15 Mind Blowing GBA Demakes!
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Find out about 15 AMAZING GBA Homebrew Ports and Demakes that you can play on a Flash Cart like the EZ Flash Omega or Everdrive! Including Minecraft, Tomb Raider (Open Lara), Quake and more!
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Links to download roms:
Luminesweeper - pineight.com/lu/#download
Minecraft - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?show...
Cosmic Smash - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?show...
Tyrian - web.archive.org/web/200806250...
Another World - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?show...
Thunder Force 3 - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?show...
Quake - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?show...
Elte - Elite - The New Kind v1.7.1
Bust A Move -gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo...
Hellicopter game - Sputter Dash
Super star soldier - Super Star Shooter Advance
Mortal Kombat - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?show...
Trailblazer - pdroms.de/files/nintendo-game...
Sonic - info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_...
Tomb Raider(Open Lara) - xproger.info/projects/OpenLara...
Contents:
00:00 Intro
00:12 Open Lara (Tomb Raider)
01:21 GBA Craft (Minecraft)
01:57 Lumines (Liminesweeper)
03:02 Cosmic Smash
04:08 Tyrian
05:12 Quake GBA
05:57 Bust A Move (Puzzle Bobble)
07:01 Trailblazer
07:48 Helicopter Game
08:24 Another World
09:14 Thunder Force 3
10:00 Elite
11:01 Super Star Shooter Advance (Super Star Solider)
11:49 Mortal Kombat
12:31 Sonic The Hedgehog GBA (Stealth Version)
The first one we’re going to take a look at today is one you’ve probably already seen a lot online recently, this is Open Lara, an incredible port of the original Tomb Raider games!
Next is a really impressive tech demo made by 3DSage, Minecraft for the Game Boy Advance, known as GBA Craft. it’s a little awkward to control, and of course very limited compared to actual Minecraft, but for a 3D demo, this is fantastic!
Lumines is a fan remake that includes the original game as well as a minesweeper mode too!
Cosmic Smash, is a really competent port of the game for GBA, it’s missing a lot of the polish of the Dreamcast game, but the concept still works!
Tyrian is a game that’s been ported so many times over the years to pretty much every computer and console imaginable! What is here for the GBA is a great recreation of the PC original!
Quake GBA only bears a passing resemblance to the actual game, instead this is another interesting 3D tech demo, which lets you move around this small 3D environment.
Bust A Move is a port by Russ Prince is a faithful recreation of the graphics and gameplay, and is in my opinion, so much better than the official release!
Trailblazer for the GBA looks and plays really well, I imagine it’s pretty much the same as the older home computer versions from the 80’s, the controls are nice and responsive and the game has that addicting one more go factor!
The helicopter game, preserved here in GBA format! It plays really well on the GBA and is definitely a good bit of programming, even if it doesn’t really push the system much.
The Another World GBA port retains all the impressive video sequences and super smooth animation which made the game famous back in the early 90’s!
Thunder Force 3 is unfortunately a really early proof of concept with nothing more than a few enemies and the sprites imported.
This is such an amazing achievement to squash down the epic PC game Elite into a GBA rom, this port seems to include all the features of the original, including loads of menu’s that I have no idea what they do!
Super Star Shooter Advance was actually originally made all the way back in 1995 for the amazing Japan only PC, the Sharp X68000, which I’d love to get my hands on one day!
Mortal Kombat, like Thunder Force 3 before it, is another proof of concept demo of a 16 bit console game being ported natively to the GBA
Sonic The Hedgehog Genesis, which released in 2006 was full of bugs and glitches and terrible physics. So, the version you’re looking at here was a fan made creation that was programmed form scratch by Stealth, and much more closely resembles the physics and gameplay of the original!
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As someone who programs 3D on the GBA, that Open Lara is beyond amazing :)
Correct! I was thinking of you when I saw it. Is that engine something you may want to try to port your games into GBA?
Same dev is working on the 3DO port 😎
Your comment everywhere
Then work on 3d homebrew games and release them please.
The machine has so much potential.. i still have that resident evil 2 demo from Raylight Studios i think.
Games like Metal Gear Solid, Twisted Metal, Open world games, ect.. PLEASE..OH PRETTY PLEASE !!
How do you even DO 3D on GBA. Is it all sprites?
I love demakes.. the simple fact of going back to an older console and utilizing everything that it has to offer now that time has passed.. such a great way to see how far we've come❤
Thank you for sharing my GBA Minecraft!
