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The GBA is primarily thought of as a 2D game system. However, some developers were never content with playing to peoples expectations and wanted to go beyond what was thought possible. This video is meant as a tribute to those hard working game developers, who would push the system to it's absolute limits and create impressive 3D GBA ports! - เกม
Hey so I'm dumb! Thank you for all pointing out how Asterix and Obelix is actually really popular in a lot of countries, I should have looked a bit more into it before writing how it's obscure :') They're not super duper big in the UK, like I know of them but have never like seen or read any of it, hence why I said it's kinda obscure, but yeah, my bad! Please forgive my bri'ish and poor persepctive on the series 😭
Maybe it was butthurting frogeaters?) But in Russia they are known. Not GBA game though but cartoon, sega games, movies and pc games is known. And why you post just now? You dig deeper in world of Asterix and Obelix?
Well tbh I thought I already pinned this comment when this video came out and the first batch of comments telling me I was dumb came out, but I must have only replied to individual ones. Now the video is randomly doing numbers again, I thought I would get ahead and just pin this to save everyone the effort :')
I think I remember reading them when I was a kid.
No need to apologize ;) But I must say that the original Asterix comics aged exceptionally well. Give them a try, you might be pleasantly surprised.
I remember reading a lot of A&O as a kid here in the US, it’s about as popular and widespread as the Tintin comics.
(Although there was a lot of both of those in my elementary school library, so maybe my perception is just warped)
Asterix and obelix are not only famous in France but also in Germany Austria Switzerland Italy Spain ... And just to be clear, a lot of people care about these comics. They even have their own theme park. They are like the European Mickey mouse.
I'm from Poland and trust me that Asterix and Obelix are extremely popular here as well.
@@rafadydkiemmacha7543 nice, I knew about the prevously mentioned countries but beyond that I wasn't sure 😅
That was my childhood, I still have the Asterix and Obelix gba game and the books, I live at the french boarder in Germany .
Im from serbis and i have the asterix and obrlix snes cartridge i played it when i was a kid
@@davpro1792 are Asterix cartoons and comic books also popular in Serbia?
You all like how I couldn't shrink down the thumbnails in the end card to look good?
AND DO YOU LIKE HOW I UPDATED MY PROFILE PICTURE 3 WEEKS AGO AND IT STILL HASN'T CHANGED YET. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
what's the name of the song?
It's not a port, but Banjo Kazooie Grunty's Revenge was actually really good to me. It felt like an actual Banjo game on the go!
Maybe I am just too starved of Banjo Kazooie to see it's faults 😅
On that 3rd one, I was expecting Crazy taxi, lol
Same lmao😂
We love comics, movies and games with Asterix and Obelix, especially here in Europe (I'm from Czech Republic). The quotes from the movies (with real actors) are such a big meme in my country. Few days ago I was on a metal festival and everyone screamed that quote with decayed fishes. What a cult... Anyway, nice video, a I like these mini ports for GBA!
Would you ever consider covering the DS port of Need for Speed Underground 2? I have some cheeky nostalgia for that one and it also looks cool visually. Would collab even. There's also this really weird DS port of The Sims 2. That's not really a sims game, but instead a weird ass adventure game in a creepy desert town with cultists and aliens.
I was actually quite interested at looking at Need for Speed Underground 2 on the DS. I thought it was weird that, on the list of games Pocketeers made, that was the only DS one even though they kept making GBA games after? Might have to take you up on that offer sometime! ;)
The psp port of Sims 2 is also so god damn strange I kinda like it honestly. The ds version although restricted it's pretty interesting with the hotel management system
@@LEXXPortPatrol NFSU rivals on psp is also pretty great I can go as far to say it's one of the best racing games on the system although it's a western launch title
I still haven't finished Sims 2 DS cuz I was scared of the aliens lol
The Sims 2 on the PSP is also an adventure game.
