GBA Minecraft | Pushing The GBA to the Limit
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I have been teaching myself to program my own games for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. I was challenged to program a simple 3D Minecraft style block building game on this old and slow console and it has been a fun and rewarding experience.
I hope you like my progress so far and let me know if you want me to make more updates on this and please list a few other games you might like to see simplified down to the GBA!
Thank you for watching! - Ігри
Anyone interested in Zelda Ocarina of Time on the Game Boy Advance!? :)
Yes!
yep, just subbed for it. don't let me down
@@Mirauge Thank you for the sub! I will try not to let you down. :)
I’m more interested in mario 64 on a gba! I challenge you
Yes!
Also a step by step GBA programming tutorial sound fun!
yes please!
Ok I am glad to hear that! I will work on making a fun and simple tutorial on the GBA! It is rewarding to play a game you make.
i would love this as well
@@3DSage immediate subscribe then!
This would be awesome. I recently got one, and this would be cool.
I'll be posting a new GBA demo in the next few days! :)
Oooooo
Also, could you make that tutorial you mentioned in this video?
RELEASE THE ROM. ITS OBVIOUS THAT THIS IS PROBABLY FAKED BECAUSE YOUVE REPLIED TO LIKE RANDOM 2 LIKE COMMENTS AND HAVENT EVEN COMMENTED ON THE TOP ONE ABOUT RELEASING IT
@@Ducky-cf8dr you're not entitled to these dudes work he doing it by himself and let my mam work
@@C0ZYL4ZY if you look closely, you can see that its just running off a gba video on an everdrive. its an animation
Take it from an old school programmer that what you did here, this close to the hardware is absolutely amazing! I love it so much, great job
Wow that means so much to me so thank you for saying that!! :)
@@3DSage Yo man, I really want to congratulate you on doing this insane project. It's crazy. But I think you are missing something, and that something is making this project open-source, or at least publicly available. I've been trying to learn 3d programming (using DevKitARM) on the GBA, and this would be a really helpful resource if made public. I (and anyone else) could learn so much from it. Making a simple showcase is really cool, but it does not help people who are inspired by your content to go out and make their own stuff. Even putting some resources in the description would help.
@@3DSage can you let the public have the rom......
535 likes
nice
@@WolfyRed wow had no idea the comment had that many likes! 😁
Could you make this open source, or atleast make the rom public? I would love to try this out!
Núkley is right please do it
Yes please do
I agree.
He won't. Way too stubborn since he didn't even reply to your comment.
Edit: Apparently I'm a "fucking brat" now because I gave my opinion. People on the internet are assholes.
let the man work in peace
I feel like Terraria is something that could possibly be recreated on gba.
I think the main issue would be the controls, ignoring the graphical limitations (which this guy clearly doesn't give a fuck about lol).
I have no idea how he made THIS work, but since Terraria uses a mouse normally, and dual sticks on console, how would you map movement of the player and the cursor, AND have buttons left over for placing and breaking, and selecting a tool/tile?
Caroline Bell obviously like this Minecraft build. An very vey stripped down version. I think if you simply it enough an terraria like game with an very limited amount of items and still being able to destroy everything and just an couple of boss fights and enemies could be an actual enjoyable game. And if you make it different enough in look and branding it probably wouldn’t get copyrighted.
Caroline Bell Do it like the 3ds and mobile version’s simplified controls. Dpad moves the player and the cursor in that direction. Up let’s you jump, the L and R buttons move across the inventory. A can be attack or break if you have a weapon or tool. B can be to place something if there’s a block in your inventory.
And start can access your inventory which lets you access settings while select can give you that precise pointer thing letting you move the cursor manually while not being able to move on your own
@@Lucas_van_Hout Try re-reading their comment. The issue is not any content of the game like boss fights, items or even graphics, but simply translating the controlls of the original to the GBA controller, which should come first before anything you mentioned.
Mercia I said an simple version. Doesn’t need an full controller. Simpler means less inputs.
