This GameBoy Game Arrived 21 Years Late | Nostalgia Nerd

[@Nostalgianerd]

If you want to get Super JetPak DX, then Quang has extended the pre-order deadline for another week! nnerd.es/sjpdx

[@Asobitech]

Couldn't have people learning about the game and missing out on it, could I now? Thanks again for making this video and sharing it with your wonderful audience.

[@nneeerrrd]

From the legal PoV, this game is counterfeit product since it displays the NINTENDO logo on start. @MVG made great video on this topic.

[@natsume-hime2473]

@@Asobitech Boy I wish I could get this game(Super JetPak DX), but my card is not currently being cooperative with currency conversion and honestly it's probably not in the budget.

[@TheRetroFuture]

Glad you like the GameBoy!

[@amshermansen]

That gameboy is SICK. RADICAL even.

[@slopesgameroom]

YOU ARE THE GAME BOY

[@natewills]

Great job Elliot!

[@gveltaine]

It's such a beautiful gameboy

[@RAMChYLD]

Any luck with getting the Techmoan collab going?

[@DenkyManner]

That's one hell of a story, losing a backup and being so devastated by it you don't make anything again for 8 years

[@Asobitech]

It was definitely hell for sure. They fired me from my dream job, making GameBoy games, and I didn't know what to do with my life.

[@djcsdy2]

@@Asobitech That's super harsh. You're hardly the first person to make that mistake and it's really short-sighted for a company to fire you after effectively making a large investment in your education :-/.

[@dominicesquivel3901]

wish the frontier dev team was like that

[@Asobitech]

@@djcsdy2 funny you should put it that way. I had zero education from them. At that age I should have been hired as a trainee and had a lead/mentor. But no. I was doing all the work on my own. Teaching myself on the fly. Trying to do what was asked of me without any guidance. I got paid a salary of £14k which did. It reflect the work I was asked to do.

[@Asobitech]

@@dominicesquivel3901 there appears to be a story here that I am not aware of. I would love to know more.

[@QualityApeMan]

Personalising the cartridge for each customer was a stroke of genius. If someone decided to illegally dump the ROM online then everybody would know exactly who it was!

[@Hectik17]

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[@superchiaki]

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[@superchiaki]

i dont like the idea, information should be free

[@Hectik17]

@@superchiaki I was saying null the line if code that has the names on it so it will be blank in a rom dump. no name to trace back to who dumped it. could be done in a hex editor I assume.

[@megamanfan3]

0:00 Jetpac was featured in Donkey Kong 64 as an unlockable after the player collects 15 Banana Metals. No doubt that it's because Rare used to be known as Ultimate Play the Game at the time this ZX Spectrum game was released.

[@will5948]

I think I spent longer in Jetpac than the actual game.

[@JosiahGould]

As an American, my first exposure to JetPac was on Donkey Kong 64. It hooked me into retro games, and I love going back and playing games that were released long before I was born.

[@jasonblalock4429]

Along with his demoscene legacy, Manfred Linzner is also the lead composer for Shin'en (which formed from his old demo group Abyss), and did some amazing work over the years. Especially their shmups. His music for the Iridion games on GBA are some of my favorites on the platform.

[@boyks]

Of note: The switching colors mentioned at 11:36 is a feature of the RIPS IPS V3 screen and not this game. You can do this on any game with the screen mod.

[@ff_crafter]

That gameboy from the retro future is amazing

[@yurigagarin3014]

God, that is a beautiful gameboy

[@koalitaDormilona]

When he said "robocopy vibe", I thought, "wait... robocopy (the Windows copying command) has a vibe?" Then I realized he meant Robocop-y

[@MegaManNeo]

I really like this by what you have shown. Not just the teamwork between you and other KZbin users but also the game itself. 1) It's a fairly competent port of a classic Spectrum game 2) the man behind it sells it as if it was a retail game back in the day 3) when buying the complete package you even get the naked ROM file and your name is in it. 4) it runs on both the DMG/SGB/Pocket as well as anything after the Color if so desired.

[@Asobitech]

Thank so much. I just want to say, that I no longer personalise the ROM for the 2nd production run. It was a special thing I did for people who pre-ordered the first batch.

[@MegaManNeo]

@@Asobitech Still a cool thing to do 😀

[@thesadken]

Great video! JetPak DX has become one of my favourite gameboy games. Quang did an amazing job at getting the gameplay right :D

[@theblackbox5456]

Just ordered while watching! Thanks Nostalgia Nerd! :)

[@kenkobra]

The Gameboy reminds me of the starting of "Saved by the Bell" sitcom.