Another good one you forgot to mention was the GBA port of Cars Mater-National Championship. Even with a DS version releasing alongside it, it looks really impressive for Pixar's last GBA outing.
There were also pretty famous Asterix and Obelix movies at the time...
They're quite good kids films!
I own a copy of the NFS Underground for GBA. I remember it blowed my mind to be able ti have those graphics on my GBA. Spy Hunter was a really fun game for GBA as well and in pseudo 3D.
One of the most impressive feats of programming happened in 1982 with the release of 1K ZX Chess for the ZX81 home computer. As its name suggests it's a full chess program running on just 1KB of RAM, which includes an AI opponent. In actuality it was even less at around 700 bytes. That's 700 bytes for rudimentary graphics, rule set and all the AI routines to play the game
I had Need for Speed Underground 2 on GBA despite already owning the game on PS2 at the time and honestly I can verify you didn't miss out on much.
One game that I think needs to be mentioned alongside these games is the GBA port of Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction, based off Robot Wars in the UK. Not only is it incredibly faithful to the source material (well, as faithful as a GBA ports can get), but the robot customisations in the game give it a real edge in the obscure world of 3D GBA games.
Oooooh that looks way cooler than the Robot Wars game on the GBA I had as a kid!
4 years late to this but glad I finally arrived to this channel
🤣🤣🤣 The Crazy Taxi/ Smashin Drive bit was ACTUALLY clever hahaha
Smashing drive looks unbelievable as a GBA title. Have to try this one for myself!
It’s crazy how I’m 4 years late and I’ve been looking for a video specifically like this just uncovering weird times in gaming and graphics like these really stood out to me in a weird way compared to other generations of graphics, you get what I’m saying lol
I love how Spiderman 2 for GBA has 3d free roam and yet Spiderman web of shadows for PSP is a 2d game.
விஷ்ணு கார்த்திக் Web of Shadows had a very VERY large map and PSP couldn't handle it
Oh man I had completely forgotten about those 3D missions! I always liked the FMV at the start though
@FreshBeats That's not true, PSP had SPiderman 2&3 which had free roam. I'm not talking about a straight up port of the PC version but a game made from ground up for the PSP.
Ya know, I really liked the transformers game port to the Nintendo DS. It's not Gameboy, but it was a game that pushed the console to it's limits I suppose. It's also pretty fun in a cheap wholesome way.
The graphics processing power of the DS really did help out racing games.
I had NFS underground on gba sp and I loved it! The soundtrack was so pixelated. I just recently found the song I always heard in it. Static X- The Only. But man. And Smashing drive!!!! I always thought it was called Crazy Taxi. But yes!!!! I played the HELL out of it at a casino arcade growing up. Awww I loved this.
Hey, so many youtubers are returning from hiatuses lately. fraki, yuriofwind, and minimme.
Ha, funnily enough seeing Minimme slowly start to do more and more videos that I had ideas for is kind of what made me get off my ass and start making videos again before he gets to cover everything I wanted to do x3
RIP my GBA first person shooters video lol
Minimme never had a hiatus
That different version thing has been going since videogames began, from console to console, to PC to PC, they always essentially remade them.
Astérix and Obélix XXL has a combo system during combat. It's more complex than just smashing B :)
7:36 That is insane the power that gba had to accomplish that
Other 3d game i enjoyed a lot in gba was Corvette. Yeah, racing too, but man i was pretty addicted to it
It was great! The tracks were long, but not repetitive at the same time. The shadow of the car moved when it faced sun from different directions, that was incredible
As a kid I love these Need for Speed games on the GBA
Honestly, that's disputable... Colin McRae 2.0 , V-rally, Payback are among the best 3D games for GBA. And, let's also consider RayLight Studios' GBA tech demos of Resident Evil 2.
Man you got me hyped up about crazy taxi
Crazy Taxi also got a great 3D gba port
Even in the early 2000’s these 3D graphics looked more like early 3D 90’s games, but for a GBA wich lacked 3D graphics it was respectible, now looking at it now it really really feels outdated now.
astrix et obelix were the absolute hype in my country it would only make sense they would make a video game about. they already made a live action movie.