OLD 3ds: * doesn't run minecraft *
GBA: allow me to introduce myself
I think the old 3ds didn't have enough buttons for it
@@uklu also GBA can run it with less buttons
@@uklu well with the circle pad pro it did
Well no one bought that so why does it even matter
@@uklu it also has too weak of a cpu and a low amount of ram.
There are some homebrew versions of minecraft for O3DS. It's just that actual Minecraft is far more complicated than that homebrew and especially this GBA port and so consequently needs the N3DS's significant power increase.
Let me guess some guy is gonna be like
“Make Skyrim for the GBA”
Yep
Don't give Todd Howard ideas now!
Yes.
Look above you
Look below you.
Honestly this doesn’t look half bad for a gameboy
Jeff Richards for real, with a 16mhz cpu!
Austin Pierce it’s truly insane how far the gaming industry has come
Advance
because its not its an emulator
@@LandonEmma 1:48 then explain that
you’re the next big thing
that's very kind of you to say so thank you!
Will you be able to make this public?
@@3DSage make it public
make it public pls
Friend: Dude is that a GBA?, nice, what are you playing Emerald?
Me: Minecraft
Friend: ... Excuse me?
Leaf green is where it’s at tho
Emerald dude
Chroma Gaming nah
Smokey Quarts Micah u could get a villa WITH cynthia. Best game hands down
@@chromagaming3523 oh yeah, sharing a place with the hottest champion ever
"Do you want to try it"
Man, this is Minecraft on GBA ! Who wouldn't play that ?!
same thing happened to me
exactly!
Exactly
Put Skyrim on GBA.
That or Todd Howard will do it eventually.
Do you know how hard that would be
GOLDENSILENCE That’s the joke
that would be impossible but if he made part of the game that would be amazing
Eggman is gonna put Grown Ups 3 on it
would be cool if it was basically a DOOM clone with RPG elements
This kind of programming is a type of cool I will never achieve.
I feel the same way man
I’m an aspiring game developer and this is virtually impossible for me.
So the algorithm found you too huh?
if i could code anything i would be happy, i uninstalled unity after one hour because it was too hard for me
Start small
GLAD THE RANDOM UA-cam ALGORITHM RECOMMENDED ME THIS, YOU ARE AWESOME
Same
thank you, youtube
not really random lol. But yes
Fvcking same!
same bro
I never thought that i’ll cry cause something like this
Thank you for the very nice comment! :)
@@3DSage RELEASE THE ROM
That's incredibly impressive, please release the ROM!
P L S
@@nukeekunekumultigamingbruh559 lol
@@nukeekunekumultigamingbruh559 plsss
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@SomeonPC I'm everywhere
I Can't wait for survival mode in The game! 😃
haha yes! I want to try that. That sounds fun.
@@3DSage it would take so long u sure bro?
@Matheus Fernandes please shut the fuck up
Paper Mario asshole.
Some people on this platform are children, which Judging from your profile picture I am guessing you are too! Don’t yell profanities at people on UA-cam, or your mommy might get mad at your dumb fucking ass.
You see, in this comment, I’m being hypocritical and using language only because you have done so beforehand
@Matheus Fernandes no baldi pls
Imagine if somebody had a made a game like this for the GBA during its life cycle, that would’ve been insane
There are quite a lot of full and pseudo 3d games on the gba. Some current game studios developed their first 3d engines on it, if not for the ps1.
Since the gba was one off the first gaming systems that used an arm processor, some of the engines developed for the gba were also used for nokia symbian devices, windows mobile and early android mobile games.
Nokia symbian phones used basically the same cpu as the gba but with better displays and they had 3d games developed for them as well.
The nintendo ds, dsi and 3ds also used just standalone arm processors(10-20 times as fast with way more memory compared to the gba), but still - no dedicated 3d acceleration as opposed to the sony psp which had a tiny but fast separate gpu.
