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GTA 3 (Dreamcast "Super Early Version" vs PlayStation 2) - Gameplay Comparison
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Pakoe
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That shit blew my mind first time seeing it.
Physiognomonics
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I never doubted dreamcast could run this. But as expected the framerate is terrible. PS2 has a much more capable CPU.
cireza
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Framerate of a port after a single month of work by a few guys on their free time...
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The DC version is a work in progress fan-made port, not some official canceled build ala Half Life.
Let's be clear on that.
Let's be clear on that.
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CitizenKratos
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Yes. And as such it’s not really a fair comparison as to whether the Dreamcast could have handled the game. This version looks completely different and not great imo.
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Is the guy behind this video the same guy who says Wii U can do ray tracing and out power PS5 and Series X?
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Portugeezer
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I wouldn't think too much.
These fans know more these days than the devs of the time, doesn't mean that certain things would have been possible back then.
SkylineRKR
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Yeah this is developed when the console is over 25 years old.
And even so, GTA 3 being possible on DC was already confirmed by one of the developers. The cancellation was a business decision. But we don't know how it would stack up tp the eventual PS2 version if we consider it had also been in development by 2000 with tools and expertise from that era.
Its not strange that people can make machines do what they previously couldn't. Think of Doom on 32x, or Real Bout Special on Genesis.
And even so, GTA 3 being possible on DC was already confirmed by one of the developers. The cancellation was a business decision. But we don't know how it would stack up tp the eventual PS2 version if we consider it had also been in development by 2000 with tools and expertise from that era.
Its not strange that people can make machines do what they previously couldn't. Think of Doom on 32x, or Real Bout Special on Genesis.
David Ricardo
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I heard the same probably from the same developer. The game was originally planed as a Dreamcast title, so I don´t know why we should be surprised if somebody got a port of the game running on dreamcast 20+ years later
Team Andromeda
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Some of us older types would say that about Elite on the BBC.
deriks
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Also, let's not compare. It's a tough thing to judge if was back in the day
We saw Portal running on the N64 and looks amazing like no game could not run like that back in the day. You know why? People learn advanced methods of development in the long run. As a task there's little room for trial snd error, and development has a time to deliver, so... You know. Not really fair if is a direct comparison
Congrats for the fan made
We saw Portal running on the N64 and looks amazing like no game could not run like that back in the day. You know why? People learn advanced methods of development in the long run. As a task there's little room for trial snd error, and development has a time to deliver, so... You know. Not really fair if is a direct comparison
Congrats for the fan made
ChuckeRearmed
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thatJohann
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Wow didn’t think it was possible to run GTA3 on a Dreamcast. Granted it’s early development and runs at about 5fps but nice!
Corporal.Hicks
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The game looks clearly downgraded (missing sky, clouds, rain, fog, postprocessing effects, car shading, shadows and lighting, extremely blurry textures even compared to PS2 version) and it still runs at around 5-10fps. I'm not sure if there is anything that can be done to make it run at a playable framerate, but I'd like to be surprised.
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Silver Wattle
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Dreamcast fanatics are freaks.
Corporal.Hicks
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diffusionx
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One, this looks and runs like shit. Two, because a bunch of hardcore fans are using modern tools and knowledge to port the game doesn't mean anything. We have no idea what the game would have been had it been made on Dreamcast at the time because we can't step into that universe.
Dreamcast fans remind me of those Japanese soldiers in the jungles who didn't know the war ended a decade prior.
Dreamcast fans remind me of those Japanese soldiers in the jungles who didn't know the war ended a decade prior.
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Agent X
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For a homebrew project that was whipped up in short order, this is actually quite impressive.
Aside from the lower frame rate, disappearing geometry, and some other general glitchiness (which may or may not get ironed out with some further optimization), one other obvious disadvantage is the much lower resolution of bitmaps. The Dreamcast GD-ROM has much lower capacity than a PlayStation 2 DVD, and the "open" design of GTA3 doesn't lend itself to disc swapping, so this could be one hurdle that would not be easy to overcome.
Aside from the lower frame rate, disappearing geometry, and some other general glitchiness (which may or may not get ironed out with some further optimization), one other obvious disadvantage is the much lower resolution of bitmaps. The Dreamcast GD-ROM has much lower capacity than a PlayStation 2 DVD, and the "open" design of GTA3 doesn't lend itself to disc swapping, so this could be one hurdle that would not be easy to overcome.
nkarafo
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Fans with modern tools and knowledge can and have surpassed official products many times. Just look at the current N64 homebrew development.
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At least they're doing a better job than Rockstar with the definitive edition.
Looks promising, hopefully there will be good progress on this.
One of the few games that should have been moved to the sixth-generation consoles, the PS1 could barely run this. Even the original Driver released in 1998 could tank the framerate when you had too many cop cars on screen,
GTA3 on the PSX would probably look like driver 2.
