GameBoy Advance

[Anonymous No.7799553]

Texture mapped 3D polygons, post em'

[Anonymous No.7799564]

[Anonymous No.7799570]

>looks surprisingly playable in the Crazy Box missions
>all hell breaks lose when the arcade mode starts
https://youtu.be/YQKVahAZ2ro

[Anonymous No.7799581]

Not retro

[Anonymous No.7799587]

>>7799581
GBA is retro, boomer

[Anonymous No.7799596]

>>7799581
GBA is retro. Also seems to capture of the snes and the PlayStation somehow.

[Anonymous No.7799601]

Thats soul as fuck

[Anonymous No.7799606]

[Anonymous No.7799607]

>>7799553
Mario 64 GBA.. Imagine..

[Anonymous No.7799612]

>>7799581
This

[Anonymous No.7799635]

[Anonymous No.7799708]

>>7799612
Tell us more about your prolapsed anus.

[Anonymous No.7799764]

This doesn't really fit but the soul is overwhelming

[Anonymous No.7799796]

I assume this is all sprites and not polygons but its in the spirit of the thread, Simpsons Road Rage is surprisingly good on the GBA, and it looks beautiful on a small 12" CRT, surprisingly passes as an SNES game on a bigger screen, if only the colors were darker.

[Anonymous No.7799849]

>>7799564
>>7799606
>cancel this and the gbc version
>greenlits the game.com version
i wonder what was the logic behind this

[Anonymous No.7800092]

Max Payne (polygon models wit 2d isometric backgrounds)
https://youtu.be/2rcrVodpXPY?t=874

Tony Hawk 3 (same deal as Max Payne):
https://youtu.be/oGljI8jQ0VE?t=37

Jet Set Radio:
https://youtu.be/9WW8W-y_nuE?t=1131

Eks vs Sever:
https://youtu.be/flA7pxI7Fkg?t=1676

[Anonymous No.7800149]

>>7799553
so comfy

[Anonymous No.7800176]

>>7799635
Top Gear Rally is a cut above most because it fully modeled and textured the car, compared to the soulless Driv3r and V-Rally 3 that used sprites on 3d environments. It's full of effects and weather on top of it. Not a bad rally game, either.

[Anonymous No.7800183]

Also on your journey into baffling 3D GBA demonstrations, don't forget to admire Kill.Switch, a technically functioning cover shooter, before ending it all out of the pure agony of playing it.

[Anonymous No.7800241]

>>7799553
THIS
that's soul, take notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nk6Qf8_tc0

[Anonymous No.7800274]

>7799708
Cringe

[Anonymous No.7800381]

>>7799849
>green lit SFA vol.2
>no Darkstalkers: The Night Warrior SNES port
Crapcom keep releasing rush downgrades

[Anonymous No.7800480]

>>7799553
It's fucking insane just how close to the console/arcade versions this is, even if the game itself is mediocre.

https://youtu.be/qL5k8k1JfYc

[Anonymous No.7800852]

>>7800480
>dat fucking plane landing with the front gear
evri tiem
https://youtu.be/qL5k8k1JfYc?t=90

[Anonymous No.7801173]

The GBA's 3D capabilities are such a neat novelty, shame so few games ever tried anything with it.

[Anonymous No.7801192]

>>7799764
If you never played track ball Mario golf on an arcade cabinet then you don’t know what soul in M golf is.

[Anonymous No.7801240]

>>7800241
Really impressive game. Is their an ything like that on the SNES?

[Anonymous No.7801442]

>>7801240
pilot wings comes to mind! demon crest also has mode7 (pretty much what this style of graphics is)

[Anonymous No.7801467]

>>7800176
Games like this make me hard as fuck

[Anonymous No.7801532]

>>7801173
That looks like a very comfy and novel way to play some doom

[Anonymous No.7801573]

>>7801173
holy shit i love it for some dumbass reason,

[Anonymous No.7801631]

[Anonymous No.7801635]

[Anonymous No.7801660]

>>7799564
This was never a Capcom project
The studio just sent Capcom this demo to see if they're interested
They used this engine in Smashing Drive, Wing Commander Prophecy and Big Mutha Truckers

[Anonymous No.7801668]

>>7801660
It's crazy how closely these 3 games follow the originals

[Anonymous No.7801672]

>>7801668
Too bad the end of the GBA came too quickly for them to capitalize more on their engine.