It's my first video that I watch from this channel, dedication and love for videogames are two of the best words to describe this video content. Keep it up! 💪🏽
This reminded me of one of the 50 Minecraft ways to die where the dude is playing Minecraft on the gameboy color
Bruh
Me too
ye he had to press the pi button to open the menu
Yes
Could you send me a link of the video please!
What you did on the GBA is faster than some 3D things I made on my desktop. I never learned optimization, so I nest for loops a ton.
so you did "learn optimization" since you know you shouldn't nest all those loops? why do you do it then :P
@@nonchip Because they don't know a better way to do it dipshit, they just know they exist. This is why they say they "never learned optimization."
@@afruit6720 well, dipshit, that is literally what optimization is though: knowing what's unoptimized and fiddling around till it's better. so since they have done the first part (which is usually the harder part of the two btw) they now only need to try various things to see what improves it.
if it was something one could just learn in a class or look up in a book telling us exactly what to do we wouldn't need programmers anymore now, would we, dipshit?
@@nonchip He right though, ignorance and admitting there's gaps is part of learning optimization, thus, because he doesn't know better, he doesn't know how to correctly optimize
@@dragonslayerornstein387 yeah but that means he *is* learning. pretty much nobody knows 110% sure how to write "perfect" code, but he's already on the way to write better ones. e.g. "i shouldn't use as many nested loops probably" is a great start. though depending on the algorithm it might be inevitable, but then something like "make the outermost loop spawn threads containing the inner loops" might be useful.
my point being: if you already know what you're doing wrong you're at least halfway there. then it's just about experimenting/asking about alternatives
Did youtube change something the whole day I am getting new videos like these all day. Love it ❤️
I absolutely love this idea and seeing the process you went through. Thanks for the great video.
We need Old School RuneScape on the GBA next
Zeke Spears Not with that attitude it can’t.
Well if you're so confident then do it yourself and show us
@@krizi4970 it's clearly a joke.
Sandman Slim I smoke 3 packs a day my cholesterol is very low
@Sandman Slim lol, yes
This is the most impressive thing ive seen in a while
Dont you dare skip it
not only is this a great video idea it's really well paced and super engaging for what could be a life sapping video where you skip to the cool parts. this dude needs subs!
So cool! Working on old game hardware has such insane limits, much respect!
Insanely impressive. Its a shame texture mapping true 3D polyons is extremely taxing. Only a few commercial games pulled it off well and many heavily relied on sprites. Keep going with this dude!
YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE:
The GBA sorely lacked a flight simulator that wasn't sprite based. If you could create a simple map with some hills, a runway, 4 sided polygons for cones for trees and actually program a simple flight model (not accurate, arcade like would be fine), that would be awesome. Im curious what approach you might take for it. Navigating 3D space that rotates polygons in realtime would look super impressive. A good nod to early 1980's where literally every new PC had to have a flight sim to be considered powerful. Your choice, first person or chase cam with a low poly plane. No guages or instruments necessary.
Visual Example I quickly mocked up in Blender: imgur.com/gJ6Nugz
Control scheme:
A = Increase throttle
B = Decrease throttle
L+R = Brakes (ground)
L = Yaw Left
R = Yaw Right
Dpad = Pitch / Roll
Select = Flaps (cycle on/off to keep it simple)
Start = pause
Should you accept, good luck. Im not even sure its possible. If you do it- easily one of the best homebrew hardware pushers.
Thank you! And wow that is a great idea! I like the details you have here. That would be fun to make. I will keep you updated if I make progress on that. :)
You do realize that "StarX" was probably not sprite based ?
@@3DSage cbt is so cool dude radical!!!
Banjo-pilot as an inspiration?
Pilotwings GBA, surprised that wasn't a thing actually
*_The retro future is now old man._*
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Oh my god you're everywhere I am on UA-cam 😂
I make sure to comment everywhere I go 😉
This is insane, I never could have imagined the gba could try to do this
the background music is so sweet
What is name of that music?
