Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown - Can we make it? Anybody can!

[The HJ]

So, I was so pissed off, that Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown couldn´t convert to yer PC, so I decided to post this topic for ALL YOUR TOTAL MELTDOWN FANS AND OTHER PEOPLE! I´m just now trying to recreate those levels. I´ll post log along the topic that shows what is done so far, and what isn´t. Log so far and I hope anybody, just ANYBODY can help the whole world of Duke fans out there and here to get this fun version of Duke Nukem

LOG SO FAR:
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OVERALL: - some levels coming
- in need of work

LEVELS: TheHJman, creating them.
CODINGS: -nobody yet-
ENEMIES: -nobody yet-
SPRITES: -nobody yet-
TEXTURES: -nobody yet-
MENUS: -nobody yet-
ANIMATIONS: -nobody yet-
OTHER: -nobody yet-

Doesn´t look that good so far, uh? Well, if there could be some professional or unprofessional guys going to help, everybody would be very happy, I think!

[XTHX2]

Well I could help. Check my TC to get ideas about what I'm capable of and decide whether if I can join or not

[The HJ]

Texture ripping? Can you possibly do it? Just got it in my mind, when watching your level - those textures in your TC were ripped from Star Wars game, right, uh?

[XTHX2]

LOL not at all. I got them from Doom 2 and some various other sources... I can rip textures just I need to know where to rip =)

[The HJ]

Great, but the whole problem is, HOW to rip them from playstation disc!

[XTHX2]

Uh, that's something off my limits I don't think you can either... As it belongs to some other port.

[Spiker]

The HJ how many projects have you started that were already abandoned at the moment of starting them? Bump!

[XTHX2]

lol Serious? o.O

[Spiker]

I'm afraid so. Unless I'm wrong which recently happens quite often but not this time I think.

[Daedolon]

What I think is that someone should write a converter which would get the map data from the map files on the playstation disc. I looked around them in HEX and they had the BUILD map data inside, but the headers and other stuff have been changed (most likely due to the fact that the files contain the art themselves).

This might sound dumb... but considering that when I asked 3DRealms to do a remake of the Duke Nukem Zero Hour game and using the textures from the original game... they SAID NO!!!

How long do you think you have till 3DRealms tell you that you can't remake Duke Nukem Meltdown???

[lycanox]

Try to pinpoint those things that make the levels so great and recreate them inside your own levels. Otherwise this would be as illegal as selling angel wings in hell.

[Daedolon]

Originally Posted by Piano Man

How long do you think you have till 3DRealms tell you that you can't remake Duke Nukem Meltdown???

That's why the best course of action would be creating a converter, so everyone who really owns the Total Meltdown disc can convert the maps to a format that you can play on your PC.

[The Commander]

Originally Posted by Daedolon

That's why the best course of action would be creating a converter, so everyone who really owns the Total Meltdown disc can convert the maps to a format that you can play on your PC.

I agree, but it seems no one has had any luck with them files on the disk or something.

[The HJ]

Yeah, the converter may be absolutely nice!

Oh, and why my projects get abandoned? That´s because my f.....king
PC is shit from the ancient time - not because I don´t want to abandon them, just because of my crappy PC!

LOG SO FAR
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OVERALL: I´m creating levels... all the time. Some screens!

LEVELS: I´m creating them.

Other ones: none so far.

[Altered Reality]

Originally Posted by The HJ

Great, but the whole problem is, HOW to rip them from playstation disc!

If there's no way to extract them, I think the only way to do it is run the PS1 game with an emulator, locate the texture you need to rip, position yourself in front of it so that you have a nice frontal view of the texture, press PrintScreen, paste the screenshot into your favorite raster graphics editor and save the part of the screenshot you need.

[XTHX2]

It's the oldest method of doing that I think, and the most boring I'm sure... Well if he has the patience to do so, claps! I don't have the PS1 emulator nor the game so, don't even look at me :P

[The Commander]

If you dont have the game why would you have said that you could help in your first post?

[XTHX2]

Well actually I could help for anything other than the texture and ripping stuff from the game itself such as mapping or con coding... At first, I thought there were some other source where I could get the textures but since he only knew about the method which we are talking about right now, I said no...

[Jinroh]

Well, just rip out the old hex editor and goto town on the ISO.

I'm not sure of any utilities to help though. Cool idea though.

[Nacho]

Before you get to far in this I'm going to have to step in and say, don't do it, it is illegal without permission and there is just WAY to much tape for them to simply say yes.

[Hudson]

It has already been done methinks anyway.

[TerminX]

Originally Posted by Nacho

Before you get to far in this I'm going to have to step in and say, don't do it, it is illegal without permission and there is just WAY to much tape for them to simply say yes.

Indeed. This thread should probably go away now as well.