Super Mario 64... on Game Boy Advance!

Who said you couldn't play Super Mario 64 on the Game Boy Advance? Uh huhhhhh exactly.
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[@jsbarretto]

Thanks for the great video Nathaniel! Hopefully more updates coming soon. I should definitely have added keybindings info, you can dive with L!

[@coflyerinc.9367]

Yooo the creators here!

[@jasminezickefoose577]

I challenge you to make sm64 but on gameboy!

[@alan-tairov]

bathaniel*

[@coflyerinc.9367]

@@jasminezickefoose577 nah he should do sm64 on game n watch

[@game_relative4]

If You Can Put Mario 64 On GBA You Can Possibly Put It On Super Nintendo

[@chadstruzynski]

The ground warping/moving is super trippy. Playing this in the backseat of the family vehicle on road trips would have been peak motion sickness

[@Mr.Bonuts]

I don't know why he didn't show them off but you can turn the textures off (AKA no warping) so that everything is a plain color. You can also change the resolution to be higher or lower, and a few other things I think.

[@Klaeyy]

yeah that is affine texture mapping. "Perspective-correct" texture mapping is too taxing on the gba hardware, so pretty much all "3D" games on the gba have that. Some games use perspective-correct texture mapping on the GBA (like doom) - but at a very heavy framerate cost, so... maybe warping textures are better.

[@thekirbyfighter2724]

It looks like ps1 texture warping

[@droycon]

It’s mostly fixed now

[@dillzilla4454]

@@Klaeyy doom is not a 3D game which is why they can get away with doing that. what is likely going on here is that all the meshes are made into a triple vector matrix and textures are being casted onto those matrix locations based on the player location and camera matrix. basically this means while everything is being processed in 3D, none of it is actually rendered in 3D

[@joebykaeby]

Having watched some of the dev logs on this project, I have to admit I was like "how the heck do you make a 22 minute video about this?!" But I also had no idea that the geometry for three whole levels was explorable. Very impressive!

[@Wetvr26]

I saw it in development on log videos, didnt know it would get this big that fast.

[@kilamario]

him: "yo i took no damage there that was crazy" healthbar: u sure buddy?

[@BLJMARIOSM64]

He took 1 hit (I don’t know what there called)

[@Oceane1803]

Yeah but like, it's nothing comapred to the damage he would have taken in the base game.

[@galaxycraft2454]

@@BLJMARIOSM64 It's power apparently. You can see in the original, ds remake, and this gba fan demake.

[@MooseMoosely]

@@Oceane1803 Ironically, in the original game Mario takes no damage from high falls onto snow. He sinks in up to his waist and gets stuck for a second instead.

[@Oceane1803]

@@MooseMoosely I know that.

[@BR-jw7pm]

The demake we never knew we wanted 😂

[@notvalk5475]

this is exactly what i was gonna say

[@newsuperbowserworld]

Remake* the gba is newer than n64

[@BR-jw7pm]

@@newsuperbowserworldfair but the GBA is essentially a portable SNES in terms of power so I still consider it a demake

[@BLJMARIOSM64]

@@BR-jw7pm yes but what’s the point of this “remake” you can emulate the n64 FREE WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS

[@BR-jw7pm]

@@BLJMARIOSM64 I don’t blame you. I feel this is more an experiment to prove it can be done rather than anything practical

[@Snowpea360]

I love how spongebob just hugged the bolder 0:03

[@joe61292]

That's not a boulder. It's a rock!

[@Spouldoesdrawing]

NO! ITS A BOULDER!

[@Samantha.K.S.Simpson]

"Yo, I took no damage there that was crazy." - Bathaniel Nandy, July 24, 2024 Power: _missing _*_one_*_ pie slice_

[@larrykoopa64dshacker64]

Feels weird to see the test level I modeled 20:49 in a Bathanial Nandy video! Awesome! Thank you for showing my test level, hahah! You also should see what happens when you press select on the pause menu. There's four playable characters so far. One of them is obviously my contribution, lol.

[@a_person975]

Maybe he can remake the whole game if he does it on DS- oh wait.

[@Kekek93]

he should try to remake it on n64 fr

[@Kogotom123]

Or port it as a part of a Mario games collection on the Switch

[@dillzilla4454]

@@Kekek93 theoretically you could make the n64 version run in 60fps if you did all modern code instead of the very rudimentary 3D logic they used in the actual game. There was a lot of things they did wrong in the original simply because 3D graphics were still very new at the time and how to properly optimize it was not super well known yet.