One of the few games that should have been moved to the sixth-generation consoles, the PS1 could barely run this. Even the original Driver released in 1998 could tank the framerate when you had too many cop cars on screen,
CitizenKratos
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That I would believe. There have been great strides in development techniques. But that's also an example of how it's not a good way to say if it could have run on Dreamcast back in the day.
Ronin_7
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Remembering some key DC titles like Sonic Adventure, I think it can be done.Yeah this seems insane
Puscifer
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I'm just saying picking up a prostitute, having sex with her, killing her and getting your money back was *THE MOMENT* you knew video games were never going to be the same again.
amigastar
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Yeah, it was actually cool, no kiddie game (nothing wrong with more kiddie games but yeah). K-Jah and all the other radio stations ,whereas K-Jah introduced me to Dub music.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
EverydayBeast
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Dreamcast missed out on GTA, what’s keeping GTA 3 from running on the game cube? Don’t forget the game cube!
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Reminds me of early PS3 vs 360 multiplats...
...not flattering for Dreamcast here. But then again, it's just an early build over there. We'll see how close it gets to the PS2 retail version over time, hopefully by the end of the year.
Considering back in 2000 a retail Dreamcast could run Shenmue (and later, Shenmue 2), it should be obvious that a retail version of GTA3 would've been a lot more polished than this fan project is at currently.
The question I guess is if it would've ran better than the PS2 version. I'm of the opinion it would not have, and would have had much simpler lighting & particle effects in areas. Framerate would've probably been consistently 5-15 FPS below PS2 depending on the area and amount of stuff happening on-screen too.
But I'm sure there'd of been some clever workarounds developed for obvious deficiencies to get closer performance parity.
...not flattering for Dreamcast here. But then again, it's just an early build over there. We'll see how close it gets to the PS2 retail version over time, hopefully by the end of the year.
Considering back in 2000 a retail Dreamcast could run Shenmue (and later, Shenmue 2), it should be obvious that a retail version of GTA3 would've been a lot more polished than this fan project is at currently.
The question I guess is if it would've ran better than the PS2 version. I'm of the opinion it would not have, and would have had much simpler lighting & particle effects in areas. Framerate would've probably been consistently 5-15 FPS below PS2 depending on the area and amount of stuff happening on-screen too.
But I'm sure there'd of been some clever workarounds developed for obvious deficiencies to get closer performance parity.
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ReBurn
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No that's just how the PS2 version looked. It had a lot of areas where the framerate plummeted like that.
Oh wait, you meant the Dreamcast prototype, didn't you?
diffusionx
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Imagine if DMA had 20 years to work on it. It was the first PS2 game they did. Even a few years later they put out San Andreas which was vastly more complex than GYA3.
Again Dreamcast warriors are fighting a battle that ended a long time ago.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
It's pointless to have such comparisons before it's further done (no less because we see huge improvements in mere days/hours, though of course that won't last forever). Even that channel already has a new video comparing an older to a newer (still not latest) DC version, lol... Folks saying it's so easy because it's 2024 can always re-port the PC version to PS2, show how easy it is to do 1000x better than this project, have all the visuals somehow magically work with no glitches/performance issues in the early days from a codebase meant to run on completely different hardware, apis, etc. 
But no, apparently we should take the current (or previously purple tinted) results as the very best Dreamcast can do because these guys are the best, the tools they use are too, the DC is maxed and it can't even properly render black bars for cinematics to be letterboxed widescreen, what a pos
Love how the warrior narrative swiftly changed from "DC couldn't do such sandbox games, Crazy Taxi (cited by Rockstar's then tech director as a great indicator, obviously it's lacking many elements but the engine is great and at a flawless 60fps showing there was tons of room for additions if one was willing to drop the performance to PS2 GTA levels in order to add more such elements in both visuals and gameplay, even if such a DC focused game would end up different to what GTA became) doesn't count" to "of course it can be done as Rockstar's tech director said, the sequels can't".
Of course that tech director was ridiculed by armchair devs who mocked him or at best misinterpreted his words as only speaking for some super early version of the game that was completely different to the impossible for DC end result, digging up unrelated pre-release media as how it'd be on it. Now we're moving to omg it doesn't already look or run as good as the AAA finished product on PS2 so obviously DC always sucked, like anyone ever claimed it'd somehow top the end result of a PS2 focused AAA release if only a half decent developer had cared to port that game to begin with...
