Fan-Made Doom 64 Port "Makes Dreamcast History"

I hope they plan to include the improvements Immorpher has made to Doom 64, including a much better brightness range.

My personal favourite improvement is showing how many secrets/enemies/items are left in a level so I can make sure I get 100% before finishing.

They'll probably have to put weapon selection on the d-pad as there aren't enough face buttons on the DC controller.

Noice.
Hope you can toggle the cant see ***** mode off though.

@BulkSlash

They could also do it as on the GBA, holding down some Buttons to Switch than with the D-Pad.

And yep, Immorpher did a great Work

The Very thing that "killed" the Dreamcast is the very thing keeping it alive. All the Homebrew and ports being made are amazing.

Except the emulation collections some people are making, those are kind of awful.

I'm very impressed, but without the "Can Actually See Things" mode from the updated ports, it's not really going to see much play from me. I like Doom 64, but the original's visuals are so dark and muddy that it impedes actually being able to navigate the levels. The newer ports are so much more enjoyable even if you set all of their other improvements aside.

Yep, as it should be.

Is Doom64 well regarded now? At the time I don't remember many publications having much to say about it besides the sprites are a little odd. I played it in college but didn't give it much a chance really.

@GhaleonUnlimited Many people I talk to now say Doom 64 is one of the best in the series. I've never played it still.

Bumpmapping is cool and all, but I can't really make it out in the grainy, low bitrate Twitter video they posted. Not really the best demonstration of something so impressive.

@GhaleonUnlimited Doom 64 is a worthy third Doom, I'd say- like an actual Doom 3, as opposed to the drastic departure we got with Doom 3 in 2004. Even before its resurgence, I think it was well regarded as a cult classic or ""hidden gem"" for quite a while... by the few who had actually played it.

It came out the same year as Goldeneye and Quake II, unfortunately. Releasing a simple, sprite-based FPS was maybe not the best thing for visibility, especially when it could be easily misinterpreted as a port of the 1993 original.

@mariteaux Yeah, I can't see the effect at all from that video. Someone should put up some proper HD footage on YouTube or something.

I'm hoping that this D64 port opens the floodgates and gets more devs really pushing the Dreamcast's graphical capabilities. There's been plenty of homebrew already, but most of what I've seen is on the simpler side, in contrast to the limit-pushers we've been seeing on older consoles.
I want to see what a AAA Dreamcast title from 2006 could've looked like, loaded up with normal maps and stencil shadows!

@smoreon In general, and not to knock any homebrew project because they are all minor miracles in of themselves, I don't find myself especially into them if they're not up to the standard of your average game for that console. New GB/NES/Genesis stuff, feels right, is super impressive, but right around the time of the PS1, it sorta just becomes "emulators and Tetris" (Minecraft clones have also become popular on retro consoles, I've noticed). I understand why, because making 3D games is hard, but it definitely does disappoint me that it's moreso a hobbyist playground than actually making great games I'd wanna support. The Dreamcast scene is better than most in that regard, so hopefully folks keep pushing it, and maybe bring some of that genius to us PS1 peasants someday.