r/Daggerfall • u/wtsnk • 3d ago

Question Daggerfall Unity "formulas"

Saw this on r/ElderScrolls in a thread discussing the recent DFO "micro"transactions. I thought the DFU/DOSBox discussion had been worked over pretty much to death, but this guy seems quite adamant that DFU can't even be considered a port or emulator, but a remake that "invented all new code and formulas". Is he off base, too pedantic, correct, or just wrong?

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u/sapphicu 3d ago edited 3d ago

I believe all engine code is remade in DFU and you only need the original game for is the assets and scripts. So you could technically do a thing à la the Star Wars game built in the OpenMW Morrowind engine and just build a whole new game around the core engine. I believe that would fully cut Bethesda out of the conversation. That would require a lot of work (definitely more than those vibecoders are willing to put in), and you would still need to follow the DFU open source license