The Impossible Port Marathon

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@philfriethegamingguy7759 Ай бұрын

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

@skycloud4802 Ай бұрын

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

@OverNightLuthier Ай бұрын

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

@sebastiankulche Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

You’re an ambitious back port

@JuanxDlol Ай бұрын

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.

@Whiskah Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

*this*

@DragoonMS Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@DeLorean4 28 күн бұрын

Welcome to the corporate world

@mikeyp4690 Ай бұрын

God damnit I was just about to stop procrastinating.

@ubernaffa Ай бұрын

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

@dobbersanchez1185 Ай бұрын

Craaaasstt

@Gubbins_McBumbersnoot 18 күн бұрын

Yeah lol. I was supposed to start working an hour and a half ago 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Wallyworld30 9 күн бұрын

I played SF2 hundreds of hours back in 1991. I was 14 years old and bought it with my Paper Route money and I played it with my brother (1yr younger than me) every single day. I got so good at it with the SNES controller I could never get used to playing it with the arcade joystick. I had a special way of holding the snes controller where I hit the right shoulder button with the palm of my hand and the left shoulder button with my index finger. That game ushered in a new game genre that would own the videogame market for the next 8 years. I loved them so much I bought dozens of different fighting games all the way through the PS1/Dreamcast era.

@seantreherne Ай бұрын

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!

@ChesterRico 25 күн бұрын

Probably a pretty routine port (especially since there was a PC version), but the Dreamcast port of RE2 will always be my favorite. Having health & ammo on the VDU display on your controller was awesome :3

@CasualKraken Ай бұрын

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

@vulcanbrady Ай бұрын

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.

@vhsretrogamer1664 Ай бұрын

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

@mrwasi99 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

NES, SNES, and N64 should be first

@Alexdc11Xof 29 күн бұрын

@@aiodensghost8645 nes was too simple even when i first got it in 94

@docnom 17 күн бұрын

With a Sony Trinitron CRT of course

@Bubba__Sawyer 10 күн бұрын

You raised her well 👏

@badartist3192 Ай бұрын

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!

@retropuffer2986 Ай бұрын

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. 🐲

@jessefisher1809 22 күн бұрын

There was also a really good port on the macintosh. I played it way back when on my mac se with a tiny 9" monochrome screen on floppy disks. It was fully animated like the arcades. I thought it was cool anyway.....

@timmturner Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Its really really good having those super cuts tbh

@ModernVintageGamer Ай бұрын

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

@BlakeBickerstaff Ай бұрын

@@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

@itxptube 25 күн бұрын

I think they are a great way for us fans to have something relaxing to sleep or work to without having to swap videos… yes a playlist works but these long videos seem to work magic on the algorithm!

@DoodMang7 17 күн бұрын

@@ModernVintageGameri would watch either way i love your videos dude 😅

@captain9204 15 күн бұрын

A little correction that makes the port even more impressive. Alpha 3 fit on a 32 Megabit cart. So only 4 megabytes. Less than your average mp3.

@MrEdcar007 Ай бұрын

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

@Jalex0021 Ай бұрын

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

@aiodensghost8645 Ай бұрын

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

@janjezz Ай бұрын

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

@bwabbel Ай бұрын

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

@theGURUman Ай бұрын

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

@lmanders2 Ай бұрын

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.

@lainamitclaire 29 күн бұрын

And here I was thinking this was about Marathon on Xbox 360. I've seen every one of these videos on release day and I will absolutely watch all of them again. Love this series and your channel.

@alex.starostin 15 күн бұрын

There is nothing "impossible" about 360 Marathon port, lol

@lainamitclaire 15 күн бұрын

@alex.starostin yes thank you Captain Dip shit for another very useful reply, no one said that or even implied it

@JeanBaptistePollien Ай бұрын

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.

@frame-works Ай бұрын

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

@23Redspecial Ай бұрын

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

@brichan1851 Ай бұрын

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! ❤❤❤❤❤

@Alakazam551 15 күн бұрын

GBA was using much newer tech though, love the Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance GBA game - so bad ass, used to emulate it and play it on my Android hahah.

@brichan1851 15 күн бұрын

@ holy crap! I TOTALLY forgot about Baldur’s Gate on GBA. Good call, man! Was the GBA a beast or what?! That’s it. This year, I’m getting an SP.

