The SEGA Dreamcast homebrew explosion continues yet again, this time with an amazing port of the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade game.
While fans work on ports of Halo: Combat Evolved, World of Warcraft, and even The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, SEGA’s ill-fated but beloved console is receiving more ports than ever. Earlier this year, RuneScape made its way to the machine, and now a beloved Star Wars game is fully playable as well.
Created by ToastedGreedo, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade has been fully ported to the Dreamcast in a brilliant new port. Available to grab for free right here, the new port is “a ground-up reimplementation of the arcade game using custom tools and static ROM analysis”.
The new Dreamcast port now only includes every single stage of the arcade game, including the Boba Fett and Darth Vader lightsaber duels, but also new content. The developer added a brand-new Original Mode with a Rebel campaign built specifically for Dreamcast.
Additionally, players can unlock a new bonus stage that is based on the ending of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. The developer added it “as if SEGA had added a bonus level to coincide with the film’s hype” back when the prequels were first launching. (As any gamer of this era knows, prequel-era games were everywhere!) Players can even use a lightgun controller to control Star Wars Trilogy Arcade on the Dreamcast.
For the unaware, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade was a dream game for many SEGA Dreamcast players back in the day. The 1998 rail shooter launched essentially alongside the console’s launch, but was built on the SEGA Model 3 arcade system. While the Model 3 is more powerful than the Dreamcast, they share some similarities, and a number of Model 3 games were ported down to the platform.
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade was a wishlist game for many, and now it’s finally playable on the console, not just in its original form but with Dreamcast-specific features as well. So, rip out your CD burner, pop that disc into your Dreamcast, and go to town!
