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Another Doom GBA Interview

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GBA Zone has posted an interview they conducted with David A. Palmer Productions, the programming team behind the conversion of Doom to the Game Boy Advance. This interview has 2 pages of text followed by 28 never-before-seen screen captures from the GBA port of Doom.

  • Doom GBA is based on Jaguar Doom code.
  • Framerate is expected to be around 15-30fps.
  • There is no single-cart multiplayer mode, due to the large quantities of data that would have to be transferred.
  • Control methods can be chosen from a configuration menu.
  • There will be 28(?) maps and 8 deathmatch-specific maps.
For the entire interview, along with a list of the members of the team and those 28 screenshots, check the interview here. Thanks go to Jason Dyer for pointing this out.

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werent there supposed to be people from the doom community making the levels? didnt see any 'familiar' names anyway.. looks just like regular doom..nice grafx...

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Ummmmmm, I was expecting this game to be regular DOOM.

Anyway.....SUITABLE?????? WTF IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?????

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The doom community was asked to make levels for another fps that's coming out for the GBA - the name eludes me right now.

-Dan

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>> However, in hospital (Der Krankenhausen) in Germany, I played Doom AGB - what else?

Hmm. No wonder there's so much green blood around! Sounds like they could be based in Germany the home of 'bastardised' gaming.

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I noticed that in ever screen shot there is always the same lighting level...That kinda sucks. But I heard that you can plug a GBA into the Gamecube. And I also heard the Gamecube can reach the internet, maybe there can be a multiplayer over the internet and GBA doom TCs and mods and more levels... Although I'm not sure they thought about it so it might not be possible.

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Yes, doesn't sound all that great... No Cyberdemon/Mastermind? How can it be complete? Bastardizing, indeed.

I blame the return of swing music.

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It's a straight port of the Jaguar code/game.
These guys weren't present in that version of Doom.

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I WANT THE JAGUAR VERSION :*(

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I'll bet the PC version of DOOM could be scaled down to run on a GBA effectively, without any of the green blood BS, missing monsters, weird-ass levels, or any of that stuff.

Why the heck did they choose to port the Jaguar version? I remember Jaguar as being one of the sadder consoles to hit the young 32-bit console market (and yes, it was 32-bit, not 64-bit).

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Not to start a flamewar, but the Jaguar really was a 64-bit console - at least it wasn't like the 32X (two 16-bit chips do not a 32-bit console make). The Jaguar's hardware, for the time, was awesome - go read up on it. It's an interesting story.

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Oh, I could have sworn it used two 32-bit coprocessors and only had a 16-bit VMU, but then you're usually more up on the hardware than I am, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt until I know better :->

I dunno much about the Jaguar other than that it had nothing I was personally interested in, didn't look much better than an SNES in terms of the shots I saw, and it wasn't very long-lived so I must not be the only one that was under-impressed. That's not to say there wasn't anything cool on it or about it. All consoles have their gems ::hugs his dreamcast::

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When I saw the screenies of the Jaguar DOOM, at the time they were the most fucking awesome shots I have seen. Then again, that was awhile back before I played PC DOOM.

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Doom GBA is based on Jaguar Doom code.

Sounds to me like they'll be spider and goat legged sweetness to me seeing as how they just used the code. I didn't read the actual interview though.

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