The Impossible Port Marathon

[@philfriethegamingguy7759]

I love ambitious back ports. I tend to pick them up even if they're worse, its just so impressive

[@skycloud4802]

Same. Plus they were sometimes the only way to play them in portable form.

[@OverNightLuthier]

Same even when I'm playing on emulators, I'll prefer to play the "demake" version cause it impresses me more.

[@sebastiankulche]

I think some of them due to their differences or changes in the level design can pass as different games so its a good excuse to replay your favorite games, with a new coat of paint.

[@stevenlockhart9255]

You’re an ambitious back port

[@JuanxDlol]

Me buying doom eternal on the switch because its an achievement that humanity managed to fit that in and make it run at 30 fps.

[@mikeyp4690]

God damnit I was just about to stop procrastinating.

[@ubernaffa]

Spawn Wave's video just went up, as well. we'll definitely get to work SOON.

[@dobbersanchez1185]

Craaaasstt

[@Whiskah]

Capcom requesting additional features late in the dev cycle pushing release back, then screwing the developer over for the extra time it took is absolutely disgusting behaviour.

[@stephenelliott7071]

*this*

[@DragoonMS]

That's Crapcom for you. And Nintendo was no help, either - by the time they put out a larger cartridge RAM (or ROM) size, Crawfish was already too deep into the development of SFA3 Upper to switch it up.

[@markianclark9645]

That's business Unethics for you..the standard practice of we make money not friends..we'll use you abuse you and dispose of you..aren't humans wonderful creatures to work with..when companies don't need you anymore they'll get scummy Corporate Lawyers/Legal Eagle people to do their dirty work and dismissals..and you'll get letters and documents..and wish you'd never gotten involved..

[@MisterXiado]

That's some Bethesda-level [TERM CANNOT BE USED ON GOOGLE SERVICES].

[@retropuffer2986]

That 80s clip of people playing Dragon's Liar at the arcade brought back memories. They wanted 4 quarters to play when most games were 1 quarter. There was a line up to play and the arcade had a monitor on top so people in the crowd can see what was going on. Good times. 🐲

[@seantreherne]

Man, I am so into your content. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to make new videos. I've seen all of your impossible port videos and I'm going to rewatch the full marathon anyway!

[@r7ndom]

Suggested alternative title for this video: Amazing stories of video game porting to fall asleep to. In all seriousness, I will probably listen to this video four or five times in the next week while going to sleep. It is packed with some great stories.

[@MichaelButlerC]

To MVG -- Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thanks for the years of great and informative videos!! 🎉🎉

[@mrwasi99]

Nice Commodore monitor! I gave mine to my daughter so she can watch her VHS tape collection. Now she's asking for some retro systems to hook up to it. Apple of my eye

[@aiodensghost8645]

NES, SNES, and N64 should be first

[@timmturner]

I thought you were skimping at first with this type of video but after watching for about 20 minutes I think not, great stuff. Instead of feeling like I'm watching rehashed content I feel like this is why I'm a subscriber to this channel.

[@luizansounds]

Its really really good having those super cuts tbh

[@ModernVintageGamer]

@@luizansounds removed all the sponsor bits out of them too. enjoy

[@BlakeBickerstaff]

​​@@ModernVintageGamerlove these marathons. Game Sack does a lot of these and I always put them on in the background while I'm doing chores or falling asleep

[@overlordalfredo]

It took me almost 20 minutes to realize this is a compilation viedo... 😅 I was like "huh, I already kew that 🤔" ... I need vacation 😅

[@vhsretrogamer1664]

Man I love this channel. This and Digital Foundry are always such a great discovery every single video.

[@TheWarmestFuzzy]

Love this series. I've been watching them in playlists like a caveman, thanks for the supercut! Happy holidays bud!

[@WiLLiW_oficial]

Great episode! It's incredible how you can extract all of KZbin's processing capacity and performance to present us with a masterpiece like this!

[@vulcanbrady]

Nice. I look forward to re-watching all of these. Keep doing what you do MVG. It's nice to know there are still people like you in the industry with both passion, and integrity.

