Driver 3's weird GBA port - minimme

[@SpeedySPCFan]

1:50 It's a problem with the engine using affine texture mapping instead of perspective correct texture mapping. When rendering in software (which Driv3r GBA has to do because the GBA has no hardware to handle 3D rendering), affine mapping is much faster. Not a big deal with modern CPUs and computers, but for older computers and hardware it's a trade off. I imagine the developers were probably fine with this since getting the game to run anyways is a hassle; I remember hearing that the devs wrote all of their DS games in assembly to make them as optimized as possible, so what you're seeing with these games is likely the best the GBA has to offer. You can't do any better than this, short of putting an extra CPU in the cartridge or something.

[@minimme]

Interesting, pinning this! (also everyone check out speedys channel for dope reviews pls)

[@Redhotsmasher]

Speedy The Driver 2 port (basing this solely on the short clip in this video) seems to have done perspective correct texture mapping (or perhaps some kind of fancy raycasting) though.

[@SpeedySPCFan]

It's true the Saturn had it, but it was to a much lesesr extent and some games even did a great job of hiding it. I did a review on the Gundam Blue Destiny trilogy for the Saturn, and there's practically no warping in that game.

[@HS_Merciless]

What about Payback? The game looked almost like true 3D rendering.

[@VeryStrongBoy]

i thought the texture / model warp on the ps1 was because it didn't have floating point capabilities?

[@Bale4Bond]

5:50 Nice's beach is in fact made of gravel. The french devs of the GBA-port corrected the mistake made in the main game.

[@diegodelavega2468]

About the beach in Nice, it is indeed a "rocks" beach instead of a "sand" beach in real life so that would explain it for what you see at 5:50

[@killerxkombat]

Diego De La Verga???

[@jerkwadmcgee2135]

jajajajjaa

[@RowBlanka]

Diego de la vega youre absolutely right

[@FrankieHiltz]

I enjoyed Driv3r. I musti've been only 12 at the time, but I remember liking it. Probably because I wasn't an adult and didn't have critical opinions of stuff. I just wanted to crash into things, do jumps, and kill people haha :p

[@ironpanther2420]

Fucking A, man lol. I was about the same age and I remember being blown away by the graphics and damage physics in this at the time. My cousin and I spent whole summers playing this game. Until Parallel Lines came out, then that was king lol. Funny going back now and playing them and wondering what kept you playing for hours on end just doing random shit. But you made the best of what you had and nowadays the nostalgia attached to these games can't be replaced by any other game.

[@AdolfHitler-xp1nx]

my favorite thing was spawning a mack truck, hooking up a trailer, and going 18 wheel inertia drifting in the streets of nice :)

[@catacrack9445]

@@ironpanther2420 Same man and same age hahaha, i think i had Driv3r and parallel lines because my parents know GTA was too much, but didn't have any clue about this two.

[@CyroLemon]

when i was a kid i liked driv3r a lot, but years after i played it again, and now i hate it

[@DeadNoob451]

Same here. Got the game with some video game magazine and just liked the atmosphere when driving around randomly. Physics also were fun to mess around with. That + open world driving always got me as a kid.

[@3DSage]

I like to program for the GBA and seeing how much they did here with such slow hardware is nothing short of amazing. Programming magic.

[@GamingXPOfficial]

3DSage hey what if you overclock the gpa to its best and play choppy gba games or if you can overclock and turn render distnace up in the negine to see if it works

[@GamingXPOfficial]

3DSage ik the second one might be impossible

[@GamingXPOfficial]

Iron Head-Ed wow i was just gonna change it but injust saw this about to hit confirm...guess i witn change it

[@GamingXPOfficial]

Iron Head-Ed yet

[@Tae-Joon-Park]

Yo it’s 3dsage! Are you goingvto make Minecraft so you can accualy move around n stuff?

[@sciencelad1]

Glad to see i'm not the only one who enjoyed Driver 3, a bit of a guilty pleasure

[@haydenscott3808]

Don't feel guilty, we were denied a game with great potential and I think that's one of the reasons why some of us enjoy it, I hope a Developer is able to pick up the I.P. and remasters it to give the proper time that was required to make it successful in its own right.

