Hacking Homebrew Homebrew game Project Undertale 3DS (W.I.P)

CooingMaxito · Nov 18, 2023

Undertale for 3DS

Hello GBATemp! So, this is a project that I've been recently working on and I am really excited to share this with you all!

Thing is, I've seen a few people trying to port Undertale to the 3DS, but to no avail... All those projects eventually got abandoned and with seemingly no explanation, at least from what I can gather haha. That inspired me to do it myself!

Please keep in mind this is in it's very early stages!! And it's also being made from scratch in the Unity engine (since game maker is not compatible with the 3ds)

I've started working on this around early September-ish and hopefully I can actually finish this in a reasonable amount of time haha
I want to be as transparent as possible while making this, so everyone knows what's going on and not leave you all hanging saying "... So what happened to it?"
With that out of the way

What's been added

Intro cutscene (100% Done)
Name Select (No animations or transitions yet)
All the original Name responses (plus a few extras I added)
Sound test
Player animations and movement
Analog movement for Circle pad, can be toggled
The first five rooms of the game
The Ruins theme now plays after you encounter Flowey and keeps playing between scenes
Grey heart, for a future "mechanic", it won't affect any of the gameplay
First half of Flowey's encounter
Animated water whaaaaaat
Kind of functional dialog system and npcs

As you can see, there's not that much stuff already done, but hey, it's progress!

Current Priorities

Add battles and random encounters
Make a leveling system
Add healing items and gear (E.g. Toy Knife, Boxing Gloves, Bandage, etc.)
Inventory

I am open to any feedback, suggestions and ideas! If you have anything in mind please let me know!
P.S. I'm a solo developer, so don't set your expectations too high for this project

And last but not least..

Preview

Intro Cutscene

3D Banner in the home menu

Video showcasing borders and the second room that contains Flowey
(borders have been temporarily disabled)

If you want to see more stuff, and more tests from this join my discord!
https://discord.com/invite/KURTswPngP

Initial v0.1.0 release
https://github.com/CooingMaxito/Undertale-3DS/releases/tag/pre-alpha-v.0.1.0

v0.2.2
https://github.com/CooingMaxito/Undertale-3DS/releases/tag/Alpha-v0.2.2

Unreleased screenshots and images
(These will be removed as they get added into public releases)

Testing battles, only FIGHT works (still need to add enemy health and damage, lots to do lol), ACT, ITEM and MERCY still need functionality

Testing more rooms from the game and added GUI on lower screen (placeholder), will probably add touch

Concept for borders on bottom screen

Glimpse of a battle with some debug options, not a lot to show huh...

Video showcasing early battles

A glimpse of the Flowey encounter

New text and dialogue system whaaaa (With easily modifiable json files!)

Datbo · Nov 18, 2023

looks sick, when do you think a build of it will be avaliable?

CooingMaxito · Nov 19, 2023

Datbo said:
looks sick, when do you think a build of it will be avaliable?

Thanks! Just updated the post with a link to my discord server, there we have a public test build that you can try out! It's pretty small though

Post automatically merged: Nov 19, 2023

It works with both Old and New models by the way! :grog:

CJGamerXD · Mar 2, 2024

oh man this is so cool! and updates to this since then?

supershadow64ds · Mar 4, 2024

Surprised it's not open source. I'd love to contribute.

CooingMaxito · Mar 4, 2024

CJGamerXD said:
oh man this is so cool! and updates to this since then?

Unfortunately not

My computer went kaput and the files got corrupted around late November (a few weeks after I posted this, and no I had no backups, rookie mistake)
After that I started to re-do it haha... I'm around the same point as the build I had, with some quality of life changes! Currently working on the dialogue system, I am dreading Flowey

supershadow64ds said:
Surprised it's not open source. I'd love to contribute.

I didn't think about that lmao
Though it would be embarrassing to see all my trash spaghetti code
I should probably also mention that this is being made in Unity, I will edit the post

supershadow64ds · Mar 4, 2024

CooingMaxito said:
this is being made in Unity

What an amazing time to be alive, that we can use as ubiquotous of software as Unity to make 3DS homebrew.

CooingMaxito · Mar 23, 2024

Update:
Dialogue is pretty scuffed, but it mostly works! Currently working on battles, so far I've got the turn based logic and have started to work on attacks and player options, also trying out compatibility with old models. Hope to release an update soon

JP6ET · Mar 27, 2024

Hey, I know how hard it is to optimize for o3DS.
I hope to see this project be a success!

raxadian · Mar 27, 2024

Here it is for DS, dunno why it uses the Steam version files instead of the freeware version:

https://github.com/C3RV1/UndertaleNDS

CooingMaxito · Mar 27, 2024

JP6ET said:
Hey, I know how hard it is to optimize for o3DS.
I hope to see this project be a success!

Thanks a lot! And yeah optimizing really is something lol
Right now I got it to run a battle pretty decently :grog:

Datbo · Mar 28, 2024

really glad to see the project continuing even after you lost your data earlier

CooingMaxito · Mar 28, 2024

Datbo said:
really glad to see the project continuing even after you lost your data earlier

Oh yeah, not to worry anymore. I made like five different backups now LMAO
Progress is good so far

TheMasuke · Apr 3, 2024

Just curious, but do you have an idea as to how many stages of Undertale you'd include in this project?

CooingMaxito · Apr 4, 2024

TheMasuke said:
Just curious, but do you have an idea as to how many stages of Undertale you'd include in this project?

Hopefully the full game, the first step is finishing the Ruins but my current priority is making the gameplay look and feel just right

Edit: I'm on a little break at the moment, I'll get back to working on it soon. Last thing I did was some optimization, from my testing it runs at full speed on both new and old models

TheMasuke · Apr 4, 2024

CooingMaxito said:
Hopefully the full game, the first step is finishing the Ruins but my current priority is making the gameplay look and feel just right

Edit: I'm on a little break at the moment, I'll get back to working on it soon. Last thing I did was some optimization, from my testing it runs at full speed on both new and old models

Just saying this now, but you're actually goated if you manage to do the full game lmao. Keep it up man fr

supershadow64ds · Apr 4, 2024

CooingMaxito said:
Hopefully the full game, the first step is finishing the Ruins but my current priority is making the gameplay look and feel just right

Edit: I'm on a little break at the moment, I'll get back to working on it soon. Last thing I did was some optimization, from my testing it runs at full speed on both new and old models

I'd reccomend setting up the engine to just be as versatile as you like it-- Make it modular so you can add text/events/music as you please, especially when considering possible DMCA takedowns

CooingMaxito · Apr 5, 2024

supershadow64ds said:
I'd reccomend setting up the engine to just be as versatile as you like it-- Make it modular so you can add text/events/music as you please, especially when considering possible DMCA takedowns

Oh yeah, I also really need to make it versatile... LMAO

RyousukeTakeokaRY · Apr 5, 2024

Since 2017 i've been interested in an undertale port for 3ds, since all the projects got cancelled a while ago, i thought this idea was done for, and that nobody else would bother trying, im really glad that this project has not been left by the community, and you have my thanks for that, good luck

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