[@theGURUman]

Thank you for such an in-depth technical insight into how some of these impossible ports were made! Really interesting stuff!

[@MrEdcar007]

I hope you get around into covering the N64 port of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. A very unique port all around.

[@Jalex0021]

Good shout. A hidden gem, for sure. One most people are best emulating these days though, given its rarity and cart price.

[@aiodensghost8645]

​@@Jalex0021looked on eBay just now, it depends. I paid close to that for StarCraft 64, but not many people would pay $100+ for it

[@23Redspecial]

youre a gem brotha. So glad youre healthy and active as ever! We need more people like you! Long Live MVG!

[@brichan1851]

The Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper port for GBA was always impressive. I remember how much I loved that game. I couldn’t believe I had this huge game coming out of my GameBoy Advance. Seeing how well it ran versus Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the SNES really tells how much more powerful the GBA was than the SNES. Sound was always better on the SNES, but the GBA was an unbelievable system! Thanks for this awesome video! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@JeanBaptistePollien]

I really love this weird Street Fighter Alpha trilogy on unfitting Nintendo systems (1 on GBC, 2 on SNES, 3 on GBA). Makes you wonder why they went the distance on these one, but I'm glad they did as I spent so much time on every one of those amazing ports. Shame they weren't ever rereleased (apart from Alpha 2 on Virtual Console). I really hope for a console Street Fighter compilation, because after all these were the versions we mostly played on and have memories of.

[@chrissoucy1997]

Half Life 2 port on the Original Xbox should have been included on that list.

[@ExcelionYogi]

Yeah, that's weird, IIRC even the thumbnail had "impossible port" written in it

[@gordogamerpsx]

playing with my Doom snes cartridge has never been the same after watching your video from 2020. Had no idea that a technical miracle was happening in my tv. THANK YOU!

[@bwabbel]

I love this kind of video. Impossible ports are always so fascinating. Some of them may be older than me and i've never played any of them, but i still love them. It's sad that things like that just don't happen anymore. Times have changed and so have the industry as well as the tech

[@CasualKraken]

I used to just play games but lately have been getting really into the history and techical side. Awesome video!

[@lmanders2]

Great video man! I loved learning about the challenges and clever solutions that game devs came up with back in the day out of necessity.

[@simsluver]

Awesome video! This is amazing! Saw it all in 9 mins 🎉

[@phils3903]

Awesome videos! A video mainly featuring my favourite franchises, street fighter, doom and quake. First time hearing about the gba quake prototype, crazy achievements. Randy linden is a god

[@frame-works]

I loved this series, great to have them all together.❤ Thanks for uploading it.

[@awesomeguysuncle]

This will be good for sleep

[@badartist3192]

Bloody hell! What a great Christmas present! I did knit know I needed it until I saw it! My little girl (10 years old) loves your channel and learns a lot from it! Lots of greetings from Yorkshire!

[@GYTCommnts]

Love the compilations and marathons! Thanks MVG! 💪🕹️

[@bfitz111]

It's amazing the ambition of the people who did these ports. Computer says no ... Randy says let's see about that

[@thogameskanaal]

Binge hype! Merry Christmas and a happy new year in advance, Dimitris!

[@carlolalattacosterbosa5821]

nice video/compilation, btw: tomb raider on gba i thinks deserves a nomination, as well as mario 64 on gba aswell...

[@ryanhuff456]

2 hours...some seriously satisfying procrastination - yesssssss. Merry Xmas mate.

[@stazeII]

Shoot! I half expected this to be about Bungie's Marathon. =P

[@edmn]

It’s such a shame that Portal 64 could never be released.

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

All down to the chance of Nintendo spoiling the fun as usual - Valve requested that the Portal port be removed but that was only because the port uses libraries owned by Nintendo (in this case Nintendo's LibUltra, the SDK that's used for developing N64 games). So not Valve's fault, just them not wanting to take the risk of invoking the wrath of the big N.

[@lee__1707]

MVG, You must have put a lot of work in to this amazing video, it's a must watch many thanks :)

[@MakotoIchinose]

Alternative title: "Almost 2 Hours of Impossible Ports to Sleep To"

[@webx135]

When it got to Titanfall, I was thinking "There's no way it'll be interesting on newer titles". But my GOD. That ws some cool trickery.

