No one asked, but I put Undertale on the Game Boy 

Now imagine Undertale on an actual SNES....I feel the entire game would mostly stay intact with the exception of audio and some smooth sprite movements...(and Omega Flowey)

The difficulty with replicating Fallen Down is the the song is, if I recall correctly, down-tuned pretty significantly to give it that somber sound, which is why the chiptune version sounds so much cheerier.

amazing project!

As I watched this, I began to think about what could be possible if this was made on the GBA instead of the GB. I was thinking about how there’s less hardware limitations there, and for some reason I was thinking that making a visual novel - type game would make a lot of sense for both the hardware and the game it’d be rooting from. Implementing the story aspects into pure dialogue and the relations between characters rather than an RPG Which then led to me wanting to figure out development for the GBA Edit 1: I’m learning development for the GBA Edit 2: Rad, 168 people think I’m cool

You totally should get 2 other people involved (one dedicated to coding and another on translating the music across) and try to "demake" the whole thing. You did an incredible job by yourself in a year!

What I love most about this video is how you naturally end up employing the sort of wacky strategies designers and programmers used to get around the limitations of the Gameboy. Many classic techniques we sometimes regard in retrospect as being intentional or aesthetic are actually just the product of limitations. Very cool video.

This deserves so much more. This is such an awesome video, keep up with the awesome work.

Oh my GOD! When I first saw Undertale in 2015, I didn’t have much access to the internet and just assumed that it was a Gameboy game. I swore I had it, too. I remember going down into my basement and searching through some old, irrelevant Gameboy games a family friend had given us. To my dismay… none were Undertale. Man, this just scratched an itch for me. Thank you!

I can imagine Undertales decomp would be very helpful for things like understanding how the game does bullet patterns. Its probably possible to use those as a cheat sheet for reprogramming them for the Gameboy. Obviously you can't just copy paste, but there's probably ways you can accomplish the same idea

I thought this was going to be somebody making a "gameboy" game on Unity or something, but you actually made it playable on gameboy. Amazing.

GBSTUDIO MY BELOVED this is truly amazing! as a fellow GB studio user (of about 3 years), it's amazing what you've been able to pull off here! congrats on such a great project! also... this should be blowing up more than it has. here's to hoping!

**EDIT** 100K views!!!?! WHO ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE?!?? Well looks like the algorithm caught this video so here is a quick Q and A: Will I be working on this more?: No this was just a fun project to do. Why did youtube immediately make part of my intro outdated by making tumblr relevant again?: I got no idea my guy What can you expect from the future on this channel?: More consistent uploads for projects including fun devlogs for my game that I'm working on. Additionally, it may sound crazy but I'm making a second channel dedicated to my musings on video games and media as this current channel is only dedicated to project-based videos. It can be found here:www.youtube.com/@ChronosMania Additionally I guess follow me on all my other social media if you'd like: @le_chronomaniac on Twitter and @the_chronomaniac on like everything else and the most important question: Why is Piku Niku's music so good?: I have no idea but more people should know about it

I Just played through it. It's awesome Bro. Great Work.

Very nice, I feel this gb studio has more flexibility than I imagined. Still I think it would be less painful to code it directly in C :)

i’ve been on a huge de-make binge recently, so seeing this is (was?) so cool, and i’m really impressed! i’ll be checking the game out itself soon, very excited and great work!

If I remember correctly from a speedrun video I saw a while back, Undertale doesn't actually do random encounters. It automatically sends you to a battle after a certain number of steps (as in, steps the character makes).

this is so awesome! just had this idea and checked to see if someone already did it

This is a super cool project and I’m enjoying your video!

I've been looking for this for years, thank you!!!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing this. These kinds of projects are so interesting.

wow great work!! i thought i was on an at least 50k subscribers channel but i was baffled when only saw you had 127! this is inspiring me to make a small visual novel type game for myself

Incredible job! Also your backgrounds music choices were a ton of my favorite songs, nice taste!

This inspires me a lot to get back on my own projects and reminds me that I haven't really had the opportunity to be creative in a while :)

May the algorithm bless this video.

Respect for getting as much done as you did! Nice work ethic! I’m jealous

I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIS, THANK YOU!!

so glad this showed up on my feed, great video and awesome demake!

Nice vid, so cool to see these backwards ports!

Thats epic, very good work 👌👌😌

7:10 I love this part. "So 16x16 pixels... IS THIS TINYLILSQUARE!!!"

this is sick! hope to see more from you!

this is a really neat project, I think your process was really interesting

This is awesome! Hope to see more like this!

This needs so much more attention. Thank you for your hard work, time, dedication, and effort. Never knew we needed this but you are making art here dude!!

this is literally so cool, subbed

Very cool project! I could never do this if i tried. Seeing this reminds me off the similarities between Undertale and Pokemon Red. Walking around a large overhead pixel map to meet different monsters and make friends, wild encounters after a certain amount of steps, etc.

This is amazing! I applaud your perseverance! I just found this video as I'm getting into gameboy development with gbdk and also recently gb studio and was trying to look up some tutorials. This was recommended to me and frankly it was pretty inspirational!

I have been wanting this for a long time actually. Bless you. Now I can put it on my 3DS

This was honestly just a really cool and in-depth look into very simple gamemaking through the Gameboy and a simply coded game like Undertale. Really cool!

i wanted to do that a few years ago and even started a project but gave up after a few weeks of work just by realizing about how many features this game had that i wouldnt be able to properly translate to game boy and also because i had other stuff to do, i'm glad someone actually did it so that i can see what my little project could be if i actually tried

Very coooool! I subscribed xD

Such a good video, it's awesome what you did, congratulations

FINALLY! IVE WANTED TO DO THIS FIR A YEAR AND SIMEONE DID IT! THANK YOU!

