Bringing Super Mario 64 to the GBA: A Technical Demonstration of GBA’s Capabilities
Someone is trying to bring the classic Super Mario 64 from the Nintendo 64 to the Game Boy Advance (GBA), and it looks incredibly impressive given the hardware constraints.
The Project and Its Progress
The modder, Joshua Barretto, explains that the GBA is significantly slower than the N64 and lacks native support for floating-point numbers, which makes his task even more challenging. However, he has managed to implement a basic physics and collision system along with a fully 3D camera, texture-mapping, and transparency support.
In a recent update, Barretto introduced Mario models into the game. You can now switch between characters such as Yoshi, Luigi, and Larry using pause and select on the GBA. The environments have also seen a significant upgrade with additional graphical details and new mechanics from the N64 original like swimming, sliding, enemies, and stars.
What do you think about this project? How do you think it will compare with Nintendo’s official port on the DS?
Cool idea…but…why? :P
Why the fuck not?
As ive said before, because. A lot of things happen just because they can happen. Also, the dev probably enjoys making it and its also good to get reminders sometimes of how inefficient modern software usally is.
So preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think that they should
Also a sense of pride and accomplishment
Honestly, impressive as hell. It’s obviously not done but it looks far better than I thought could be managed on a GBA even as-is.
I follow this guy since day 1.
Of Nintendo had him back in 2000, we would definitely have gotten a SM64 GBA version
