Every Cancelled Game Boy Advance Game (Mario, Zelda, Pokemon + more)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ค. 2021
- We take a look at EVERY cancelled Game Boy Advance game, including Nintendo's own GBA games and many interesting scrapped titles featuring Mario, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man.
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Which cancelled game do you most wish saw an official release on GBA?
Diddy kong pilot, donkey kong coconut crackers, and Animaniacs.
Also I would love to see a video on every cancelled playstation one games.
Sonic Riders port for sure.
Definitely the Battletoads one.
Animaniacs and Sonic Riders
Mega Man Mania. I was already immersed in Mega Man Anniversary Collection, so having Mega Man Mania be a collection of the 5 Game Boy Mega Man games would have been fantastic!
32:41 You just COULD’NT resist that High Quality Reference
Thank you for noticing. :)
what reference?
@@Gadget-Walkmen 7 Grand Dad
@@gardevior1 sorry, don't know what that is.
I didn’t get it either???
Such a shame that so many of these were basically finished, but couldn’t find a publisher 😕
It would be really neat to see some of these projects pop up on Kickstarter and hopefully get a new chance at publishing
@@VibeVixen02 Maybe make some sort of cool "GBA Rejects" collection or something like that
I'm so glad at least Payback made it.
Never would’ve expected legendary animated film Food Fight to get involved in this
I always expect that when something bad happens, somehow Foodfight is involved
“Donkey Kong: Coconut Crackers was planned to come out in 2003”
That game sounds so delicious
I’m pretty sure it was announced in 2001, I remember seeing it in GBX magazine, which only lasted 11 issues!
It was supposed to be a puzzle game but I would've thought cooking game with a name like coconut crackers
The reason Mega Man Mania never released was because Capcom supposedly lost the original source code to the Game Boy games, meaning they had to be remade from scratch.
That explains it because I was a kid and saw the GBA version of the anniversary collection and it never getting released.
Source?
So the ports on the 3DS are recreations rebuilt from the ground-up?
@@mythosinfinite6736 Those "ports" are emulated ROMs. These would've been actual enhanced ports with full color.
@@DefinitiveDubs
Good point, the addition of colour would've required a rebuild.
The GBA was so impressive. It's a real shame a lot of the canceled games looked they really pushed the system.
The GBA actually kinda WASN'T impressive, which makes a lot of those games even more interesting. It was roughly comparable to a Super Nintendo, if not slightly below it because of a lower resolution (although that could be a benefit for performance, too); what changed was that the technology and expertise being used to make the games were ten years ahead, so developers could make better use of stuff like Mode 7, voxels, and mapping 3D models to sprites.
@@EinDose idk man, to basically have a super nintendo in my hands was really impressive at the time for me
@@EinDose what? the gba cpu was miles ahead of the snes one...
@@frozenpancakes likewise... after growing up with a gameboy, getting a GBA made me feel like I was living in the future lol
@@frozenpancakes SNES was a 16bit system while the GBA was a full fledged 32 bit one.
The underlying hardware is different as 6502 family wasn't used (and I don't think WDC makes a 32-but CPU), but instead the GBA runs on an ARM professor (in addition to having the Z80 based CPU for backwards compatibility).
If I recall correctly, the SNES had a PPU (think GPU), while the GBA didn't. While that did reduce the cost of the GBA, it put extra strain on the CPU.
Long story short, it is technically more powerful than the SNES, but I'd be lying if it wasn't commonly thought of as portable one (and for the longest time I thought the same as well).
I love how the thumbnail seems to be a callback to the old Pokémon Red & Blue commercial where the man traps all the Pokémon in a GameBoy.
Isn't it great?!
I also love that too
By crushing them in a trash compactor!
@guffitrash mine too!
@guffitrash Thanks!
Hey, Pipedream Interactive! I was a part of that team. Many of us were laid off when Majesco was about to go public and had to get their finances in order. It was a fun place to work. I don’t know anything about The Boy and His Blob project mentioned. Sorry.
Did you work on the Pitfall: Mayan Adventures PC port at all?
So he a lying bih?
It's insane how powerful the GBA was, having fully 3D games like racing ones, fighting games, even RTS games. Also having extra hardware inside the cartridges (like gyroscopes) is so cool. Feels like the golden age of creativity in games is over.
Hey nintendo is still doing creative stuff
@@MogusMasterSaikawa22 yeah, but the switch has like 2 games for people like me who enjoy shooters and hack and slash games. Smash ultimate was a waste of money tho, I legit only play that with friends
@@MemeLordCthulhu here’s a though don’t enjoy Nintendo games don’t buy them why do gamers buy every system on the market how do you even have time for it
handheld snes with buffs. one of my fav consoles of all time.
