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Samuel Villarreal

5 years

Okay so yeah, there's an interview in relations to this certain game that I geeked about for years. Take a guess

Exclusive: Doom 64 Devs Reveal the Port Will Include a Brand New Chapter

When Bethesda's Pete Hines popped up on a Nintendo Direct last year to announce a re-release of Midway's Doom 64, an often overlooked entry in the Doom franc...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Source code for the Quake 2 rerelease is now up on GitHub, including the reverse engineered code from Quake 2 64

GitHub - id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll

Contribute to id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Happy to finally announce that other thing I've been working on. Turok 3 Remastered is coming soon.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

@XboxP3 Just letting you know, having a long running history and extensive knowledge with Heretic and Hexen, just want to point out that me and my team are very well suited for the job. Just saying.

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@kinsie

1 year

flipping three switches scattered across seven different podcasts #Xbox

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

26 days

More work in progress shots. Artists are doing wonders.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

*slurp*

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| | Play DOOM 64 | |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_

Media with 𝐃𝐎𝐎𝐌 Music

@FittingDoomIMGs

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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| | Play DOOM | |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | |_ |_

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

10 months

With Turok 3 Remastered coming out in 3 days, I figured I share some technical tidbits of how the game works. For animated characters, every 'joint' of the model can be collided with projectiles. To do this, a collision box is computed. In the remaster, these boxes are

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Surprise! Second thing I am working on got announced

Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaster - Reveal Trailer

🚨 WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM 🚨https://store.steampowered.com/app/2292260/Star_Wars_Dark_Forces_RemasterWe’re excited to announce Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaste...

www.youtube.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

W I D E

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Rated 'E' for everyone

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

Here, have a spikey tomato

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Finally someone noticed

starshipwaters

@starshipwaters

3 years

wow, the quake revitalized update added the cut section at the beginning of 'the dismal oubliette' back onto the level officially #quake

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Back in 2011 I was reverse engineering Turok out of sheer curiosity and for fun. I never expected that I'd get to this point.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 months

"LET NIGHTDIVE REMAKE ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR 2" I totally agree.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Levels will be remastered in their own way, combining elements from both Saturn and PSX versions. Saturn content will all have fixed UV mapping and geometry holes as seen in the original. Lighting is also redone with baked-in ambient occlusion. #RD2021 #realmsdeep2021

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

February 10. Now stop asking me about it

PowerSlave Exhumed for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy PowerSlave Exhumed and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

The real reason to get hyped on March 20th

DOOM 64 on Steam

Play the enhanced version of the original game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Years have passed since you stopped Hell’s invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 years

Say hello to BloodEX And yes, for real this time.

Nightdive Studios

@NightdiveStudio

6 years

1997 horror shooter Blood is coming back

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Quake EX.. I mean Quake remastered has just pushed its first major update

Steam :: Quake :: Quake - Update 1

This is the first major update since the release of the enhanced version.

steamcommunity.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

7 months

If I am forced to remaster this, there better be a huge raise to my salary.

Peter

@pagb666

7 months

What I'm doing with my life...?

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Here's a picture of Brian McNeely showing the cast used for the Cobra Staff

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

11 months

Nothing's better than failing PS4 certification one week before a game is shipped because it crashes when loading a specific level, only on a PS4 Pro, only on 4k resolution, and only when a debugger is not attached. Yup, I sure do enjoy that.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 months

A special announcement is coming soon ™. Stay tuned. 👨‍🍳 #nightdivestudios

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Expect more news coming soon, but for now, enjoy these teaser shots

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Source code to SNES Doom has finally been made public

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

It's surreal seeing episode 4 on the SNES! Curtosy of the talented @RandalLinden

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 years

System Shock source code has been released on Github!

GitHub - NightDive-Studio/shockmac: System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release)

System Shock (PowerMac version / Official GPL Release) - NightDive-Studio/shockmac

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

SOUL / SOULESS

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

11 months

Shit happens but I appreciate everyone waiting a bit longer.

