Quake 3

[Broadus]

Now, I'm not a very smart person, I'd say... But, there's a Quake 3 source, right?
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7547
Yep, there it is.
So, how come nobody has tried porting that to the PSP, yet?
Now, I'm probably wrong. Maybe somebody has tried it and it was just impossible or something. I don't know.

What's the story on that?

[Cooe14]

They couldn't even successfully port Quake II, so Quake III is not going to happen.

[Shadowblind]

They're workin on Quake 2. In fact, add your own Quake 2 .pak and it works at 5fps with no sound for the game TEE made. I do doubt though that Quake three can be ported...

[ExcruciationX]

It's probably ment for a bigger processor.
I'm sure that one of the PSP Coders could answer that...

[brainpan]

I'm sure that the right coder with the right bit of knowledge could port Quake 3. Afterall, the Dreamcast had a (commercial)port. I think the DC port was easier however because the GPU was similiar to then current PC graphics hardware not to mention it ran a special version of Windows CE. Honestly, I am suprised a big developer has not already ported Q3 to the PSP. The PSP would be PERFECT for the PSP considering its hardware. Even though I played the hell outta some Quake3 I would quickly plunk the $$$ down for a PSP version if it had wifi and online mutliplayer.

[Accordion]

are you seriously comparing the dreamcast processor to the psp…craaazy

[Darksaviour69]

very few dreamcast games used wince, and Quake 3 did not. It could be ported by a developer like the dreamcast version, but not by one coder in his spare time.

remember when a developer ports a game to an other console they can change it, dumb it down etc to suit them, but a homebrew coder can't

[Broadus]

Yeah, I figured Quake 3 just couldn't be ported. At least, like you guys said, not by lone coders. Though I couldn't try out Quake 2 (I've got a 2.6), I read that it simply wasn't working out too well, so I'd already assumed that, if Quake 2 could barely be ported, Quake 3 had no hope.
Though it would be nice to play Quake 3 (and maybe even games using the Quake 3 engine like Return to Castle Wolfenstein) on the PSP. Well, it'd be nice to play a lot of things on the PSP.

[MasterChafed]

It's possible. Nothing is impossible. If we had insider secrets and a whole team, it could be accomplished. Only problem, it would be hard to assemble the time, assets, and people to do it. But to say its impossible is just not true.

[ACID]

Everything is posible. We have GBA at almost full speed dont we.