There are a lot of great and creative indie games on PC, get a steam deck and find out!
"supported dozens of polygons on screen at a smooth framerate"
utterly fantastic
So sad how many of these were cancelled because they were "too ambitious" or they just couldn't find a publisher
To be fair about the "too ambitious," thing, it's fairly reasonable for a studio to be hesitant when a game has such lofty ideas, especially for a handheld. Most studios would rather publish or approve games that have fairly achievable expectations, that are almost guaranteed to release in at least a state fairly similar to originally planned, insead of approving a game that could possibly crumble thanks to wanting too much, or come out haphazard as key features had to be cut due to expense/limitations, leading to the rest of the game suffering.
@@BillyBob-xx5jr yeah, you're completely right, and the fact that the videogame industry is just an industry is the saddest part, It's a very personal opinion, but that's why I appreciate indie games more than triple A games, you can notice when a game has a heart and a soul, there's a great difference, with this I mean that a lot of games, Call Of Duty for example, are just like an ultra processed product guaranteed to sell millions with the same formula, and the little guys who take risks and want to make the game of their dreams, just can't compare to them in the market, it's just sad, but yeah, it's the way this works
2 true
Just FYI, I know ya'll made a vid bout ppl not seeing this in their feed. I've actually seen this recommended on my Home page several times despite me not having watched anything from this channel in a while.
Man, that GBA "A Boy and his Blob" cover art is... is rough.
Bold of you to call it art
Hey lucas! How's your mom?
32:41 "Swing Entertainment had a title for a GRAND IP"
I see what you did there...
Didn’t get it?
@@MrAlinLupu A bootleg of an NES Flinstones game called 7 GRAND DAD, with Fred’s head replaced by Mario’s.
So sad what Capcom did to the first Shantae game. Heard they just sat on the finished game and WAITED til after the GBA launched to release it.
And that's why I'm grateful we've got entities like Super Rare Games and Limited Run Games. Even if their pre-orders can take a millennium to get to customers, at least I've never heard either pull BS like that.
Capcom has made some nuts decisions
@@Rich_P_Anya like canceled battle network
Pisses me off because now a copy of the original Shantae costs an arm and a leg to get your hands on.
I can't wait for "Every deleted DidYouKnowGaming video" compilation.
Any video that featured a youtuber who has fallen into controversy such as Persona 5 feat RelaxAlax (still private as of writing this) and Nickelodeon games feat fellow groomer Cosmodore.
@@look-outluke2556 Wait wtf happened with RelaxAlax again?
@@Ghostguy693 his ex made acussations against him. Cant tell much more as i never looked much into it.
@@Ghostguy693 He was a demeaning douche to his then girlfriend, Bobdunga
And what's worse. He raped her, having sex with a drunk person really shows
how much he cares about basic decency. Like, what well adjusted person does that y'know?
@@phoenixdouchebag904 whaaaaaaaa
I can't believe I put this together in a few days.
Music List:
DKC GBA - Story Intro
Game Corner - Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
Diddy Kong Pilot - Boss Theme
Simpsons Road Rage - Track 3
Uunused - Battletoads GBA Prototype (music)
Warlocked (Game Boy) - Lava 2 Music
Sabre Wulf GBA - Karnath Carnage
Advance Wars - Nell’s Theme
Mega Man and Bass - Save Select
Banjo-Pilot - Jinxy’s Dunes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerors’ Stone GBA - Grounds 2
Mega Man and Bass - Dynamo Man
Animaniacs SNES - Intro Theme
DKC GBA - Treetop Rock
Come On! - Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions
Metal Slug Advance - Mission 1
Rayman 3 GBA - Title Screen
Metroid Zero Mission - Brinstar
It’s Mr. Pants! - Batter Up!
TMNT 2 Battle Nexus - Main Menu
Robots GBA - Henchbot Battle
Advance Wars 2 - Wars World News
Sonic Advance - Neo Green Hill Zone (Act 1)
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance - Offense and Defense
DK: King of Swing - Title Theme
Mario Kart Super Circuit - Menu Theme
TMNT 2 Battle Nexus - New York 2
Chrono Trigger DS - Jolly Ol’ Spekkio
Drill Dozer - Skullker Hideout and Factory
Drill Dozer - Sunken Kuru Ruins
Diner Dash: Sizzle N’ Serve - RetroModern1
DKC3 GBA - Mill Fever
F-Zero GP Legend - Mute City
F-Zero GP Legend - White Land
Banjo Pilot - Spiral Mountain
Crash Bandicoot N. Tranced - Tomb
Diddy Kong Pilot - Cranky’s Theme
Aight but why lmao
A moment of appreciation for whoever had to write all these transitions.