[@neubauerjoseph]

I loved that game but I feel if it had a little bit more content and let the story develop a little bit more I feel like people was lost.

[@TheDesiGaijin]

I loved it, just a bit miffed both of my PS2 discs get stuck after a certain point in the story.

[@ironpanther2420]

My dad and i were in a fledgling Circuit City back in 2006 and I happened across this game in the discount bin for $2.96. I being a broke 13 year old and owner of Driver 2 on the GBA, was ecstatic at this find and proceeded to purchase it knowing nothing about the port. Let me tell you, I was blown away at what I ended up getting for that meager sum. I played the crap out of it, getting well into the Nice portion of the game. Shortly after, I saved up enough to buy my very own PS2 along with Driv3r and consequently didn't pay much attention to this port outside of car trips. Still love it though for giving me a near PS1 quality game anywhere I went. it'll always be special to me for that.

[@BetweenTheLyons]

Iron Panther this is how I used to feel about playing Driver 2 at school, lol.

[@NucleaRaptor]

One of my favorite things about gaming is getting to hear stories like this.

[@VortexStory]

Love this video. It's cool to see other KZbinrs talking about this great game, especially in a good way ! I hope you will do more content about the DRIVER Franchise, it deserves that.

[@mrscantparry]

I thought I was the only one who genuinely loved Driv3r.

[@UnwiseWings0973]

Me too. I spent so much time playing that just exploring and taking in the world. So nice how you could adjust the weather and time too.

[@midwestspleeno]

Benjamin Carmine I love it too man!

[@mikedawolf95]

I somehow did

[@JayBirdBlu_117]

*I TOTALLY LOVE DRIV3R!!!*

[@shredguitarob]

i love it too!

[@ProdCharles]

Really enjoyed this video! Had no idea a port of this existed on GBA :L

[@GameRevo]

Damn, that was interesting. I had no idea this game existed. I especially like how you showed off the company's past GBA games to give it context, and went into how similar the maps were, and how playthrough videos used cheats to get by. The fact you put in so much time into such a frustrating game is impressive. Whilst I like your 'graphically impressive' videos, I think I prefer this deep-dive format.

[@minimme]

Thankyou! I think I prefer making these, too, though it's certainly a lot more effort. Also, your channel is really cool and I hope it grows and you keep working on it :)

[@GameRevo]

Aw, man, that warms my heart. Genuinely. If you have time to spare in watching something (or if you already have!) then I'd love to get some pointers.

[@minimme]

I've seen most of your recent ones! My favourite is the Outrun 2 one, I dig. I'm bad at advice and consider my growth to be a fluke, and a lot of this is luck, but my one pointer would be to focus more on content that randoms would click on, like your videos that have 1k+ views have really interesting "I want to hear this guy out" sort of premises, or people just like Steam sales. Lean more into content people would want to see, rather than content you want to make. That's definitely a tough balance though that I struggle with heaps haha I'm spitballing a bit but ye, hope it all goes well and you're heading in the right direction anyways so don't stress too much and keep on making content because it's good!

[@GameRevo]

minimme Thanks for the help! Gonna think this over, now. I have to say, I don't think your growth was a fluke at all. There is an element of luck to KZbin, but it takes skill to make stuff that keeps people interested. That's what you're doing.

[@AlphaZeroX96]

Don't call users randoms. Anyway, I hate PC fanboys.

[@sloppynumber12]

10:40 "coming up on 20k subscribers" I thought "this must be an old video" but it was published yesterday...?! I've been binge watching these videos and i only just saw how few subscribers this guy has. props to youtube algorithms for finding obscure well-made content for me. subbed.

[@amox]

same here.

[@techboy1997]

If you destroy all the cabins in Miami, you unlock an Ammo Box in your apartment. So you never have to farm ammunition again. Great video!

[@emdotrod]

It is one of the most ambitious GBA games ever Too bad the clunky controls make it hard to beat

[@michaelhall736]

Ardimo Harsa I couldn't even get past the mission where you're supposed to follow the police cars.

[@televisionandcheese]

The range for the car following was so much too small!

