Game:

WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames! (2003)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 2:51

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Learn how Wario got his fart, er, START as CEO of WarioWare Inc.!

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IEN-HGlR47z6OmL9jqJfC-wi5ze78gY
More "60 FPS Game Boy Advance! (Native Hardware)" Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteKhakis/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=9&sort=dd

Apparently, all it takes is a little help from his friends! (Wario has friends?)


Hiya, folks! The videos in this GBA series are captured from an actual Nintendo DS system in a Pixel-Perfect resolution and at 60 frames per second for superior quality and motion! I'm using a video capture device that has been installed on my DS system to output the video to my computer/TV. I use the TV screen like a "Super GBA/DS" to play on the big screen, and also record at the same time! Enjoy!
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Wario's always been awesome. But this game made him that much more awesome in a whole 'nother respect! He single-handedly popularized a crazy-new way of playing games! Essentially, he's such a skinflint that he made his games as cheap as he possibly could and figured that if he had a bazillion of them it would sell! So he "hires" all these mooks in town to bump up the game count for him, and then he must'a suckered someone at Nintendo to put them all together in a fun n' frantic fashion!

Speaking of which, that's the name of the game here! Fast! Crazy! Fun! When you first play this, you'll have no idea what'll come up next! Each microgame is only a few seconds long and usually requires you to make a quick decision to win. "Jump!" over the Potato car! "Dodge" the gigantic crushing footl! ...and so on! What makes it even more insane is that as soon as you are done with one game, the next one starts! And after a few, it gets faster! Then you reach a boss! Beat the boss and all the games get HARDER. Beat the boss a third time and it stops getting harder, but the overall speed of EVERYTHING increases!

Basically, there are three difficulty levels, and then everything just gets faster and faster until you break down and cry.

WarioWare Inc.! Wa-ha~!
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Some additional notes for those technically inclined:

The DS essentially has a GBA built-in and plays it exactly the same as a GBA system would. I'm using a video capture device that has been installed on my DS system to output the video to my computer/TV. I use the TV screen like a "Super GBA/DS" to play on the big screen, and also record at the same time (in a lossless format)! The original resolution of a GBA game is 240 x 160, so one problem to overcome was how to "blow up" the image without hurting it... because Youtube requires videos to be in 1080p or 720p to played back at 60fps and the GBA IS 60fps capable!

Well, to maintain the pixel art that most GBA games use, we can use a very simple resizing algorithm, "nearest neighbor", that essentially multiplies the "pixels" in a proper ratio to keep everything looking the same... but bigger! This can only be done by integer values, whole numbers, not fractions. So, the video can be blown up EXACTLY 2 times, or 3 times, or 4 times, and so on! The GBA does not fit exactly into a 1080p (or 720p) space which is why you will see some black area, but this ensures the proper size is maintained and that Youtube will accept it. If you use a fractional resize value to make it exactly 1080 pixels tall, you will get some graphical anomalies like, an eye being larger than the other, or a line being longer than it was originally, text being misshapen, and so on. So no cheating! If you use a resize filter that softens the image a bit, you can resize to pretty much any size you want, but this hurts old-school pixel art! (It looks blurry!) Conversely, using the "Nearest Neigbor" algorithm on NON-Pixelated material will make that look worse, too! There's no one-size fits all!

The GBA is natively progressive so there's no need to deinterlace, kinda like modern HD consoles! Neat!

Enjoy the crystal-clarity!

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