[Anonymous No.7801763]

characters/cars are in fake 3d in these examples right?

[Anonymous No.7801776]

>>7801573
I know from your youtube-tier comment that irony has rotten your brain but you're allowed to like things, you know.

[Anonymous No.7801805]

>>7801173
>inb4 it's all one guy's Nintendo collection and he doesn't actually have any friends to play with

[Anonymous No.7801810]

mode 7 racing games work but nearly everything else would have been better off settling for traditional isometric and overhead, though I guess I can't fault a small team of programmers trying to do something interesting over forgettable but functional game design.

[Anonymous No.7801812]

>>7801763
Resident Evil's characters, most vehicles are polygons

[Anonymous No.7801874]

>>7801776
why would you rig all that extra as fuck gimmickry up instead of just plugging in four xbox controllers and playing the version included with doom 3,,

[Anonymous No.7801960]

>>7801173
>the GBA's 3D capabilities
It doesn't actually have any, it just has a more-advanced-than-SNES ability to stretch and skew 2D images. All of this is done via the system's 2D shape transforms and using PSX-style affine texture skewing in lieu of more expensive texture perspective calcs. There's no natural depth or space function, it all has to be custom-programmed and done on CPU with correct math by the dev in a lightweight enough way to work.

[Anonymous No.7801993]

>>7801805
you know very well that's what's going on here.

[Anonymous No.7802056]

>>7801960
Most 3D on the GBA is done using software rendering. The reason you see more 3D graphics on the GBA is because its CPU runs circles around the one in the SNES.

[Anonymous No.7802681]

>>7802056
>>7801960

What's this shit about stretching 2d images into 3d? I thought the 3d games used bitmap mode?

[Anonymous No.7803482]

>>7802681
>I thought the 3d games used bitmap mode?
Most of them do. A few of them don't, like Sonic Battle (see https://fouramgames.com/blog/sonic-battle-renderer-intro ).

[Anonymous No.7803701]

>>7801960
The only problem is lack FM soundchip, headphones jack, early model missing backlight and no third button.

[Anonymous No.7803843]

>>7803482
Neat. The bottom video on this page was cool: https://fouramgames.com/blog/sonic-battle-renderer-camera-and-tilemaps

[Anonymous No.7803957]

>>7799764
Played the ever loving shit out of this game and ported my maxed character to Toadstool Tour. He broke a lot of courses.

[Anonymous No.7804075]

>>7799606

I think they should have made an original GBA Resident Evil series, followed by a NDS-PSP game with better graphics. It would take until the 3DS until we got a hand-held RE game. No ports, because ports will always be compared to the originals, and no way the GBA could do the original the same.

[Anonymous No.7804210]

>>7802681
>>7803482
That's interesting, I was surprised and thought 3D games would at least use hardware acceleration to draw affine sprites but I tried Smashing Drive just to check and it does indeed seem to be doing everything in software using the bitmap mode. Why was this the case?

[Anonymous No.7804238]

>>7799553
Asterix on gba was reaaally good, I've got so many nice memories on it!

[Anonymous No.7804248]

>>7801805
making up people to get mad at is big time cope

[Anonymous No.7805226]

>>7804210
Applying affine transformations to sprites can only get you so far. You can do orthographic projections that way, but perspective projections aren't possible (remembering that affine transformations must preserve parallel lines). Most 3D games use a perspective projection, so software rendering is the only way to go in those cases.

[Anonymous No.7805257]

>>7801173
What you said is true, but I can't help but sperge about that pic. While awesome for GBA games, I fucking hate how poorly utilized and these functions were for actual GC games.. The fact that to play something like 4SA or Cruystal Chronicles properly, you needed a fuckton of GBAs, the cables (which no one had) and other shit pretty much ruined them. Both games should have been completely playable by just popping in more GC comntrollers for your buddies.

Your image is amazing though because it's showing a way to get more out of a GBA game. When GC games forced use of a cable though, it was dogshit. Nintendo always seems to ruin good ideas, like the e-reader.

