Super Monkey Ball is now playable in your browser

[emigre]

https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/

Played through some levels and learnt I quite like playing SMB with a keyboard.

 

[LoggerMan]

It runs perfectly. I guess the monkeys were removed to not offend Sega or whoever owns the rights?

 

[DKB]

I never played this game. Maybe it was a mistake starting with this considering how well it runs. The monkey being removed I assume is due to copyright...but that's a bit silly considering that won't help considering literally everything else in the game is copyrighted.

 

[Jayinem]

The only good reason I could think of to play any game in a browser is you're at work and you have a web browser and you can get away with it (or, do it and not get caught I guess). Other than that it's just a cool concept, but how many people are bookmarking these sites and playing these games a lot at home? Maybe some I don't know.

 

[Hanafuda]

It runs perfectly. I guess the monkeys were removed to not offend Sega or whoever owns the rights?

The bananas still say Dole though.

 

[cearp]

I was expecting one of the mobile / portable versions, but this is beautiful.
I guess it's using a decompilation? Or is this just a very good remake?

- a very good remake, using code from the decompilation, it's in javascript (typescript), cool:
https://github.com/sndrec/WebMonkeyBall

 

[LoggerMan]

I was expecting one of the mobile / portable versions, but this is beautiful.
I guess it's using a decompilation? Or is this just a very good remake?

I think it just happens to be a really basic game. And Dolphin is in such a good place that running it in a web browser is trivial. Gamecube is a 24 year old console too, any computer today will have a GPU capable of running Super Monkey Ball.

 

[cearp]

I think it just happens to be a really basic game. And Dolphin is in such a good place that running it in a web browser is trivial. Gamecube is a 24 year old console too, any computer today will have a GPU capable of running Super Monkey Ball.

this isn't "running dolphin in the browser"

 

[Exnor]

Nice. i love to see this type of projects.

 

[MeowthBlep]

just play the sakura one on your phone (if its still available i didnt check)

this isn't "running dolphin in the browser"

everybody would love that tho

 

[lightwo]

just play the sakura one on your phone (if its still available i didnt check)

everybody would love that tho

A homebrew port of it is available on Vita