A port of the classic dungeon crawler Diablo is being developed for the Sega Dreamcast by @azi_hassan, using the Devilutin platform.

More Dreamcast goodies.

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But… why? Like I’m all for getting retro games working again when they dont, but why back port a game like this to an old console? I don’t get it

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It’s like kissing that ugly girl in a party nobody wants to partake with – it’s useless and completely unnecessary… but oh boy it sure is fun!

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2 points

Tell us more.

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Because its a challenge for the developer and therefore fun.

It’s like making doom run on a pregnancy test.

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Spoiler, it didn’t run on the test itself. It ran on hardware shoved inside the test shell if I recall right.

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Because its a challenge for the developer and therefore fun.

Yes, definitely!

It’s like making doom run on a pregnancy test.

Wasn’t that just getting it to display on a tiny screen? The pregnancy test itself didn’t have suitable hardware, or even a suitable screen, as far as I can recall

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Are they using the windows CE method to make the game run?

That would be how I’d try to do it.

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I love it. Viva la Dreamcast

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The mouse controls must be atrocious on a console

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I’ve played Devilution X on my Anbernic handheld and it was serviceable enough, I got to like level 17 before I ran out of steam on my rogue.

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I never played it, but Diablo was officially ported to the original PlayStation

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Maybe it’ll make use of the official Sega Dreamcast mouse?

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8 points

Sega is definitely winning the console war now.

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