Nightdive Studios

@NightdiveStudio

11 months

Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion now has an updated release date of Nov. 30 for Xbox One, Series X|S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC! 💫 Nightdive Studios thanks everyone for their patience and understanding as we work to deliver the best Turok 3 experience possible 🙏

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

What the shadow actually looks like in the Saturn version of Powerslave

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

10 months

Turok 3 Remastered launches today. Have fun

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Once again, having nothing to do on Memorial Day, decided to revisit a special project of mine..

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

7 months

Already made a fix for the stuttering issues on the Switch and music timing should now more or less be the same as TFE's output. Will try to get this patched into the Steam build asap. No word on how long console patches will take.

John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social

@dark1x

7 months

We have the first look at Dark Forces Remastered! It’s extremely good overall with just a couple nitpicks. Truly an important piece of gaming history.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Surprise!

Get the full tech rundown on the enhanced Quake II

The new release of Quake II packs tons of enhancements under the hood. Many are modern additions while others are improvements made by reiterating techniques from its original 1997 release.

bethesda.net

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Just FYI, there's another surprise.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

ShadowmanEX coming April 15th

Shadow Man: Remastered for PC launches April 15

Shadow Man: Remastered will launch for PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store on April 15, developer Nightdive Studios announced. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch versions will follow a…

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

Hmm...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

4 more days until release #NightDiveStudios #ValiantEntertainment #Shadowman #ShadowmanRemastered #Steam #GOG

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

There are more announcements happening later this year. It's been a busy year.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

7 months

Still working on improving DarkForces Remaster. The two big ones are better mod support and improving the MIDI music player, particularly the timings of the notes. Here's a demonstration showcasing the music in the current release, versus the new one

DF Remaster: Upcoming Music Playback Improvements

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Apparently, I fucked up with reverse engineering the Baron of Hell's melee damage formula for the Doom 64 remaster In other words, it was suppose to deal way more damage, with the highest being 88 damage. There's always the patch right? Oh.. nevermind.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

10 months

Original composer for Turok 3 discusses some tidbits about this thought process on remastering the soundtrack. Worth checking out

Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion REMASTERED

Check out a remixed track from the upcoming Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion REMASTERED, from Nightdive Studios for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Play...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 months

Work in progress of the new lighting system for The Thing: Remastered showcasing the new normal mapping and specular+gloss highlights. Things are now more fleshier than ever. #NightDiveStudios

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 month

My guess to the input lag on the latest release of Doom 1 & 2 is due to the Vulkan swap chain being tripled buffered. Changing it to be double buffered instead should hopefully greatly reduce this lag whenever the next patch rolls around.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

10 months

Sneak peak of Turok 3 Remaster's editing tools

Turok 3 Remastered - Modding Tools

Blender tools for Modeling and an in-game level editor for creating levels.Blender Addon: https://behemothprogrammer.github.io/Turok3Blender/index.html

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

NOW WITH 50% MORE BROWN

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

Blood Ex... I mean Blood: Fresh Supply is now out! And now I am going to run off and hide.

Blood: Fresh Supply

Battle an army of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds, and an insatiable

www.gog.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Common DOOM enjoyer

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Fun fact about Quake 2021's renderer - iterating the BSP in Arcane Dimensions and Machinegame's new episode was a huge CPU bottleneck on the Switch. Instead, the entire level is rendered with all unique textured surfaces batched as individual draw calls.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Hope to see you there!

PowerSlave Exhumed - Steam Launch Stream - Steam News

Get a look at PowerSlave Exhumed before launch!

store.steampowered.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

For those who are getting performance issues on the hub level in the new episode of Quake, can someone try setting r_gpuCulling to 0 in the console? I am curious to see if that is the culprit or not.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

@RiseoftheTriad Don't worry, I am

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

11 months

Hardest part of remastering an old game is making it user friendly for modding. Especially when there was no actual modding scene for the game back in the day.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

2 more days until release #NightDiveStudios #ValiantEntertainment #Shadowman #ShadowmanRemastered #Steam #GOG

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

I am taking every feedback, comment, and harassment seriously and will address every problem for Blood: Fresh Supply and I appreciate every single one of them. Except for those who say its inferior to BloodCM. They can just fuck right off

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

Showcasing new in-game PBR materials for The Thing Remastered courtesy of our talented art team #screenshotsaturday #nightdivestudios #thethingremastered

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

Getting drunk with Hissy after a long week at Quakecon!