[@loxo5526]

You missed a couple of things: You can press L to dive and you can press START to go in the pause menu and change some graphical settings. Always check all of the buttons! Fun fact: you can also play as Larry koopa or Yoshi if you press SELECT in the pause menu

[@SuperCookie64]

0:36 Don't think I don't recognise the Toy Story 2 sound.

[@knuckles9250]

I forgot about the Toy Story 2 bloopers!

[@leahluostarinen]

Yes I've noticed to

[@ng65gaming]

I've been following this project for a while now and it''s amazing to see it get some attention from other youtubers now!

[@GamingReinvented]

Damn, I didn't realise the developer of this game had started implementing other levels as well. This is really starting to come together, at least geometry and physics wise. So awesome you got a chance to play this demo too!

[@repoversemedium]

I knew you’d be playing this tech demo. The rumors were right.

[@lilianam3417]

Omg what is there behind your bolders

[@robotortoise]

This is absolutely INSANE. The most I've seen on retail GBA games is a single 3D model in a level, and even then it pushed the GBA. For GBA, this is mind-blowing!!

[@dillzilla4454]

i'm 90% sure the only 3D model is mario. everything else is just a bunch of smoke and mirrors to get what seems like a 3D output with only 2D graphics

[@Pack64]

the 'test stage' was made by Larry Koopa 64 DS Hacker and I made the Mario model. just letting y'all know because we get no credits here lmao

[@RealBathanielNandy]

Sorry about that! I didn't know, I'm not home at the moment but I can add in credits for you and Larry for helping with this

[@Pack64]

@@RealBathanielNandy no problem

[@larrykoopa64dshacker64]

@@RealBathanielNandy It's all good and understandable you didn't know. Thank you for the fact you'll add us in the credits! ^_^ There's already some new updates to this project since you last played, I contributed some on that as well (still working on it though, will probably rely on zes with something I've been struggling on since I know zes understands rust and the whole SM64GBA engine better than I do, hahah! I couldn't even implement a temporary solution, oof.)

[@marioluigism64]

Can you please tell bathaniel nandy ryply my question

[@Pack64]

@@marioluigism64 who do you think I have control over that

[@Xhepyxopila]

I absolutley LOVE this dudes project! It's very impressive to me when people port games to older / weaker hardware.

[@vurvo574]

Mario 64 but I forgot my glasses

[@The_real_naughty]

😂😂😂

[@monkegamingroblox1001]

Relatable

[@chizelkid]

I have watched all the dev logs on this, and saw your comment and his reply, nice they actually sent it to you!

[@SuperDupTNT]

The ground is moving like an AI generated video

[@The_real_naughty]

True!😂

[@REALMARCHINADER]

I guess you've never seen affine texture warping before.

[@celdaemon]

It's PS1 texture mapping on steroids

[@akpokemon]

it's hurting my eyes. i'm giving myself a headache first thing in the morning.

[@czechvirusS]

A lot of 3d games on gba had it

[@JadenAdams-bs5gr]

I’m so happy to see the boulders again 🥹🥹

[@MrAlex400]

Looks like that one 3D Asterix & Obelix game on GBA

[@Glasshouse828]

I was thinking the same thing

[@GrafDaaku]

Remember Asterix & Obelix XXL on the GBA? This looked pretty similar to this. It was actually a 3D game on the GBA which was pretty insane for it's time. It proofed, that 3D Games can work on the GBA. The game had a lot of limitations compared to the PS2 or PC counterparts, but it was a thing and this was pretty impressive.

[@GiovanniKody100]

I like this demake. It’s impressive that it’s on a GBA. No, really. I imagine it would be difficult (if not, harder than average development).

[@Albert-ru7ob]

I’ve been following the person that created this and it’s amazing that you got to try it!

[@N_EXT0]

and i was suprised the inside of the castle is included! jolly roger bay and cool cool mountain blown my mind.

[@luisenriqueper9476]

the demake looks nice, looks like an official game for the console

[@BR-jw7pm]

I recently watched a vid on GBA games that used 3D models and am wondering if the creator should have gone with the Starfox approach of textureless models (some GBA games did that)

[@krisuh11]

@@BR-jw7pm You can actually toggle access some settings by pressing start, like textureless models, render distance, fps counter and stuff

[@advance64bro]

@@BR-jw7pm there’s a textureless option in the games menu

[@BR-jw7pm]

@@advance64bro then I rescind my previous comment. This developer thought of everything! 😯

[@advance64bro]

@@BR-jw7pm it’s pretty insane on how well this demake functions

[@timmyb.3426]

How Super Mario 64 Advance is Mind Blowing.