@alpaykasal2902 25 күн бұрын

AMIGA Forever... Thanks for covering this. one thing to note though, you kept mentioning the laserdisc videos as quicktimes, but they had nothing to do with quicktime. Laserdisc was anaglog video, encoded as digital frames on laserdisc... no quicktime in sight. Also, that gorgeous rendition of Dragon's Lair, i ran on a stock Amiga, low end, the computer was so ahead of its time. Pretty amazing.

@chrissoucy1997 Ай бұрын

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

@ExcelionYogi Ай бұрын

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

@DeLorean4 28 күн бұрын

And Half Life 1 on the Dreamcast

@pentexsucks43 27 күн бұрын

@@DeLorean4 other than it's abysmal load times, it's one of the best ways to play HL1 along with the PS2 version. I prefer them over the PC release greatly

@mitchjames9350 22 күн бұрын

Doom 3 on Xbox.

@GYTCommnts Ай бұрын

Love the compilations and marathons! Thanks MVG! 💪🕹️

@phils3903 Ай бұрын

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

@Manobaru 29 күн бұрын

20:00 - kudos to whoever was editing the video. I wasn't looking when the comparison of "no noticeable reduction in [sound] quality" between music on PSX and N64 was showcased, and the beat timing was so seamless that I didn't notice that the platform already changed.

@Omoges Ай бұрын

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

@thogameskanaal Ай бұрын

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

@MichaelButlerC Ай бұрын

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

@skywalkerranch Ай бұрын

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

@JKHYT Ай бұрын

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.

@webx135 Ай бұрын

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.

@Dremth 20 күн бұрын

I got to know Andy O'Neil in the last few years of his life. One of the most unique, interesting, and smart guys I've ever known. He told me so many horror stories from Titanfall. It was a very stressful project for all those involved, which was heightened by the fact that Bluepoint hadn't quite made a name for themselves yet, so every project could be their last if they failed. It turned out a technical marvel, but I wouldn't wish a project like that on anyone. Andy never really recovered from the burnout it caused, may he rest in peace.

@ryanhuff456 Ай бұрын

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

@th45h1zn1t 27 күн бұрын

Another fascinating and well researched video, thankyou. You set the standard for retro content.

@MakotoIchinose Ай бұрын

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

@lee__1707 Ай бұрын

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

@simsluver Ай бұрын

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

@overlordalfredo Ай бұрын

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

@alpaykasal2902 25 күн бұрын

I loved running Doom on my Kodak digital camera... really fun to show that off.

@LastOneLeft99 Ай бұрын

38:37 In 1993 I got Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the SNES for Christmas and I was head over heals obsessed with it. Must have played 8 hours straight that first day. In 1996 I had got my first PC with Doom and then Quake and got rid of my SNES/Genesis. I viewed consoles as kids toys and I was so over them. What a different 3 years makes.

@nikatapi Ай бұрын

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

@Chris-cf1hs 28 күн бұрын

Titanfall for the Xbox 360 was the way I first played the game

@alex.starostin 15 күн бұрын

Same and I was very impressed by it

@triledink 26 күн бұрын

Quake 2 on ps1 was one of my most childhood games. I loved the soundtrack, it got me into metal.

@r7ndom Ай бұрын

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.

@fatfurie Ай бұрын

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

@TheWarmestFuzzy Ай бұрын

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

@bfitz111 Ай бұрын

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

@WiLLiW_oficial Ай бұрын

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!

@kpervanidis1145 Ай бұрын

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

@erdemmemisyazici3950 Ай бұрын

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.

@edmn Ай бұрын

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

@SlartiMarvinbartfast Ай бұрын

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.

@repeekyraidcero 27 күн бұрын

Valve vs Ninty would be one of the very few cases where I'd side with valve

@awesomeguysuncle Ай бұрын

This will be good for sleep

@Viper-jr4sp Ай бұрын

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

@Busyshark92 25 күн бұрын

Seeing you playing the analogue consoles throughout this video has made me want to purchase all their consoles.

@ncf1 Ай бұрын

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.

@stazeII Ай бұрын

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

@RARufus Ай бұрын

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

@AsherRileyV7 Ай бұрын

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

@mightylink65 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@PaintsAreOp Ай бұрын

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

@M1XART Ай бұрын

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

@carlolalattacosterbosa5821 Ай бұрын

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

@cubeflinger Ай бұрын

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

@777Eliyahu 17 күн бұрын

Sfa3 on the gba was my go to time waster between class when I was in college

@LvUpRED Ай бұрын

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

@HasanBabasi 29 күн бұрын

Two hours long? What a gift ❤

@th3cub350 Ай бұрын

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.

