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Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG
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 HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as coverage of an impressive 3D game port on very limited hardware.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Modern Vintage Gamer
- Topic
- game boy advance ports
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I found some fascinating coverage of the OpenLara project, specifically for the port of Tomb Raider to the GBA. [VIDEO]
skibz on Hacker News · 2022-01
In OpenLaraMy favorite handheld port is this fan-made port of Tomb Raider to GBA. It's not even a demake, just a really optimized re-implementation of the engine. [VIDEO]
jamesgeck0 on Hacker News · 2022-10
In The lost art of handheld demakes
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