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[Mellahan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL8FdA3lshY

This demo was produced by Denaris Entertainment in 2004. It showed up on their website credentials years ago but no one knew what it was.

The demo shows off basic GBA 3D tech ( 2 mode seven layers). No indication this was intended to be a full game. Pretty neat regardless!

EDIT: Denaris is Manfred Trenz's company!

 

[a Master Ninja]

Already looks more fun than Super Circuit.

 

[Broken Joystick]

CRT
GameCube jingle
The good old days

 

[Pinko Marx]

I may be misremembering what the GBA was capable of but this looks pretty graphically intense for a GBA game.

 

[SoulUnison]

I like the look more than Super Circuit's, but the pulled-back Micro Machines style camera/controls aren't what I want from Mario Kart.

 

[ErrorMacro]

Neat. The name was pretty bad, though. Sounded like a Mario Kart porn parody.

 

[Feep]

Tony Hawk 2 on the GBA was so 3-D it blew my MIND.

 

[LewieP]

Oh god that camera angle is terrible.

Neat that footage has surfaced though.

 

[Katori]

Neat. The name was pretty bad, though. Sounded like a Mario Kart porn parody.

Game pitches/prototypes rarely have final names.

 

[Kallor]

No way that would have ever played on a GBA.

 

[LewieP]

Tony Hawk 2 on the GBA was so 3-D it blew my MIND.

Not as 3D as Downhill Jam
http://youtu.be/4VNKVa7qYFY

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Not very impressive considering the 3D a licensed game pulled off on the GBA:

http://youtu.be/hWBUdgIa0oE

 

[bomma_man]

2004? Why?

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

This game had a full fledged release trailer years ago.

 

[Haunted]

 

[Eila]

What are those hellish sounds in the video? Had to mute it.
Video description says it's 2 mode seven layers, which makes sense because the backgrounds look flat. The GBA was capable of real 3D, but the polygons jittered like crazy. It made you appreciate the PS1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HEvabW3IA

 

[CalamityPixel]

Probably the best 3-D game I saw on GBA was V-Ralley 3D. Some assets were obviously sprites, but stuff like the environment blew my mind for a GBA game.

 

[boyshine]

 

[Krejlooc]

Do you guys know who denaris entertainment is?

MANFRED TRENZ WAS MAKING A MARIO KART?????

TURRICAN Manfred trenz? Holy fucking shit

Demo scene coding god manfred trenz?

WOOOOOW

 

[KHlover]

Not very impressive considering the 3D a licensed game pulled off on the GBA:

http://youtu.be/hWBUdgIa0oE

Game is using those MDK strats. 3D terrain with 2D everything else. Very impressive, great sprite work. If you don't know how it works you probably won't notice it

 

[robot]

Uniracers.gif

first thing I noticed!

 

[7DollarHagane]

This was the first thing I noticed.

The game looks slow and dull.

 

[Kouriozan]

I knew I already saw that arrow somewhere, thanks for reminding me.

 

[Aeana]

Why does he keep letting the analog stick click back to the center lawd how loud/annoying.

 

[Doopliss]

What are those hellish sounds in the video? Had to mute it.
Video description says it's 2 mode seven layers, which makes sense because the backgrounds look flat. The GBA was capable of real 3D, but the polygons jittered like crazy. It made you appreciate the PS1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HEvabW3IA

Quite a nice effect it achieves for something so basic. I don't think it makes sense for Mario Kart though because the of necessarily high camera perspective.

That Asterix game looks nightmarish.

 

[Mejilan]

Wing Commander Prophecy was a thing on GBA.
https://youtu.be/fxm2Xfn6wms

 

[CO_Andy]

Almost DS level 3D. Doubt it'd be able to handle 8 racers, but still cool.

 

[CrAzY FiNgErS]

Why does he keep letting the analog stick click back to the center lawd how loud/annoying.

The main reason I muted it. Plus stopped before it ended, because while interesting that demo looked slow and bad. The tech behind it may have been mind blowing for GBA, but as has been said the pulled back cam along with how slow it all runs ruins it for me and in no way reminds me of Mario Kart.

 

[koopas]

*CLICKING NOISES*

 

[DarkLegion]

The effect after falling down is pretty great

 

[dreampeppers99]

neat thanks for sharing

 

[Valkrai]

Not as 3D as Downhill Jam
http://youtu.be/4VNKVa7qYFY

Amazing. I thought you meant the DS version of it, didn't know there was a GBA port.