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

7 years

Say hello to Forsaken EX

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

This looks adorable

Turok: Escape from Lost Valley on Steam

Turok: Escape from Lost Valley is a third-person action/adventure game where the Player is Turok, trying to find a way back home. The player explores this strange place with Andar, and it will take...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

Here comes the reviews

Doom 64 is the best Doom game you (probably) haven’t played

Doom 64 is a sometimes ignored, often misunderstood part of Doom’s history, and players will finally get a chance to play it on the current system of their choice on its March 20 release date for...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Patch for Powerslave Exhumed is finally out I'll be writing up some docs soon on how to use the level editor.

PowerSlave Exhumed - Update #1 is available now! - Steam News

Patch 1.0.1626 fixes bugs reported to us by the community

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 months

Our mission is to bring back forgotten games, good or bad.

The remastered version of PO'ed costing $20 is proof we have strayed too far from the light of God

Why is there a remaster of the barely remembered 3DO FPS game PO'ed? I'll admit that it had an attention grabbingly insane premise of a chef fighting

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

Might as well while the meme carcass is still fresh

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

WTF

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 months

Don't get mad, get PO'ed

Nightdive Studios

@NightdiveStudio

6 months

We know you’ve been hungry for the return of another 90s classic, so we cooked up something extra special that should help satisfy your appetite... 🍳 PO'ed: Definitive Edition 🍳 It's just like you remember it, but ✨ ENHANCED✨

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Every time I am reminded about this project

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 years

Kinda surreal seeing my levels featured at the end

Nightdive Studios

@NightdiveStudio

2 years

First Person Shooters? Chainsaws? Satanic Panic? Let's talk Doom64!

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

11 months

As stated by Nightdive, Turok 3 has been pushed back to November 30th, however to make matters even more confusing, Nintendo Europe and Australia still has November 14th set as the release date, which was NOT intentional. So that means European and Australian Switch users will be

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

While waiting for Quakecon to start, I took a quick trip to visit friends at ID. Hope to see you at Quakecon!

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

I am finally happy to announce that Rise of the Triad Ludicrous Edition is finally out. Huge thanks to @Apogee_Ent and @NewBlood for giving us this opportunity of a lifetime.

Rise of the Triad

@RiseoftheTriad

1 year

It's time to GET LUDICROUS! Rise of the Triad: LUDICROUS EDITION - the DEFINITIVE remaster of the original CULT CLASSIC '90s FPS is🔺OUT NOW🔺 EAT LEAD!

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 years

Could be better but I am mostly happy with the results..

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Having worked on Aliens: Colonial Marines has been both a curse and a blessing. It may have ended my level design career and forcing me to switch roles to stay afloat, but if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have ended up at Nightdive Studios doing stuff that I enjoy.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

I am extremely disturbed by the lack of decent Rise of the Triad source ports. And every existing source port out there renders ceilings and floors incorrectly. Its even worse when you see it in motion.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

I am a sucker for FPS games with this aesthetic. Kinda reminds me of Unreal 1

Zortch on Steam

Meet Zortch Maxinum: short order cook, amateur engineer and professional slacker; Bored and tired of her day job she decides to go on a holiday but alas she picks a cheap option: turns out it's a...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 months

When remastering, its always a huge treat gaining access to the original source code of the game, because it provides a lot of neat insights on what the developers had to overcome and what references/research they used in their code. PO'ed has about 7 mentions in the source code

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Powerslave EX is returning

Powerslave EX announce trailer v3

Follow us on:Web: https://www.gog.com/Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gogcomTwitter: https://twitter.com/gogcomFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/gogcom

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Fun fact (Part 1) - lighting in Shadowman Remastered uses forward-clustering as documented in . Colors represents the number of overlapping lights, ranging from blue (no lights) to red (lots of lights).