[@adlerkoning6480]

LOL Its funny how I remember this and Stuntman as the only two good driving games I ever played on the GBA... In fact, I remember trying Driver 2 and some other racing games my friends had and hating that most of those had "clunky controls"... that probably were fine while I was so bad I needed clunky controls to play at all... LOL

[@AlessandroCussino]

Try Street Racing Syndicate for gba. When you learn how to use the controls and let your eyes have abituate to the choppy framerate ... the game looks GORGEOUS !!! (it looks very similar to a ps1 game).

[@xmm-cf5eg]

I'm a huge DRIVER nerd, grew up with 1 and 2 as my first car games! I'm kinda mad at myself that I never new a gameboy DRIV3R came out. Great video.

[@Ostnizdasht206]

I loved Driv3r back in the day. I spent hours in the theater mode.

[@minimme]

Likewise!

[@FRANK45CASTLE]

CyberRonin me too, now ps4 has quite a few games with photo mode and i take so many pictures. Always loved a game with these features.

[@bluesrocker91]

Same... I put it on a few weeks ago and found a movie I'd made on it about 12 years ago. Blocking all the traffic with a bus parked on the drawbridge, then opening the bridge and watching the chaos unfold. Fun days...

[@CoenvanVugt]

Me too man, me too

[@redlight2573]

yes Driv3r was one of the best looking games ever out of all the games back in the day. and it still holds up.

[@michaelhall736]

A glitch occurs during the mission where you have to follow the police cars if you're playing the PS2 disc on a PS3. The car you're supposed to follow will crash into a building, making it impossible to complete.

[@michaelhall736]

@turk._.alhamad So this happens with emulating it in general.

[@toshineon]

Since you mentioned it, I just have to say that IronFall: Invasion is a damn impressive game for a 3DS game. Looks great and manages a constant 60 FPS.

[@_Adie]

Just wanted to let you know, I really liked this video. I don't have anything meaningful or insightful to say other than that, really. It's simply a really good, fun to watch video.

[@minimme]

Thankyou!

[@Mahoromatic]

You should review Driver: Parallel Lines. That game is forgotten and nobody reviewed it.

[@minimme]

Someday!

[@iluvmyswamp7948]

I loved it

[@dellstudio10]

I've still got the original strategy guide to that game I bought over a decade ago. That reminds me, I have no idea what happened to the actual game or where it's at. Oh well...

[@NucleaRaptor]

Subscribed within the first 30 seconds of the video. I think that's a new record. Something about your tone of voice and comedic timing just instantly let me know I'm in for a good time. Keep it up.

[@minimme]

Ayyy thankyou so much!

[@ninjagolf]

I love your videos. They are really cozy and informative. Have you considered making a video about the Tony Hawk GBA ports? Keep it up!

[@minimme]

Thankyou! I'm planning on making a video about them sometime :)

[@NIGH11]

Another great video on a great channel! A really interesting topic! I hope to see more of these for other systems!

[@allissondiego1989]

This is the channel that made me buy a GBA.

[@madpandahat]

I love your videos. Your technical , you talk in detail. Please keep it up!

[@minimme]

Thanks!

[@POOKISTAN]

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of power devs got out of the GBA hardware...

[@Gman941]

My resentment of Driv3r has subsided over the years, I've really come to love it. It was probably more ambitious than anything Rockstar was doing. The cinematics alone were impressive by today's standards.

[@samz8691]

A thing you didn't mention, completing the side missions fully (all of them in a city) will unlock rewards at your safehouse GTA style, its also the only way to get the other weapons than the basic pistol.

[@mazda9624]

I've been watching this channel since the Max Payne review and I just can't believe that videos this high in quality come from a channel with this few subscribers

[@grant9235]

Share your love for the Driv3r :) I remember trying this on GBA emulator and was very impressed by it at the time.

[@WheeledHamster]

Great content, looking forward to future similar videos.

[@MatrixPanda]

your videos on GBA games are definitely my favourite. :)

[@daviddeltoro1808]

Sweet dude, minime is back

[@Titouskylive]

Fernando Velez was such a great dev. I was so sad when i heard he passed away.

[@washaa]

Until I saw this I believed Asterix & Obelix to be the most technically impressive game on the system. Excellent video.

[@qbmac2306]

GBA version got Nice right. It actually does have a gravel beach. And it's as painful to walk on as you might think.