Thanks for making it!! Great work! :)
Absolutely blown away at the technical proficiency on display with open Lara. Excited for this to maybe bring a new generation of devs to the GBA hardware
I remember TI calculators were the prime place for a homebrew demakes. I was part of those programmers back in the 90s. You guys may have played some of my games too if you're old enough. ASM for life!
Yeah, back when retro coding meant Z80 . Now it is ARM.
I absolutely love demakes! If i was any good at coding or had any reasonable connections with coders, I’d have so many ideas to explore XD It’s so heartwarming to see a new wave of coders giving new life to the Color and Advance with homebrews, ROM hacks, fan games, and demakes. Hopefully there’s a bright future for all of us!
I'm so much with you on this..
I wish the Raylight Studios games would see the day.
Just playing Payback on GBA blows my mind !
..too bad the camera angle is horrible.
@IsaacInfernape2000 but i never liked Payday.. 😉 playable zones are too small.
I'm GTA free roam style fan.
@@goatintuxedo2206 Payback is amazing, not just in terms of the graphics and open world, but the physics! Think the only other GBA game that surpasses it in terms of the physics engine is Robot Wars Extreme Destruction.
Also I agree the camera angle in Payback isn't great, its too zoomed in (likely for frame rate reasons) though it would be a lot more bearable if you didn't die in one hit.
@@scottthewaterwarrior the camera is the main problem in this game while using grenades.. you can't see where you throw them and when you advance a bit to see, it blows up in your face. Other than that, i really dig the engine and the exploration aspect is well exploited.
Hope you all enjoyed the video! Check out my previous GBA Demakes video here: czcams.com/video/1nAsIVOBaOg/video.html
And check out the games mentioned using these links:
Luminesweeper - pineight.com/lu/#download
Minecraft - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1527
Cosmic Smash - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1395
Tyrian - web.archive.org/web/20080625061600/www.freewebs.com/worldtreegames
Another World - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1279
Thunder Force 3 - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=599
Quake - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=653
Elte - Elite - The New Kind v1.7.1
Bust A Move -gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=376
Hellicopter game - Sputter Dash - pdroms.de/files/nintendo-gameboyadvance-gba/sputter-dash
Super star soldier - Super Star Shooter Advance - www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/05/super-star-shooter-advance-gba.html
Mortal Kombat - www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1548
Trailblazer - pdroms.de/files/nintendo-gameboyadvance-gba/trailblazer-advance
Sonic - info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_GBA
Tomb Raider - xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/files/gba/
Well presented, narrated, straight to the point and a great selection of software. Excellent video!!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy some of my other videos too :)
Subbed the moment you mentioned Thunderforce 3 is one of your favorite game of ll times !
Great video and content ! Keep it up !
Just found your channel and subscribed. Keep up with the GB, GBC, and GBA videos. Love the homebrew stuff also. Thanks.
Thanks for the sub! :D Loads more GB videos coming so hope you enjoy :D
Thank you for video ! I was recently looking for great GBA homebrew since I got my everdrive ! 👌
Your homebrew videos are really useful
8:23 Great video! Oh man that's heartbreaking that this Another World GBA port never got a full release. It's stunning, so impressive it runs on hardware.
Can of coke to ya Foxy!
Love this kind of stuff so fascinating and incredible how creative people can be! Thanks for the great video and keep up the good work. Just found your channel and podcast and have really been enjoying them.
Thanks glad you're enjoying the videos and podcast! Recording the next podcast episode tonight! :D
Nice, great video...you helped me find out about great roms
Awesome video, would love a physical release for Another World GBA to happen in the future (Flashback too?). Getting some of these on my Everdrive.
I'm sorry to be hyper observant, great video BTW awesome selection of games, but when you show yourself on cam, I can't help but notice that the door that should be behind you is actually covering your mic, it's a really interesting visual effect you added there, very trippy once you notice it.
I recorded this as I was moving house so everything is fake, I was in a spare room using a green screen to make it seem like I was on my regular space! 😅
I am blown away by the tomb raider port, amazing stuff
This is so interesting. People might think there is no reason to demake already old school games, but there is. Great video.
I'm glad that there are people interested in remaking games for older systems! even if it is just as a hobby!
Absolutely cool, thanks for sharing 🥰
These are really cool, it just comes to show what the GBA is actually capable of
Holy shit! Elite! I really hope someone somewhere has got this on a cartridge! Just got Another World on a cart and it’s super impressive! Great vid!
7:53 the Helicopter game was itself based on an even older win3x game called SF-Cave, I remember bc I made a version for msdos called UrthWurm
Ok I just found this channel and I really like it :)
Such an interesting video, my favs: open lara, another world & elite port. I would have loved to see something like elite with some real effort on the gba. Seems like there really is still some potential for unbeaten tracks in that system
Ever tried Elite Frontier on PC ?