Yes! I always love seeing a notification for your uploads :D
Phew, okay cool people are actually getting notifications for this then! Always that slight worry TH-cam is going to decide to not send the video to sub boxes hahahaha
Just for reference, you can get away with about 10-12 seconds of copyrighted music, movies, whatever without much issue. The auto detect system also won't pick up on music as well if you drop the volume a bit and talk over it. It's all about altering that waveform and pitch shifting doesn't work because it will still look the same.
I don't know the legalities of it but I'd say as long as it's transformative, it all falls under fair use.
Ooooh that's good to know! I'll bear that in mind next time I need to show off some tracks, thanks!
I used to borrow Asterix & Obelix annuals from the library when I was a kid. Not sure why, it's shit looking back. Same reason I don't read Tintin anymore lol.
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever was impressive as well
5:54 in Spain also Asterix and Obelix are well known :3
With the pause at in the intro, I thought you were about to do some slopes game room illiteration.
At first I thought Smashing Drive was SEGA’s Crazy Taxi.
Smashing Drive Taxi, like The Magic School Bus meets Fifth Element Taxi meets The Simpson’s Driving meets Twisted Metal 2!
Although not a port, the GBA game that had 3D that made my jaw drop back in the day was the launch game Iridion 3D.
Did they pull a cheap trick by having a repetitive background that looped every 3 seconds or so? Yup.
Did it look incredible. Also yup.
Was the game fun?
Yeah. It was basically Star Fox 64, but more repetitive, you could only shoot straight, and it looked better. Not an all time great by any means, but a good way to kill a couple hours.
Handling is like fatal racing
Man. Your view.to sub count is bad. You deserve so many more views!
i was shocked when i learned that there was an "open world" nfsgame for the ds
but then i learned that driv3r is on gba with a fully fledged open world
Yesssss, Driv3r looks really cool on GBA! There's also Big Mutha Truckers on the GBA which is also open world with full 3D traffic and everything!
Asterix und Obelix has been very well pronounced 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Just want to say I noticed in 4:56, GT4 music, yes?
Anyone else heard the Spyro theme? Sounded like it was from the first original game, Dark Hollow if I am not mistaken.
Ok but what is that hovership racing game you showed off at like 1:30, I wanna play that so bad
One of the F-Zero games on the GBA!
I really thought that he was going to say Crazy Taxi.
Ray Light Games’s true achievement is actually the unreleased prototype of Resident Evil 2 for GBA. Forget the baby game.
"Unless you're french?" Astérix and Obélix is huge all over Europe tho.
Had a Bri'ish moment of assuming that because Asterix isn't big over here, it wouldn't be in other European countries outside of its home country. My mistake :)
In June 15 #ono was here!
0:20 What game is that? It reminds me a lot of the Series of Unfortunate Eventz game for GBA in terms of graphics and aesthetics.
Asterix and Obelix are pretty damn popular in eu
Wow I never knew the GBA could do this
6:15 kinda funny coz the movies and comics are pretty popular in europe
Great Stuff!
How about Monkey Ball JR for the GBA
the sade part is things would have hade a better picture way better in fact if they used a better screen and did a small overclock
Patreon at not even 5k subs. That’s optimistic. But good on you I hope you get some followers
Well I get comments about it every now and then, so I thought why not :P
mario pinball land looks amazing because of it's "3D", i don't know why
Asterix and Obelix is Pretty Popular in Germany and Obviously in France.
So Switch has 102,400x the RAM size of the GBA, yet many of these 3D GBA have better draw distance for objects in the terrain such as Trees/Shrubs than many games ported to the Switch.
Developers/Coders have gotten VERY VERY VERY LAZY since the retro-eras of 1987-2002.
