​

Doom has been one of the most ported games (and software) of all time, ranging from anything like console ports, to obscure and niche pieces of hardware, like refrigerators and even pregnancy tests.

Since its release back in 1993 , some of the console ports of Doom have seen an open source release, like that of the SNES port by Randal Linden.
In a similar vein, he whole source code of another port project has been released by the developer, Rebecca Ann Heineman, over at GitHub, this time for the 3DO release of the game released in 1996.

The 3DO port was one of the most infamous and obscure console ports of Doom. The port featured the same levels as that of the Jaguar port, a really small screen resolution view of the game, and ran at really low framerates. While many consider this to be one of the worst console ports of the original Doom, one of its most interesting factors is the remixed tracks of the original soundtrack exclusive to this port.

Rebecca Heineman shared the source through Twitter:

​

The ReadMe of the project shares an interesting insight on the game's development, with words from Heineman herself, who goes by "burgerbecky" on GitHub:

Yes, this is the infamous port of DOOM for the 3DO. Firstly, this was the product of ten intense weeks of work due to the fact that I was misled about the state of the port when I was offered the project. I was told that there was a version in existance with new levels, weapons and features and it only needed "polishing" and optimization to hit the market. After numerous requests for this version, I found out that there was no such thing and that Art Data Interactive was under the false impression that all anyone needed to do to port a game from one platform to another was just to compile the code and adding weapons was as simple as dropping in the art.

Uh... No...

My friends at 3DO were begging for DOOM to be on their platform and with christmas 1995 coming soon (I took this job in August of 1995, with a mid October golden master date), I literally lived in my office, only taking breaks to take a nap and got this port completed.

One of the most noticeable things within the repository are the inclusion of a set of photos which apparently were taken from FMV sequences that were planned for the port, which were added less than a month ago. Some of the images depict what seems to be a full-body costume of a demon.

Source

 

[sombrerosonic]

3DO port of doom sucked but that music is awesome

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I don't know if it applies to the 3DO, but back on the day almost every console version of Doom was a port of the Jaguar port.

 

[supergamer368]

Edit: apparently attaching links on mobile just does not work
I read a really long article the other week about the port's dev story, I'll link it here: https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/
This port's got one hell of a development story.

 

[SylverReZ]

The 3DO source code has been uploaded to GitHub a very long time ago. What's really interesting however is that the developer has uploaded long lost behind the scenes photos for the scrapped FMV cutscenes. Nice to see those preserved for future generations.

 

[FriendlyPolygon]

Now we need source of Saturn version of Quake

 

[Latiodile]

now we need someone to re-port the game using this source code and see what results we get :^)

 

[Jayro]

We need somebody to port a DOSx86 core to the Analogue Pocket so we can play Doom on the device natively. The GBA port sucks with it's resolution cut way down and stretched. Even the PC conversion mod ain't great.

 

[MariArch]

I just watched the Avgn episode on this. I know to avoid, but music is banger apparently

 

[Wavy]

Huh? It's been on GitHub since 2014.

 

[wolf-snake]

I forgot. Was that the God awful one? Or the Awful one?

 

[godreborn]

Huh? It's been on GitHub since 2014.

yeah, some random twitter response, probably from someone asking her about it, apparently went no where. :-/ you can convert a doom game with the wad, that might be the key, so it probably works on at least the ds. the doom64 thing I compiled for the ds works great, but being as old as it is, you have to modify some of the source code or it won't compile.

 

[Snintendog]

I just watched the Avgn episode on this. I know to avoid, but music is banger apparently

Time to Extract the Banger OST as an ALT WAD mod.

 

[SylverReZ]

Time to Extract the Banger OST as an ALT WAD mod.

You can do this relatively easy with "FFMPEG". To perform an automated batch conversion of the (.AIF) files to WAVE format, then add the following lines to a new batch script:

@echo off
md "wave_output"
FOR %%f in (*.aif) DO ffmpeg.exe -i "%%f" "wave_output\%%f.wav"
pause

Post automatically merged: Nov 3, 2022

I just watched the Avgn episode on this. I know to avoid, but music is banger apparently

"DOOM on the 3DO is not DOOM, it's a sad excuse for DOOM. DOOM on a TI-83 graphing calculator would play better than this." -AVGN

 

[stanleyopar2000]

wonder if the AVGN episode referencing these scenes potentially was the reason for this....?

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Hope one day them FVM cutscenes get found and uploaded online
Bet they're gonna be super cheesy, like, gorgonzola level of cheese

 

[SylverReZ]

wonder if the AVGN episode referencing these scenes potentially was the reason for this....?

He didn't mention the cut FMV scenes in his 3DO episode.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

He didn't mention the cut FMV scenes in his 3DO episode.

In his “Doom” one he did

 

[SylverReZ]

In his “Doom” one he did

Okay. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[LainaGabranth]

Rebecca is such a cool gal, she's told story after story about 3DO Doom's development and it's just incredible how solid the port came out despite having less than 12 full months to work on it.