I never realized the GBA was capable of actual 3D graphics. Though I'm really not feeling most of the ones shown here, I think a bright and colorful style and tone would have meshed better with the primitive 3D rather than almost everything going for a gritty realistic look. Imagine a 3D Mario game on GBA. There was a Mario Kart tech demo that came way after Super Circuit (it used artwork from Double Dash) and seemed to employ a more complex 3D engine. Sadly the person who owns the prototype doesn't want to dump it :(
what a piece of **** . hope someone robs them and dumps it f
It’s capable... but barely. It has a lot of trouble rendering them at acceptable frame rates
"a bright and colorful style and tone would have meshed better with the primitive 3D rather than almost everything going for a gritty realistic look."
Yeah, some of these games look amazing for the GBA, but they become really difficult to follow when everything is grey or brown. It feels like people didn't think it through until they could see a demo of it, which is probably when they realised it wouldn't work and it would have been too late to change the whole idea. You can see some of the racing games look decent with something like a red and white car on a black road with green landscapes, for example. The 3D titles and mode seven style segments definitely need obvious colour contrasts so you can see what's going on with the available graphics quality.
The GBA demo for Shantae was considered as a bonus for the latest port of the GBC game on Switch, but it was not available. Hopefully it will emerge someday !
Source?
Yeah where did you find that info?
@@lostuser6410 The source is from Sonic
Shantae Advance Risky Revolution is Alive
It's getting published by limited run games on a physical gba cartridge this summer. You can preorder it right now.
TH-cam wasn't hiding this one, you guys just didn't pick a good time to post this on, people were busy on Mother's Day weekend.
And being this long some of us thought it was just a compilation vid
@@fenixdg Exactly, I think they'd have benefited more by splicing the video in two halves so it's easier to digest for people. Hour long videos usually look like compilations
Roleplay account detected
@@AGZhark roleplay account detector detected
@@AGZhark It is canon that Meta Knight was busy visiting his mother that weekend yes
15:55
"It's a Donkey Kong game."
Rare: "What the fuck? No it sure as fuck isn't.. It's gotta be something better. Something people want. It should be Mr. Pants, our survey mascot my 5-year-old drew."
I’m loving these transitions
“Another axed game with Hunt in it’s name is Demon Hunter”
I was expecting to hear about a planned port of the PSX game Battle Hunter after that.
Did you know that the cancelled GBA game "Blue Angelo" did see a release on an obscure korean handheld called the GP32?
All these 3D gameboy advance games are really convincing me that the purple Yoshi game for the GBA was real, as it seemed it was possible 😅
Though only a man can dream
I think that Static Shock game getting canceled is the one that hurts me the most out of this list.
Well the fact that Nintendo Power was able to have a review for it means it was being released soon and that means the game was extremely close to if not complete so maybe someday the rom will be found somewhere and we'd be able to play it
I asked Dwayne McDuffie (co-creator of Static) about it back in the day. He said that it was due to Midway's bankruptcy but they were still hopeful in 2005 that it would come out. He was bummed out about all of it since he worked on the story for the game.
@@georgemorrow
Did he say anything about the remains of the rom?
@@holladiewaldfee6071 No. I doubt he would've known what those were. He was just proud of the game and hopeful for it's release. They were talking with another company circa September 2005, but I guess it fell through.
@@georgemorrow
Sad to know. I could only imagine how you feel when you put your heart and work in a game and then it will be never released. If the rom would surface, he would at least know that his work was not entirely for the trash. (And we would have one more free game to play. I confess that I'm not free of selfishness.^^)
One thing that should be mentioned is that the gba aging cartridge (a testing program used internally) contains a logo for “Donkey Kong Advance”. As far as I know, this has been the only reference to this game.
Good thing I missed Mother’s Day for this
Did you get locked in your room running to grab your phone to watch this?
Shhhhh this person thinks holidays only last an hour.
@@DCstar he watched this video 24 times
@@dragon091327 and grab your lotion.
for the record, i did see your youtube community post about this video, but i either missed or was not shown the notification for it, so it slipped my mind
I was gonna get up, guess I’ll get up in an hour
Please never have a tantrum video again.