[@locust76]

Having your Game Boy cartridge custom flashed just for you is _amazingly cool_ and great value.

[@Asobitech]

Thank you, I felt it was a lovely bit of awesome I could do for everyone that was willing to pre-order the first run and help make this a reality.

[@quietusplus1221]

What an inspiring story, that was a really great interview. I myself went into depression for a similar time and only just now feel like getting out of it. To pick yourself up after that amount of time and getting your passion back is quite the feat.

[@Asobitech]

I am so sorry to here you had to go through that. Great to hear you are getting out of it now.

[@quietusplus1221]

@@Asobitech Hey, no worries, keep on creating and being awesome! Glad you shared your story.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

A superlative Red Dwarf Robbie Rocketpants reference. Looks like you had fun as a Junior Birdman!

[@documentthedrama8279]

its really awesome that the guy who coded the game in 1999 actually released the game

[@Kabodanki]

bravo my dude, I tried to make a game for the NES for my team in former company (they let us half a day per way to work on our own project, it was very fun and intelligent on their part), i was able to code the menu (I gave up here), and push it to a real cartridge. I can understand how hard it is, despite all the modern tech we have.

[@djcsdy2]

I knew of Quang from this channel and Octavius's, and yet somehow I had no idea he makes games. This looks awesome :-).

[@Alakazzam09]

Great interview and game. I feel the love, it's really refreshing to see some happier stuff nowadays.

[@Sedric-and-Charlie]

I feel like Quang is getting younger every time I see him. Also I think I said this before but it's always fascinating watching your videos with the captions on

[@Asobitech]

I wish I was getting younger. My body definitely doesn't feel like it.

[@QunMang]

I was thinking that he doesn't look any older than early 30s, so 21 years ago he made (the first version of) this game then was offered a job? Before age 13?? Clearly he is older than he looks.

[@Asobitech]

@@QunMang thanks. I am currently 42.

[@scherge]

Jet Pac was my very first experience with a computer game, too! :D I don't know how they managed to pull it off, but one of my parents' friends had a device he could play it on early in 1989 in East Germany. It was on a monochrome screen and I got a printout of the title screen at the end, printed by a super noisy needle printer on an approx. 3 inch wide paper roll. I was so utterly impressed with all this that it was basically all it took to get me addicted to tech for life ^^

[@EvilDrFish]

I love all those Eastern European clones that got made. They had to be so creative / inventive at the time, to work with what they had access to.

[@wyterabitt2149]

Personally had a Gameboy pocket, and found the screen great really especially compared to the older Gameboy screens. Not perfect still, but far less problems and never had an issue paying in a lit area.

[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

Shame they never made a C64 version, even when the groundwork was already laid with the Vic20 version. This game could have become great outside of the uK too.

[@markenetube]

My first Spectrum game too! I was a 20 , just finished my electrical apprenticeship with Thorn Lighting in Enfield. I had found another job and it was my last day. Companies used to pay cash in those days , and they made you work a "week in hand" so when you left you got 2 weeks money. I had a ZX81 and used to dream of the spluttery sounds and colour of the speccy. I picked up my money and drove my 1974 ford Cortina to Enfield town and went to WH Smiths. If you watch "Micro Men" (on youtube for free) Smith's looked just like the shop Chris Curry visits. Bought my 148k spectrum and got the choice of a free game. I had been in the shop a few days before , so knew which game it had to be. Then drove home to have some dead flesh feel , rubber key fun. Got it in the ear from my girlfriend for "wasting" £140 ! It was an odd time to be into computers, seemed like a new system/consul came out every month. The good old days!

[@OliGaming-d1u]

We in NA only know Jetpac thanks to DK64. It was emulated in it and you had to beat the hi-score to get an item needed to beat the game. I don't even think the ZX Spectrum ever came out here. We were way too busy with the NES

[@cheaterman49]

2:30 Me, forgetting for an instant the current circumstances: « whoa, you should really do that again, it was great! » ... Yeah, they should do those again, when safe... :-s

[@DaraM73]

Just ordered on the website link. Many thanks NN

[@pek5117]

There is alot of new Gameboy games it seems, really pushing the limits of the console.

[@pek5117]

@Yannick 73 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4qWd42rqr-BkLs and kzbin.info/www/bejne/nn3IoXSdmqpqe7s

[@pek5117]

@Yannick 73 If you like Gameboy there was a few games i had back in early 90's that were amazing, Link Awakening obv, and Rescue of Princess Blobette was great.

[@TheThaddius]

An excellent and inventive suggestion, sir, with just two tiny drawbacks. A, We don't have any jet-powered rocket pants. And B, There's no such thing as jet-powered rocket pants outside the fictional serial "Robbie Rocket Pants

[@retro_reflections]

Excellent vid, great work by Quang and his team, and yeah, here's to simpler times.

