A Look at Doom and Doom II's Impressive GBA Ports - Port Patrol

[@Krystalmyth]

I'm playing Doom for the GBA on a PC. Beat that, Atheists.

[@robertadamsx2]

I played a fan made gba doom for the snes.

[@MustyHam]

Im playing doom for the GBA on my phone

[@qhsvshsh]

Lol sending this to my atheist fan lol

[@anonymousgaming5212]

@@MustyHam me too playing retro fps games like doom and duke advanced on the phone is so fun

[@stonervideogamedungeon2105]

IM PLAYING DOOM FOR GBA ON A 2010 MACBOOK

[@BlockABoots]

Its incredible that they managed to get a graphically better version on the GBA than they did on the SNES version

[@GugureSux]

GBA has a decade newer tech AND actually better specs than SNES, so it's not exactly a major accomplishment. An accomplishment none the less, especially when the whole idea of "mobile gaming" at the time can be summarized into "Snake" on Nokia phones, and the Pokemon games.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Halfway through making this video I tried out the SNES version, thinking how bad could it be. BOY WAS I WRONG

[@BlockABoots]

Yeah i guess so the only thing that lets the GBA down is the audio chip used, i believe they couldnt use the Sony chip that they wanted and ended up with a compromised one

[@paulerlingheuser8453]

@@GugureSux snes has better hardware. Why donkey Kong country was worse on gba

[@kek857]

Paul Erlingheuser no, it doesn’t. Look it up.

[@RWL2012]

David A. Palmer: "I did the Game Boy / GBC versions of Gex 2 and 3, so naturally I went on to do the GBA version of DOOM" - lol!!!

[@saidian2246]

My old teacher certainly did a lot of varied projects lol

[@Monody512]

"…almost 8-bit sounding version of the original soundtrack…" Well that would make sense, considering the GBA uses an 8-bit sound chip. "…the secret level of episode 1." >Shows the secret level of episode 2.

[@CherryPixelBun]

Ummm ACKSHUALLY in Jaguar-based versions E2M9 was moved to being the final level of Episode 3

[@bylethdimitri7042]

YYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@LucasD45H]

8:27 IGN in a nutshell.

[@Zedek]

13:22 - This is because of DooM's greatness. There are two armor types in the game: Blue and Green. The blue "Combat Armor" sucks up 2/3 of the damage while the "Regular", green armor only reduces 1/3 of the damage dealt to your health value. That's the reason why you get 200%, as it would be depleted so quickly. If you have a heavier protection ratio (66% of the blue armor vs 33% of the green), of course you need higher armor numbers to widsthand that increased damage deduction. However, that causes a problem with the fact that you can not pick up items when 100% or above (> Same with Health pickups). It can be strategically valuable to override a green armor with a blue one even though you might want not to when you see you have e.g. 50% armor left, but then you also just wear 1/3-deduction armor which can be deadly in boss fights. In fact, you can survive full rocket blasts with a combat armor while you might die with a green one if the RNG dashes out too high numbers when you are being hit. Back to topic: The blue armor (combat armor) that gets you to 200% so you can't pick up the green one because the green one stops at 100%. So you can not reset it with a green one when you are at 100% and above armor because offically, you have 200%. The game says 200% and thus ignores green armor, while actually it treats you like with no armor at all. The game's buggy code can't thus be "woken up" by re-calculating the armor value by picking up a green one. The helmets ("armor bonusses") ADD to the CURRENT armor you have, so you can keep the 2/3 protection with the side effect of remembering the GBA port that you actually do wear armor by poking the engine awake. On the PC, this is neat because this way it prevents you from accidently picking up a green, 1/3 damage dedcution armor over your 2/3 damage deduction blue armor by simple logic (as you are above 100% but the green one just does up to 100% and the game simply refuses to pick it up and accidently "downgrade" from the better combar armor to the weaker regular armor) Regular helmets count as 1/3 damage deduction btw. But only if the blue armor is neither replaced by a green armor OR fully depleted. So basically, as long as you have 1% of your blue armor left and pick up armor bonusses, you can upkeep your 2/3 protection despite the helmets are 1/3 in itself. Phew...

