CSVM
Fan-made remake engine for Crimson Skies that plays the single-player campaign and Instant Action from the user's own retail install.
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- Original
- Crimson Skies (2000)
- Platform
- Windows
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- AI-assisted · CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md in repo root (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Team
- Laeresh
- Started
- 2026-07
- Runs on
- Windows
- 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 Crimson Skies you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by Laeresh. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction
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