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[Bullet Club]

If the answer is yes, then today is your lucky day!

This is not actually Super Mario 64: it's my attempt at rewriting SM64 for the GBA. I initially considered attempting a port, but the GBA is an order of magnitude slower than the N64 and has no GPU or native support for floating-point numbers.So far, I've implemented a basic physics and collision system, along with a fully 3D camera, rasterization, texture-mapping, transparency support, etc. Because the code is written from-scratch, I should be in a position to release the code into the public domain in the future: although I can't distribute it with Nintendo's assets, obviously.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Very impressive!
A bit of DLSS and it'll be indistinguishable from the original

 

[Skifi28]

Never seen Mario is such good shape before.

 

[BlackTron]

Just use a round red blob instead of an arrow and you've sold it

I mean. If the hardware can support that

 

[Bullet Club]

I'm sure a proper Mario-esque main character will be added eventually. He's probably got more important things to work on first though.

 

[RoadHazard]

That's very impressive. Although the texture warping is reaching psychedelic levels, lol.

 

[Fart Knight]

Impressive or not, 3D games on GBA are terrible. Hell, even on DS they were still ugly.

 

[Spukc]

 

[Bullet Club]

 

[German Hops]

Impressive.
IIRC, the GBA is somewhere between an SNES and N64, hardware-wise.

 

[donkey_oaty]

Lol this game looks horrible

 

[Spukc]

Lol this game looks horrible

not sure what to say XD

uuh yes? The fact it's an actual playable 3d platformer on the gba makes it special.
would this run on the nintendo ds? lame

 

[Banjo64]

If the answer is yes, then today is your lucky day!

Looks like a PS1 game.

 

[Skifi28]

Lol this game looks horrible

Looks absolutely insane for a GBA game. You're seeing it blown up on YouTube, but imagine near ps1 level visuals on a tiny screen.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

The draw distance is great.

 

[RoadHazard]

Impressive.
IIRC, the GBA is somewhere between an SNES and N64, hardware-wise.

Yeah, but much closer to the SNES. It has no 3D hardware, everything has to be done in software on the CPU.

 

[El Muerto]

I wonder if this will play on original hardware with an everdrive?

 

[donkey_oaty]

not sure what to say XD

uuh yes? The fact it's an actual playable 3d platformer on the gba makes it special.
would this run on the nintendo ds? lame

My bad, I should clarify.

The game looks visually impressive for it's platform, the gameplay looks atrocious.

 

[Deerock71]

Looks like a PS1 game, warpy-ass textures and all!

 

[SantaC]

Asterix and obelix GBA was more expressive in 3D than the demo in the OP.

 

[SantaC]

 

[Dacvak]

Holy shit, this is SO freaking cool. I would love to get my hands on this and see it on real hardware. I love inane projects like this.

Plus, that affine texture warping is just

 

[EverydayBeast]

GBA was the best Nintendo handheld from that era over the gameboy and sp, which loses in form factor.

 

[diffusionx]

He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, without ever asking if he should

 

[ReBurn]

Traffic Cone 64

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

At least it doesn’t have that hideous N64 blur

 

[justiceiro]

Looks like a PS1 game.

The texture warping surely makes looks like it.