 

[KillerIsJed]

That title screen looks really really really familiar. Was it ripped from something else?

Also having the comments disabled makes me wonder.

Edit: Found it, it is a modified version of Mario Kart: Double Dash for the Gamecube.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Looks real slow

 

[Piston Hyundai]

Do you guys know who denaris entertainment is?

MANFRED TRENZ WAS MAKING A MARIO KART?????

TURRICAN Manfred trenz? Holy fucking shit

Demo scene coding god manfred trenz?

WOOOOOW

They weren't necessarily making a Mario Kart, it's just a Mario Kart-themed demo. Kind of like that recreation of the start of Metal Gear Solid that's also for the GBA.

 

[LewieP]

Amazing. I thought you meant the DS version of it, didn't know there was a GBA port.

Personally I think the previous GBA games look better. But it's still interesting that they attempted to do a proper 3d entry on the GBA, the results are impressive even if a little ugly and hard to read.

 

[Krejlooc]

They weren't necessarily making a Mario Kart, it's just a Mario Kart-themed demo. Kind of like that recreation of the start of Metal Gear Solid that's also for the GBA.

A mario kart demo, by definition, is a mario kart.

 

[ffdgh]

Hmm...this looks like the inspiration for mario kart DS. Neat.

 

[Borman]

That title screen looks really really really familiar. Was it ripped from something else?

Also having the comments disabled makes me wonder.

Edit: Found it, it is a modified version of Mario Kart: Double Dash for the Gamecube.

Someone doesnt know how game development works Im working on a story with a major studio using WoW assets that isn't Blizzard. It happens. Why create new stuff for tests?

 

[WillyFive]

"Its the first time that the manage to rotate 2 different mode seven layers. This was never done before on Gameboy Advance system, however Nintendo did only use the engine in later GBA games."

F-Zero Advance did it and it was a launch title.

 

[CertifiedFP]

Hey, this brings to mind...

Why was there no handheld-to-TV addon for the Wii/DS or WiiU/3DS like with the SNES/GB(C) and GameCube/GBA adaptors before them?

 

[Skellig Gra]

What's with all that fucking noise!

 

[Krejlooc]

Hey, this brings to mind...

Why was there no handheld-to-TV addon for the Wii/DS or WiiU/3DS like with the SNES/GB(C) and GameCube/GBA adaptors before them?

DS games are supposed to come to the WiiU e-shop

 

[Jigorath]

Looks dreadful.

 

[Komo]

Graphically it looks fantastic for GBA, but that camera is just eugh.

Don't like how it takes a while to catch up after the kart goes around a corner. Who thought that was a good idea?

 

[Diablohead]

Almost DS level 3D. Doubt it'd be able to handle 8 racers, but still cool.

yeah I was thinking that, once you add in more gameplay features and up the scrolling speed you may lose the performance to run it well, still it's really impressive and looks awesome.

 

[CertifiedFP]

DS games are supposed to come to the WiiU e-shop

They already are, but I'm talking about things like a physical addon with the handheld's hardware that plugs into the console and plays on the TV with the console's controller with the handheld's cartridges. Nintendo did it before, with the Super GameBoy on the SNES and the GameBoy Player on the Gamecube (demonstrated in the video).

Y'know, like the Vita TV, but without the disastrous execution of the Vita TV.

Spoiler

Sony, all you had to do was have a Video-Out slot like with the PSP

 

[Piston Hyundai]

Graphically it looks fantastic for GBA, but that camera is just eugh.

Don't like how it takes a while to catch up after the kart goes around a corner. Who thought that was a good idea?

They probably wanted to show off the multiple turning sprites and weren't focused on gameplay at all.

 

[Krejlooc]

They already are, but I'm talking about things like a physical addon with the handheld's hardware that plugs into the console and plays on the TV with the console's controller with the handheld's cartridges. Nintendo did it before, with the Super GameBoy on the SNES and the GameBoy Player on the Gamecube (demonstrated in the video).

Y'know, like the Vita TV, but without the disastrous execution of the Vita TV.

Spoiler

Sony, all you had to do was have a Video-Out slot like with the PSP

Well I have a 3DS capture board for that very reason

 

[Lijik]

Not very impressive considering the 3D a licensed game pulled off on the GBA:

http://youtu.be/hWBUdgIa0oE

I think the camera movement stuff is really impressive, Asterix could only rotate left and right like an old PSX game and the angle they gave was rubbish whenever the game expected platforming. This demo also doesnt have the low draw distance of Asterix, but to be fair its only rendering one track and racer.