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
The potential is present!
yes man Binding of Isaac the game that almost took my entire life next to fire emblem awakening, I just need to finish that son of gun's DLC and also its spotpass chapters
It’d basically already a gba game
Isaac Advanced!
same dude
It's been a while and I'm kinda still waiting on the ROM download link...
This is the coolest thing UA-cam has ever recommended to me. Amazing work, well done!
Wow! That mean a lot so thank you! :)
@@3DSage It's a fascinating project, I hope you keep improving it!
this is amazing
when you have the hability and work hard the limitation is just a group of words and numbers.
great work
meanwhile modern warfare gets 80 gb updates that change nothing
Few things are more annoying than starting up Modern Warfare and having to wait an hour to actually play it. It actually makes me miss the old DLC system where the base game worked without installing new content.
That kind of thing is a side effect of modern assets being so detailed. It's not 80 gb of code that you're downloading, it is 79.99 gb of textures, models, and sound.
@@qwerty81808 but they don't compress the files at all
@@scotty2583 do we know this for sure, and how do we know? The only one of those things that can really be compressed is textures (and technically audio), but that's certainly not lossless.
@@qwerty81808 how can you not see how lazy the devs are when it comes to file compression they pump out these huge patches with like 2 guns in it that take up my whole hard drive like that is robbery
I hope this gets recommended ;3
@@ibuprofenkidneybroken same
Same
omfg what
Well would you look at that
Wow this video is a year old? I just got it in my recommended
Congrats on almost 1mil views.
Would be awesome to see the process of setting up the GBA development environment ready.
For those who like programming and GBA :)
Thanks for showing up in my recommended. This is awesome.
That's really cool!!!! I really want to see more versions. =D
Then I will keep working on it! :)
3DSage can u add a rom file for download?
@@3DSage How far are you now?
This is amazing! I'd love to see a more elaborate version of this.
Thank you so much!
you beautiful soul. in a world thats crazy right now, you're still calmly inventing and innovating. Thank you.
Youre work is truly unique, youre doing great!
I love the idea of keeping old tech alive ! 🙌🙌🙌 Cheers mate for being creative I love this shit! ❤️
Me too! It's a great system and the look and style is so cool to me so i'm going to keep working on it
Very nice job my dude 👍
You’re doing the wizardry Id Software did back in the day
Ah man that's what i feel like! I'm inspired by what they did back then. Wish I could have been apart of those early days but i was just a kid playing their games.
You are great,dude!Keep it up!Your videos are awesome.
This is insane! Awesome work!
This is crazy impressive especially for the game boy advance hardware
Thank you ! It's been a lot of work but it's been fun to make. And I hope to make it even better.
Ye
Great! After an unofficial Minecraft port for PSP (Minecraft PSP) and one for DS (DScraft), one for GBA would be very cool!
minecraft is already on the 3ds but psp would be cool
@@theninjamaster67 Actually, there's Minecraft for the PSP ( ua-cam.com/video/XMiDd4bEfT0/v-deo.html ) and it's really cool! It's a mod of Lamecraft.
Ii think there is a official port of minecraft to the psp
This would have been AMAZING back in the day. Good job!
I remember getting a GBA back in the day and I remember thinking... How are they going to beat this technology? Haha
Nintendo Switch: Amateurs
Very easily I guess
Same lol
Me: "Mom can we get minecraft?"
Mom: "We have Minecraft at home."
Minecraft at home:
Still better than bedrock.
Clever
@@kingveggie6729 yep
Veggie Burger Yep
Man imagine the legend of Zelda majoras Mask on this, i would be amazed
Hell yeah, that's one of my favorite games. :)
This is awesome! I'd love to see more keep up the great work!
This is pretty awesome :) great job!
this is amazing, i really like demakes. u could make this into a demake of minecraft (with less block, less mobs, less itens but the same gameplay u show on this video)
Skyrim on GBA when? It's already been ported to every other platform
Skyrim on the Atari 2600 when?
Skyrim for TI-84 CE Graphing Calculator?
skyrim on toaster when?