[Anonymous No.7805260]

>>7805226
IIRC mode 7 affine transformations achieve perspective projection by updating the affine transformation matrix on hblank intervals. I guess that's only practical for one background layer rather than a bunch of polygons though.

[Anonymous No.7805269]

>>7799606
What resident evil is this? Some kind of tech demo?

[Anonymous No.7805280]

>>7804075
There was a PSP RE in development that was cancelled. I wish RE2 and 3 were ported to NDS like deadly silence.

[Anonymous No.7805285]

>>7804075
Still salty at Crapcom, who hasn’t give Wii U a RE games.

[Anonymous No.7805290]

>>7805285
Wat, you got Revelations.

[Anonymous No.7805625]

>>7799570
Catch A Ride is a visual and technical mess just like Sega Rally GBA
https://youtu.be/kPBj_pgh0nY

>smooth framerate
>polygonal models
https://youtu.be/OWNsr4ZE-d4?t=112

>>7801532
Monkey Ball Jr. is one of the best demakes of a game ever. That goes for it's mini games too.

[Anonymous No.7805706]

>>7805625
>That sega rally
jesus

[Anonymous No.7805882]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx8KwRs1zMU
>that horrifically bitcrushed version of Like This
Unf

[Anonymous No.7806995]

>>7805882
That reminds me, we rarely mention the Need For Speed series in 3D Shit On The GBA threads. They have fully polygonal cars and environments like Smashing Drive and Top Gear Rally AND these hyper-crushed licensed songs with vocals like SSX3 playing during races. They're fairly complete games with actual car customization features and shit.

[Anonymous No.7807372]

>>7799849
They never cancelled the GBC version. Some random company made that demo to pitch to Capcom for a potential port job and they refused.

[Anonymous No.7807627]

>>7805290
Revelations was fun af too, I think Rev was like the step back into proper survival horror

[Anonymous No.7807675]

>>7807627
Isn't that a 3ds gamu

[Anonymous No.7807687]

>>7807675
got the HD treatment.

[Anonymous No.7808368]

>>7801960
The truth is that all 3D games simply use sophisticated texture scaling techniques. SNES got us started with mode 7; later systems carried on with mode 8, 9,... and we're up to mode 26 now for modern PC games, with mode 27 coming out in early 2022 (not retro I know sorry).

That's why if you go close up to object even in a modern 3D game you can clip through and see the "inside" of a supposedly-3D model. It's just a rotated bitmap.

[Anonymous No.7808372]

>>7808368
lol

[Anonymous No.7808551]

>>7808368
Lol, this is definitely what Saturn schizos unironically think

[Anonymous No.7808802]

>>7799564
Why the fuck is that zombie blue?

>>7799606
What is this?

[Anonymous No.7808810]

>>7799606
Holy moly, there was another one.

[Anonymous No.7809250]

>>7799553
https://web.archive.org/web/20191127024848/http://www.thunderboltgames.com/feature/3d-graphics-on-the-game-boy-advance-how-well-could-it-be-done

[Anonymous No.7809657]

>>7809250
What an awful article.

>it is capable of rendering texture-mapped, polygonal 3D graphics. It was a 32-bit console after all; and produced far better looking 3D graphics than the supposedly 64-bit Atari Jaguar or the Sega 32X
What? 3D on the GBA is a slideshow and trails far behind either of those systems with their dedicated 3D hardware. It's no contest.

>the GBA’s 3D capabilities were still rudimentary and prone to slowdown, short-draw distances and blurry visuals
Blurry? It's sharp and pixelated as fuck. That's anything but blurry.

>Crazy Taxi made use of the Graphic State engine to attempt to squeeze a fully polygonal, texture mapped level into a GBA cartridge. It’s an interesting attempt technologically, fogging isn’t too bad
Okay. Now I'm convinced the writer is either trolling or just blind. There is no fog you stupid motherfucker. Dumb piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.7809723]

>>7801173
Based and autism pilled.
Legit a fascinating set up, anon. Wish I could see some footage of a real death match.

[Anonymous No.7810459]

>>7809657
I wonder if they just thought LCD ghosting on original GBA was "blurry". I can *almost* see why a layman would think that of a game where every pixel on the screen changes with movement like a 3D scene would following a car. Fog though, would have been too impressive if anything.