[@RARufus]

It’s hilarious the devs put up a fake error disc read message to mask memory fragmentation in Doom 3. Good stuff!!

[@skywalkerranch]

Excellent documentary. Thanks for all your efforts this year. Happy Christmas and a fantastic New Year too.

[@Omoges]

OMG! Such an amazing video you've just post!! Amazing work!

[@janjezz]

Syphon FIlter for PS1 had some crazy cutscenes..I always wondered how it fit on a single CD

[@cubeflinger]

Damn I thought this was going to be about porting the game marathon 😅

[@pastqr]

I just sparked my blunt this is going to be a good watch

[@nikatapi]

Love this kind of content from your channel, keep ot coming

[@insertclevernickname]

As someone whos simply interested in programming but cant do much math, I like these breakdowns. Now this might soung naive, but Im getting old, my first console was an atari jr, but the idea of a processor doing millions of calculations per second can be considered "slow" just shows how amazing engineering is. Borders on magic, at least thats the impression I get.

[@JKHYT]

Great compilation! Would have loved to see The Witcher 3's Switch port on this list, it seems every bit as "impossible" as Titanfall on 360.

[@fatfurie]

its pretty crazy that we get these essentially mini documentaries...made by a legend.. about other legends...for FREE..thank you mvg

[@steelcurtain187]

Excellent compilation 🫡

[@stephenelliott7071]

I love this type of content so really enjoyed this one.

[@vitalii1372]

Super nice and extensive episode 👍

[@SkillfullyMill]

Let's do this

[@cryohellinc]

Very interesting episode. Thank you!

[@Viper-jr4sp]

This will be nice to listen and watch on this rainy day where i'm at The Doom 3 Original Xbox still makes me amazed at how they were able to port it over the video you did on it was one of the reasons i got it for my xbox i still love playing it but feels totally different with the cut sections added sections and extra scary moments i still crap myself when i see those 3 Hellknights spawn when the caverns elevator goes down on the xbox version

[@templarkid.]

2 hours of technical mumbo jumbo? now I can work listening to something

[@erdemmemisyazici3950]

Street Fighter Alpha 3 for GBA was my dream come true at the time. Although the shoulder buttons were awkward to use in a fighting game it really was unexpected to see a complete fighting game given what they previously looked like on the GameBoy and GameBoy Color. Battle Arena Toshinden, and KOF 95/96 on the GameBoy were the top fighting games before SFA3 and they were ... okay.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

This is a marathon I can get behind.

[@alangeorge5592]

You could talk about Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox 360!

[@srvuk]

A really great watch.

[@th3cub350]

The most impressive one for me will forever be the Doom port on the Snes, not only Randy Linden demonstrated god level skills at coding, but he was also an accomplished hardware and electronic engineer and he did it alone. Not counting all of his other projects like Bleem!, Amiga port of Dragon's Lair, Quake on GBA, absolute LEGEND.

[@brichan1851]

DUDE! Quake on the GBA??!?! 😮😮😮😮 NO WAY!!!!!!

[@EvanYoungMusic]

I immediately was going to say resident evil two on N 64. You beat me to it.

[@Roach1]

it was very humbling of MVG to name this video the "impossible port" marathon and not the "randy linden" marathon

[@Luis-Blu]

Very interesting video, thanks

[@AsherRileyV7]

The one that really sticks out to me is Doom 3 on OG Xbox. Half Life 2 on OG Xbox was also impressive.

[@mightylink65]

Doom 3 and Halo 2 where the 2 games that really pushed the original xbox, they where the first games to have bump mapping on consoles and they did it without requiring any new hardware.

[@sebastiankulche]

​@@mightylink65I doubt they were the first with bumpmapping. That was available in the Dreamcast.

[@PaintsAreOp]

@@mightylink65 Halo 1 had bump mapping and so did 2002 Splinter Cell, that also had shadow maps.

[@M1XART]

@@mightylink65 Tons of OG XBOX -games had bump -mapping, including Serious Sam.