[@kayleigh1991]

I’m glad big KZbinrs have found this. It looks so good.

[@munzlp]

I'm so glad you're promoting this project. This guys project is awesome!

[@SpaikeeTheEevee]

I didn't even know that the GBA was even capable of 3D graphics

[@bitten2up]

search up openlora gba lmao

[@tobyisawesome]

I mean DOOM is on SNES

[@nguyengamer7906]

U should try some FPS gba games

[@mikejameson7678]

I could be wrong, but it doesn't look like it can. Considering the warping, it looks closer to some projection than real 3D.

[@SpaikeeTheEevee]

@@mikejameson7678 just because it's imperfect doesn't mean it's incapable

[@emissaryofcharybdis105]

I've been watching this evolve from the red triangle Mario days and every status update blows my mind. It's so cool what this guy is managing to pull off.

[@animefreak9798]

This looks trippy as hell when you are stoned

[@GunSpyEnthusiast]

Ten years later: " How Super Mario 64 Was beaten Via the Mario Bros. Minigame in Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga. "

[@coltsrnumerouno]

Demakes are always my favorite projects. I've been a fan of them since my experience with the OOT demake into a top down Zelda game. I don't think it ever got fully finished, but I enjoyed playing every single updated build the creator would put out.

[@ls190v2]

Super Mario Advance 6: Super Mario 64?

[@ImThatGuy64x360]

I think it would be super Mario advance 5

[@cubix169]

​@@ImThatGuy64x360I've got a headcanon where Super Mario Advance 5 is Super Mario Bros 1 + The Lost Levels with some extra nice nifty little stuff.

[@ImThatGuy64x360]

@@cubix169 cool

[@absurdcheesecake]

People when he finally finishes it: *"Now make it for the regular Gameboy"*

[@advance64bro]

*MAKE IT FOR THE ATARI 2600*

[@min2793]

make it for the game & watch

[@lawryvolcanoflames6293]

If you zoom out (on desktop, at least), the way the game looks so sharp and quite literally the best looking GBA game is actually incredible. Kudos to the developers.

[@Caolan114]

I feel like you need to play this on a real GBA to get a real sense of how Impressive this Is

[@SonicdagamerYT]

this is good/bad

[@BR-jw7pm]

It’s an impressive feat of technical engineering but was it worth it?

[@JustJory]

its still in early development. theres no entites so thats why the levels are completely empty

[@garhd]

it looks bad but its so damn impressive

[@AlessandroCussino]

Fun-fact, just one month later ... and the project is already further improved by Joshua. A programming wizard 🧙‍♂️

[@sven2win498]

I have to imagine swimming could be reworked to be like sunshine swimming, A to swim up, B to swim down and dpad just controls lateral movement

[@SWISS-1337]

"can't take damage" takes damage like 3 times lol. In seriousness, what an amazing demake. I'd have killed for this as a child. Getting to play Mario 64 on a GBA. That's incredible.

[@saulreed5286]

Let’s hope this doesn’t end up being another fan project Nintendo decides to cease and desist.

[@tstdystopmotions]

Damn, this is absolutely insane, I mean, how is it running so perfectly on a GBA?!

[@TrevorKraftOfficial]

No wonder they didn't make Super Mario 64 on the GBA, this looks like hell

[@madm3rt989]

The improvements over the months have been absolutely insane.

[@dillzilla4454]

if i had to guess it is most of the original geometry just translated into matrix points. from there the textures are being warped to the matrix points to give the illusion of 3D without doing any 3D graphics. this is likely why the ground warps constantly. there isn't actually any 3D geometry being rendered, just a bunch of 2D images being warped according to a triple float matrix

[@760creations]

Love how you're wearing your FUSER shirt. I met you at PAX 2020 with Acai! Great event and was great to meet you.

[@Samantha-vlly]

This looks so trippy when you just focus on the pixel animation itself moving😂

[@weegeeyt6266]

it'd be the HUGEST flex if josh got all the DS port characters and movesets running on the GBA.

[@DavideoGames641]

Mario Advance 6, is that you!?