You got me so excited when you started talking about Thunder Force 3 on the GBA........only to immediately break my heart. You have no idea how excited I got when you first started talking about it. But, then, you brought up the Hudson Soft car I am Star Soldier port and all was well. I need to download it ASAP. Can’t aIt to give it. Go on my GBA sp101. It will bring on a whole new lever of challenge on that tiny screen. Lol
I got myself so excited too! So sad about that one! :(
I loved ur last video about vf gba, love playing that 2012 demo wish it was finished or had better hit detection
The GBA already has an insanely impressive port of Quake thanks to Randy Linden!
Elite on GBA is neat, but the NES version is nothing short of a miracle.
Hello! Honestly Im feeling awful today, so Ill just leave a quick comment and like! Thanks for the new portion of GBA ports!
Thanks for leaving a comment even though you weren't feeling great! Hope you're feeling better now?
A classic example of getting wet socks. I should avoid bigger puddles.
Although I spent last two days in bed and I guess the cold is gone by now. Time to go back to work (sadly) :P
Another World still looks like it is from another world. It is so unique and technically brilliant. Like a time traveling flash-game, god I miss these.
Cool I already have most of these gba videos
Specially that sonic one had me had to watch it x2
wow, i liked it
i am subscribing
You should have put open lara last, I was so spoiled by this insane gem of a port I couldn't be bothered checking out the rest
I LOVE stuff like this!
It's maybe worth mentioning that someone ported Pump It Up to the GBA using the Stepmania engine, I think, so like... If there's any rhythm game fans around...
Ooh I didn’t know about that! I’ll look it up! Thanks!
Not sure if it's in your original remakes video (since it's an official port) but James Bond 007: Nightfire is insanely faithful to the console version. It has some differences to make up for what they couldn't do but those differences fit in perfectly.
When RetroBreak said Tyrion, my brain just expected to hear "Lannister" after it 🤣
you have a lot of favourite games of all time
i'm too happy, that you have covered the tyrian gba port as well.
tyrian on gameboy (both color and advance) is a very important invention for handheld gamers!
Find any other cool gba stuff?
Just finished streaming a bunch of interesting GBA games! Will be showcasing them in this weeks video! :D
@@RetroBreak yes!
The cosmic smash port fits since there are official Jet Set Radio and Space Channel 5 demakes for the gba
You got a gizmondo?? Love to see a video about that one 👍👍
Yeah! I've been thinking of doing a video on it for a while now, but I dont think it would get many views...
@@RetroBreakyes, i understand. But maybe sometime in future including it in a video of extremely rare consoles.
3:10 Cosmic Smash is one my favourites on the Dreamcast, with MSR!
To truly appreciate how impressive OpenLara is, you gotta try it on a machine with slightly imperfect emulation.
I do the vast majority of my GBA gaming on a Powkiddy V90. The hardware isn't the most powerful for some titles. 3D games and anything with video footage are likely to lag or crash. Even the Sonic 1 proof of concept you've shown here struggles on it.
OpenLara is a different story entirely. I was expecting horrendous framerate issues and audio stuttering galore. Instead, it's absolutely perfect. I guess it goes to show how far GBA homebrew has come if programmers can optimise the code that brilliantly. :)
I always wanted to see Smash Bros. get ported over to the GBA. It had enough inputs to make it work plus the 4-way link cables for full multiplayer.
Ah yes, all these games are a fine addition to my collection.
Very cool. Makes me really wish I could score a GBA Micro at a reasonable price.
It’s such a nice handheld! Hope you manage to find one someday!
I got a pink one in slightly scuffed condition for £25, if you look for long enough you'll probably find one for a good deal
Some great stuff here.
I am quite tempted to give GBA coding another go. I only looked at it really briefly back in the early 2000s.
But with so many new GB/GBC developers appearing, GBA may be a good way to go to stay unique.
Would love to see what you come up with for the GBA! There’s a few new games being worked on that I know of, but nowhere near the amount on the original GB! Start now before a “GBA Studio” gets made!
Always dreamed of Super Smash Bros on GBA. It was planned but never happened. After seeing that Tomb Raider it seems completely possible.
Hey Brotha I love work👊 #Retro #GBA lately I been Trying Homebrew and rom hacks I got quite a few games from watching your channel Thank You! question If I may? That Super Star Shooter is there any websites that has english translate option? Or info on the game Rom even a physical copy? I love Shooters...
I can't remember if you've covered it before but there's a fun little version of Lumines for the DMG developed by MicroByte that you can download for free. I play it quite often.
