engine
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OpenMOHAA - 15$
link: https://github.com/openmoh/openmohaa
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Freespace - 40$ - (already being worked on)
link: https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/freespace-vita
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Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2. - 30$ (15+15)
link: https://github.com/Sporesirius/fakk2
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Aleph One (Marathon series) - finished! Bounty paid out
link: https://github.com/dguenther/alephone-switch
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 250$ - finished! Bounty NOT paid out
link: https://github.com/givethesourceplox/dusklight-NX
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Total Overdose - 250$
link: https://github.com/Michael0ne/TOD_tools
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'Modern' Boom-compatible port* - 20$
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*(a term that probably won't make sense if you're not a classic Doom enthuiast) port that's 'mature' or 'feature-complete' as far as (single player) functionality goes i.e. dsda-doom/woof/prboom-plus/etc, for the base. The bit that's most important (after the obvious stuff is covered), is a frontend\GUI thingy for easy loading of PWADs and DEHs and such. Finally, being able to go at least one folder 'deep' (for lack of a better term) for better collection organization would also be pretty sweet.

Super Mario 64 Coop - 10$
https://github.com/coop-deluxe/sm64coopdx/releases

Legend of Dragoon Modded - 25$

https://github.com/Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains

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Important note: if you wish to add to these yourself (money or ports), tag me in reply and I will add to it.

(more that could be possible? - OpenGOAL, Command and Conquer games?)

∗ported means:

-running on latest CFW 21

-basic features without crashing (saving, loading, options available and working)

-playable FPS (not dropping below 30FPS - some exceptions can apply if its not single digits and so on) and reasonable graphics, in case of emulators non trivial 3D game should run at about 30 fps (eg Auto Modellista for PS2 is quite low demanding)

-make it open-source

-physical buttons

-you send me the prototype (preferably discord) or offer it for others too, if deemed appropriate as above, I will pay you out


This is not paying for anything illegal as well as its not paying not for development. If the port gets released, as an appreciation I voluntarily donate to the link person provides.


I am sure there could be lot of resources and useful links, please provide them if you can. Also please delete if I breached any rule or its considered inappropriate in community.

We now have website from Vita friend:
https://zealouschuck.com/active-switch-bounties
 

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I appreciate that you have good intentions, but things get made / ported when a developer wants to do it, not due to money incentive.

10$ isn't even 15 minutes pay for most developers and barely pays for lunch. Not trying to insult what you're offering, especially as you're offering this out of your own pocket and not a million $ company, just trying to temper expectations.
 
If you want to do it like the Vita community then why not make something proper like https://github.com/vita-nuova/bounties/issues ?

If something is popular enough then a large bounty can be built by the community. I know bountrysource is no longer an option but there must be alternatives. I doubt this thread will get you anywhere.
 
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I appreciate that you have good intentions, but things get made / ported when a developer wants to do it, not due to money incentive.

10$ isn't even 15 minutes pay for most developers and barely pays for lunch. Not trying to insult what you're offering, especially as you're offering this out of your own pocket and not a million $ company, just trying to temper expectations.
Well I dont have to be only one contributing. Appreciate the input! I can surely increase payments.
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If you want to do it like the Vita community then why not make something proper like https://github.com/vita-nuova/bounties/issues ?

If something is popular enough then a large bounty can be built by the community. I know bountrysource is no longer an option but there must be alternatives. I doubt this thread will get you anywhere.
I am afraid N would take down anything money related while Switch is still profitable. And this thread is not my only course of action :-) Maybe someone will come up with a website, I dont think there is need for this yet.
 
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High hopes and low incentives I'm afraid. I wouldn't hold my breath but if you don't ask you don't get!
Maybe more people will join with incentives. We can share patreons/ko-fis/etc of devs. And hey, this could be looked at as just motivation to do it :-) If I am not mistaken, all homebrew ports were made for free so far.
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Maybe this just means we can share and support work of those devs more instead of specific bounties. Im okay if the idea is not that good, I just wanted to give back a little :-)
 
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Kinda hard to be honest, the pay is not worth it for most people to get a lawsuit for porting something. Average cost for porting an AAA game $100,000 to 1 Millions,

"Game porting typically costs between $10,000 and $50,000 for small indie projects, while complex, high-end, or console-specific ports (e.g., to Nintendo Switch) can exceed $100,000 to over $1,000,000 for large-scale games. Costs vary based on the engine, platform, and required optimization, with console ports often ranging from $15,000 to $300,000. "
 
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They're all already open source projects, with it's source codes on GitHub. But not for the Switch/libnx.

I know I seen some of them, like GTA III and Vice City port for the vita, got taken down. Bully probably will get taken down if someone did decide to port it to another system.
 
Kinda hard to be honest, the pay is not worth it for most people to get a lawsuit for porting something. Average cost for porting an AAA game $100,000 to 1 Millions,

"Game porting typically costs between $10,000 and $50,000 for small indie projects, while complex, high-end, or console-specific ports (e.g., to Nintendo Switch) can exceed $100,000 to over $1,000,000 for large-scale games. Costs vary based on the engine, platform, and required optimization, with console ports often ranging from $15,000 to $300,000. "
I am not really sure this applies. I dont think from many homebrew ports we still get anyone was sued. Or for projects these ports would come from. But please correct me if I am wrong. And you also talk about official porting, I am not.
 
I am not really sure this applies. I dont think from many homebrew ports we still get anyone was sued. Or for projects these ports would come from. But please correct me if I am wrong. And you also talk about official porting, I am not.

I mean the vita port of GTA III and Vice City port got taken down, but then again law are law, I mean it doesn't matter a lot to you since you are not the one porting it so the game company doesn't go after you, instead they may go after the person porting it,
 
I mean the vita port of GTA III and Vice City port got taken down, but then again law are law, I mean it doesn't matter a lot to you since you are not the one porting it so the game company doesn't go after you, instead they may go after the person porting it,
I dont think so. If the supposed company goes after someone, they simply sent cease and desist and port gets removed. Thats all. To this day, Bully for Vita is up. If it is developed for Switch, internet archives it and then it does not matter what happens. You can still download GTA ports for Vita and Switch if you know where to look.
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I'll put my hard-earned precious $15 via paypal for the Horizon OS port of my beloved videogame, Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2. :wub:It's built on a Q3 idTech engine.

Here's it's source code: https://github.com/Sporesirius/fakk2
Rework: https://github.com/Sporesirius/fakk2-rework
SDK: https://github.com/a1batross/fakk2-sdk

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I dont think so. If the supposed company goes after someone, they simply sent cease and desist and port gets removed. Thats all. To this day, Bully for Vita is up. If it is developed for Switch, internet archives it and then it does not matter what happens. You can still download GTA ports for Vita and Switch if you know where to look.
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Bully and the GTA SA one are just wrapper, it just translating the android port code into native ps vita instructions.
 

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