Wish List

Features, art, and documentation the project needs help with. If you can contribute any of these, or know where to find them, please reach out.

Art

Space section sprites for Ultima II, III, IV, V

Art

The rebuild currently only has space-view sprites for EGA and FM Towns. We need dedicated space tile sets for Ultima II, III, IV, and V so each graphics mode can render the space section with its own art instead of falling back to the EGA default.

Better Mondain sprites for daemon/gargoyle sets

Art

Several of the Mondain end-fight sprite sets reuse a generic daemon or gargoyle graphic. These could be replaced with more accurate or higher-quality sprites that better match each platform's art style.

Vehicle sprites: aircars, shuttles, and carts for II, III, IV, V

Art

The overworld vehicle sprites (aircars, shuttles, horse carts) need dedicated versions for the Ultima II, III, IV, and V graphics modes. Right now many modes fall back to the base EGA vehicles.

Ultima V complete dungeon monster sprite set

Art

A full set of dungeon monster sprites drawn in the Ultima V art style. The current Ultima V dungeon mode has limited monster coverage compared to other modes.

Ultima II dungeon monster sprite sets

Art

Dungeon monster sprites drawn in the Ultima II art style. There are currently no Ultima II dungeon variants, so any dungeon encounter in that graphics mode falls back to EGA.

Documentation

Help confirming and enhancing the credit list

Documentation

The in-game credits roll is shown below. Several entries are marked uncredited or may be incomplete. If you can confirm a missing composer, artist, or contributor, or if you spot an error, please let us know.

Help documenting Ultima IV dungeon wall color combinations

Documentation

Ultima IV uses different color combinations for dungeon walls at different depths and dungeon types. We need help mapping out every wall/floor/ceiling color pairing across all eight dungeons and their depth levels.

In-Game Credits

The current in-game credits roll. If you can fill in a gap, correct an error, or identify an uncredited contributor, please get in touch.

Original Game

Published by California Pacific Computer Co.

The basis for this reconstruction

Programming & Design

Original Origin Systems remake

Dav Holle - team manager & lead programmer

Dr. Cat

Steven Meuse

Dallas Snell

John Miles

Richard Garriott

David Albert - product management & writing

John Fachini - conversion

Art & Illustration

Denis R. Loubet - illustrations

Lori Ogwulu - graphics & design

Graphics, Tiles & Sprites

Original tile and sprite art (c) Origin Systems, decoded from the original binaries and platform ports:

Ultima I - EGA, CGA, Tandy & VGA tile sets, Commodore 64 tile set, FM Towns tile & space sets

Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress - overworld & town tiles

Ultima III: Exodus - overworld & town tiles

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar - EGA & CGA tile sets

Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny - overworld & town tiles

Ultima VI: The False Prophet - overworld & town tiles

Apple IIGS dungeon sprites upscaled 4x (nearest-neighbour) for this project.

Select merchant & princess sprites recoloured.

Music

Ultima I originally shipped with no music. The rebuild lets you score it with soundtracks from the Japanese Ultima I remakes and from later Ultima games and their ports.

Ultima I - FM Towns (1990)

From the Japanese FM Towns CD release

Composer uncredited in public records

Ultima I - PC-9801

Takeshi Yasuda

Published by Pony Canyon (Japan)

Ultima III: Exodus - Kenneth W. Arnold

Heard here in its Amiga, Atari 8-bit, PC-98 and Commodore 64 arrangements

"Rule, Britannia!" by Thomas Arne, arranged by Kenneth W. Arnold

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar - Kenneth W. Arnold

Apple II Mockingboard, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, PC-88 and Sega Master System arrangements

Pieces of 8-bit HQ Remakes

High-quality fan remasters of the Ultima III and Ultima IV themes by Pieces of 8-bit

Uncle Willy Remix

Fan remix arrangement by Uncle Willy

Ultima Online (1997)

Kirk Winterrowd and Joe Basquez (original score)

Remix arranger not documented

Pieces of 8-bit - Ultima Rule, Britannia! Collection

Sound Effects

Authentic 1987 DOS PC-speaker effects

Captured from the original DOS release

(movement, combat, magic, error tones)

Fonts

Perfect DOS VGA 437 - Zeh Fernando

PC Senior - codeman38 / Zone38

FM Towns Ultima - custom traced font from the extracted FM Towns pixel font

This Reconstruction

A non-commercial fan preservation project built in Unity.

Special Thanks

Ultima Dragons

Members of the Ultima Dragons Discord who dug through their own archives to help track down sprites unavailable anywhere else:

TheGreyWanderer, GrantWChapman, Dominus, Sergorn, BehindTimes

Music

Uncle Willy

and the community musicians who brought the soundtrack to life beyond PC speaker beeps

Community References

Gamer Corner Guides, Data Driven Gamer, Ultima Codex Wiki

For inspiration & motivation

Majuular Jwlar Josh Strife Hayes Finntrovert Techdweeb Watch Out for FireballsPixel HistoryJeremy Parish

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Electronic Arts, Origin Systems, or Richard Garriott. Ultima is a trademark of Electronic Arts. All original works remain the property of their respective owners.

No Art, Music, or Creative writing used in this game was created using AI.

Protect the arts, and the creators who devote their lives to their craft.

Real Art is Made by Real Hands.

This Unity Fan Remake was Developed by Dave Hoyt