I've downloadied it, but dont think i've mentioned it on a video before.. Lumines should be on everything! :D
What amazes me is how powerful the GBA is for 3d graphics!!
That Tomb Raider looked incredible.
wow. whoever made that tomb raider GBA port could probably also make a Crysis DS port. absolute wizardry!
You've made me want to research DS homebrew ports now! There must be some out there! :D
the sonic port for android is also flawless,love it!
Tyrian 2000 was my all time fave MS DOS game back on the windows 95 computer, I still remember the good ol' days when I used to get the monthly PC magazine and it had a demo of Tyrian 2000 which contained a whopping 7 fully stages with an advert to buy the full game... it wasn't until the year 2010 when I even realized a GBA rom was made for it and I got a Super Card SD that had to decrypt the GBA rom file of Tyrian 2000 so it could run on it and I was mind blown but how much it had even having a full mission mode or something that let you quit each level and get more progress to other stages. After a few years later the battery of it died and It's as shame the modern Everdrive GBA can't run this game as I'd love to live my childhood again... that and if I could put it in a certain folder it would be with the GBC fanmade windows 95 display screen rom that really will take me back to the old days ^^
Elite is not a PC game originally.. it goes way further back than that - the Acorn BBC Model B I think!
Open Lara blows my mind. I can't believe that's even possible.
Someone needs to reprogram the camera angle for Payback.
The game looks amazing (probably the best 3d for GBA) but is not fun to play due to the fact that we don't see where we throw grenades or at what ee are firing.
BTW: There really is a demand and most of us are willing to pay 20-40$ for new GBA games. The market isn't dead, developers. Keep it up !
0:48 if that had come out back in the day, id bet we'd have gotten some kind of switch like device instead of the gamecube.
Was Another World finished? I seemed to get stuck shortly after the cage drop and getting the gun.
cant seem to find a link to the helicopter game :(
Man that Tomb Raider is a miracle
Being a huge fan of Tomb Raider and Resident Evil, I would’ve loved playing these on the GameBoy.
This is a cool video, but is it a demake if they ported from a 16bit console to a 32bit handheld?
looking at all these polygon games for the GBA, would you say its graphical capabilities were almost on par with the Saturn?
Theres an official release of Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance for the GBA that is crazy, can't believe they did it
The helicopter game has a version for the thumby too (the thumby is the world’s smallest video game console).
Wow! Elite!
Have you seen the Another World iPod classic port?
i have no idea what should be so impressive about lumines, its such a simple game
Do you have the links for super star solider advance and elite
How would I play homebrews on my actual gba
Is there a special loadable cartridge
Or a place to buy homebrews??
I LOVE demakes for weak 3D capable consoles, or even 2D translations of 3D games for weaker systems.
7:48 and 0:12 reminds me of Gamejams and other amazing indie games
that "thuderforce 3" demo is not actually the genesis version but thunder spirit for the snes (and the gba would have made the exact same game as the snes but without the slowdowns)
I am pretty curious to see how those developers port these games? Are they using official Nintendo devkit or homebrewibs?
A bit of both I think? Some of them have links to source code or developers websites if you want to learn mode
NGage Tomb Raider port chilling out and similar to the PS1 version. Still for GBA it is pretty cool. Otherwise impressive stuff some of these. Lumines on GBA is something but Minesweeper. That's like Pupo Pupo Tetris levels great value/combining the two.
The NGage port is super impressive for the time!
Hey does anyone mind telling me how to install the bust a move demake on the gba?
Some absolute gems in here, unfortunately I've been having some trouble getting a few to work on my everdrive (chopper and Tyrian specifically). Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips? In the meantime I will just keep playing luminesweeper which is awesome!
Tyrian is working but no sound (even on emulator) :( chopper is working great on everdrive 1.15 update. Also I renamed .bin to .gba
Cosmic Smash on GBA coulda been great
Another World is selling me on the idea of buying a flash cart
I wouldn't recommend that version of Elite. It's impressive, and the controls seem well thought out, but it has a couple problems. For one, some of the stars don't move. They appear to move when you maneuver your ship, but are otherwise stationary. While it could be argued that this is realistic as distant stars wouldn't appear to move, the stars in Elite are supposed to move. Looking for points that AREN'T moving, or moving contrary to the rest of the stars is how you spot distant objects like ships, asteroids and space stations. When you have a bunch of stars not moving, it makes it harder to spot stuff. Secondly, I had an enemy ship right in the center of the crosshairs and all my shots were missing. This wasn't a distant enemy either, it was close enough to see the colors of the ship. I had to aim outside the ship to get my shots to register. Which is a shame as it would be a good port if these problems were fixed.