A taxi arcade game OK I wonder what it is. Smashing drive? You’ve got me to thinking it was crazy taxi.
You’re a great youtuber you need more subs tbh😂😂
😊 😊 🐹
they actually put lil jon on the gameboy?! now i have to try that game 😅
Doom is sitting in the Conner
I’ve already made a video on Doom on the GBA, which is why it wasn’t included here! :)
@@LEXXPortPatrol link plzzzz
8-)
clicked on this vid because of the toyota celica t23 on the thumbnail.....
shockingly not uploaded by minimme
I don't think you'll win any fans with that description of Asterix. Why didn't you go and learn about Asterix before making the video?
omg i need to play smashing drive
50% rap/50% rock, just like the good old school Tony Hawk games
Kleiner Helfer you’re 100% percent wrong
Why do I really recognize the voice here
Asterix and Obelix are well known af in Germany at least
And I thought Super monkey ball jr. was technically advanced.
Asterix and Obelix are so popular in France they have a whole theme park dedicated to the franchise
And not just in France, they're popular in Germany, Italy, Spain, and most of Europe.
Basically, only the UK is that close to foreign media, it's almost if they are little Americans, so much for multiculturalism...
@@souljastation5463 yes but they are by far the most popular in France where they originated and the series itself is very aimed toward a French audience
@@nitrosophelin I know that, but still, even if they don't know the comic most people know the movies: the classic animated ones that air on TV every Chtistmas, but especially the new live-action movies (the ones with Monica Bellucci and Gerard Depardieu). It seems like the UK is cut-off from the rest of the continent.
Yeah i was there thrice and it was great!
@@souljastation5463 No... Really? Not just since the brexit. XX
The funniest part about that last one is that the GBA version of Smashing Drive got the BEST SCORES out of all versions of the game.
ayy good topic :)
Thank you!!! But seriously though, top 10 graphically impressive toes in video games when?
after i finally reveal my other foot maybe ??
@@minimme Tf
minimme YESSS PLS I BEG BRO
I'd say Driv3r was best at pushing GBA to its limits; I mean it's a fully functional open world GTA style game in a 3D perspective where you can drive, swim and even use guns! How they managed to fit all that to a Gameboy is beyond me!
And yet Driver 2 had much better driving physics, not to mention cop chases with a GTA-like star system
That is what confused me after all these years; also, why couldn't GTA: Advance look similar to Driver 2/3 ...was it a design choice or harware limitations !?
If only Driver 3 on Nintendo GBA included all of the mainline missions and cities from the console Driver 3... it would have blown my mind. Seriously Atari could have added Istanbul to their port of Driver 3 on Nintendo GBA and removed some races or collection missions (surely there was still room in the cartridge ) !?
It just pisses me off that the police cars had no ai. Like seriously, my favorite part of every driver game is the "Survival" mode, where you have to just survive cop cars chasing you.. but that's not present in the GBA port or driv3r
I love these hardware pushing games. They really show what the system can do
I know, it's absolutely insane what talented developers could do with the hardware! I live for this kind of stuff hahaha
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@@benn6086 stfu
Yes its great
Yeah, that's the point of hardware pushing games.
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The audio for Lil John sounds like it was recorded with a webcam and you can hear popcorn poppin
Damn I thought Simpsons Road Rage was impressive on the gba. Crazy shit
I mean Road Rage is still pretty damn impressive but... Yeah I guess these kinda blow it out of the water huh, haha
I thought that Mario Kart: Super Circuit was impressive
@@letsplay6796 Mario Kart Super Circuit? Really??? It was not even a 3D Game.
@@all-stargamer3333 it was still significantly more impressive than the SNES game and it was a launch game.
But fundamentally it was fun.
@@sloppynyuszi We talking about GBA Games which make the GBA to his limit, not about Games which was stronger than the SNES.
As a programmer with a love for graphics programming this really tickles my pickle. Very impressive stuff!
it tickles your pickle...