[@sheriffaboubakar9720]

Honestly i think Driv3r on GBA is shitty

[@kurt129]

@@sheriffaboubakar9720 well I could agree because the dang cop(mission)you following will destroyed by those dang traffic car,but hey,I like their efforts in it

[@kclink1579]

10:13 When you said that title it sounded familiar so looked at the Eshop thing on Switch and it is actually out now minus the of in the title. I'm sure that is the game.

[@crunchychips8123]

I wonder if the warping around the screen edges is an attempt to save CPU cycles and/or memory by not recalculating perspective on surfaces that are close to being culled (giving up on anything partially-occluded at the screen edge, rather than waiting until they're entirely-occluded), or if it is an unavoidable artifact produced by using a technique similar to displacement- or height-mapping to fake a lot of the 3D, which just breaks down when approaching the camera at extreme angles and/or due to strict limits on bit depth or FP precision for calculating vertices. Has this dev ever detailed their techniques for emulating 3D on the GBA?

[@minimme]

I'm not well enough in touch with graphics tech to completely understand this, but I pinned a comment which has somewhat of an explanation of this. I'm gonna look more in to it though, it's pretty bizzare

[@xmm-cf5eg]

I know games like GZdoom also have the warping issue in certain rendering modes when you get near walls and objects, seems like a similar limitation.

[@crunchychips8123]

Yeah, I read that comment last night. The easiest way to describe affine texmapping is like trying to apply a Mario Kart/"Mode 7" linearly-scaled bitmap to a poly/triangle - it only works if two of the poly's vertices always share the same z-depth. The moment you transform the poly 'diagonally', so each vertex occupies a different z-depth, the illusion breaks down. You fix the perspective by essentially "Mode 7"-ing the bitmap a second time, only along the opposite dimension, but this kind of bilinear operation chews up more system resources. Affine texmapping was the favourite bugbear of PS1 owners, although they tended to conflate it with poly 'jumpiness'/seams, which were produced by a separate issue (some really aggressive integer-rounding of vertices - either to save memory or simplify the maths). I don't think affine texture-mapping can explain this, though - or at least not all of it. I figured that's what we're seeing on the ground, and affine texmapping gets exaggerated towards the screen edges - but it gets more broken, too. The squiggly lines on the roads you expect, but I've never seen affine texmapping result in that very coherent 'tunnel-vision' effect from the buildings/walls. The ground may be polygonal, and vehicles and trees are obviously sprites, but I'm not convinced a third technique isn't being used for the buildings. They may be manipulating simpler objects to emulate depth and complexity (more visible in Asterix and Obelisk than in this), like displacement, but the math gets funky at extreme zooms and angles. There may be some kind of filter over the whole scene to correct perspective for one thing, but breaking something else. It is possibly similar to ray-casting (think Wolfenstein 3D, 1D columns of pixels being stacked like a picket fence, stretched vertically and moved horizontally), or even an advanced form of it, given the very limited degree to which the camera can pitch up or down (does the game *ever* show a fluid transition from a top-down perspective, and if so, do the buildings and walls spaz out or collapse?)

[@FairFuse]

I first saw Asterix and Obelix XXL for GBA in another video of yours, and just had to get it. I mean, a 3D platformer on GBA? Come on. I eventually managed to get it (I guess living in Europe helps) and finished it. When looking for other similar games, I saw the same developers made a Driv3r GBA that also looked incredible. I also managed to get that one and just finished it, nearly 100%ing it (bar one trash bag). I must say, it wasn't the easiest game by far, but this review made it sound more difficult than I though it was. Getting all of a particular collectible in Miami allows you to maximize your ammunition at your spawn point, so that helps. But I imagine if you'd only go for the story missions without any side missions (to unlock better weapons) or exploring the world to come across more ammo (and remembering where on the map you can find a lot in one place), it would be much harder.

[@PSXDRIVERPLAYERBSTH]

Heyy, man, me maps are in this video. Though them maps were made for GameFAQs and Neoseeker got me permission to post me stuff in there kek. Thanks for the shoutout man. I have emulated that GBA DRIV3R game to completion, I can say too that it's annoying at places. At least resetting the game also gives the stuff back to the world for the player to re-collect. And the bonuses from side missions completions and pickup thing completions help too. I also somewhat like the version that came out on PS2, Take a Ride is the stuff with all the glitches and cheats.