[@jehru5]

Awesome summary of how armor works. Small correction: blue has 50% damage go to armor, not 67%.

[@ClaudioVarone3299]

4:47 ...you son of a-..

[@jontech7]

I'm glad you're still making videos! I played Call of Duty on the DS (all of them) back in the day, so I've been a big fan since seeing your videos on them. Port Patrol is a great series

[@oscarruda7200]

Completely agree

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Awww thanks guys!! Well I'm happy to say that as part of this sorts channel reboot I'm doing, I'm putting much more emphasis on Port Patrol this time round! So I'm hoping o make a lot more of them now! :)

[@clashmanthethird]

I really don't see what's wrong with the soundtrack

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Perhaps I picked a bad example to showcase it, but certainly on some of the longer levels, those songs really did start to drag haha

[@marcustrelle4898]

@@LEXXPortPatrol Doom 1 is the port with bad music. Doom 2 is far better.

[@felixvsevil8783]

I think that it has its own spin on the music! Its still not as good as the real music, its ok though...

[@eebu4053]

i am aquiring a shit

[@Tae-Joon-Park]

Hi just reminding you that there are idiots out there who see old comments like this and chuckle over it and you would never no

[@hongquiao]

Doom II on the GBA was my first Doom. I was 14-15. The graphics blew me away at the time. Sweet innocence, where hast thou gone?

[@Master_Wario]

Same

[@Curlyheart]

I ate your innocence.

[@hongquiao]

@@Curlyheart Nah, online porn did that a long time ago.

[@Curlyheart]

@@hongquiao no, it TOOK it away, I ATE it.

[@MUSiCK9]

..was that HDoom? *good taste.*

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

:^)

[@phusantrans]

@@LEXXPortPatrol where?!

[@zayJax]

fuck i thought it was HD Doom not... that

[@Grimmations]

Agreed!

[@roscoejustros7080]

ahahahhahahahahahahahahh "good taste." l0l people crack me up sometimes

[@GermanPeter]

Wow, I just found you and you seem like a really professional KZbinr. Stellar review, really great work! Entertaining AND informative :D Also, I played through Doom 2 on the GBA at least 2 times, and I never noticed the armor bug, and even the texture blur was never too obvious for me. I suppose I was just thrilled I could even play the game on the GBA :D Something you didn't mention however is the bug that once entering every new level, you automatically switch back to the next weapon. That means that in the very first level, you just have your FISTS out. Imagine playing the game for the first time. Would you even realize that you HAVE a gun? That was a really annoying bug in my opinion.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Ayyy thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it! :) Oh wow, I guess we are flipped then because I noticed the armour bug like instantly but never noticed that one :O

[@GermanPeter]

Very odd indeed.

[@BX56_YT]

Omggg it’s German Peter!

[@luzroja29AKApeyo]

ey piter como estas

[@JennyTheNerdBat]

Finally, somebody who called out Doom II level design. In retrospective people often forget that levels in Doom II were frankly quite crappy at least for the half of the game, with vast unused spaces, overcomplicated mazes and cheap traps everywhere (unlike the one in Doom I, where everything was tightly interconnected and had its purpose on the map)

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

I'm so happy I'm not the only one who feels this way haha. I played Doom II for the first time this year and god it was SUCH a disappointment after blasting through 1. Doom 1 managed over the top levels in Episode 4 just fine, but Doom II went way too far

[@Kippykip]

I actually felt TNT: Evilution in Final Doom was way more fun than Doom II

[@SeekerLancer]

Doom II having inferior level design is kind of popular opinion (though Doom episode 3 is generally considered pretty lousy too). They were different games though, Doom II was the start of Doom being more about the flow of combat than mazes and that carriers over into Plutonia. The added monster variety and the utility of the super shotgun to deal with it is where Doom II really shines and it's got a lot to do with Doom's longevity.

[@BogusmanTheSwagman]

Honestly the only thing that justifies DOOM II being as it is is the addition of the Super Shotgun, but I am not a fan of the level design, and also, OG DOOM did have levels with a ridiculous number of enemies, but those levels were less abundant than in DOOM II. DOOM II is like the Sonic 2 of the DOOM series, adds great stuff, but also brings with it quite a bit of bullshit.

