Duke4’s forum member ‘NukeYKT’ has released NBlood; a Blood port that is based on EDuke32. NBlood comes with support for multiplayer (though it’s not stable yet), features software and OpenGL (polymost) renderers, CD audio, accurate FM OPL3(SB/AdLib) emulation and support for DEF/HRP.

It will be interesting to see whether this free offering – it requires the original Blood files so you won’t be able to play the game by simply downloading this port – will be better than the official remaster version of Blood that is currently under development.

All you have to do in order to install NBlood is extract its content (that you can download from here) to a new directory and copy the following files from Blood 1.21 to NBlood folder:

BLOOD.INI

BLOOD.RFF

BLOOD000.DEM-BLOOD003.DEM

GUI.RFF

SOUNDS.RFF

SURFACE.DAT

TILES000.ART-TILES017.ART

VOXEL.DAT

You can then launch the game and if you want to use CD audio tracks instead of MIDI, you can provide FLAC/OGG recordings in following format: bloodXX.flac/ogg, where XX is track number. Make also sure to enable Redbook audio option in sound menu.

And… well… that’s it. Now imagine if someone could release an ESRGAN AI-enhanced texture pack for it. Oh boy, that would be awesome so here is hoping that someone out there reads it and starts working on such a project!