[@minimme]

Hey dude thanks for making those maps, I should've got in touch beforehand! How long did it take for you to make those maps? Were any collectables particularly hard to find?

[@PSXDRIVERPLAYERBSTH]

You like me maps eh? Good. Didn't do those in vain then. I don't get people contacting me about me work, though then again, some of it goes to great detail about things. DRIV3R is not the only GBA title to get guide stuff from me, in fact. Here's some insight: As I couldn't find anything online on those secrets, I screencapped the whole map, put it together, travelled to the locations of the things, took shots, pasted the blip positions on the correct spot and made the numbers and added the legend. And zoomed the final marked map to x2 size. Uh, I started the Miami map in 2016 actually, and the first revision was done in summer 2016 (took a small amount of time to do after finding all them items), which I posted to GameFAQs (I don't have an account on Neoseeker, they've asked me permission for having me stuff on there). To this day, the Miami one gets almost all the views, I don't know why. Then, making the Nice map took a long time, not only because I searched one bloody item for ages while playing the game through, can't remember which bag it was (and I was lazy and there was other stuff to do). I then eventually finished Nice Map (a year after Miami map pretty much) and made an update to that Miami map, that's why it seems that they're both made in 2017 kek. For some reason I remember listening some funky jazz while making them maps. Which I also do while writing this. In other news, let me tell you a small story. So I've seen yer stuff before, left a few comments earlier and stuff. So I saw this video thingy recommended to me for some reason. So I said to meself "What is this" and then suddenly, me wild maps appear. What a surprise that was. Reminds me, too bad I don't have them clean ones anymore.

[@navyhusky2020]

A 3D open world GBA game. I have officially seen it all.

[@spidermaster360]

I just got this game a few weeks ago. It is my favorite gba game so far. I have not made it to nice yet.

[@RA9935]

The Driver series is probably my most favorite "driving" genre of video games, aside from Hot Pursuit 2 and High Stakes (Playstation versions). I'm really hoping one day the series gets revisited one final time, or at least remaster 1 and 2 for consoles/PC

[@testname4464]

To quote the late, great Saul Myers: "I used to kick ass at Driver 3, so I won't have any problems with this mission."

[@minimme]

this is so obscure i love it

[@testname4464]

@@minimme kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaCopoSHoayNibM An hour long review of it by Tehsnakerer. He also reviews both White Gold and Precursors in two other, equally long vids.

[@wrenegade2638]

This is pretty dope. I’m also a big fan of Driver 3! Definitely unfinished, but I had a ton of fun with it! I’m bewildered as to where my copy of it ran off to though, considering I’ve always collected and rarely ever sold anything.

[@Paniekzaaiertje]

5:50 the beach is made of gravel because IT IS ACTUALLY GRAVEL IN REAL LIFE.

[@perfectlyadequate1166]

This is a great video man. You deserve more subs than you have. Good to see another aussie on youtube too.

[@AlessandroCussino]

HI MY FRIEND ! Thanks Minimme !!! Thanks to you i found the second map of driver 3 for gba that i never found until today ! Months ago i found all the collectables in the second city "finishing the game 100%" ... but with difficulty (without the map). Great work dude !! Keep going like this. P.S. For me the real two games that really push the limit of the gba are Street Racing Syndicate and 007 Nightfire. (especially the first one made by the italian developer Raylight, ugly framerate ok ... but the game looks like a damn ps1 game).

[@minimme]

Ayy always good to see a long time viewer! That'd be super tough without a map lol, that's the last thing I'd want to do. I enjoyed making this video and want to do more like it :)

[@AlessandroCussino]

minimme Thanks, it's a pleasure also for me. I know, the game it isn't exactly "mr playability". And actually the maps are nearly fundamental to found every secret without going mad. FANTASTIC !!! (^_^)

[@KingEddo8]

Driv3r was my childhood. Played this game so much, I managed to break the fan on my PS2.

[@Mr.Pallanza]

_First few seconds in_ *_"I unironically love Driver 3"_* Me: *_VIOLENTLY MURDERS SUB BUTTON_*

[@hugopolo-lecoffredugeek8318]

there was a GBA Driv3r game ?? WHAT ?! Thanks for this discovery !

