diff --git a/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/1.1.nix b/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/1.1.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9810d5186b0e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/1.1.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, lua, fpc, pcre, portaudio, freetype, libpng
-, SDL, SDL_image, ffmpeg, sqlite, zlib, libX11 }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "ultrastardx-1.1";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/ultrastardx/${name}-src.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0sfj5rfgj302avcp6gj5hiypcxms1wc6h3qzjaf5i2a9kcvnibcd";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig fpc pcre portaudio freetype libpng SDL SDL_image ffmpeg
-    sqlite lua ];
-
-
-  # The fpc is not properly wrapped to add -rpath. I add this manually.
-  # I even do a trick on lib/lib64 for libgcc, that I expect it will work.
-  preBuild = ''
-    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -rpath ${SDL.out}/lib -rpath ${SDL_image}/lib -rpath ${libpng.out}/lib -rpath ${freetype.out}/lib -rpath ${portaudio}/lib -rpath ${ffmpeg.out}/lib -rpath ${zlib.out}/lib -rpath ${sqlite.out}/lib -rpath ${libX11.out}/lib -rpath ${pcre.out}/lib -rpath ${lua}/lib -rpath ${stdenv.cc.cc.out}/lib64 -rpath ${stdenv.cc.cc.out}/lib"
-
-    sed -i 414,424d Makefile
-  '';
-
-  # dlopened libgcc requires the rpath not to be shrinked
-  dontPatchELF = true;
-
-  meta = {
-    homepage = http://ultrastardx.sourceforge.net/;
-    description = "Free and open source karaoke game";
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/1.3-beta.nix b/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/default.nix
similarity index 86%
rename from pkgs/games/ultrastardx/1.3-beta.nix
rename to pkgs/games/ultrastardx/default.nix
index ca7d6b35a21b..ce68f190992b 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/1.3-beta.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/ultrastardx/default.nix
@@ -12,18 +12,16 @@ let
 
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "ultrastardx-${version}";
-  version = "1.3.5-beta";
+  version = "2017.8.0";
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "UltraStar-Deluxe";
     repo = "USDX";
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "0qp64qsj29a08cbv3i52jm1w2pcklw6ya5sniycs24zxggza5pkn";
+    sha256 = "1zp0xfwzci3cjmwx3cprcxvm60cik5cvhvrz9n4d6yb8dv38nqzm";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [
-    pkgconfig autoreconfHook
-    fpc libpng
-  ] ++ sharedLibs;
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig autoreconfHook ];
+  buildInputs = [ fpc libpng ] ++ sharedLibs;
 
   postPatch = ''
     # autoconf substitutes strange things otherwise
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 49ba2d0ccdf8..5c9ae26c77b6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ mapAliases (rec {
   telepathy_qt5 = libsForQt5.telepathy;  # added 2015-12-19
   tftp_hpa = tftp-hpa; # added 2015-04-03
   ucsFonts = ucs-fonts; # added 2016-07-15
+  ultrastardx-beta = ultrastardx; # added 2017-08-12
   usb_modeswitch = usb-modeswitch; # added 2016-05-10
   vimbWrapper = vimb; # added 2015-01
   vimprobable2Wrapper = vimprobable2; # added 2015-01
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 34e46b2885dd..f372524008ba 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17569,14 +17569,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ultrastar-manager = libsForQt5.callPackage ../tools/misc/ultrastar-manager { };
 
-  ultrastardx = callPackage ../games/ultrastardx/1.1.nix {
-    ffmpeg = ffmpeg_0;
-    lua = lua5;
-  };
-  ultrastardx-beta = callPackage ../games/ultrastardx/1.3-beta.nix {
-    ffmpeg = ffmpeg_0;
-    lua = lua5;
-  };
+  ultrastardx = callPackage ../games/ultrastardx/default.nix { };
 
   unnethack = callPackage ../games/unnethack { };