PS: Portal 64 was not a port but a complete demake sharing no code with the original. It doesn't look like anything N64 hasn't shown as possible before that, the system had plenty great looking complex games in its time, but noone had thought of a Portal-like, before Portal (well, Narbacular Drop). Of course it was still an amazing project, but not exactly comparable to what the developers of this port are trying to do (and in the end for all we know they may fail in getting anything playable or will have to severely reduce the default settings to get it to anything resembling a playable game). Nor is it suddenly easy for a small team (even ignoring not every amateur dev is equal to the very best ever seen somewhere else) to make work equivalent to yesteryear's AAA projects as we came to know them, Portal itself was far from anything resembling AAA to begin with and no DC homebrew game so far is anything close to the system's best, unlike modern devs using modern knowledge and tricks to max out some much older 2D retro platforms where a full game is just a few MB with whatever that entails for the quality and quantity of assets and even the # of programming lines. Also, that's obviously not real 1080p internal rendering with the GSM or whatever faux patches but just the final output resolution, tweaking settings for an existing PS2 game with whatever placebo or subjective effects with downgrades like no trail effects some may prefer is obviously a different deal
But no, apparently we should take the current (or previously purple tinted) results as the very best Dreamcast can do because these guys are the best, the tools they use are too, the DC is maxed and it can't even properly render black bars for cinematics to be letterboxed widescreen, what a pos
Love how the warrior narrative swiftly changed from "DC couldn't do such sandbox games, Crazy Taxi (cited by Rockstar's then tech director as a great indicator, obviously it's lacking many elements but the engine is great and at a flawless 60fps showing there was tons of room for additions if one was willing to drop the performance to PS2 GTA levels in order to add more such elements in both visuals and gameplay, even if such a DC focused game would end up different to what GTA became) doesn't count" to "of course it can be done as Rockstar's tech director said, the sequels can't".
Of course that tech director was ridiculed by armchair devs who mocked him or at best misinterpreted his words as only speaking for some super early version of the game that was completely different to the impossible for DC end result, digging up unrelated pre-release media as how it'd be on it. Now we're moving to omg it doesn't already look or run as good as the AAA finished product on PS2 so obviously DC always sucked, like anyone ever claimed it'd somehow top the end result of a PS2 focused AAA release if only a half decent developer had cared to port that game to begin with...
PS: Portal 64 was not a port but a complete demake sharing no code with the original. It doesn't look like anything N64 hasn't shown as possible before that, the system had plenty great looking complex games in its time, but noone had thought of a Portal-like, before Portal (well, Narbacular Drop). Of course it was still an amazing project, but not exactly comparable to what the developers of this port are trying to do (and in the end for all we know they may fail in getting anything playable or will have to severely reduce the default settings to get it to anything resembling a playable game). Nor is it suddenly easy for a small team (even ignoring not every amateur dev is equal to the very best ever seen somewhere else) to make work equivalent to yesteryear's AAA projects as we came to know them, Portal itself was far from anything resembling AAA to begin with and no DC homebrew game so far is anything close to the system's best, unlike modern devs using modern knowledge and tricks to max out some much older 2D retro platforms where a full game is just a few MB with whatever that entails for the quality and quantity of assets and even the # of programming lines. Also, that's obviously not real 1080p internal rendering with the GSM or whatever faux patches but just the final output resolution, tweaking settings for an existing PS2 game with whatever placebo or subjective effects with downgrades like no trail effects some may prefer is obviously a different deal
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BlackTron
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I think there's a bit of false equivalence here. Nobody worked on any game for 20 years, they made this under a month with the benefit of the years of added knowledge to refer to, which isn't the same as your own experience accumulating that knowledge.
IbizaPocholo
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Agent X
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Here's some food for thought. I mentioned earlier that the disc capacity of a Dreamcast GD-ROM is significantly less than a PS2 DVD. This means that graphic and sound assets might have to be reduced in quality to fit on a single disc.
Meanwhile, some reasonable Grand Theft Auto games made their way to the PSP.
Perhaps the PSP Grand Theft Auto games would be a better fit for Dreamcast. These systems are more closely matched with regard to disc capacity and control schemes.
Meanwhile, some reasonable Grand Theft Auto games made their way to the PSP.
Perhaps the PSP Grand Theft Auto games would be a better fit for Dreamcast. These systems are more closely matched with regard to disc capacity and control schemes.
polybius80
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some devs for many reasons cannot or not use some options it can be an artistic choice, fear of performance problems or lack of understanding of how things work at the beginning of a gen, but the community specially with popular games find interesting ways to mod games, for example you can play the PS2 gta trilogy with improved framerate, widescreen and 1080p output in the same PS2 console, this is interesting as GTA3 in particular have better effects in PS2 compared to the original PC version but well is very late now, only people with Xploder disc or things like that used some of those functions back in the day
there are other interesting patches
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marquimvfs
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Not true. Kalisto Group released, back in the day, one ripped ps2 iso that fitted in a single CD. I've used the damn thing, worked flawlessly. They've done it just by removing some (not all) radio stations. Remember that the PC version with improved assets also came in just 2 cds, one of them being used only to stream the radio stations. So, with today compressing tools I guess that fitting the whole content in a single disk it's totally doable, or they can just make like Kalisto and rip out some "unnecessary" content (instead of reducing assets quality) if they plan to release a burnable iso.
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Found the file and extracted the .nfo from it. 4 of the 9 radio stations were removed. The iso without the dummy files is only about 1GB. Pasted below.
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What makes this most interesting is the GTA3 decompile is available to port to other platforms. We could eventually see how GCN could run PC version - or PS2 for that matter
And of course - have a better than that #### definitive version port for everyone.