[@rileynewton17]

at 1:07 you passed by the cul-de-sac where a free awesome car was waiting in a garage

[@Aravzil]

These games looked amazing considering... It's a damn GBA! I remember when I bought DRIV3R for my GBA SP. Good memories man.

[@IkesDaddelbox]

4:10 I did not realize how close the GBA version is to the console version. Holy crap!

[@michaelhall736]

I first played this game twelve years ago on PS2. I still have that disc and it still works. A lot of the missions were just too frustrating so I just used a cheat to unlock Istanbul. I loved playing around with the drawbridge in both Miami and Istanbul and trying to find the hidden cars in Take a Ride mode. And I loved doing stunts at the arena, flipping my car over and just wrecking the shit out of it.

[@noserex9695]

Omg ty 4 foot reveal

[@jakereason8095]

sure but now what do we ask for :/

[@AdamThomasMusic]

I completely get your love for Driv3r. I had it as a kid because I wasn't allowed GTA and I loved playing it even though it had issues. To this day I still see it as a flawed masterpi.... well maybe not a masterpiece but a fun game none the less

[@minimme]

haha it's a flawed almost masterpiece, like they were close!

[@Clay3613]

I never knew it was unfinished, it was my favorite Driver at the time.

[@KingRocco7]

Spot on lol my mom wouldn’t let me play gta either so we rented this game and I fell in love with it. Back in the early 2000s, it was difficult to find an open world game that didn’t have a lot of mature things in it which was why I loved this game so much. It’s funny how when you’re a kid you don’t really think about every little thing, you just enjoy life. I miss being a kid sometimes.

[@JayBirdBlu_117]

*I TOTALLY LOVE DRIV3R!!!* I love it when KZbinrs continue to #keepdriveralive or #keepdriv3ralive

[@boubibouba6203]

I'm always fascinated by how some programers can easily (in comparison with others of course I mean) create functionnal 3D games on GBA. Those games are not that good, but the effort has to be praised

[@Melodes_official]

Is there a sountrack from ĢTA Advance at 4:54?

[@scott4550]

The Nice beach looks like gravel in the GBA version because in real life it's a shingle beach - it's made up of pebbles rather than sand. So really Driv3r got it wrong! Great vid, thanks for taking me back haha

[@Tae-Joon-Park]

As someone who got the gba version yesterday and I heard a lot about how shot it is I have been totally amazed by the game and the old graphics are beautiful and even tho it’s said the missions are aweful and driving is boring I don’t think so I have come quite fond of sliding through the gaps between cars and the graphics are beautiful

[@purplequi9962]

Hi, I'm that guy in your discord chat: I think I like the GBA version over the other versions is just HOW they managed to put Driver 3 mostly onto a GAMEBOY ADVANCE. I think I respect it more than I like it, whereas with Driver on the PS2, Xbox, etc. it's ambitious, but thanks to the fact that it's unfinished, it was too glitchy to be enjoyable.

[@minimme]

I agree, I don't really like playing Driver 3 GBA but I love what it does

[@FellianTheDragon]

2 things I noticed on the GBA version: - The arrow representing you on the map seems to point in the same direction regardless of which way you're facing (probably indicating which way is North) - The walking animations are better than the console version x3

[@renatico7733]

Just bought this title on ebay, can't wait to play it on my gba sp!

[@MetalHeadMat666]

I had absolutely no idea they made Driver games for the GBA! I grew up with those games hardcore, it's a shame about Driv3r's end result. Great vid!

[@christophertamez7474]

I’m a Miami native. While Driv3r isn’t a perfect replica, the game did a decent job replicating some of our major landmarks. The GBA port did a great job considering if you keep the console’s limitations in mind. It’s still worth at least one solid play through.

[@frowlinian8175]

Driv3r was on the PS2 wasnt it? That game looks incredible even today, and I seem to remember the driving being very fun and in combination with the movie camera and the vehicle damage (i love me a decent damage model) i played this game for hours as a kid and loved every second

[@minimme]

that's the one yeah!

[@Coletanm]

great video. congrats on your success.

