[Fox]

The many stages of Duke Nukem 64 development:

First version - It appears to be just an engine test. It is close to the PC version, and there is some light effects similar to the Saturn version.



Second version - The HUD already resemble Duke Nukem 64.



Third version - The weapons have been completely redrawn.



Fourth version - The ammo and inventory displays in the HUD now use a new font.



Fifth version - The HUD left bar has been slightly modified. The difference from the final release the health display is aligned to the left.

[Jimmy]

I like the original Health part of the HUD with the cross more than the final version.

[Fox]

I also enjoy it, but I guess they choose to go with clarity. There isn't that much of contrast in a cyan font and a silver background, especially in a blurry TV.

[Fox]

In Duke Nukem 64, there is a left-over Tank spawn in Area 51, though the enemy is not actually present in the ROM.



I wonder how I should deal with that in the mod...? I guess I should just ignore it.

Spoiler

[Gambini]

I´m a picky perfectionist when it comes to recreating things. I would put the spawn star, just like in the game you´re recreating. It doesn´t make sense, but it didn´t make sense back then either.

[Jimmy]

I would add it back in but only for higher difficulties. I think this is one time where being perfect with the recreation is silly.

[Player Lin]

Captain Awesome, on 22 February 2013 - 01:37 PM, said:

I think this is one time where being perfect with the recreation is silly.

Hmm, for some reasons, I agree this. If you want perfection of Duke 64 feel, play on emulator may be better than this ported TC/mod.

Or, made an eduke64(?) port or something...like the Doom64EX port for DooM64.

[Jimmy]

Well in this case it's more a bug or a glitch. I don't think bugs and glitches should be perfectly recreated if they can be fixed.

[NNC]

I don't get it. That tank was actually spawned in the original game when you enter the blue key room. It was spawned along with 3 liztroops. Isn't it tagged correctly in the D64 or what?

[Fox]

The 64 level has it exactly the same as the PC, however the Tank (sprites and bits of code) has been erased from the game.

[Player Lin]

Fox, on 25 February 2013 - 03:51 AM, said:

The 64 level has it exactly the same as the PC, however the Tank (sprites and bits of code) has been erased from the game.

If they never appeared/existed from the original N64 game, so it's not a bug. But bring it to the PC port/mod isn't bad at all.

[Jimmy]

I'd keep it. Seems more like a limitation of the engine/cart space, or maybe the sprites weren't finished yet.

[NNC]

Fox, on 25 February 2013 - 03:51 AM, said:

The 64 level has it exactly the same as the PC, however the Tank (sprites and bits of code) has been erased from the game.

Thanks for the info. Somehow I completely forgot the D64 version, because it was so hard to play with stupid controls.

[Fox]

Oddly the box of Duke Nukem 3D for the PSX and Nintendo 64 announce it as having 34 and 32 levels respectively. Actually they have 35 levels (plus 1 multiplayer) and 30 (plus 4 multiplayer) respectively. At least the PC version did it right by stating it as having 28-39 levels.

[Jimmy]

They probably didn't count secret levels.

[Fox]

That would make up for 29 levels (plus 1 multiplayer) for Total Meltdown and 26 (plus 3 multiplayer) for Duke Nukem 64.

[Gambini]

Do anybody knows if there´s a clean/longer version of first epiclike tune on this teaser?

[OpenMaw]

For certain there is not. It was composed specifically for that teaser.

[Fox]

Some early screens from Duke Nukem Total Meltdown. The HUD is incomplete, the Liztroop is blue, and Quirk of Fate is being played in single-player.

Spoiler

[Lunick]

3rd screenshot has tripmines in inventory....
Also in the 3rd screenshot the ammo amounts seem bizarre or is just blurry.
It's also worth noting that Quirk of Fate does have enemies in it for multiplayer too I think.
Last screenshot seems gorier?

[Fox]

Lunick, on 27 March 2013 - 08:17 PM, said:

3rd screenshot has tripmines in inventory....

It has always been like that in the PSX.

[Lunick]

Fox, on 27 March 2013 - 09:19 PM, said:

It has always been like that in the PSX.

I guess I never picked any up or used them :|

[Jimmy]

If I remember correctly, Total Meltdown's death animations have always been gorier than the PC's.

[Lunick]

JoJo the Idiot Circus Boy, on 27 March 2013 - 10:32 PM, said:

If I remember correctly, Total Meltdown's death animations have always been gorier than the PC's.

I never really noticed but you're right

[Mike Norvak]

Is just me, or in the trailer from JP3D we can heard in the background one of the sounds of the Overlord?

Did they use The T-rex to make that sound back in 1996? Or they used the overlord on this trailer [kind of kidding] ?

http://youtu.be/2jH9iAHSKds?t=1m23s

[Jimmy]

All of Duke's sounds were harvested from sound libraries. You'll hear the Battle Lord roar in a lot of movies.

[Gambini]

Yeah like The Duel, a movie from about 1970, when the truck is falling of the cliff you can hear a battlelord roaming. Really cool!

[Kathy]

Somehow I couldn't find a spoiler warning.

[Fox]

Norvak, on 28 March 2013 - 07:27 AM, said:

Is just me, or in the trailer from JP3D we can heard in the background one of the sounds of the Overlord?

Did they use The T-rex to make that sound back in 1996? Or they used the overlord on this trailer [kind of kidding] ?

http://youtu.be/2jH9iAHSKds?t=1m23s

By the way, that's one of the Cycloid Emperor sound, not Overlord.

[OpenMaw]

In terms of the sound library the originate from, they're all the same set.

The set being of course, Jurassic Park's T-rex. That "ORRUGHHH" grunt noise is actually in the film. (Not in that shot from the trailer, obviously.)