Homebrew "Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition" has been unofficially ported to the Sega Dreamcast

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The Sega Dreamcast has started to gain some love by their homebrew community this year, with games like Doom 64 and Sonic Mania receiving unofficial ports to the last main Sega console.

Today, another beloved classic title has joined the ranks of games being ported unofficially to the console, with the latest one being Duke Nukem 3D. This port of the Build Engine classic was developed by Dreamcast Talk's forum user Ivan Guber, and has support for the Atomic Edition 1.5 release of the game, which offers a 4th episode with a new wepon and new enemies. For the Dreamcast port, Guber offers the following features:

• Fixed out of memory.
• Improved game performance.
• Added saving to IDE and SD.
• Reworked controls for Dreamcast controller.
• Configured controls for XBOX360 controller.
• Added mouse controls (you need to mapped the mouse buttons).
• Keyboard support.

Even George Broussard, one of the original developers of the game, was surprised by this achievements and commented on a post that showcased this very Dreamcast port of Duke Nukem 3D:

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The Dreamcast port was released on September 5th, 2024, with an update released just today fixing some bugs, and is now available on the Dreamcast Talk forums for those willing to give it a try in a real Dreamcast console, or with a mouse and keyboard for those that have the means.

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