Grand Theft Auto 3 is a 2001 open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Games, and it had a profound impact on both gaming and popular culture.

Its success cemented video games as a dominant form of entertainment and storytelling, and paved the way for future blockbuster franchises.

The game was also a technological milestone that redefined what was possible in open-world

game design. It was one of the first fully 3D open-world games to offer seamless exploration,

blending mission-based gameplay with a living, breathing city. The game was originally released

on PlayStation 2 and PC, but never had an official Sega Dreamcast version.

However, the Homebrew community embarked on the goal of porting the game to the Dreamcast,

and recently released the port to much acclaim.

Falco Gyrgyz and Steph Cornelios Mitsis Poitidis are developers on the GTA3 Dreamcast port.

They join the podcast to talk about the Dreamcast

hardware and the heroic task of porting GTA3 to the console. Kevin Ball, or K. Ball, is the

vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders.

He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego

JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space. Check out the

show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn or visit his website, kball welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks for having us.

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, super excited to dig into this. Let's maybe start with each of you

giving a little bit about your backgrounds and how you got into the sort of GTA3 and Dreamcast world.

So I'm traditionally a Dreamcast simulator developer. That means I have implemented a Dreamcast in

software. That started as a childhood project

actually. It's being ongoing for 20 years, this involvement with on and off periods. And after I kind of

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