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I searched high and low and not a single person alive seems to be selling Asterix and obelisk for the gba
Obelix *
This stuff has a cult following in my country, and I read the comics in my childhood.
step 1 - by a New 3ds or New 2ds (NEW INT TITLE) ... step 2 - mod it for free ... step 3 - inject Asterix & any other game. step 5 - ENJOY
@@StevenMcFlyJunior what's the step 4
air guy Step 4. ???
I remember playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and being blown away. It was not true 3D (isometric top down instead), but just about everything from the console version was there. It was playable, and still very cool.
I think it was a great decision to use that camera perspective and I heard that game got an 85% review
Asterix isn't know in Britain? I wouldn't say it's super well know here in Australia but you can find the comics in a lot of book shops.
Yeah I grew up with a bunch of dubbed VHS tapes and 2 PS1 games on it.
It is super famous in spain as well
I mean, I wouldn't go as far to say it's completely obscure here. But it's definitely not as big as in Europe. You see their books occasionally in shops, but not guaranteed.
Im British and i know of it, they would play the movies on tv sometimes and schools had the comics
It IS known in Britain by people in their 30's and older, the comics were popular in the 1980's.
Oh wow! I know a lot about 3D GBA games but I had no clue Need For Speed Underground existed! It’s so beautiful and amazing, I love it. The frame rate is really impressive for gba and the dithered graphics appeal to me in a weird way.
Back then, Need for Speed is basically ported to any device, even Java mobile phone.
Sonic Battle was my first time seeing 3D on the GBA, but it was Spider-Man 2's hub world that *really* impressed me. Oh, but that was before I saw footage of that Asterix game. That game looks amazing.
Its. Just weird to hear someone talk about the early 2000's like it was an era..need for speed underground was my childhood. Final fantasy X, shadow of the collosus, wind waker too..and much more than that
StoneTheMason Music 2000 was 20 years ago
Dude Shadow of the Colossus was my JAM. Favorite game of all time, hands down. Crazy to think how long it's been
Crazy to think how time flies. 2000 was 20 years ago and I'm just 24 yrs old (almost 25)
7:00 All the visual issues with Asterix and Obelix are most likely caused by there being no Z-buffer. Basically, the system has no way of knowing depth and just draws stuff in the order given to it by the CPU. The PS1 had the same thing going on. don't want to call it an issue though, it adds a lot of charm.
Lol underground got me on the "Trap Muzik" album by TI when I was a little jit 😂😂😂
10:08 huh
Sonic?
As in the hedgehog or speed?
yes
240x160 pixels, 16.78 MHz ARM and 384k total ram!!!!!
These games are pulling off graphics that would be mind blowing on a 33 MHz 386dx with 256K of video ram and a 1M of main memory! That system could barely play doom!
The smw port is actually good! It also comes with super Mario (the old one, not super Mario bros) It’s called ‘super Mario world: super Mario advance 2.
I think the Asterix 3D might have been done with affine sprites which is how Sega Saturn's 3D worked
I recently played the Driv3r port for GBA cos my mate has it. I was surprised at how similar it felt to the PS2 version
wow out of all places i would have never expected to find the game i played on a arced machine inside a hotel in Ibiza 20 years ago i always thought it was crazy taxi but it was smash and drive wow
You played it in a hotel in Ibiza??? that is so cool
1:57 Oh NFS, i thought it was the ps4 version of cyberpunk
Love seeing games like this which really push the hardware to its limits :D great vid!
Quite impressive for GBA hardware.
Stuntman on the gba was impressive and actually s very good game. Have you played it?
Regarding Smash Drive, having in mind what is the power of GBA and what is the overall quality of the graphics, I wouldn't be able to finish a game on that system if it is more than 30 mins long :D When a game is not capable of being enjoyable for a long time, better make it short and good in that way. If I like it that much, I'll replay it, play a sequel, or in the worse case search for something similar, but not f king tired and annoyed by the game, hating it for killing off my time.