You could probably animate the spikes retracting around Frisk with just a few actors. Have a few actors follow him across with a sprite of the spikes retracted. Each frame they go to Frisk's location +/- a few pixels to either side and then snap to the grid so they overlap floor tiles. As Frisk walks along they'll update their position an make it look like the retracting spikes are following him along with, what... 3 actors if you're generous? Tag an if statement at the end so that if the X position of the retracted spikes is too high or too low they'll position themselves off screen. Tah dah!

ur channel is underrated bro keep up the good work !!

I was waiting too long for someone to make this

You gained a new sub for your main channel and your secondary +rep

No way what! This is so cool!

really cool vid :) i enjoyed all the songs used. mostly cuz i listen to those artists.

Really interesting and upmost respect 👍

That's a really cool project, good job man! It was really cool and interesting to see your working progress & process as well. Hope to see more similar content in the future but that's def no easy task. Again, good job and congrats 🎉

I actually tried doing this a few times in GB studio too! I had the ruins finished but I never made the battle system or the rest of the game. this is what my version would look like if I finished it.

This is actually something I kind of wanted lol. This is seriously impressive!

Amazing work! Please for the love of god do more of it!😂

deberias continuar el projecto amigo, esta genial

Holy shit this is actually amazing! Good job it looks stunnning

That's super cool dude.

What a big hurdle you put on yourself, and yet you've accomplished plenty! It is a really beautiful experience, seeing and (wow!) even playing your GameBoy version. And how cool is it, that you've even gone the extra mile testing it on the actual hardware and even buying some GameBoy Advances, just because the lighting of the og console is basically non existent :D And to top it all of you also edited this lovely and entertaining video showing that process. You sound so harsh to yourself, but man .... I am just amazed by all your efforts and dedication, or should I say determination ;D You could have just simply made some gameboy-ish graphics and musics, edited it together to make it look like a game and people would have been satisfied -- but you went beyond that by actually programming a functioning game. Than you went even further by making sure it runs on original hardware. And than you went beyond everything by providing free access to the game for everyone. That is one hell of a project and I'd like to congratulate you on a job well done!! Oh and I loooooove that Fallen Down version you made

Found this on my FYP. Seems cool.

Just played it and it's amazing!

Superr cool stuff! Saw your other video where you made a model for your bunny. Hope you keep working on these :D

Great job on the demake! About 3 years ago I wanted to do this exact project but never got anywhere with it due to getting distracted with irl stuff. You could have gotten around several of the limitations you had to struggle with by doing the project with assembly instead of GBstudio, although it would have been a lot more work.

This is so amazingly cool holy shit

good choice of music for the video

this video makes me love old nintendo games even more because the way they had to work around the limitations of the gameboy is mindblowing, like how did they manage pokemon?? thats a just awesome to think about

For a short gameboy demo of a popular rpg, it's actually cool. Gg man

this is so cool!!

That’s crazy. Good job.

Man you deserved a milion subs 👍

Ok: I have to look at this video later, but I actually tried doing this exact thing! I toyed with the idea of doing the Sans fight a year or two ago (Maybe 3...), but didn't get very far. Awesome work!

This is pretty cool and I very much commend you for making it. Though playing through it, it does feel a bit empty and very much like a tech demo. There's multiple interactions with toriel that don't exist (like if you killed the dummy), no overworld menu, and the battle system is a bit basic since you can't use the candy you collected and your hp doesn't carry over to the next battle, and I probably would rather not have it full screen for the sake of performance. All this stuff could be improved, but it's clear from the video it was tiring to work on, so you did the best you could, I also imagine the program you used to develop this, probably limited things too, like with the whole flag system, which is probably why the battle system is as basic as it is.

Omg loving the ape escape music

SO awesome more like this

This is sweet! It would be cool to see ports emakes of Undertale to other consoles. Like an original NES one would be hard, but it would look so cool.

I need this so much

"City of Fire" from Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest is composed by Yasuhiro Kawakami. ^^ By the way, if you need some music for another Game Boy games, I'd come in handy, if you want. But your demake looks pretty good!

I knew this sounded familiar... nice meeting you at SIX on the weekend!

This is awesome

This is so awesome, I need to try running this on a Super Game Boy on my SNES.

Pikuniku music? In the background? Instant subscription my guy. A fellow gentleman of culture

Great video. Thank you for spreading awareness of GB Studio, too. Now I can make music with a full piano roll on the GB (my single brain cell doesn't process trackers yet lol) 20:40 I totally get it man. I put all my chips into making music, and I barely know how to code (yet). If there's any projects that you need music for, I'd love to help.

I'd love to see this completed. This is really cool. Maybe, upload the project files too? 🙂

As someone who uses GBStudio for original titles and thus I design with the limitations in mind it's really interesting to see you demake a game for it that was designed with none of the limits and the hardships that come with that. I'm glad you managed to over come the limits to create a fun little game though! :D

This was hilarious, and fun. I get the completely being distracted thing😂

Awesome!

Woah, just WOAH💀… this is perhaps the coolest shit i’ve seen in the last decade! :O

For the record, I’ve been wanting this for a long time.

You have all of my respect

I have an actual dmg and flash cart, will be running this!

Oh lol i had this idea a few years ago and made only the first dialogue but yours looks way better

BRILLIANT

Dude siiiiiiiiick

yooo it looks sick! I guess u could say you're very DETERMINED lol

Yo man, this is sick

thats the hero we needed

Nice work! Seems like the on screen sprite limit would be quite restrictive for bullet hell sections

ouah gg bro !

Yes! Now the dusty og Gameboy in my room will get use now! As soon as I get an flash cart! Also this is underrated AF

Whens the next video? I subbed love this kind of content !!

You should maybe share your assets or complete the demake! It's really good.