Im still subbed but won't if vids like that come up when you have a million+ subs
I did not notice the length of the video until he said it
1HR I FEEL BLESSED
21:34 That show was a big childhood deep cut when it aired in Fox Kids and a local channel in the early 00s, and I even revisited it not too long ago when reruns suddenly showed up in both my region’s Cartoon Newtork and another local channel some years ago. So as a huge GBA junkie during the handheld’s heyday, I could’ve been super excited to try that Oggy game if it ever came out. Glad it was featured in the video
32:40 I has to rewind the video, I was not expecting a 7 Grand Dad reference.
Grand Dad?
Fleenstones???
I did see this video pop up Saturday but i just had a particularly busy weekend
"Just do whatever you think works best."
"...Oh, but don't do anything too cool, hold those for the box."
Yeah, definitely sounds like Microsoft.
Especially in the 2000s lol
“Pokémon MMO on the GBA” sounds like the stupidest thing ever and I’m so upset we never got it
Why?
The best dumb idea ever
Based on the timing, it would've been a Gen 3 game. Imagine if they made a game like that now
@@NinjaKIngAce sword and shield kinda does that with the passerby in the wild area
@@wolfetteplays8894 Right but the GBA era of Pokemon was good, while Sword/Shield is garbage.
Fine, I am watching it now, happy?
Note for the editor :) Can we put some sort of filter on video portions that are just using irrelevant filler gameplay in future videos??
Multiple times through this video I thought he was talking about a game on screen while it ended up just being filler for something that didn't have available video/artwork.
Even the typical VHS info filter overlay on the irrelevant gameplay would make it easier to distinguish that it's just filler content :)
Still an amazing job! As an editor myself I know how much work this feature length video took! Keep up the amazing work!
sHaMe oN yOu gUyS
Shame...
the frame of the hyrulean king got me
Canceled games always intrigue me .
Same
Same
Scalebound lol
I don't think that's what you mean to say
Re: the video you posted last week speculating whether or not TH-cam was censoring this video: I did see this video in my TH-cam feed the day it came out, I just didn’t click on it because i wasn’t interested in the topic
23:29 “I think your chickens like me better than you”
14:34 Mah boi.
“For the GBA.”
That’s what he says at that time stamp
@@JoshuaJacobs83 they're mourning the fact after this timestamp, the cancelled secrets of mana remake
@@HeinerGunnar Ahh ok. I wasn’t sure what was going on. Thanks
Focus on the talking hat and you’ll see what he means...
I'm glad someone else noticed that.
Are we just gonna pretend they didn’t release a video complaining about how this video didn’t get enough views and then deleted it because they realized some people don’t wanna watch a hour long video on Mother’s Day.
And now it's got more views then a lot of recent videos... Lol
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BUT....THE ALGORITHM!!!
BUT TH-cam IS KILLING OUR CHANNEL!!1!!!1!!1
Yea I might even unsubscribe because of it, like I’m not gonna validate their whining. So you think the algorithm is doing you dirty? Then do something about it, it takes hard work bruh.
I didn't know this came out until I watched the video you just posted
I looooove these videos, and am in total awe of all the research that must go into this series.
I miss the GBA years, sad to see there was much more potential out there
Huh. I just logged on and caught this within a few minutes of it being uploaded. That almost never happens...
A new video on GBA? BOY, AM I EXCITED FOR MORE!
It's always nice to see more of my favorite system being unfolded
Thank you so much for these hour long content videos. So nice to listen while I roll up and smoke 💯💯💯
I appreciate the effort being made to not repeat trivia and acknowledging it. Nice work
I really appreciate you all putting proper subtitles in the videos
Man these really help with work. Keep them coming DYKG
OKAY IM WATCHING THIS VIDEO FINALLY ARE YOU HAPPY GEEEZE
Cancelled GBA game: *has good graphics*
GBA: "We don't do that here."
i love 3D games on primarily 2D consoles. they're always really neat to see
This was a great video. I love the longer videos. Something nice to put on in the background.
This video was recommended to me btw. Just been busy ;)
I actually enjoyed the longer videos I like to put the stuff on my stereo from my phone and listen to you talk about gaming stuff while cleaning my house thank you very much lol
i always loved reading about obscure old games on wikipedia and this video is like that but turned up to 100. great content thank you
Man, this video is really well researched. Good job guys.
Dark Knight by NAPS team eventually became the upcoming Indie project Baldo, which is itself a Zelda-like game with an art style inspired by Studio Ghibli and Anime. I am so looking forward to playing it when it releases.
45:31 How tf is that GBA?? That looks like a DS game
That's the power of the BlueRoses engine! There are several other games using this engine such as Smashing Drive and Big Mutha Truckers.
