Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as coverage of an impressive 3D game port on very limited hardware.
What it is
Modern Vintage Gamer looks at OpenLara, an open source Tomb Raider engine, running on the Game Boy Advance. The video explains how the port achieves playable speeds on the GBA's slow ARM CPU, with input from the developer XProger.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends skibz · 2022-01 · on “OpenLara”
I found some fascinating coverage of the OpenLara project, specifically for the port of Tomb Raider to the GBA. [this video]
Recommends jamesgeck0 · 2022-10 · on “The lost art of handheld demakes”
My favorite handheld port is this fan-made port of Tomb Raider to GBA. It's not even a demake, just a really optimized re-implementation of the engine. [this video]
Cites alexisread · 2022-07 · on “Apple ][ "Lemmings" Proof of Concept”
You can get a measure of the performance from doom2 on an a4000 [LINK] 12mhz arm2 on a vga monitor (so slower fps than composite). Some other impressive feats are tomb raider and quake on the GBA (16mhz arm7tdmi), halflife on the Falcon, and Dread on the St and Amiga. [this video] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK]