Can Gp32 play 3d games?

[GP 32]

this is a movie of the new c2 engine for Gameboy Advance ( under development)

can GP32 produce real 3d?


http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.js...7%2F487087.html

 

[Axeman]

Yep - it can. I assume you mean a 3D engine a la Doom or Quake. People have been playing around and several people have produced demos which show it can be done (as well as the ports of Doom, Heretic, descent etc).

The future is bright, the future is 3D (well partly )

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

Doom isnt 3d

 

[Demonix]

Doom code is not 3D.. thats true but the game visuals are 3D (ie what you see looks 3D).

 

[Flack]

Radiumgame.com has been ported to the GP32, and it's 3D. So ... yes.

Flack

 

[tapsel]

Wow... never heard of that before. Looks promising.

"Contact us if you would like us to develop a first person perspective or camera
driven game using the Radium engine on any of the above platforms."

This means that they are at least willing to give away their engine, but it's probably
not open sorce, is it?

 

[khephren]

there's an indepth discussion on another thread somewhere... Basically the GBA has no real 3d hardware (mode7 doesn't really count), and neither does the GP. So 'cos they both have a similar processor you can compare (roughly) what they can do. The GBA has a 16mhz arm7 the GP has a arm9 which will go up to 133mhz.

Although MIPS comparisons are suspect, MIPS wise the GP comes out about Pentium 75-P90. So I suspect it could do 3D equivelent to PC games of that era

Incidently, porting that engine wouldn't be that difficult. I suspect there's a lot of ASM involved, but as both the GP and the GBA run on arm, the assembler would be the same.

 

[Rico]

As for giving away the engine, Radium are more likely to be selling it to other development houses.

- Rico

 

[RobertG]

I'm pretty sure that none of the GBA 3D engines make any use of the GBAs graphics hardware.. The only way that I can think of would be using the GBAs affine sprite hardware to scale wall slices in games like Doom..

So when it comes to doing 3D the GBA loses its graphics advantage over the GP32 and both systems have to render everything in software.

The GP32 can be clocked at around 8 times faster than the GBA, which gives it a huge advantage. I see no reason why the GP32 can't handle the types of 3D games we were seeing on the PC, pre 3DFX. Stuff like Magic Carpet, Screamer, Descent, FX Fighter (hehe), Duke 3D which are all games I remember playing on my Pentium 60 with 8mb.

Not too hopeful about that "Radium" game though, it looks alright but it's being published by Telegames.. Never a good sign