ROM Hack prBoom GBA port and hack for GBA Doom 1 to use it.

[Nikokaro]

Thanks.
My humble suggestions are:

Scythe1/2, Hell Revealed1/2, Memento Mori1/2, Community Chest series.

I would advise you, if you don't mind, to open a new thread, specifying your intentions in the title, in order to make them more visible and better advertised (maybe opening a poll, why not?,it would be interesting and fun).

 

[Bazooka_Face]

Thanks.
My humble suggestions are:

Scythe1/2, Hell Revealed1/2, Memento Mori1/2, Community Chest series.

I would advise you, if you don't mind, to open a new thread, specifying your intentions in the title, in order to make them more visible and better advertised (maybe opening a poll, why not?,it would be interesting and fun).

Ok, here is the patch for scythe 1, keep in mind, the music will be vanilla doom 2 music, since I didn't want to go through the hassle of listening to the music that plays in each stage and find the corresponding mod file to associate with that stage. I will be working on scythe 2, and the others you suggested, thanks for the wad suggestions, I never even knew of these wads!

 

[DanTheManMS]

Folks, you have officially made history! This GBA port of prboom has found its way to an IKEA LAMP microcontroller!

https://hackaday.io/project/180182-hacking-an-ikea-trdfri-lamp-to-run-doom/details

The article is well worth the full read. I'll mention just a few highlights.

Specs:
Cortex M33 @ 80 MHz,
96 kB + 12 kB RAM,
Display: 160 x 128, 16 bpp
Sound implemented, music & multiplayer missing.
All engine features of vanilla Doom are implemented!
1 MB Flash, 8 MB external SPI (added for WADs. I don't have 16 MB parts, so I cannot test full commercial WADs)

In this case he used the external 8 MB in the same way that we would use a NOR-based flash cart in the GBA days -- very slow to write to, VERY QUICK to read from! Unfortunately due to the recent computer chip shortage he wasn't able to test anything larger.

His version doesn't have music, while the GBA one does. His version managed to bring back the "Z-Depth lighting effect" with what he claims was only 3 KB of RAM, versus the 11 KB it saved by not having it in the GBA version. I wonder if that can be back-ported.

Anyway, https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ the end.

 

[Sterophonick]

Folks, you have officially made history! This GBA port of prboom has found its way to an IKEA LAMP microcontroller!

https://hackaday.io/project/180182-hacking-an-ikea-trdfri-lamp-to-run-doom/details

The article is well worth the full read. I'll mention just a few highlights.



In this case he used the external 8 MB in the same way that we would use a NOR-based flash cart in the GBA days -- very slow to write to, VERY QUICK to read from! Unfortunately due to the recent computer chip shortage he wasn't able to test anything larger.

His version doesn't have music, while the GBA one does. His version managed to bring back the "Z-Depth lighting effect" with what he claims was only 3 KB of RAM, versus the 11 KB it saved by not having it in the GBA version. I wonder if that can be back-ported.

Anyway, https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ the end.

Riveting

 

[Kippykip]

Folks, you have officially made history! This GBA port of prboom has found its way to an IKEA LAMP microcontroller!

https://hackaday.io/project/180182-hacking-an-ikea-trdfri-lamp-to-run-doom/details

The article is well worth the full read. I'll mention just a few highlights.



In this case he used the external 8 MB in the same way that we would use a NOR-based flash cart in the GBA days -- very slow to write to, VERY QUICK to read from! Unfortunately due to the recent computer chip shortage he wasn't able to test anything larger.

His version doesn't have music, while the GBA one does. His version managed to bring back the "Z-Depth lighting effect" with what he claims was only 3 KB of RAM, versus the 11 KB it saved by not having it in the GBA version. I wonder if that can be back-ported.

Anyway, https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ the end.

Holy crap that's super impressive. Now I'm intrigued with the depth lighting too

 

[Jayro]

Aaaaand the hackaday link is dead...

 

[Kippykip]

Aaaaand the hackaday link is dead...

what the hell?
Well I still had the tab open in my browser from this morning, must of literally just gotten taken down now for whatever reason.
I just saved the tab as html and threw it in a zip if you want to have a look

EDIT: Shit the github is down too!
https://github.com/next-hack/MG21DOOM/tree/master/DoomMG21

Guess I won't be able to port the lighting back in anytime soon. What the!?!?

EDIT 2: The video is gone to private too!


Was there some weird legal threat?

EDIT 3: Reddit thread is deleted, but I had that tab still open as well.
I went to his profile and yep:

I swear to god if this is some 2016 zenimax bullshit again...

EDIT 4: Got a mirror of the source code
https://github.com/marciopocebon/MG21DOOM

I think that's everything besides the video itself recovered

 

[Deleted member 323844]

They triggered the IKEA secret service.

 

[Jayro]

Who requested it be removed, John Romero? Unless it was him, what a compliant pussy....

 

[DanTheManMS]

Well that's just some baloney right there. I have to imagine it's IKEA somehow, who else would have a complaint against this?

Thanks for saving what you could, folks. I haven't seen a takedown this fast since Chrono Trigger Resurrection.

 

[DanTheManMS]

There's some news, through the rumor-mill. We can stop blaming IKEA, it wasn't them who put a halt to all this.

It appears (not confirmed) that the guy works for the company that creates the microprocessors in the first place. It's likely that he was simply told by his boss "take it down" and he had no choice but to comply.

Shame. But understandable.

 

[FAST6191]

About to say -- Ikea hacking is not my idea of a good time (even if I stuff the van from their wood/plastic/metal scraps pile and rejects section most times I go -- made many a workbench that stuff has) but it is a fairly established thing and I doubt they would have any real objection (What is it going to do? Cause them to sell more lamps?).

Curious what grounds the takedown was issued on too (hopefully it was not some fig leaf security wandered past and DMCA says no), though "don't have enough to even afford a phone call with a lawyer" is probably in play.

 

[Deleted member 514389]

At first I suspected this to be a toke jopic..
Until I saw the author.

Too bad I'm not a 'Doom guy'

 

[Noi999]

Can someone tell me all the doom versions for the gba, like pc conversion etc, I want to find the best doom gba experience

 

[patters]

If you want multiplayer Doom 1 then get this:
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/474/

If you don't mind losing multiplayer compatibility, then this is a way way better Doom experience (better frame rate, textures, non-simplified level geometry):
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4899/

For Doom II use this (retains multiplayer compatibility):
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3666/

 

[Nikokaro]

Can someone tell me all the doom versions for the gba, like pc conversion etc, I want to find the best doom gba experience

In this thread you will find numerous conversions for gba of classic and famous wads by our friend and benefactor @Bazooka_Face :
https://gbatemp.net/threads/gba-doom-wad-conversions-open-for-suggestions.586037/page-7
My favorite megawad is definitely Doom 4 vanilla, an adaptation that seems incredible on GBA, continues to amaze me and is a true, unique gem, still unparalleled.