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Texas Libra said:
OK, thing is, the only reason episode 1 was made for Doom 3 is because it's the only episode that's available for free as shareware. It would be totally illegal to make the rest of the game and Doom 2 without some kind of licensing agreement from id.
There's nothing illegal about recreating content from one game in another as a mod, provided that none of the original assets are used and everything is built from scratch - and, of course, that you don't charge people monies. The Doom64 TC could otherwise never have happened, legally speaking.
What stops most "amateurs" from remaking an entire game from the yesteryear in a more contemporary platform is the sheer amount of work involved, assuming it's to be taken seriously and not consist of a collection of crude BoxMaps with enemies thrown in. Maps and other content take far longer to construct than they did 15 years ago. Hence, I believe, why Classic Doom was only a re-imagining of the first episode of Doom.
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