Freedo on Dreamcast

LyingWake · Post by **LyingWake** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:35 pm

You gotta link to where he/she is saying this?

DcSteve · Post by **DcSteve** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:23 pm

The only existing 3DO emulator being ported to dc? These programmers must be very talented.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:25 pm

Actually --- it's nearly ready -- few minor fixes and i'm releasing bunch of versions --
PocketPC, DC, MacOsX, Win32, RedHat/SuSE/FedoraCore3 i386.

so, you should expect them by friday - monday (Nov 21st).

I dunno about you guys but I'm excited. There's a game or two I'd love to play. I wonder how well the DC version performs.

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:24 pm

The thing is they had been saying they had an xbox and ps2 port made and they had already gotten them pressed. the whole project has been full of delayed release dates and such.

XDelusion · Post by **XDelusion** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:36 pm

It's to be expected with sux a huge project...

...at least there is a downloadable proof of concept.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:38 pm

Strapping Scherzo wrote:
Actually --- it's nearly ready -- few minor fixes and i'm releasing bunch of versions --
PocketPC, DC, MacOsX, Win32, RedHat/SuSE/FedoraCore3 i386.

so, you should expect them by friday - monday (Nov 21st).
I dunno about you guys but I'm excited. There's a game or two I'd love to play. I wonder how well the DC version performs.

Me too. I'm looking forward to try Captain Quazar (best 3DO game IMO) and FIFA... Yes, FIFA 3DO beats any DC footie game, and it's prolly the best of the series (at least I remember having fun with it)

XDelusion · Post by **XDelusion** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:48 pm

I can't wait for PO'ed, it sucked on the PSX, but played wonderfully on the 3DO.

And of course D&D Death Keep, and Alone in the Dark.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:11 pm

XDelusion wrote:I can't wait for PO'ed, it sucked on the PSX

So true. I picked up PO'ed at Gamestop one day thinking it would be at least as good on PSone as it was on 3DO. Nope. So painful to play.

3DO was a cool machine. Just a bit ahead of its time. The Gex series started on 3DO.

XDelusion · Post by **XDelusion** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:11 am

Oh ya, can't forget Gex.

Road Rash was the best on the 3DO than any other system as well. Compare it to it's PSX brother and you'll laugh at how poorly the psx pulls it off in comparison.

Arqueiro · Post by **Arqueiro** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:08 am

if you guis dont know, the fredo team are involved in the chanka emu, so, they know a lot about dc !

Arqueiro · Post by **Arqueiro** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:29 am

FreeDO Administrator wrote: Actually --- it's nearly ready -- few minor fixes and i'm releasing bunch of versions --... DREAMCAST,...
so, you should expect them by friday - monday (Nov 21st).

hacked link:
http://www.freedo.org/cgi-bin/forum/YaB ... 1130229027

my dream is comming true !

+/- one our 2 years ago o join in this forum to ask for a dreamcast port....

XDelusion · Post by **XDelusion** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:02 pm

DOOM was crap on 3DO, a dirty shame too.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:10 pm

XDelusion wrote:DOOM was crap on 3DO, a dirty shame too.

In retrospect, I agree. But back then I hadn't played much Doom on PC, so to me it seemed incredible. What do you think was worse Doom for 3DO or for 32X? I thought the 32X one wasn't half bad.

XDelusion · Post by **XDelusion** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:08 pm

32X was a wonderful port, I could not believe it when I played it. The only lame thing that I can recall about it was the fact that the sprites had to be cut down, thus all the enemies always looked at you.

Then of course there is the SNES port which I would not wish upon anybody. Aside of having GFX so horrid you did not know what was going on. I also believe you could not strafe and fire at the same time, or something to that effect.

The 3DO version could have been great, but the Frame Rate kept dropping or something. If you stand still and spin in a circle you'll know what I mean.

Another great title for the 3DO list...

it had the best port of Flashback, you'd have to see it to believe it!

Coagulus · Post by **Coagulus** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:50 pm

I thought the SNES version was pretty good actually, better than the 32x version! Didn't Rand Linden do the SNES version?

DcSteve · Post by **DcSteve** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:19 pm

yes he did. He probably has more knowledge than anybody on compressing 3d graphics.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:39 pm

XDelusion wrote:The only lame thing that I can recall about it was the fact that the sprites had to be cut down, thus all the enemies always looked at you.

Yeah, I remember that. I remember trying to get the monsters to fight each other, and they wouldn't. I guess the developers were like, well, if they're always facing you, then we sure as hell can't have the monsters fighting each other.

I just was searching around about Doom and came upon a site with custom wad files. Did you guys know that one of the guys from the Columbine massacre made some custom wads of his own? Check This Page. Look for "UAC Labs - Eric Harris". Good bit of video game trivia.