[@gveltaine]

I truly applaud Kwang(?)s determination. I wish I had the ambition to learn C more as there's some games and apps I'd love to delve into or create to help enhance the scene. This was a fun trip to watch That ending: I feel this on a deep level. I have had a deep desire to finish breath of fire 1 on snes for a while. So booted up my WiiU and was playing on the tablet in bed. Away from my computer just enjoying the simplicity of the game. Not quite on the floor eating marshmallows but close enough lol

[@vealck]

Jetpac was the first video / computer game I ever played as well. And it's pretty much my contemporary.

[@geezerdiamond]

Quang is such a star! I got my copy in the first run and it’s bloody gorgeous!

[@Kee-Lo]

I hope Neil's RMC has a Retro Tea Break with Quang, it would be very insightful!

[@Asobitech]

We have been meaning to do a collaboration at some point. Looks like Nostalgia Nerd beat him to it ;)

[@Kee-Lo]

@@Asobitech Cool, lets hope it can happen soon ;)

[@Psythik]

My only memories of JetPac come from Donkey Kong 64, which I still haven't beaten because I could never get past the part where you have to beat it on a single life in order for the game to progress. As a result, I only have hatred for JetPac. Why did Rare require you to beat it with just ONE life!? And why was it necessary in order to continue?

[@foxymetroid]

I thought you only had to get a high score, which was easy to do by going to the top platform and then shooting back and forth.

[@Psythik]

@@foxymetroid To be fair, I haven't played the game since the 90s, so I may be a bit a fuzzy on the details. That said, I *distinctly* remember how difficult it was and your comment just helped me remember why it was so hard to pull off to begin with! Not only did you have to get the high score, you had to do it with just one life. And not just for JetPac, you had to do the same thing with the OG Donkey Kong as well. Even the original arcade versions of the game were generous enough to give you more than one life! Edit: Also, the internet wasn't as widely used in those days so it's not like I could just look up a guide or get advice from other users such as yourself. It was every gamer for themselves back in those days! If you weren't lucky enough to have dialup, you had to figure the game out on your own. I was unfortunately one of the unlucky ones.

[@zemaj0]

Great video I used to love playing that on spectrum.

[@RetroAmateur1989]

0:50 So it is a prequel to no man's sky. Jokes asside, I consider people who can remember their first game, to be lucky.

[@jackbadger3976]

Great stuff! Well done Q!

[@MrPeteykins]

Ordered my copy and can't wait to play it, which I'll be doing on a "GB Boy Colour" (Chinese GB Color clone, which I'm still so glad I bought) and the Gamecube Game Boy Player.

[@Liquidcadmus]

I love seeing how new games are being made for old consoles and micro computers. maybe one day the actual companies behind these machines will realize there's a market for them and will make some new official games or console re issues as well.

[@genghisbunny]

Love the interview, great job.

[@MEDELGAMES]

Inspiring stuff! Good job on the game and on the video.

[@rejackzimmerman6165]

Weird to think that the company who made the original jet pack game later on became RARE and gave us unforgettable classics like Goldeneye, banjo kazooie, and conker’s bad fur day.

[@PaulTaylor1]

Ah the great days of the Bung compos... Somewhere out there is my Enigma simulator and half-working Manic Miner. (And *somewhere* is fully-working Jet Set Willy, which I would love to get a copy of again... That never went to Bung so who knows if it still exists.)

[@Asobitech]

Hello Paul. I will check my archives. Also will ask the people in the GBdev Discord.

[@ianhughes5090]

Hmmmm Jet Pac on the ZX Spectrum what a game and what a follow up.. thanks for sharing brilliant

[@mishabakunin4354]

Love your videos. I have no interest in gameboy but you are so entertaining that I still watch.

[@bazza5699]

awwww JetPac was my first game too on my 16k spectrum... great days :)

[@Cptalbertweskerful]

I don't have a fancy IPS Gameboy but I did the next best thing and played it on my old Super Gameboy as soon as I could, fantastic game that keeps you on the edge of your seat! Never played the original (only the very different Solar Jetman) but nostalgia isn't required to enjoy it ❤️

[@michaeldemers2716]

Here is one for you. Try out the Retroad SFC52HD Home Console or Retroad 5 Plus 7" handheld. Both have a GB/GBC Extension Converter so you can play on TV in HD. The handheld weighs a ton though so use the stand and a bluetooth controller like 8bitdo but it does come with some crap ones you can use out of the box.

[@rolandkatsuragi]

Amazing so much was done in so little time

[@justinthomas2458]

Sweet! Got mine on preorder!