[@bearoo_]

Saw you commented on the devlog video of this game, and was wondering how long it would take you to make a video on it, awesome! 🤩

[@celestialsylveon6453]

It's wild that you saw the videos on this game and somehow didn't open the pause menu on video! There's some really fun graphical options to mess around with and maybe other stuff I forget

[@jackhumphries1087]

I can imagine this is the kind of game that could actually exist in another timeline, nintendo would just do that thing where they put some extra chips in the cartridges to get around a lot of the limitations of their console, like when they removed the limitations on sprites on the NES when making punch out.

[@10du16]

Holy crap! Nathaniel B actually told me that Baby Gronk succesfully rizzed up Livvy Dunn. But now her name is Livvy Gronk.🤯

[@HandymanJosh-eq8vx]

Super Mario Advance Series (including Fan Games): Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Super Mario Advance 5: Super Mario Bros. Original Super Mario Advance 6: Super Mario Land Super Mario Advance 7: Super Mario Land 2: the 6 Golden Coins Super Mario Advance 8: Super Mario Bros 2. (lost levels) Super Mario Advance 9: Super Mario 64

[@cubix169]

I'd say Advance 5 would be a bundle of Super Mario Bros 1 + The Lost Levels.

[@HandymanJosh-eq8vx]

@@cubix169 good point, cuz the lost levels is basically another way to play smb1, only it's a whole new set of levels

[@HandymanJosh-eq8vx]

i also believe super mario advance 10 would be super mario all-stars

[@cubix169]

@@HandymanJosh-eq8vx it sounds pretty fitting to me

[@sprokenvansami3134]

This is insane, even the ground looks like a lsd trip and now I never complain about the graphics of the N64. When you show super mario 64 on the N64 it felt like you showed a HD rendition of this GBA version.

[@lemguins7031]

The denial of high jumps as apposed to struggling to double/triple jump everywhere is killing me 😅

[@knuckles9250]

This was something that when I first saw the original videos I was so hyped

[@Steakspeak]

You did take damage from falling

[@Glasshouse828]

This reminds me of that one Asterix game on GBA

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

Mario 64 on GBA! OMG!

[@THETECHFROMJIMNIM]

Bro is on peformance mode💀

[@allstarspixel]

Waiting for this to come out so RHS can make a "does it work on real hardware" video about this. I'm really curious as to whether an actual GBA can play this.

[@SPAMTON249]

Wait he didnt quit?

[@jsbarretto]

It can! At the end of my most recent video I show it being placed on an GBA SP via a flashcart.

[@allstarspixel]

@@SPAMTON249 he went on hiatus because of a divorce. He came back a bit ago

[@MarioKartSuperCircuit]

I've also tested this on my own channel, with an original gba

[@matthewscottshea]

3D games on GBA were always interesting to me. The Banjo game is actually full 3D even if it looks overhead 2D. Some racing titles were 3D (NFS Porsche). Even Driv3r is full 3D on GBA. I even remember a dev that made a full 3D engine was even more capable then Driv3r, but it was too late in the GBA's life to really capitalize on.

[@Brendanowl]

Strange how there was no mainline Mario game on the game boy advanced, unless you count Mario and Luigi superstar saga or Mario vs donkey kong.

[@olizalzeortolan8322]

Well there's the Mario advance series which are ports of the snes games

[@Brendanowl]

@@olizalzeortolan8322 true

[@VestedUTuber]

This is an older version of SM64GBA, there's a newer build that reduces the texture warping, implements dynamic shadows for entities, adds water and optimizes a few things to make the game run, well... not _better_ but just as good with the new features. Having watched the dev logs, there's a LOT of stuff going on in the background to do entirely on the CPU what the N64 did on a dedicated chip, as the GBA's GPU is incapable of doing dynamic-angle 3D visuals.

[@AxelDragani]

The dude making OpenLara should help to this project 🤤

[@buddermantheamazing]

The screen constantly jiggling is motion sickness to the highest degree

[@astrotheunhingedguy]

And I hate and love this at the same time

[@talhaarshad4822]

There are more variants of Super Mario 64 than actual games on Nintendo 64😅😂

[@Chiptendo]

I noticed that you editor is goop videos, who is also schaffrillas editor. Neat!

[@jarmag1512]

You can take damage, but there is no animation for it.

