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How I failed to make a game: Raycasting on the GBA

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133 points mcejp | 4 comments | 15 Oct 24 22:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | source
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eig ◴[17 Oct 24 19:05 UTC] No.41872754[source]▶
Shockingly enough it is actually possible to do decent ray casting and much more on the GBA despite the incredibly minimal compute budget.

Joshua Barretto has been working on a GBA port of Super Mario 64 with entire 3D levels, characters, and movements. In my opinion just incredible work:

https://youtu.be/9mUsgJ-HiDM

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1. chpatrick ◴[17 Oct 24 19:53 UTC] No.41873137[source]▶
The one that blew my mind as a kid was Need for speed underground:

https://youtu.be/36U2xN-196c?si=T7xSCeKxss_at3S0

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2. dmonitor ◴[17 Oct 24 21:18 UTC] No.41873905[source]▶
I distinctly remember Spider-Man 2 on GBA having a 3D overworld. It was my first introduction to the concept of "low framerate" in a videogame haha. Incredible what people were capable of doing with the hardware back then.
3. Dwedit ◴[18 Oct 24 02:32 UTC] No.41875883[source]▶
I'm more impressed with the song "Get Low" ending up in an E-rated game.
4. Newtonip ◴[18 Oct 24 20:53 UTC] No.41883398[source]▶
The one that blew my mind was Payback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wApAbxZY9k

It's GTA1/2 clone with an overhead view of a full 3D world.