[@theseob]

I love JetPac my goto game when getting the zx spectrum out.

[@jsc315]

That is one of the most 90s Gameboys I've ever seen and it's glorious.

[@maxheadroom4659]

80's mate

[@DampeS8N]

Solar Jetman was the Pickford Bros. If you aren't familiar with them, they are a game making duo that had been making pretty great games up until 2013. They still blog on their website. Their last memorable title for me was Naked War - a play by email turn based strategy game.

[@SomePotato]

Another example of crunch being soul-crushingly harmful! Glad that Quang turned it around!

[@DiestroCorleone]

The way some game development companies abuse their employees is unforgivable.

[@kendallcuddles]

Next you'll say water is wet, or everyone who drinks water dies.

[@DiestroCorleone]

​@@kendallcuddles We all know it happens and will keep on happening, but watching this video that's what stood out for me. I think I kept watching just to see if that guy could get his revenge. Spoiler alert: Not. Yet.

[@SockyNoob]

Unfortunately it's quite the norm in creative industries.

[@psykosabre9762]

this is such a beautiful picture of how intertwined the retro community is. all these different artists with different talents coming together to create something much larger than one could do alone, and they were all connected with their love for older video games. absolutely wonderful

[@SireSquish]

You probably already know about this, but just in case - have you ever seen the JetPak remake by retrospec? I never had a spectrum or an Amiga, so this is actually the only version I've ever known, and so I recognise this spectrum/GB DX version in a kind of hindsight.

[@johnyinnit]

I love Jetpac and this looks super awesome - I used to go into Boots or WH Smith and demand they loaded it up on the Speccy they'd have on display cos we couldn't afford one at home (a Speccy) - I still fire it up on Rare Replay and give it a go now! Jetpac that is.

[@michaeldemers2716]

Hey people play in HD on TV with Retroad SFC52HD or Retroad 5 Plus 7" Handheld with the GB/GBC Extension Converter from Ali-Express. Gamebox Systems has a HD Consolizer kit as well.

[@ZombiWorkshop]

Reyyy! Love the vid. Thanks for the shoutout. Loved working on this, and hopefully we'll be doing more at some point. :)

[@marx4538]

That LEGO Stunt Rally conversion was made in 3 months? Very impressive, though it also explains why that game was so... odd.

[@Asobitech]

The original build I made, had much more fun looser car physics, so you could power slide around corners. But they had us simplify it more, and made you stick to the track like a Scalextric. I wasn't happy doing that, but it is what they asked for.

[@SirWhiskersThe3rd]

I found my new ringtone @ 8:16 lol

[@TimeToSlashZoom]

+1 for Red Dwarf reference!

[@rosse119]

Awesome video, such a cool game too. I need to play the original now, never had that on my Speccy.

[@CiccioImberlicchio]

Does this work on a super gameboy and does it have any enchancements when played on it?

[@Asobitech]

Yes it will work on a Super GameBoy. Sadly I didn’t have time to put any enhancements in to the game for the Super GameBoy.

[@CiccioImberlicchio]

@@Asobitech That's good to know, thanks!

[@QunMang]

That Gameboy of yours goes perfectly with that rug you're laying on.

[@nicklong27]

I bought a copy of this from the first run, after seeing Quang on Digital Foundry. It's a cool product and a fun game.

[@Asobitech]

Thank you so much for purchasing the game in the first run.

[@natewills]

Is no one gonna mention that Konami hyperboy thing! Looks awesome!

[@Richie016]

Game boy games are amazingly nostalgic; in 2021, there are regularly playable games on the handheld console.

[@vegetafan9922]

It took me until over halfway through the video to realize that this was a fully homebrew game and not an official remake of the game by Rare that was shelved until Quang found and finished developing it.

[@Asobitech]

Oh hai

[@gigabusterexe]

what is that sharp tv with the PS1 controller ports on the front?

[@Asobitech]

It's a Sharp Super Famicom SF1 CRT TV. The 14inch model. A TV with a Nintendo Super Famicom built in.

[@MinecrafterPictures]

Star Fox 2: Am I a joke to you?

[@sherizaahd]

Now I have to wait for evening for greatness, thanks!

[@russwishtart]

I can speedrun Super Jetpak in four minutes and twenty seconds.

[@Asobitech]

I would love to see a video of that.

[@russwishtart]

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[@Asobitech]

@@russwishtart link?

[@maartenofbelgium]

I'm wondering about the Nintendo logo and 'Seal of quality' label on the package. Was this game sanctioned by Nintendo?

[@Asobitech]

Look closer, it's a Homebrew logo and a Homebrew Seal of Quality.