[@minimme]

Thanks :)

[@danielnile1455]

Love your videos man I hope you get more subs

[@live_kaito_reaction]

What's your thoughts on driver San Francisco?

[@minimme]

Fantastic game, poor sequel. I might do a video on it sometime!

[@IAMSOCONFUSED]

First Video seen from you. Nice and Clean Speaking. Subbed.

[@cntrn-ti6xy]

I always played DRIV3R on my Xbox when I was younger. It may have been rushed to hell, but it was still entertaining to do stunts with the vehicles.

[@monowavy]

I used to play driver 3 on the PS2 as a kid for hours and hours and hours... you're not alone.

[@horvathgergo6998]

Got this game shortly after its release. I did not really care about how frustrating it was because I was so blown away by its graphics. Looking back it is still insane how they reproduced those 2 cities on GBA. It would have made the port a lot better if the driving controls and physics were more refined. I also missed the option to replay the missions like in the original version. By the way I played it through on the original hardware 3-4 times and even got a 100% save file to this day. Not sure if I still have the patience to do again.

[@richardsinclair7661]

Did you emulate your PS2 footage? It looks really clean (it doesn't have the murkiness that PS2 games usually have due to the crappy resolution) and the textures look smooth.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

I love these little games that force the GBA hardware to make graphics (or sound or whatever) which it doesn't have a native hardware to accomplish. I like the little workarounds. I also think it looks cool. Point is though, it makes you think about how they managed it. It is also like having a "second chance" at nostalgia. The Amiga (a500 or a1200) was my "fanboy favourite" but alas it went to the wall. You could (and still can btw) pimp it out. Even just doubling (or quadrupling)the CPU speed and adding an FPU would be cool. The usage of an FPU in Pre-calculations (or 3D splines and ploynomials, calculus, z-buffer etc) is an example of how you might just about get the driver2 graphics (if you fling in better RAM and a hard-drive and CDROM). A good example of the atrai falcon doing similar is "atari quake" (if you search youtube for the video).

[@steiwher]

5:53 the beach of Nice is actually stones and gravel instead of sand

[@VortexStory]

As a DRIV3R's youtuber (yes it exists), i find your video very interesting and well made. You don't say "uurh driv33333R is so bad look at those glitches", you are more tempered. If you like "real life comparison", you should check what i did with Miami and Nice with the real shops and ads in the game (with a better version coming soon). Also, what did you use to record DRIV3R PC ? It looks stunning !

[@toxicpersonalityincorporat3137]

I hope you talk about Driver 2 GBA sometime. I really enjoy the PS1 version, and would love to see what you had to say about its handheld counterpart.

[@loganjorgensen]

That actually gives you more credibility in my books, ironic enjoyment of bad things is the plauge of the future. :P It's mostly the performance overhead of the software rendered texture mapping that the perspective correction took a hit with so much warping IE. GBA not really a 3D platform, they could have improved it but the frame rate and draw distance would suffer.

[@cifolotto]

I remember having so much fun with playback mode and slow motion jumps with Driver 3, I really enjoyed it ahah

[@osvaldovidela6466]

hey dude i have a problem with my driver 3 it doesn't show the cutscenes and in some parts of miami niza and istanbul is very glitchy is the screen only

[@yewjun1]

Great channel. Great video. Great voice 😍😍😍

[@Twinspinner]

I had V Rally 3 and I concur, definitely my most played GBA game. The graphics and gameplay for such a limiting console were amazing

[@ivanangelov8825]

Nice video. One thing I noticed is that most of the people haven't played Nice in this game. When I was 10 I bought Driver 2 and haven't reached Rio and Vegas, which means I missed 50% of the game just because of it's difficulty. And the game was expensive as hell at that time.

[@Goose21995]

Dude i loved driver 3. Ya theres some crazy bugs and it may be a little stiff but like u said it was unfinished and had it been finished, it would be groundbreaking. It already kinda was with. Each bullet hole u made on the car was unique and stayed there forever. The way the hubcaps fell off when u hit a hard bump(been around since driver 1). This game truly was a more vehicle focused gta.

[@alef321]

fun,informative, good stuff.

[@Octolicia]

2:19: Wow...imagine if Spyro was like that...