[@Sharkmech]

I know the controls probably suck but the fact the a fully open world game can run on what’s basically snes hardware is honestly a huge missed opportunity on nintendos end

[@Imaginations580]

Nathaniel has 1 mill on 1st channel but only 343k on this underrated KZbinr

[@sosmouse5923]

The way that stuff keeps warbling around makes it feel like ai made this

[@knuckles9250]

Should be renamed to “Super Mario 32”

[@hbogye]

the first 3d game in gameboy advance! finally after 28 years

[@lucasseb2365]

They could actually make the full game as one of the developers who helped with the Mario model and animations said that the demo is optimized to fit in a GBA cartridge 10 times over.

[@Karma_komodo]

I feel like if you blow this up on a TV each pixel in the game would be the size of a whole GBA screen

[@Enzebeta888]

That is one advanced Gameboy.

[@PM74rake]

His boulders are starting to leave 😢

[@nerdynerd6724]

This is very awesome. The only problem is that I'm getting very dizzy and nauseous from the under the bridge & jolly roger bay sections. Other than that, well done

[@truxlers6373]

joshua we love you

[@xen_stinks3702]

I’m so glad he gave up complaining about video games and actually started to play unique mods

[@CluckBuckles]

And I thought Mario couldn’t get any more blocky.

[@TeraByte38]

i feel welcomed to your boulder- i mean *g r e e n s c r e e n*

[@WFTDIshow]

Dude this is soo good! I imagine if nintendo sees this and approves it

[@six_buck_dlc]

cant wait for the 3:07 0 star TAS of this

[@samitou5477]

I saw one of his videos and learned that you can dive it just a little tricky i guess

[@mokey345]

Please put their channel in the description. They are putting a lot if work in it, and links would be very helpful!

[@legiran9564]

GBA Hardware: "Killl meeeeee . . . . ."

[@Oceane1803]

This is very impressive, but I feel like the creator relies on 3D models too much. Like, they could use sprites for Mario, the way games like Mario Kart 64, Donkey Kong Country or Mario vs Donkey Kong do. Sure this would ask for a lot of sprites, every important part of every single one of Mario's movements in 5 directions (up, up right, right, down right, down and you code the game to flip the 3 right ones to get the 3 left ones), but it would probably still take less space than an actual full 3D model. Also they started 3D modeling trees, while they could spare space by doing the same thing the original Mario 64 does. Have the trees be a flat texture that always faces the camera. I mean they make this demake however they want, but I feel that since it's on the GBA, they should try and spare as much space as possible in case they need it for something else.

[@LuigiXHero]

His goal since the start was to do it as much as possible fully 3d.

[@trashtrash2169]

The model actually takes up WAAAY less space than all of the sprites you would need for just mario. The reason you would ever use sprites is for performance. Image data is larger than vertex data. Needing sprites for every enemy would quickly get ridiculous. You have NO idea what you're talking about. Like, at ALL.

[@trashtrash2169]

Just use your brain for a moment. How many verticies are in this mario model? I'm going to be generous and say 700+ (it looks more like half that) and how much data do you need to store for each one? A few bytes, maybe? Now lets look at one 32 x 64 sprite... that's already 2048 pixels with a few bytes of data for color each... That model is likely smaller than even one or two sprites. My exact data numbers might be off, but the result is clear, models are known to be tiny. What did you think models contained? The secrets of the universe? In what world would 1 model be so large that even hundreds of sprites would be smaller combined. It's crazy you've survived this long with a brain like that.

[@mariotheundying]

​​@@trashtrash2169 no need to attack them, one without knowledge would think full 3D is more heavy than 2D in 3D space

[@Oceane1803]

@@trashtrash2169 Okay geez, it's not because I don't know everything about 3D models that you have to be rude about it. I just thought that if they used sprites instead of models in the games I mentioned, it was for space management purposes. Well now that I think about it, the SNES' 3D models weren't the most complex if we look at Starfox so it makes sense that they couldn't put a full 3D model of Donkey Kong in DKC. And the GBA's 3D fonctionalities weren't used a lot. But what about Mario Kart 64 ? It could use 3D models, but all of its playable characters are sprites. If 3D models are really less heavy, then why use sprites ?

[@captaintoad3710]

Bathaniel Nandy you need to play Shy Guy Surfing. I assure you.

[@Claydood]

You didn't notice you were taking damage from falling on Cool Cool Mountain

[@CyanneDTM]

Great homebrew and great video!

[@1superkid188]

911 what is you're emergency? Yea my game is not gaming...

[@kyle412]

Bathaniel you should play Super Mario Eclipse! The FULL GAME is out now!

[@enzo_6416]

I was there from the beginning love the progression