[@maartenofbelgium]

Haha thanks. From a distance, it is very convincing.

[@andresbravo2003]

I had nothing to remember, but thanks!

[@WhoWatchesVideos]

3:40 Wait a minute. Isn't that just the plot to No Man's Sky?

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Seems like it could be a fun little middle of the night can't sleep kind of game. I do that since the original Gameboy Advance doesn't have a backlight.

[@Rosscotas]

Quality above KZbin

[@nickc3511]

I want to order this, but I can't till the first. Are they going to stop selling these after the end of the month or is the price gonna go up? I'm in the eastern time zone, so if I order it around midnight local time would I be able to get in the preorder?

[@Asobitech]

Hello, I originally was only going to do a single run, but there was enough demand to do a second. Once the pre-order ends, the physical carts will no longer be available. Even though I am in GMT+0, I will keep the store open a little longer for people in other time zones, on the 31st of January.

[@nickc3511]

@@Asobitech Thank you. Also do you know if the ROM has been tested to run on a EZ-Flash Jr? I plan on getting the £40 option and keeping it sealed in the box, but I do want to still play it on original hardware.

[@Asobitech]

@@nickc3511 I haven't personally tried it on the EZ-Flash Jr, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work. There's nothing special about the ROM. Also the boxes aren't "sealed"

[@EvilDrFish]

I don't know if this is of any help but I played it on the Lameboy emulator on the Nintendo DS just fine.

[@nickc3511]

@@Asobitech I read that the ROM is bigger than a normal GB/C ROM, if that's true some older flash carts might not like it. I believe the EZ-Flash Jr can handle larger fan made games and ports.

[@kittymae335]

The most nostalgic thing was hearing you say kicking k and curly c

[@tcl78]

What's the name of the song at the beginning of the video?

[@codyaimes4354]

I owned solar jetman as a kid, was a super fun game.

[@wheeledllama7907]

I've been looking at that exact neon shell for my own GamerBoy, it's just amazing.

[@rockkiall]

Do you like the Jetpack for dos from Acclaim?

[@Trashmantrash]

Fun Fact a remake of jet pack was made for the xbox 360 by the company Ultimate Play the Game would become that company being Rare the creators of the original Dk Country games, Banjo Kazooie, Conker's Bad fur day and Sea of Theives.

[@Christopher-N]

I like the *MizuCat* Game Boy, especially on the back, but I couldn't own one of those without also owning the original gray Game Boy. Both versions are valid in their own right, but while I'm nostalgic for those 80s-90s graphics, I'm more nostalgic for the clean look of the original hardware. Both look amazing, though. To rephrase, I'd want to own both the original gray, _and_ a *MizuCat* Game Boy... but if I absolutely had to choose one, it would be the original gray.

[@iloveimageprocessing]

Just realised that not only do you have the same Retro Tech book as I do, but you wrote it! #OMG

[@KananNallainathan]

i just bought your book Dude! love your Channel; 👍🙂

[@DJ10ROCS]

Brilliant!

[@Littlefighter1911]

GBDK works, but holy f. is the compiler inefficient. What was it again? SDCC?

[@Asobitech]

GBDK has been improved greatly by many talented people. Check out GBDK2020 for the latest updates. I agree to get the best out of a GameBoy coding in ASM would be the ideal route. But I only know C, and hopefully prove it doesn't matter what language you code in as long as you can make something with it. There are other commercial games written in GBDK which also show this.

[@Littlefighter1911]

@@Asobitech Great to hear! Thanks for pointing that out. Last time I've tested it was in 2016. So a lot might have happened in between. I'll give it another try. EDIT: I personally don't care about the generated assembly too much, as long as it runs, but the code size definitely got a bit bloated back then. Still I think the positives of writing in C out-weights the ones you get from Assembly.

[@DCeric]

One of my fav games. I need this

[@EvilDrFish]

I got it in the first run... I love it 😀

[@973terminator]

Oh wow I first played Jetpack on Rare Replay

[@TorutheRedFox]

you can counteract the ghosting on the GameBoy screen with the right lighting

[@Kabodanki]

XD true

[@sysghost]

Keep in mind: The original GameBoy LCD wasn't as blurry back when the units were new. This "blurriness" is a result out of their age.

[@gigabusterexe]

I played jetpac on Donkey Kong 64, it was great

[@kicapanmanis1060]

3:22 English Pounds? What do the rest of Britain use then? Euros? ;)

[@kaitlyn__L]

Scottish pounds and Welsh pounds aren’t quite the same as English pounds. Since Bank of England notes are just Bank of England. All are pegged to GBP though.