[@alfiehicks1]

@@BogusmanTheSwagman That's exactly how I feel. Both sequels introduce so many things that would become series staples, but ultimately fail to rise above their predecessors because the developers didn't know when to stop, so quality control took a major hit.

[@alexh2790]

Something that I dont think was mentioned in the video is that Doom 1 is clearly just a port of the earlier Jaguar version. You can tell this by the reduction in textures and where they're used, the altered level geometry, and the removed features. Doom 2, on the other hand, was built from the ground up for the GBA.

[@joshn2564]

1:58 Mind Blown!

[@TDRR_Gamez]

4:46 why I played Doom 2 on the original GBA and it ran amazingly well, not as many slowdowns as shown in this video (that doesn't mean it didn't ocassionally slow down)

[@Team_Orchid]

I know I'm almost a year late with this buuuuuuut it might have been because he was playing on a DS instead of an actual GBA. It wouldn't be the first GBA game that has issues with running on a DS. Megaman Battle Network 4 has a mission outright crash on you if you play the game on a DS.

[@Zedek]

@@Team_Orchid Wouldn't wonder if there are tricks and hacks that require the actual hardware to run properly and the DS just emulates the GBA hardware. Games (e.g. Sega MegaDrive games) often tricked the hack (no pun!) out of the console's VERY specific hardware and abused quirks only available to a very certain chip. If that certain chip is not available, you have to emulate, and as soon as you emulate, errors might happen. For example: I had a MegaDrive emulator running on my PSP as homebrew. The MegaDrive has 8 MHz main CPU (and a Z80). It runs "Road Rash" fine. Very many tricks used, but fine. On the PSP homebrew, if you set it to "accurate render", it would be laggy. The PSP ran at 333 MHz. So what the 8 MHz natively did was sloppy and laggy on 333 MHz on the PSP.

[@notoknotok]

I actually like the gba version of E1M1. In fact, I like the soundtrack itself. Not better than the original, but I just like it

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

The soundtrack has a charm to it!

[@HallwayMusic91]

This version of Doom was my very first exposure into the game growing up as a kid. I still own it today.

[@nostalgia64d]

Great video bro ❤

[@davidscritchfieldds]

This is a subject I've been watching a lot of videos on the past few days so the timing of this is perfect! I've been playing these ports lately, and I have to say I've enjoyed them!

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Ayyyy glad I got the timing good then ;D

[@aspecialvisit]

The GBA did not have a separate sound chip, so high quality audio would actually cut into the processing power used the render the graphics and run the logic of the game.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

That explains a lot actually, thanks!

[@HansVonMannschaft]

You're wrong on the resolution. Something to do with the 3d meant it actually ran at half the resolution of the GBA.

[@JamieTheEnby]

4:47 hold up 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Really activates those almonds, eh

[@BLANKPRODUCTS1]

When I was 13 I really wanted to play the original doom but I only had a garbage MacBook Pro from school. So I couldn’t get the official pc version but I was able to get a gba emulator and I played the shit out of doom 1&2 on it.

[@doomdoomerson6524]

FUCK YES... I LOVE REVIEWS OF THIS GAME IN PARTICULAR. YOU ROCK. ONE LIKE , ONE SUB, BEFORE THE VIDEO STARTS

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

HAHA, THANKS!

[@Aegianlulz]

Cool username and avatar bro

[@MrUKRAINEC]

I think the sound is okay, it even adds something that is so retro

[@Pin3C0ne]

Keep making amazing content man. You deserve more subscribers for sure!

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Thanks man!!

[@IkesDaddelbox]

As far as I remember the GBA versions were the very first Doom games to be displayed in stores here in Germany. I was about 15 - 16 years old back then. The first time I saw Doom II on the shelf, I knew I had to try it out. At first I only rented it, but later I liked it so much that I eventually bought it. I do remember the abundance of traps and cheap enemy placements, but it was never really an issue for me. If anything it kept me to constantly be on my guard. Then again, I've always been a glutton for gaming punishment. Just those Lost Souls can go bugger themselves in the snatch. I also remember that level of detail problem. It threw me off a little bit at first, but after a while I got used to it and I ended up shrugging it off. Great video, very in-depth.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Ah thank you! It's awesome to hear from someone who actually played it when it came out!

