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Duke Nukem 3D Ported To Nokia N900
andylim writes "It looks as if Duke Nukem isn't completely 'nuked' after all. Someone has ported the 90s classic on to a Nokia N900. As you'll see in the video, you control Duke using the Qwerty keypad and shoot using the touchscreen. I'm wondering how long it will take for this to get on other mobile platforms."
In other Duke news, reader Jupix points out that 3D Realms' CEO Scott Miller recently said, "There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production."
I'd be tickled pink to see a sequeal of DN3D, even if it isn't the legendary DNF, but "just another " Duke Nukem game. Save the legendary title for something else, find a decent 3D engine, and allow us cool places to read the daily newspaper again.
But every article on here (and other seemingly US centric) places pretend nokia smart phones don't even exist!.
How can a game be on something that doesn't exist?
Is this a google or an apple product? Why haven't I heard of it before?
Wait, I got duke3d on my iphone like yesterday. It's cool it's on the n900 now, but I would think it wouldn't be a big deal that they were porting it to portables...
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Not sure I understand the big deal over this. I often wonder what it will be like twenty years from now. We will be writing about how Halo (or insert other game of this time frame) has been ported over to the latest and greatest device. Are we celebrating programming excellence or are we celebrating that a dead IP is still kicking around?
Does anyone else just grimace when they see "Duke Nukem"-anything related news anymore? I was 7 when Duke Nukem 3d came out, and although freaking awesome, what of note has the franchise done since?
/rant
Been a bucketload of fail, and a waste of terabytes of useless "news" stories posted on the internet.
Can we just call this one, guys? Time of death: 2005 (and that's being GENEROUS ).
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I'm pretty sure that I had this before on my N810. This doesn't seem to me to be all that big of a deal.
Duke Nukem will be around Forever!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the N900 basically run Linux? I believe that Duke 3D is old enough that it runs very well under something like dosemu , doesn't it? I mean, wasn't Duke 3D one of the last games to use a pure software renderer instead of hardware accelleration?
It's been available for the N810 for ages. I can't really imagine it needed much more than a recompile with some newer libraries.
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For all of you hoping for a better engine for Duke, check out EDuke32 and the High Resolution pack, it has full 3D models and new textures, OpenGL engine, multiplayer, etc. Google it.
...with even a half-decent controller for action games? Something that lets you aim and fire quickly? It's not a major priority for me, but it seems like it's a shame to have these phones that can run, say, the UT3 engine, but are inferior to a gameboy in actual play. Android in particular seems like a natural fit (it's well established that apple people can't handle more than one physical button, tee hee).
Jeez I see duke nukem on a /. headline and think "WHAT!" don't tease me anymore. Then I realize it is for some stupid phone and some game that I played many years ago, not going to do it again.
Piss of Duke, I am done with you.
Duke 3D is GPL after all...
lame phone + crap game = can't be good right ?
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What provide can the N900 be used with in USA?
I have Verizon currently and the stupid phone is _completely_ locked up. I cannot do @*#&$(@ with it. Its retarded. Its kind of like tying a notebook down with a chain to a desk.
I've been running it on my Openmoko a year back. It uses the accelerometer controls. :P
The biggest problem with old games on mobiles is definitely the controls. If you have seen Duke Nukem 3D on iPhone you would have to agree the controls make it nearly unplayable. I remember playing through couple of levels on my N810 and the keyboard makes it more playable but it can still be tiresome experience for your fingers. Connecting Wiimote to N900 gives good controls but the Wiimote is too big to carry around.
On positive side, porting games like these to n900 is pretty easy. So far I've seen Star Control 2, Quake 3, Jagged Alliance 2, Duke 3D and Shadow Warrior. All were ported by someone for free. If you connect Wiimote to N900 and N900 to your TV, it's almost as good as cheap console.
BTW, Quake 3 would probably have made a more impressive headline =)
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Got a N900 for Christmas. The phone is a beautiful piece of hardware and a joy to use.
But... it would reboot without provocation every few minutes and got bricked within two days. It turns out these are known problems, too. So it was with a heavy heart that I sent the phone back yesterday for a refund.
Nokia shouldn't have sold the phone with such known showstopper bugs. I can only guess that the market pressure from the iPhone made them override their quality process. I believe they will have the bugs fixed within weeks, but by then I'm afraid they will have seriously damaged their reputation.
Why does the topic not link to the original video (or the original article) instead ?
Wasn't recombu.com the source of the clueless "Decade of mobile" article that appeared on Slashdot a couple days ago ?
Originality isn't a requirement for the published news ? Good connections with Slashdot editors suffices ?
Well, meanwhile, you can relive Duke Nukem 3D in hi-res 3D glory with the Duke Nukem 3D: High Resolution Pack. All the sprites have been replaced with 3D models and the textures replaced with hi-res textures - you get to play it in a modern Windows environment with hardware OpenGL acceleration too.
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So that's multiple major Duke games plus several smaller ones with more than one due out in 2010?!
Hillarious! It's like when you ask your friend starting a business on their own how that are doing and they'll say something like "Oh yeah doing great! Got a few things on the burner, with a couple of them looking really good, and few other interesting things going on." which really means "I have no work, but don't want to admit it" :)
Anyway, good luck to them!
It is also not the first edition of DN3 for Maemo it was already available for Nokia n810(http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/duke3d/)
In other Duke news, reader Jupix points out that 3D Realms' CEO Scott Miller recently said, "There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year. We are definitely looking to bring Duke into casual gaming spaces, plus there are other major Duke games in production."
I wonder if Duke Nukem Forever is one of them. CONSPIRACY?
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Hilarious!
The one 5 versions before that, DNA, was actually pretty good.
Yes, but it didn't go on general release due to the twists in the plotline....
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Duke, Duke, Duke, Piss of Duke
Duke, Duke, Piss of Duke
Duke, Duke, Piss of Duke, Duke, Duke...
Now I have that damned song running through my head, thanks a lot, Earl!
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We need a standardized cross platform FPS!
So people can duel instead of say, paper-rock-scissors.
And some quick googling revealed that a previous Symbian port is readily available on the 'nets and has been for several years now (http://duke-nukem-3d.en.softonic.com/symbian), along with Palm and Blackberry counterparts.
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