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

5 years

Dunno what's the difference between unofficial and official versions? Refer to this

Differences between Doom 64 EX 2.5 versus the official remaster

Apparently I’ve been seeing this question pop up pretty damn frequently so I will be posting a list of the more significant differences to be found in the official remaster compared to EX 2.5…

doom64ex.wordpress.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

If you don't know who the Dopefish is, you're not a true boomer.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

6 years

Powerslave EX revival not far...

Nightdive Studios has trademarked Powerslave/Exhumed, hinting at a possible remaster

Back in May 2015, we informed you about a project that aimed to re-create the console versions of Powerslave using a custom engine built from the ground up, Powerslave EX. Created by Kaiser, this new...

www.dsogaming.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

@PoweredbyidTech There's more to come soon

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

9 months

Happy new year everyone. Can't wait to reveal all of the unannounced projects in 2024, especially this one project I am developing that has a special place in my heart. Definitely can't wait to reveal that one. You guys will love it.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 months

I am thinking about starting a Youtube channel on how various things work in the games that I've worked on, but I lack the knowledge (and patience) on video editing software. I also thought about just using Wordpress or something instead.

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@SVKaiser

5 years

At least they acknowledged it as the true sequel

'DOOM 64' by Midway Games: Game Review

Make no mistake – though some at the time balked at DOOM 64's tonal departures, this under-appreciated cult classic is the true sequel to the original DOOM.

happymag.tv

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Decided to do something different for screenshot Saturday and post a historical relic instead. This is DEX, the level editor that was used for constructing the levels for Doom 64 at Midway. This was also mentioned in the Doom Depot Interview as well. #screenshotsaturday

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

:-)

PCGamesN

@PCGamesN

3 years

A remaster of '90s FPS classic PowerSlave has been teased by the specialists at @NightdiveStudio .

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@SVKaiser

3 years

#ScreenshotSaturday ? Sure why not I guess #NightdiveStudios

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 months

Rectabus and Pain Elemental looking gorgeous 😍

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Lucius is back and with a whole new Dark Forces engine Looks like kino is back on the menu boys

The Force Engine (Jedi Engine Port/Replacement)

Introduction Several years ago there was a project called the “XL Engine” which evolved from DarkXL with lofty ambitions. I personally hit some difficult times and never properly canceled the...

www.doomworld.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Fun fact, in the original Shadowman PC game, if you create a folder called 'Ziggy' and then inside, put a blank file named 'stardust' (no extension) will enable debug mode where you can spawn enemies, enable invincibility, warp to different positions, and possibly more.

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@SVKaiser

2 years

Happy to finally announce that a remaster of Rise of the Triad is alive and well

Rise of the Triad: LUDICROUS EDITION - Reveal Trailer

http://GETLUDICROUS.comWISHLIST NOW!Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1421490/Rise_of_the_Triad_Ludicrous_EditionGOG: https://www.gog.com/game/rise_o...

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@SVKaiser

5 years

Imgur

Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and...

imgur.com

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 months

I've been grateful being able to work on a game that held a special place in my heart many years ago. It was very fascinating learning about how the game worked and looking at its data structures. I thank the original AnyChannel devs for giving me this opportunity! Oh, by the

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

4 years

Something, something, Turok

Wario64

@Wario64

4 years

Turok is coming to PS4, trophy list:

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

3 years

Huge thanks to @mikerubits

DOOM 64 - DOOM 64 | Minor Update - Steam News

Fixed loading user PWADs with custom assets not working or crashing the game via command line -file example.wad Fixed texture issues when running under DirectX 11 mode due to outdated shaders Added...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

1 year

Currently some users are experiencing micro stutters from the recent Quake 2 remaster patch. I am already aware of it and already addressed it. No word on when this fix will go live.

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

2 years

New video by decino showcases the Doom64 monster behavior differences Though the blue player bot palette wasn't part of the original game, it was actually added by me for the original Doom64 EX back when its cooperative mode was somewhat functional.

How Different Are Doom 64's Demons?

Other than their looks, obviously.Doom 64 Reverse Engineering on GitHub:https://github.com/Erick194/DOOM64-REPatreon:https://www.patreon.com/decinoYouTube me...

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Samuel Villarreal

@SVKaiser

11 months

@ModernVintageG its already fixed. The problem is the damn turnaround time

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