[@icantaim4sht836]

You have to bear in mind that most gba games were made for and tested on frontlit and nonlit screens. On those screens, the graininess and choppy framerate is nowhere near as visible. Also colors were tweaked to be overly saturated and bright in order to look appropriate on those screens. If you play these games on the "new and improved" backlit screens, you're going to see weird neon colors, super grainy textures and choppiness. The only games I can think of that ever looked like it belonged on a backlit screen is Max Payne, and maybe some cartoonish kid friendly games.

[@deusexaethera]

They really should've cleaned-up the sprite bitmaps to make them clearer on such a low-resolution screen. Yes, that would've made it look a bit more cartoonish, but if they did it right it would've been better.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Yeah it would have made for a much cleaner looking game! Especially the HUD of the first game could have really done with some extra polish

[@thehorrorhound6575]

I am just now discovering you by my surprise to hear DOOM had GBA ports and you were the first video in the search when I searched DOOM GBA. You seem pretty interesting and I like that you show interaction to your comment section and you seem genuinely pleasant so consider me interested in checking your back catalog 👍🏼

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Ahh thank you!! Deffo one of the best parts of being a smaller channel, I love seeing everyone’s comments and always try to reply if I can and have something to say back!! :) hope you enjoy the rest too

[@jaymzx2587]

How is your channel not bigger? Love your content man, great stuff! Also, love your style

[@johneygd]

No wonder his channel isn’t bigger because of those annoying generic parts and that he is talking like a sort of clown,wich really annoys me pretty fast,and whether that is his whole selling point of his videos or not,i don’t care about that!

[@zogmorp]

The level design in Doom 2 is an upgrade from the first Doom.

[@bhardnavares5903]

Upgraded but most of the time cumbersome and some areas are just unnecessary to be there. But still fun.

[@cacklecough320]

eeek i didnt get a notification for this ;/ awesome vids as usual :D

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Thank you!!!!

[@MegaHellstrike]

Damn that resolution makes anything past medium range look like it's content not suitable for minors. I mean then again it's DOOM, so kinda fitting I guess??? Thanks for not making the game footage fit the video aspect ratio, stretched out to fill the screen it would have become a game of count the pixels lol

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Yeah I thought I'd be merciful for this video ahaha. Still looks a bit messy, but what can you do :P

[@doomdoomerson6524]

MightyPootisFish looks great on a DSlite

[@BogusmanTheSwagman]

>"I mean then again it's DOOM, so kinda fitting I guess???" Fun fact, because DOOM & DOOM II were mildly censored (blood colour changed from red to green, some of the more 'disturbing' sprites removed, that kind of thing, it is actually rated T for Teen.

[@Kippykip]

You deserve more subscribers fam

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Thank you!

[@nybb65]

Oh your back. Welcome back!

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Took me long enough haahaha!

[@cristianmastrocicco4552]

I wonder how official DS ports of Doom 1 and 2 would've been

[@Plutonic_Blue]

Underrated port for sure. I remember owned a copy of both doom and doom 2 back when GBA was the only way to play doom on the go and I fucking loved it. DooM II being basically a near perfect pc port was really impressive

[@4Wilko]

11:45 - It's a Pain (Elemental) in the ass to slog through.

[@diggy5884]

The thing is, Doom GBA's soundtrack is all remixed

[@SkyfallHD36]

Good video, that armour glitch in Doom 2 really killed the game for me

[@SturmAH]

One thing I would add is that turning was "a lot" smoother in Doom I than Doom II on GBA.

[@someguyfromiceland1581]

I bought the same copy for the same price. Totally worth it

[@Pikachip]

You're back! heck yh; awesome video ;o;

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Thank you!! ^v^

[@lordhawkridge4116]

Found DOOM GBA for £5 in a charity shop, it's terribly dated but I'm glad I got it

[@michaelridge8876]

Nice! I found Doom 2 GBA for 50p in a charity shop yesterday, best find of the week!

