24 years after GTA 3 ditched Dreamcast for PS2, fans are constructing the “most unlikely” port, and the novel devs bear noticed: “These guys are indubitably doing it”

A community of fans are within the formulation of porting the PS2 traditional GTA 3 to the Sega Dreamcast – the platform the open-world game used to be first supposed for. The implications are even spectacular to the sport’s unique developers.

“Actual hardware capture showing some of the latest progress on our ‘impossible’ GTA 3 port to the Sega Dreamcast,” developer Falco Girgis says on Twitter. “No more clipping issues, solid 30fps framerate, most effects are present. Very playable at this early stage. Still have a lot of work to go, but she’s shaping up quite nicely!”

It’s seemingly you’ll presumably well perhaps presumably verify out the fats photos below. The port is amassed clearly in rough form with a bunch of valuable graphical glitches, but your entire elemental stream looks to be in contrivance. If you happen to can already climb in a hearth truck, contrivance off a extensive automobile smash, and procure into a police plug, that is all you indubitably need out of the GTA 3 trip.

“There is an impressive effort going on to make GTA 3 run on the Sega Dreamcast,” frail Rockstar dev Obbe Vermeij says in response to the video. “The first months of development of GTA 3 (back in 99/00) were done on the Dreamcast. For commercial reasons we switched to PS2. At the time we did think it was technically possible to pull it off on the DC and these guys are actually doing it. Nice one.”

Per older comments from Rockstar devs, it does no longer appear that the novel Dreamcast model made it important past the prototype stage. Earlier this year, Vermeij estimated that the Dreamcast model used to be in type “for about four months before switching to PS2.” However that resolution used to be made as it used to be changing into sure the PS2 would substitute Sega’s then-failing console within the market, no longer attributable to any technical barriers. But it’s entirely now – a quarter-century later and due to fans – that we one way or the other know evidently that the Dreamcast would possibly presumably well perhaps’ve handled it.

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