[@davidscritchfieldds]

This game is definitely impressive. I actually think the GBA is capable of even better though. EA did some incredible things on the GBA. 007 nightfire, the need for speed series ect. They used actual 3d engines, which ran at a solid framerate. And the blue roses engine, used for smashing drive, wing commander, a resident evil 2 tech demo and probably some other things, was a 3d engine which used polygonal models for EVERYTHING. I can't remember if you've mentioned all those in your other videos, but they actually impressed me more because they didn't use sprites.

[@def-c_616]

Which port of DRIV3R is that? It has pretty good resolution for a game that came out on XBOX & PS2

[@innoclarke7435]

I'm guessing it's the PC port, which came out the following year.

[@minimme]

Yep, PC port, which defaults the 'fire weapon' button to num5. Amazing.

[@def-c_616]

minimme Were there any precautions before playing the game or does it run just fine? Cause I wanted to play it, but I debated getting the XBOX OG or PC port.

[@minimme]

I had some minor framerate issues on Win10 that I didn't look in to fixing, but no problems running it. It even supports widescreen!

[@def-c_616]

minimme Thanks for the info, gonna look for a copy once my PC's defective graphics card gets replaced in the warranty.... *I miss my PC*

[@jmoney1139]

This channel is lit

[@minimme]

Ur lit j money ;)

[@jmoney1139]

minimme thanks Boss

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

You just don't see this level of effort anymore. The amount of work people used to put into portable game ports is just incredible, astonishing I mean can you imagine if you can put that much effort into a switch port or an N64 port or GameCube port. We did see some of that with the Wii where they actually pushed it and prodded it and created things that were incredible for a system with its capabilities. Sure the PS2 had some truly astonishing work done as well on some of its games to make them fit/run and be fully optimized, but I think the DS and to some degree the 3DS might be the end of the days where they truly pushed what the system can do to its absolute limits. I have to say up coming during the 8-Bit and 16-bit eras I get a real appreciation for when people put in real serious back-breaking labor to making games work and perform and look to its up most you see the effort and see the quality and you just don't see that anymore.

[@midge_gender_solek3314]

On j2me there is also Driver: LA Undercover and it also has graphics a bit like these. Loved it as a kid.

[@deaconfoster5255]

4:40 it sounds like you used the sims bustin' out's ps2/xbox travelling loading screen soundtrack.

[@GameStationTrey]

I loved flipping my car over at the beach in Miami and Istanbul hills, running people off the Miami bridge seeing them fall into the water was funny, good times. Also the storyline and soundtrack is great

[@macos-brasil1814]

i've played this game a looooooot when i had my old GBA. i was tired to play pokemon and zelda and start to get some differents titles and start to getting this to play and, OMG, this was a very sick game at that time. Those days, this 3D was really a big deal so i've played for a very long time feeling the power of the GBA graphics :)

[@ShinoSarna]

I guess comparing GBA Driver 3 to Grand Theft Auto Advance, we can clearly see that game design and making game fun is MUCH more important than graphical and technical fidelity.

[@ShinoSarna]

Yeah, I much prefer GTA 1 myself. But it's definitely better than Driv3r GBA, though.

[@josef733]

The thing about driv3r is that it actually has some good moments and is genuinely fun at times. The driving is still solid and was light-years ahead of any GTA at that time. The soundtrack and cutscenes/story were also well done and interesting. The shooting bits are the main flaw due to the shoddy hit detection, movement and lousy feeling of the guns.

[@iggy9790]

The replay editor was the best part of the game. I some priceless replays.

[@DmitriyK12]

Driver 3 on the Nintendo GBA was a success as far as I am concern3d; my onlg gripes were with the removal of the 3rd city, Istanbul, and the change in the narattive. Other than those minor foibles, I really enjoyed driving around a 3D version of Miami and later Nice (again, the ommision of Istanbul had to hurt sales wise). If only Driv3r on the Nintendo GBA included actual side missions/tasks like taxi , courier, delivery, races against other cpu opponents, paramedic, and undercover police officer missions...then this title would def. outshine the console counterpart. The golden bars as collectibles, and checkpoint races were Tanner has to hit a certain number of orange cones are a nice touch but it just was not enough to make this a handheld system seller.