[@puxadinhodoluri]

well, about the resolution, I think we must consider the screen is really small and that in the original size it doesnt look so bad.

[@puxadinhodoluri]

and about the music... it's weird, but the gba has an 8bit soundchip (but it can play samples). that's why it sounds like an 8bit soundtrack. rs

[@Athesies]

Happy to finally hear a review acknowledge the awful music in the doom 1 port. That transition was so damn disappointing

[@adultmoshifan87]

Just found that the iOS version of Doom, which I don’t have, cannot be played on iOS 11! I know this because it showed up on the App Store before I updated, but doesn’t now! Good thing I opted for the GBA version, which I got in 2014, instead!

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

The iOS version was actually the first version of Doom I properly owned!

[@Demonanimator]

Far more entertaining then a simple review. GBA doom and doom 2 yeah heavily flawed but the best option when seeking physical copies of the game.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Thanks! :) And yeah when it comes to Gameboy games I really don't like emulating them if I can, it feels much better to play legit

[@KepalaMonyet]

5:37 - You should have said: "Really, what kind of person would you have to be to go and DOOM that?"

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Damn, I missed my chance

[@zombieplasticclock]

Subbed, hope you do more videos like this. It's always interesting seeing devs ghettorig games to work on lesser hardware.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Thanks dude! And don't worry, more are on the way!

[@kmcombine4773]

thanks for the reviews

[@buddercreep3r763]

Was playing this yesterday. Yes, i am a waste of human skin. Nice to see your back!

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Well I'm glad I'm not the only one playing it then haha ;>

[@doomdoomerson6524]

BudderCreep3r I play them on a regular. No bad feels

[@jehru5]

What are the controls? Like, how are things mapped? The answers I find on Google are conflicting.

[@HipsterBlackMetalOfficial]

I thought the elephant in the room was the fact the blood is green and not red.

[@TarminatorSalvation]

Huh, this reminds me of the Duke Nukem 3D GBA port. You could even do a vid on it to compare,

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Funnily enough, Duke Nukem Advance was made by the same people who ported Doom 2! It's on my list ;)

[@snodude6466]

It was also not a port of Duke 3d but a completely new game that reused the assets of the original

[@cainanneedham9022]

Man, I played the hell out of this game on my SP as a kid and I don’t remember the resolution being poor at all. Crazy.

[@bhardnavares5903]

I agree with you with the level design between DOOM and DOOM II. Even me who has played the two GBA versions of it and also the mobile versions, I find the first DOOM to be tolerable in terms of their levels, puzzles, and traps cuz you know that it's there and you will not fumbling around in rage try to get past those. DOOM II on the other hand...oh boy... While it was still badass and fun but it was just the first DOOM game that got me in a state of frustration and rage just looking for those overly complicated mazes and traps.

[@glyphic1219]

how did you swich wepons

[@josef733]

I'm always interested in impressive GBA games, i'll be hunting this down

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Hope you enjoy!

[@noahallyn2234]

3:40 "You've caught me playing a little bit of Gameboy Advance SP..." (Holds up Nintendo DS)

[@blaketindle4703]

I got Doom for GBA back when it first released and it's so good I still play it occasionally!

[@noaogburn8341]

Thinking of getting one of these two, which one would you recommend for relatability and gameplay?

[@AlphaBlaster1337]

"...if you have a love for weird and impressive ports" I do, actually. I bought both GBA titles, the Playstation releases of Doom and Final Doom, and the Xbox Original versions of Doom 1/2 and Master Levels. The Playstation one is by far my absolute favorite with its ambient tracks and lighting which are pretty phenomenal, coupled with its pretty good performance especially considering the console it runs on. I also really like GBA Doom's OST. Apart from E1M1 and Kitchen Ace it has a very nice chiptune feel to it.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Oh man yessss, I want to try out Playstation Doom so much it looks great.

[@LoveatFirstHike]

Someone recently worked on a Tom hack for both versions that fix nearly all the quibbles, you can even find bootleg carts with the patched roms floating around occasionally

[@LoveatFirstHike]

Fucking iPhone is autocorrect.... ROM hack lol...

[@LoveatFirstHike]

What do you think of the Duke Nukem GBA game btw?