@@Sterophonick came to say this. Those devs are super talented
@@SECONDQUEST absolutely
Imagine making a slightly rage comment with your verified youtube channel lol
@@drunkencel4091 It’s not a rage comment. It’s just crazy that’s GBA
I haven't watched this channel in awhile, & I forgot how much I liked hearing about game development & whatnot. It's so interesting how games come to be & what the devs experienced.
ok, I'm here. I'm watching. It's not Mother's Day and I have time
Guinness world record for most segues in a single TH-cam video.
Never expected Oggy and the cockroaches to be mentioned here
i saw that in Wikipedia
From what I remember, the Mega Man Mania game never got finished because all the source code got lost
With all the Mega Man Collections we’ve been getting this would be THE time to finally give us Mega Man Mania which could now be called Mega Man Handheld Collection. They could even add in Mega Man Xtreme 1 & 2
sir, your transitions between segments were beautiful.
OK I'M WATCHING IT ARE YOU HAPPY NOW
Its true, I didn't see this video when it was uploaded
I see what you did there at 14:34
Nice touch
Great work guys, keep it up!
5:55 this would have been amazing to see
"...the 2012 comedy Food Fight." Said as if it's a real film. With effort put into making it. Just made me smile to myself.
It exists, sadly.
@@hectormanuel8360 unlike all these games.
Which is even more of a shame
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 These games also exist but unfortunately are lost
Wow they went all in on this one! Nice work
16:13 Everything he just said deserved HEAVY air quotes
Dude, Nintendo’s audacity to be like, “Yes please give us exclusive rights to Harry Potter.”
TBF the movies weren't a thing yet, so it was just a series of popular kid novels rather than the juggernaut IP it is today.
Also it would have meant Harry Potter in Smash Bros
@@nonnoumby Dude I didn’t even think about Harry in Smash.
@@nonnoumby That still wouldn’t have happened since Smash only uses characters who originated from video games. That’s the one hard rule they’ve had to this day
@@thedapperdolphin1590 Sakurais rules are about as solid as melted butter
Has "Nintendo we want you to develop exclusively for Xbox" vibes. However, yea movies didn't exist yet
Great video! Personally, I'd love a video on cancelled Wii games. I know there are a lot of cancelled oddballs on there
One of the best videos DYKG released!
Where's that new vid at? The one that says 'YouTuBe isN't sHoWinG yOu oUr Vids'
Think they finally realised that they done fucked up 😆
@@LadyNeeka common sense kicked in
@@Omabatfartsbruh Took them long enough! 😂
It did show the vid
Most comments on that vid said they just didn’t watch it
Hey I think we saw your video
Some of these titles look so interesting. So sad we never got to experience them.
i'm so happy that the Shantae GBA game is gonna see the light of day
honestly, i never watched this video until now, and i'm glad that my first time watching this is after the announcement
I love how Retro City Rampage DX really fulfilled what a GBA/SNES GTA would be like, with extra nintendo-ism. That game was an instant classic
Man, never realized how many studios went belly up in the early 2000's
Many were started too, people were excited about new tech but much of the industry hadnt grown nor advanced enough quite yet. Kinda like how the GBA having an ARM chip but no backlit screen. So many ahead-of-their time things from that area in gaming and general tech. Now the industry is huge, my 8 year old son wants a GBA lol
I have a research paper to do, I must come back later to watch
“Is this footage from the project they’re talking about or an entirely different game?” I repeat this question about every ten seconds on these canceled game videos.
how to be a 3rd party game developer:
step 1: file for bankruptcy
Step 1: Make an impressive demo for a handheld
Step 2: Watch as every publisher refuses -or- team up with an already failing publisher
Step 3: File for Bankruptcy -or- get dragged down with failing publisher
I thought step 1 was start designing an ambitious game for the newest console then step 2 file for bankruptcy lol
@@Sevenigma777 That works too.
Man I love this video and I’m so glad TH-cam remembered to show it in my sub box. Can’t wait for the next video *stares angrily at the youtube algorithm*
8:11 cant believe the world was denied that masterpiece
"Masterpiece" based on a single screenshot? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love toon Link so any additional content with him would be welcome, but who even knows how it would come out if it did?
Shantae advance: Risky Revolution is no longer cancelled. It's getting completed and published this year by Limited Run. I'm pretty excited honestly.
Thank you for your work!
Windwaker on GBA would be interesting. I have ever wish a 3ds Port
Ok, NOW I'll watch the video. If that's ok with you?
20:36 bro animaniacs was my favorite cartoon series and the fact that it still got video game tie ins all the way until the gba and gamecube Era says alot about how many people love the series and still care about it
Great video. A lot of info i havent come across