hackertube.io

Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Game history & retro gamingGame programming & enginesComputer architecture & CPUs

What it is

Modern Vintage Gamer looks at OpenLara, an open source Tomb Raider engine, running on the Game Boy Advance. The video explains how the port achieves playable speeds on the GBA's slow ARM CPU, with input from the developer XProger.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as coverage of an impressive 3D game port on very limited hardware.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I found some fascinating coverage of the OpenLara project, specifically for the port of Tomb Raider to the GBA.”

    Coverage of the OpenLara Tomb Raider port to Game Boy Advance

    skibz, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “OpenLara”

  2. “My favorite handheld port is this fan-made port of Tomb Raider to GBA.”

    A fan-made optimized engine re-implementation of Tomb Raider on GBA

    jamesgeck0, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “The lost art of handheld demakes”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: tomb raider, openlara, gba, game ports, retro hardware

Also recommended by the same people