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

I also saw some people just straight up re-ported the game to GBA, which is so funny to me! Duke Nukem Advance I haven't really played a lot of, but it seems fine from what I have! Made by the same people behind the Doom II Port, so I imaigne it'd be pretty good, just never gotten around to really trying it out yet :)

[@bonciutalentadv7599]

This series is like Puching Weight

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Ahhh, I'm a big fan of that series!! :)

[@aneelahuja1212]

How did u move the camera? Did you use the shoulder buttons?

[@juancho650]

4:45 did you seriously need to show me that, im gonna need to bleach my eyes again

[@Charlestouchdown]

Good video. Laughed at the Jojonium's on the bookcases btw.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Gotta rep my JoJos

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

Can you turn the game music off whilst playing?

[@dfgfdsfsdfsdfds5349]

the first doom on gba and the 2nd doom both have elements that make one better than the other in certain ways

[@lancebaylis3169]

The fact that they exist at all is pretty incredible. But that said, I do think their ambition - porting the entirety of Doom 2 - was a little too much. They probably could have looked at other ways to pare it down. The fact it has features that are missing even from the Playstation port is remarkable, but seeing how frustrating dealings with the Archvile is here, maybe losing him was a good thing. Just anesthetically too, I'd rather a port with no blood than green blood.

[@crobinson2624]

Looks better then Doom on the SNES.

[@thex9165]

for texture mipmap thing, i think it's not to improve performance. Concerning the resolution, walls far away with no mipmap feature will just look like noise

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

I suspect so - and I could be looking at this biased. Emulating these games, I think the extra noise the original version had worked in its favour, but had I played Doom 2 on orignal hardware maybe I would have preffered the mipmapping. Either way, turns out nowadays you can have the best of both worlds, as some fans actually made a texturepack of the GBA version of Doom 2 that made it much more in-line with the PC original.

[@project45yt]

The Sega handheld thingy ran it phenomenally if I’m not mistaken

[@tiefighter3445]

Great review. I bought Doom 2 for GBA and it has flaws but is still an enjoyable experience. One of the biggest flaws is when you are too far a distance the enemies will freeze in place and you are unable to shoot them from far distances. I guess this was to save on memory but it sucks especially for the level where the spider mastermind and cyber demon are in this giant room in the beginning because on the pc I use to love to get them to both fire on me where they would hit each other by accident then kill each other but since there are limitations on the GBA I can't do that. I've gotten killed like 5 times because the cyber demons missiles are so fast and hard to dodge. Also, I forget what level it was but it's where you step off a small ledge into a poison floor and it activates a few tiles to rise up and you keep doing that till it creates a zig zag bridge to get a switch I believe well the first tiles are fine but the next few ones after that have the poison textures on them still and so you get hurt. Ha ha! That wasn't in the original. I've also got a glitch with the chainsaw where i switched a weapon after using it on some imps and the chainsaw sound kept on going for the entire level. Also a bit of slow down for opening doors sometimes and when there are a bunch of enemies on stage but all in all pretty fun.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

I suppose when you jam so much content into a GBA cart, youre bound to get some issues, but these glitches sound funny in a weird kind of way!

[@clinteastwood6875]

You actually are able to shoot them. Just has to be with the rocket launcher or plasma. And yes, it’s a cheap advantage for the player that enemies from too far can’t move or attack.

[@CiudadanoUruguayo]

Basically gorefree Doom, yes, I'm weird, I don't like gore...

[@stewie5531]

5:44 what is the music pls?

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

banjokazooie5555 it's the Seinfeld theme, but ran through an mp3 to midi converter :)

[@datdankdj8264]

The Specters are there in DOOM 2 on GBA…idk if it’s in the first one though

[@everythingthrice]

5:36 for 13 dollars I can get both Doom and Doom II cartridges for the gba

[@obvioustruth]

I love DOOM 2 level design. It is awesome! :)

[@Ltarget_]

OH MAN MY BOI IS BACK edit: video is a good a funny :okay emoji:

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

it meeeeee

[@RowdyAF]

Here's a fucked up story, I didn't know about Gzdoom or any of that as a kid, instead I played this version on an emulator on my pc........

