Thread 12163993

A bit of a niche thing, but what's your favorite one?
And what's the most impressive one?

Probably sonic battle of the actual games I played through and enjoyed. I think that counts as a 3d game for gba

>>12163993 (OP)
Were you just browsing the same simulant dev channel I was? Uncanny. That Asterix game is possibly the best looking 3D title on the system, but there are quite a few that land somewhere between Sega 32X and PS1 or Saturn tier graphics. Also some canceled games that never saw the light of day because Nintendo supposedly disliked the 3D game experience on GBA and discouraged them.

There was a fully 3D Tony Hawk GBA game.

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>>12164085
Zoomer born in 2000 here. Did you uncs REALLY put up with these sh*tty graphics?

>>12164097
Forgot to mention that quadbike game supposedly uses a voxel engine.

There was a Star Fox clone that was just called Star X, like they couldn't afford two letters.

>>12164105
No. Nobody played this shit. Especially not Assterix (literally who?)

Then there are some canceled driving games some of these look pretty good, like this GP racing game, but the only videos were uploaded in abysmal quality so this is the best we get until somebody leaks the rom.

>>12164123
This canceled rally game also looks pretty good for GBA, but it's hard to see under all the video artifacts.

Does the i-Ninja GBA game count?

>>12164127
And finally there was a Virtua Racing game that looks a little better than the 32X version, but is still way too choppy for something so simplistic, so I can see why it didn't come out.

>>12164115
Asterix is some Europe-only title so of course nobody played it. I remember that lots of kids had these 3D Need for Speed games, for example, though.

There were some pretty impressive top-down 3D games that nobody appreciated because they aren't first or third person camera perspective.

Damn, some of these are pretty impressive. There's also that guy on youtube working on a GBA port of Mario 64. It's kinda cool that he even got it running.

I remember liking the GBA Duke Nukem game

>>12164135
This kinda looks like that one Atari Jaguar game.

>>12164023
Sonic Battle is 2.5D. Have you ever played a beat-em-up made before the PS1?
>>12164105
2/10 bait.
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>>12164159
I had Super Monkey Ball Jr. as a kid. I thought it was borderline unplayable and only popped it in for a few minutes at a time for the novelty between other games.

got canceled but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9va7ugOy5vo

So other than Super Monkey Ball Jr., some more driving games, and a couple FPS raycasters, is there anything else not yet posted that really counts as 3D on the GBA?

This is what I mean by raycasters, pseudo-3D games that can only render vertical walls and can't draw textures on other surfaces. People sometimes call this 2.5D although the effect can be quite convincing.

>>12164526
banjo gruntilda's revenge was created in 3d

>>12164213
>Sonic Battle is 2.5D.

wut. the arenas are 3D polygons and you move in three dimensions. the sprites are 2D, but by that logic, Doom and these racing games are "2.5D".

>>12164537
Correct, Doom is considered 2.5D for the reasons explained above. It can't show arbitrary polygons, it's just using a sprite scaling technique to make vertical walls appear like angled textured surfaces. It's less of a 3D game than something that only has gouraud shaded polygons like Star Fox or Virtua Racing.
But this Sonic game I wasn't familiar with until now does seem to be real 3D. It's not comparable to a 2.5D beat em up so I don't know why that other anon said that.

>>12164537
And it is definitely fair to say that some of the racing games do fall into that 2.5D category as well. The Need for Speed game here >>12164159 is using a combination of pseudo-3D tricks similar to Doom, Outrun, and mode 7, but there were other racing games that did utilize fully 3D environments like this Hot Wheels game.

Nintendo: GBA has sprite scaling! You know for little flourishes.

White devs:

Oh, who could forget about this launch title, the first game on the system that billed itself as "3D." But I think this one, too, is just using sprite scaling effects to fake it.

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Speaking of which...

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I haven't played it in 20 years and just remembered that the characters were basic sprites that could only face left or right. Apparently I forgot what the gameplay actually looked like.

This V-Rally game gets mentioned a lot. I'm not sure if it's "full 3D" either but it's definitely doing something more advanced than just drawing walls and floors. Remember that the GBA has no polygon drawing hardware, this all has to be implemented in software on the ARM CPU.

>>12164576
Holy crap! This game wants to think it's Star Fox, but it's closer to Space Harrier.

>>12163993 (OP)
Idk if this counts but if so it's probably the best one. It still plays pretty good all things considered. There's a Serious Sam game on GBA as well but it's not nearly as good.

>>12164526
this is probably the only 3D GBA game I played for more than 5 minutes so I'm picking this one

>>12164127
The RayLight/BlueRoses people were absolute fucking wizards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuMcCJkS5ZI

>>12163993 (OP)
>Millennials looked at this and said "the GBA was basically a portable Super Nintendo"
It was a culture shock to find that literally everything they said about games was wrong. Pic unrelated

>>12164127
Holy shit. I think what's most impressive to me is the draw distance going on there. Even discounting the skybox being designed so well to match the terrain, that's some fucking wizardry.

>>12164167
did they rip the sidewalk textures directly from GTA1?

I liked Ice Nine on the GBA, the levels were pretty advanced for a gba fps, good controls, levels even had elevators and shit and they managed to implement a sniper rifle with a functional scope

>>12164612
hot damn

>>12164534
What a title

my favorite was (still is) DooM. Sure it got hated on for not being as good as DOS DooM...but i loved it for what it was. I Couldn't go anywhere without it as a kid.

>>12164115
>Especially not Assterix (literally who?)
Asterix and Obelix are very famous. Of course Americans are absolutely ignorant.

>>12164115
Pic related.

Does Lord of the Rings Return of the King count?