@Wallyworld30 9 күн бұрын

Portal on N64 looks incredible! This game needs a physical release!

@templarkid. Ай бұрын

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

@stephenelliott7071 Ай бұрын

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

@joaogrrr 14 күн бұрын

1:52:18 guy didn't fire shots, he dropped a tactical nuke at carmack's lap

@PeterBrockie 14 күн бұрын

Damn, I was hoping someone made a new port of Marathon for a second there. :D

@SkillfullyMill Ай бұрын

Let's do this

@megaossim Ай бұрын

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!

@LogainAblar 16 күн бұрын

I just came across this video and wanted to reach out about something I learned about Resident Evil 2 on N64. Many years ago a member of the dev team at Angel Studios (it might have been the creative director) wrote an article on the N64 version development for Gamasutra. I frequented that site daily back then, saw the article and contact info was listed for the developer. So I reached out and he told me via email that just as the team was finishing up development of the N64 version the quality was just as good as the PS1 version full stop. But there was 1MB of data that absolutely had to go into the game. That caused the quality to be degraded to fit that data on the cart. The dev was very clear that if it wasn't for that 1MB of data the Resident Evil 2 port for N64 would have been even more mind blowing. It's amazing to think that the N64 version could have been the best version of Resident Evil 2 for that particular console generation. I still have that email somewhere buried in my account. Looks like it's time to find it even though it was so long ago. Anyways, thanks for the video. Awesome stuff. Brought back some great memories.

@familhagaudir8561 Күн бұрын

This is optimisation magic. Especially the Resident Evil 2 N64 port.

@EastyyBlogspot Ай бұрын

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

@phyxirian Ай бұрын

Plus Apex Legends (heavily modified)

@SpeedyGwen Ай бұрын

omfg Titanfall !!!! I got that game on launch and it was one of my most favorite shooter of all time !!!! I even got titanfall 2 on launch and still play it to this day time to time and I dream for a third game~ also gosh there are sooooo many thigns of titanfall 1 that I dream to have in titanfall 2 but will sadly never have qwq also, its port to the xbox 360 is for me the best exemple of how EVERY games should be optimised, nowdays u need super computers for games that are more ugly than games like titanfall, and yet titanfall runs perfectly on 15yo hardware

@SomeOrangeCat Ай бұрын

This is a marathon I can get behind.

@seamushadron Ай бұрын

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

@galeng73 4 күн бұрын

Nice and thank you. I had a GB but no GBA and no GBC. I was already an adult at the time and I just got jaded with what I saw in the gaming industry. I quit gaming entirely when Fallout Tactics was released. (I pre-paid for it and the version I got was unplayable due to bugs. I had to wait for patches to be released to even win the game.) I'm actually quite a fan of Street Fighter and have an original cabinet in my game room. I'm just now (I'm pretty old) getting into retro gaming as a hobby. I already own a MAME console and the above mentioned SF cabinet. Those are mostly decorations in my game room, which is where I usually play pool and have a bar. Other people have played them far more than I have. Anyhow, I paused your video and played SF Alpha 3 as a GBA title. I only played it on a cheap handheld. I'll eventually play it on a much larger screen. One of the reasons I've delved into the hobby is because I find that Linux is generally well supported. I'm a long-term Linux user, exclusively but not fanatically. I'm not an opensource zealot or anything like that. I just like Linux.

@alangeorge5592 Ай бұрын

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

@HedgehogY2K 7 күн бұрын

512? That's 2x the 256 that the GBA should be capable of. You kidding me over here?

@pacoslovestacos Ай бұрын

17:27 will forever haunt my dreams

@YusMat700 28 күн бұрын

I have no idea what most of this tech jargon means but it sounds like back when not everything was so easily scaled across any hardware like today so much work had to be put into making things work on drastically different and often inferior hardware. Gotta love it.

@brichan1851 Ай бұрын

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

@vitalii1372 Ай бұрын

Super nice and extensive episode 👍

@cryohellinc Ай бұрын

Very interesting episode. Thank you!

@matthewgregory2106 18 күн бұрын

Thank you Keith.

@arostwocents 8 күн бұрын

Sonic or Kirby to the Spectrum i am waiting for. Sonic on 2600 is fun so Speccy can surely manage it since they have a great SMB. And a great SMB too (of the meaty variety!)