openMERC
Open-source engine for Raven's Soldier of Fortune written on top of Yamagi Quake II, with an OpenGL 3.2 renderer, OpenAL sound and widescreen menus. Loads the original .pak data from a GOG or patched retail install; its own game logic runs all campaign maps but is unfinished.
Clean-room Not stated releasedFacts
- Original
- Soldier of Fortune (2000)
- Platform
- Windows
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Not stated what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- sidreshot
- Started
- 2026-10
- First release
- 2026-10
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Soldier of Fortune you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt clean-room by sidreshot. Facts last checked 2026-11-04. Suggest a correction
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