Skyrim on microwave when ?
Skyrim on my Pingas when?
This is so f****** good you need to make another video on this because it's just that good and you are definitely worthy of million subscribers
Really great video bro! Who could have expected that! Earned a sub +like
Hey thank you so much! I'll release the Textured minecraft soon this week!
3Dsage: GBA isn't meant for 3d graphics.
Crazy Taxi: Am I a joke to you
Yes. Pretty much.
Crazy taxi demonstrated why gba isn't make for d3
@@unknown-vy2iu Doom isn't really "fully 3D" it's just an advanced raycaster, with multiple levels (which I didn't know until recently was actually possible without full 3d, but apparently it is!).
It uses flat textures for walls, which are made of flat lines, and extruded to *look* 3D, and uses regular scaling sprites for enemies.
Crazy Taxi at least tried to use polygons, but I still consider it a failure like most of the 3D attempts on the GBA.
CRAAAAAAAAAZYY TAXI!!
Asterix is imo the most impressive 3D game on the GBA.
"Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey" for gameboy advance would be a perfect fit considering your achievements with 3d.
WHY DOES THIS ONLY HAVE 10 LIKES oh wait 1 day ago
Bruh
Persona 5 as well.
Devon Williams Persona 5’s dungeons are too complex. Strange Journey was made for the ds so It shouldn’t be as demanding. Even then, there’s still revelations persona.
@@uberlephrad8218 Isometric view?
Well done! I wish you the best of luck for things endeavor.
That's phenomenal! I hope I get to play it once you release it
Absolute Quality Content.
Thank you for saying that! :)
damn, i never knew the gba was legitimately capable of 3d stuff besides scaling images in various 3d type ways
It isnt, he had to strain it really hard to do so. Hence the low frames
@@wellsilver3972 it is.
@@Xilog no theres a 3d game on gba that looks like ps1
@@Xilog ill show u
@@Xilog ua-cam.com/video/giIJyBSwvK4/v-deo.html
This is phenomenally good. Well done, man! I, for one, would definitely like to see some tutorials on how you did this.
This is awesome! Congrats!
You are really the 3D sage. Amazing!
Thank you! 😊
I would actually pay to buy a Cartridge with this rom on it.
Well he ain't gonna give you it for free. No duh you'd be paying.
Dan Odden Not particularly true. He could dump the ROM on the Internet. Though it’s his choice on what he wants to do.
@@cmspeckt And if you spent countless hours developing a ROM that teams of developers couldn't accomplish would you even have the slightest thought of giving it away for free? I didn't think so.
@@danodden9783 I would, I mean its good because it will allow for further development, and just dumping it online will allow everyone to enjoy it. IM NOT SAYING HE IS OR EVER WILL release this game for free, its his choice after all. And even then its been 1 year so Idk.
@@Lenception Oh yeah you totally would. And I would run into a burning orphanage to save a bunch of kids. Totally. Get a life dude.
I know the video is a year old, but WOW im impressed that. Some one is still playing on the GBA, funny enough I have a friend in the MMO I play who still played his till the day it burnt out.But wow you have some amazing skills
Wholesome, really enjoyed this
I would love to see sonic mania running on the GBA, or a wiisports tennis, or Terraria.
Terraria would be easy, it uses 32-bit colour and has sprites similar to that of a SNES, so all it would take is some upscaling of sprites an optimization
Disclaimer: I have no idea if it is anything near this simple, this is just my idealized version of it
After that Sonic Genesis fiasco? Never again.
@@aaron_aj_knight_95 Clearly you haven't seen the fan remake of Sonic on the GBA. It was much, much better. But Sonic Mania is quite a bit more advanced than Sonic 1, so I don't know about that.
Someone really really should do a sandbox game on the GBA though, the downside is battery saving. There's no way a sandbox world could be saved on such a small SRAM, right? GBA carts have 32KB, a small Terraria world is 2701KB on creation.
Edit: Oh there's also 128KB Flash RAM, but that's still not big enough.