[@DJumperGo]

Отличное видео, очень интересно было его посмотреть. Спасибо 👍

[@kpervanidis1145]

Dimitri you are doing an amazing job! Each video you upload has many reasons to be wathed.

[@megaossim]

These are my favorite videos of yours! The order of the videos is questionable but I was happy rewatch this entire video again! Half Life 2 for Xbox is missing though? Do more of these please!

[@BigCheeseEvie]

I love the snes and gba street fighter ports! They're so interesting❤

[@Growfürjeden]

doom3 on x box looks awesome !

[@JRChuxx]

You can tell RE2 was pushing the N64 to it's limits even back then😂

[@bpalpha]

The original version of Dragon's Lair on the Gameboy is shockingly good too.

[@MatthewBakke]

If followed the N64 development of portal on James’s channel. Was incredible to watch and sad when it ended.

[@boredstudent]

I remember Resident Evil 2 because I played it first on PlayStation. I had friends who said it was better there than on the Nintendo 64. I was inclined to agree with that becauae CD based games were capable of things that couldn't be done on a Nintendo 64 cartidge at the time. But RE2 actually had the FMVs on the Nintendo 64 which is pretty impressive that it could even be done.

[@guidemissile1494]

here's one of my favorites: battlezone rise of the black dogs on the n64 was a port of a 500 mb pc game from 1998 to the n64 which had all content and added an entire campaign + gamemode

[@zu_alt_fuer2272]

damn good research work!

[@fatfurie]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="111">1:51</a>:30 love that this motivated them... for years people gave said gta 3 could never run on the dreamcast and here we are

[@rightbehindyou9398]

You missed The Crew (2014) on the Xbox 360. The technical feat of that backport is astonishing.

[@Undarial]

Quake 1 Sega Saturn port would've fit perfectly here.

[@ncf1]

I couldn't believe when I heard Dragons Lair was going to be on the Amiga. Then I got a copy of it, just couldnt believe it was running on my Amiga. Never actually really played it though, still havent to this day but just couldnt believe I had Dragon's Lair on the Amiga.

[@pacoslovestacos]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1047">17:27</a> will forever haunt my dreams

[@JonathanHolt1988]

I only understand about 10% of what you say, but man do I love your videos

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

That part on RE2 when Ken gets eaten by multiple zombies gave me nightmares when I was 8. I was like, “damn this game goes way too far.” I hope someone makes a full Sega Saturn port one day.

[@jesse-got-dolphins-into-heaven]

nice recap

[@xboxtest4226]

MVG doing Holiday sidequests! :D

[@Mixa_Lv]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="273">4:33</a> What is 8-way smooth scrolling? I can think of 4-way, like up, down, left and right, but does 8-way then mean that it can also scroll in ordinal directions, two cardinals at the same time?

[@ichhabahnung]

The dragon lair is insaneeeee

[@igemily]

2 hours of impossibly hard ports to fall asleep to 😴

[@seamushadron]

Great video as usual 😊😊 you talked only about Quake 2 on ps1, so was the N64 version simplier to realize?

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Balance of Terror style "Impossible!"

[@chisharpe3304]

Something to fall asleep to. 🎉😂

[@brandonopolis]

Woohoo! This is one of my favorite series on this channel!

[@_Banjo_]

That space harrier port was amazing but my god does that hurt my eyes

[@doyouthinkitsdead]

"Preserved forever" 🙏

[@EastyyBlogspot]

I still cannot believe titanfall 1 and 2 were both the source engine

[@phyxirian]

Plus Apex Legends (heavily modified)

[@vespasian606]

You have to wonder in this age of huge downloads how the art of compression has been largely ignored. Even a repack can be huge.

[@fatfurie]

i remember when i first saw street fighter alpha on gameboy advance i immediately thought it was fake since my game boy street fighter experience hadnt been so good up until then... one of my fav gameboy games of all time.

[@PlasmaSnake369]

I was just playing SNES SFA2 on an Anberbic... It actually plays VERY similarly to the arcade version IMO

[@VideoGamer945]

move over sam o nella playlist, daddy's found a new video to fall asleep to