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

When I was kid I played a version someone ported to Flash hahaha

[@GugureSux]

While I consider the GBA ports passable (with 2 being objectively superior), the heavy censorship enforced by Nintendo does gnaw away quite a bit of the style and enjoyment of the games. Not to mention the D1's port's maps are based on the shitty, simplified ones of the Jaguar / 3DO port, with many textures and whole areas missing. Which is exactly why GBA Doom2 is superior, no matter that they had to use extreme LOD effects to make it run OK.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Yeah the censorship was kind of a bummer. Although funnily enough, in Doom 1 they forgot to censor the blood and stuff on the end cutscene so its almost like all the demons in the game have green blood and you only have red? Makes it feel more alien in a weird way?

[@TDRR_Gamez]

The LOD appears to be just for saying "lol we got mipmapping on a GBA game what do you guys have?" Because Kippykip found a way to disable it and the framerate barely changed.

[@marcustrelle4898]

Why does everyone have a problem with the green blood? It is still there, it just has a different color. That is minor censorship.

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

The reason levels are cut up on Doom I is because they’re based on the Jaguar version, that presumably cut up levels because of memory.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

It's weird how so many of these early Doom ports were based on the Jaguar version. Like it was the first console version of Doom sure but... The Jaguar, really?

[@VGamingJunkieVT]

One of the exceptions was actually the SNES version, probably because the system was too weak to just onload the Jaguar version onto. As a result, it actually had more faithful levels and the two boss monsters.

[@Rodockery]

Played alternate version on Pc. Good Game

[@marsted2]

Lol, I know you're probably done covering doom 2 gba but... This channel called kippykip made a patch that makes it less bright and doesn't look as blurry in the distance, along with uncensored blood. So basically it makes it look as close as possible to the PC version, I've only seen it in videos but I plan to check it out myself.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

Oh wow that's some commitment right there. I might have to try it out hahhaa

[@Capcomgirl25]

Basically Doom II on GBA is the equivalent of Doom on the Super NES as they both seem to share the same problems. Yes, both Doom Super NES and Doom II GBA are impressive ports for what they accomplished but at the end of the day they are still piss poor especially when compared to Doom GBA and the best one of all the PS1 version. Its good thing I skipped Doom II GBA and instead played the PC version on Doom 3: BFG Edition for Xbox that includes both games and the Master Levels.

[@Capcomgirl25]

I was blown away when I played the Master levels of Doom II and I might have to revisit them again to see if they are better the regular maps.

[@mr.p.rushivangp_i1288]

What botton do you press to change gun??????

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

I think you hold down R+L and go through them with the D-Pad

[@maxhadanidea]

4:46 cyberdemon lookin fine ngl

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

Very curious about the Audio Card on the GBA... Technically, it's newer then the SNES by far, yet the Music in SNES Doom is... well they only good thing about SNES Doom... GBA was 32bit and had a much faster CPU so... Surprising that they decided to nerf the music so badly.

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

It wouldn't surprise me if they put so many resoruces into the graphical side of Doom, that they just couldn't afford to do much more than just basic music processing? Either that or perhaps limited space on the cart itself?

[@erikmeraz7141]

The music chip used on the SNES was pretty state of the art at the time. I believe Sony developed it for Nintendo, and it blew Sega's sound chip out of the water. As for why they couldn't get something on par or superior on the GBA, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe to make the GBA as affordable as it was?

[@eduardood]

3:53 Wow they even made grindcore songs for this port

[@danverit783]

4:47 holy fu- how did anyone not notice that.

[@SnowKnowsShow]

how do your write like this, its hilarious, way to go man

[@LEXXPortPatrol]

With my fingers usually ;3

[@bugrasevinc9696]

Hello, do you know the channel "Scott the Woz" ?

[@statiichydra1351]

Why was the demon blood green?

[@YaelMmar]

To make the rating lower instead of being rated M it’s rated Teen

[@user-li4yn5qj8x]

Can someone now tell me what's better? Doom or doom II

[@MustyHam]

I just need to know how to change ur weapon on DOOM 1

[@hellsfirefreedomtube6984]

They came out with Doom for the GBA?