GBA is probably the first handheld that many people came into contact with when they were children, and in that era when mobile phones were not common, it would be absolutely enviable to be able to get started with a GBA. Recently, some netizens have further developed the potential of idle GBA in their homes, successfully letting it run the original Tomb Raider.
Using his personal open source project "OpenLara", the netizen spent a year porting the game.
At first, I wasn't sure if Tomb Raider could run on the GBA, but after many optimizations, the author finally made a version of Alpha that could run.
As can be seen in the video, the frame rate during the game can basically be guaranteed between 10 and 17 FPS, and the maximum can even reach 20 FPS.
The netizen said on the forum that "there are still many optimizations that need to be carried out in the future". But if you want to make the whole game 32M cassette, you must optimize the game content in many aspects. Currently, only three levels can be played on a single card belt.
It is reported that OpenLara is an open source software made by the netizen, this tool can achieve many functional extensions, and support multi-platform porting.
At present, the netizen has used it to achieve the high-quality and high-frame rate operation of the original "Tomb Raider", and has also ported multiple platforms such as web version, Mac, Android, 3DS, NS and so on.