There's another Elite port to the GBA by the same person, but I can't recommend that one either. It starts you in the middle of a fight rather than docked as every other version does, and it seems really flaky.
As for playing the "original" version, the very original for the BBC Micro was slow and would probably seem tedious by today's standards. As would pretty much all of the 8-bit versions. Don''t get me wrong, I loved playing Elite on my C64, but fast it was not. After destroying an enemy, I used to switch to a different view just so that it wouldn't have to render the explosion, slowing down the game.
Also not recommended, the Amiga/ST versions, or the DOS version. The Amiga/ST versions are fast and smooth, but they lack depth. Friendly ship encounters were removed, so every ship you come across is an enemy, which basically turns the game into an arcade shooter, rather than a simulation. It feels "empty". The original DOS version is in ugly CGA 4-color mode. Elite Plus has nicer graphics, but did away with the keyboard controls for things like hyperspace, so you're forced to use the icons rather than pressing a key. Also, both games are hard to get running at the proper speed in DOSBox. If you turn up the cycles until they're nice and smooth, the enemy ships dart around so fast that you can't hit them, they can drain your shield in a couple seconds, but the shields also recharge much faster than they should. Turn the cycles down to get a playable speed and the games get choppy.
There's the Archimedes version, which is regarded as great since you're no longer the center of attention and other ships go about doing their own thing. I couldn't figure out how to use a joystick in the emulators and I can't play it using mouse control.
If you want an updated version, there's Elite: The New Kind for Windows. It's a modern version of the BBC Micro original. It looks great and plays very well. If you want something even newer, I recommend Oolite. Despite the author's claims that it's not a copy of Elite, it is 100% a copy of Elite in everything but the name. Same star maps, same planet names, same cargo options, same ship equipment, etc. However it has the option of easily adding extras to the game. Want rings on some of the planets? Just drop the rings add-on into the Add-ons directory and the game will use it. I have to say that it can be unfair at times though. It's not unusual to get jumped by a swarm of 10+ pirates. And the one time I encountered a Thargoid ship, it was just continuous laser fire from it until I was dead. Not sure how you're supposed to survive that...
At the end of Thunder Force 3 you said that the last few games were much more fleshed out... then you showed Mortal Kombat, the equivalent of a tech demo. Definitely not fleshed out.
Guys, I have an Analogue Pocket with an SD card. I wanted to play Tyian, but as I see it's only a .bin file. How can I play it on the Pocket's openFPGA? Currently I only have a non-gba Everdrive, so that's not gonna work. Thanks!
10:11 NES also got a port which is more impressive!
My fav systems are nomad modded and gba modded, 2 best all time
I sat down but I'm actually on the toilet. Instead of relaxing do you mind if I tense so I can cleanse myself of these inner demons that live inside my guts?
get help
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How it's possible: new decompression and programming techniques and technologies not available during GBA era.
Trailblazer probably originated on the Commodore 16, not the Commodore 64
Take my money!!!
Unrelated but have a look at 'Thunder Striker' released this week on Switch...it looks like an attempt at a Solar Striker clone/sequel...seems to me like your kind of game (DMG look)
Looks awesome! Thanks for letting me know!
No Skyroads? I've always wanted to port that to GBA. But technically not a demake....
Lumines? Is that how you say that? I've never attempted to say it aloud.
I always hear it as Lu min nes or I guess nis but never know how it's actually said.
It is spelt Lumines of course so I assume it's how it sounds literal and lowercase wise (compared to other titles of games where sounds are like capitals for other titles or extent of accent).
I don't find the Mortal Kombat port that impressive; Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance managed to cram a 3D fighting game on the GBA with rotating arenas and sprite scaling to make opponents look like they're getting closer or farther away, and I think that's way more impressive.
It’s sad that MK II tech demo looks better & more feature complete than the Mortal Kombat Advance we actually got…
GTA 5 on mobile. Red dead Redemption 2 on mobile. let's go. no need to wait for 20 years to impress us that time
It's still disappointing to realize just what the GBA was capable of, but most devs and publishers were too preoccupied with cranking out loads of shitty, fake-3D isometric licensed junk. There was even a tech demo for _Resident Evil 2_ that one studio made as a proof of concept and it played fairly smoothly, but nope; apparently what we needed instead was a 487th 3/4 top-down view game based on a Nickelodeon cartoon.
Luminous
People have been trying to open Lara since the first game.
where be your lumines video?
Waiting for a Smash Bros.gba
If only even 10% of these demakes are anything more than 2-10 minutes of gameplay.