Homebrew can theoretically make any size save file it wants on a flash cart, but I like to imagine what it would be like with original standards.
@@halotroop2288 I see what u mean with extra sprites, more pixels, smooth slope animations, and 3d effects but all of that could still be achieved because there are Sega genesis rom hacks that achieve 60fps, more sprites, and custom animations and moves that can be run on the genesis, which is a less powerful system than the GBA. I think it could be achievable because astroboy also had amazing sprites that seem to interact with things like lights, and the GBA handled games with 3d too. But I see ur point
Ash Ketchum it did handle 3d, sure. but was it good, fast, or really usable? no.
You would have made millions back in the day with this game, damn
Really solid work dude!
WHAT -- you're insane. That's REALLY impressive!
I never thought I'd see anything CLOSE to Minecraft running on the GBA.
Yet, here we are.
Back when Minecraft used to have those weird filters, I would always imagine the pixelated one being Minecraft on a GBA
Holy shit i had forgotten all about those! There was even the red-blue one for those 3d glasses, good fuckin times, thanks for reminding me!
This looks amazing!
Great content! Especially thank you for the absence of annoying intro,calm and quiet music, and all effort you have put,in project and video!
Can we see how you made you’re own Gba games ?
I will make a tutorial video :)
Your*
@@3DSage Did you code it in assembly or use c++, personally I dont think assembly is too bad for these old systems as the instruction sets are much simpler than on modern processors like x64 and compilers for old systems like GBA and NES aren't as well developed as they are for modern pcs meaning assembly is often going to be the best option anyway if you want to squeeze the most performance out, especially when you are trying to push the hardware to do something it really isn't meant to do like this
C is the most used way of doing things. It is not as heavy as C++, and performs fairly well compared to assembly, so most developers choose it over asm and C++
3:23 That looks really cool :D
Thank you! That's my level creator for the GBA. I'm proud of that. I posted a video of that on my channel too. :)
@@3DSage Cool :D i will chekk it out :D
Great job, Man!
Holy crap, dude, this is incredible!!! 3D graphics on the Gameboy. Wow.
Came here due to a comment you left on a GPI case review video. Just to see if your comment was real or looking for clicks. and boy let me tell yea...
you got yourself a sub. Can't wait to see that OoT GBA (in-progress i assume)
Thank you soooo much!! It is 100 percent real and I know there are people out there interested in this kind of random stuff. I dont know how to reach them so feel free to share the video too. I'm glad you made it here and I will keep working on 3D GBA Games! :)
@@3DSage hey where the rom
Lovely.
"Horizon: Zero Dawn" project when?
Seriously though, this is really nifty.
I may not wanna try this but is pretty good you take it so far congratulations fellow 😁
Please make this public! Your realistic tech demo was amazing! I would love to be able to build and see what the GBA can run.
We DO wanna play the game!
I know everyone's memeing Skyrim however after seeing official releases like Doom and duke nuk'em I seriously wonder what could Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall be like if made into a GBA game
Something about the graphics is very charming! Really cool!
I agree! I grew up with PlayStation 1 games so these pixels remind me of those games :)
yah they're pretty cool, I just wish the rom was plublic
Very good! Excellent work I think you are really cool!
This mad lad literally just put minecraft on the GBA.
Some Loser ikr
Yeah, that's the point of the video
Wow Thanks Captain Obvious. I *REALLY* DIDNT SEE IT
No, he didn't literally do that
@@vinniewasnothere you are a loser, dont you know how much time does it take to make a 3d game on a 2d integrated gameboy?
I would really like to see this project coming to an end i'm really curious
Amazing. Great work!
Thank you! New video friday at 9am with download link :)
This is fucking insane, fascinating and amazing. I appreciate your hard work!
I think that the idea of making a game to gba is just awesome please make a tutorial if you're able to do (sorry if i made any english mistake)
Thank you! Ok I will.
Damn that's neat!
Thank you! :)
yes, it is
This looks great!