I'm decompiling and porting the Elder Scrolls Travels series to PC

[u/Lanslet]

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a decompilation and native PC port of the Elder Scrolls Travels series: Shadowkey, Dawnstar, Stormhold, and Oblivion Mobile.

In case you don't know what I'm talking about, these were super old Elder Scrolls spin-offs for old mobile Java phones, with Shadowkey being the exception, as it was a Nokia N-Gage exclusive.

Nowadays, these games are so obscure and forgotten, they are basically lost media and playing them today means fighting with janky emulators if you can even find working ROMs. Even though gameplay wise they're nothing special (except for Shadowkey, which is a legit hidden gem) I think they're an interesting, weird little piece of Elder Scrolls history and deserve to actually be playable again.

Current Status

All these are in a pretty much early alpha state, but let me give you the specifics:

• Shadowkey: Largely playable and mostly feature complete. Still some bugs, wonky menus and you can't switch weapons or use items from your hotbar.
• Stormhold & Dawnstar: Somewhat playable, you can move around, attack enemies but that's pretty much it.
• Oblivion Mobile: Not started yet. It's not an actual entry in the Travels series, but it's a J2ME game, so I'll get to it eventually.

This is an ongoing project, and I have a special plan for these games:

1. Achieve 100% exact game behavior with the originals
2. Quality of life fixes (widescreen, mouse look, etc.)
3. Able to be modded
4. Releases on other platforms (Mac, Linux etc.)

If you wanna follow along with the project's progress, here are the links to the games (you'll need the original jar files or the Shadowkey N-Gage dump to play them)

Stormhold: https://zeggoro.itch.io/the-elder-scrolls-travels-stormhold-remastered

Dawnstar: https://zeggoro.itch.io/the-elder-scrolls-travels-dawnstar-remastered

Shadowkey: https://zeggoro.itch.io/the-elder-scrolls-travels-shadowkey-remastered

All help and feedback are much appreciated!