Ghost_MH Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Sometime with a flash cart and a GBA compatible please try this out and confirm it is indeed witchcraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 It's pretty good witchcraft. I do wonder how much the game is helped by being based on more modern code that replicates the original game instead of being based off the original source which is quite archaic (it's fun when you have old friends who use to work somewhere). Yet with that said the dev did some really creative optimization to get every little bit out of the GBA that deserves heaps of praise for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 12 hours ago, chakoo said: It's pretty good witchcraft. I do wonder how much the game is helped by being based on more modern code that replicates the original game instead of being based off the original source which is quite archaic (it's fun when you have old friends who use to work somewhere). Yet with that said the dev did some really creative optimization to get every little bit out of the GBA that deserves heaps of praise for. When I first saw it, I swore it must have been another one of those "look what I squeezed a Pi Zero into". Even the 3DO port of OpenLara is impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 I just saw this and was about to post about it! Yeah this is some programming wizardry. Amazing. And the developer thinks he can get the entire game running on a GBA cart? FMV and everything? Like...HOW. This is crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 14 minutes ago, GameDadGrant said: I just saw this and was about to post about it! Yeah this is some programming wizardry. Amazing. And the developer thinks he can get the entire game running on a GBA cart? FMV and everything? Like...HOW. This is crazy. And how can you play it with just 4 buttons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 GBA carts can be pretty large and shoving FMV on one isn't a complicated subject matter (note I worked for the company that created the GBA Video Carts that use to flood store shelves). Not to mention in this day & age we can kind of cheap and make larger carts than were offered during the GBA's life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 19 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: And how can you play it with just 4 buttons? No idea, but I figure they must consolidate functions to make it work. I mean, DOOM and DOOM II are surprisingly easy to control. If this dev can figure out how get the game to *run* on the hardware, I would assume there is enough creativity to get the control scheme working, too. 8 hours ago, chakoo said: GBA carts can be pretty large and shoving FMV on one isn't a complicated subject matter (note I worked for the company that created the GBA Video Carts that use to flood store shelves). Not to mention in this day & age we can kind of cheap and make larger carts than were offered during the GBA's life. True. I think in the video MVG said the size of the cart would be 32KB. Not sure if that’s typical for a GBA cart or not? But obviously yeah parts are a lot cheaper nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 hour ago, GameDadGrant said: No idea, but I figure they must consolidate functions to make it work. I mean, DOOM and DOOM II are surprisingly easy to control. If this dev can figure out how get the game to *run* on the hardware, I would assume there is enough creativity to get the control scheme working, too. Doom 1 and 2 have a lot simpler controls and you can run them on a graphing calculator it's different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodimus Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Well 32bit was on the box for the gba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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