Yoshi's Story GBA Tech Demo (beta - unreleased) V1

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April 12, 2000 - One of the earliest words of Game Boy Advance development was the rumor that Yoshi's Island, a Super NES port, was making the rounds to developers as early as late last year. Well, it turned out that it was actually something a little more ambitious -- Yoshi's Story, a port of the N64 version of the game. Since Yoshi's Story was strictly a 2D game (with 3D tricks to the 2D bitmaps), Nintendo wanted to show off what the system could do beyond the SNES game with the assistance of the FX chip.

The demonstration was a single level of the first level of Yoshi Story. Or rather, an original level based off the first level of Yoshi Story. The game utilized the same art assets (the rendered Yoshi character, shy guys, floating fruit, psychedelic sky and clouds -- the works), but the level was laid out differently than the N64 version. Also added to the game was a prerendered Yoshi world that rotated before the beginning of the game, showing off the .AVI FMV capabilities of the handheld system.

The gameplay in the demonstration is pretty much identical to the N64 version, but it's now tailored for the Game Boy Advance's digital controller. The GBA version even had the same "Lalala" music playing throughout the demonstration. One developer noted that a new feature was used, possibly through a debug option in the program -- during the demonstration, the player zoomed the camera out to show much more of the game level, showing off the Game Boy Advance's scaling capabilities.

Since no game has been announced for the system launch, it's not determined whether or not Yoshi's Story will make it as a Game Boy Advance title, or if it's only used to show off the hardware capabilites. But back in 1998 when Nintendo was showing off the Game Boy Color, demonstrators showed off an early level of Super Mario Bros., stating that it was only intended for hardware demo purposes. A half-year later, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe hit the market.

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[brickman409]

super mario 64 DS was on the DS you idiot

[InsanimationStudios]

oh my god,yoshi got an ass-ache from ground pounding in the real yoshi's story,so he has resorted to using his head! head trama yoshi!

[KingLegendary1]

@GAMERC3 no there not lol 3ds's graphics are no where close to an original xbox therefore they cant be equal to wii

[TechyWizard101]

Am I the only one that notices "Made in Japan" in the background?

[GAMERC3]

@chomplet26 the 3DS's graphics are about or equal to wii graphics (I have one myself) the graphics I tell you are amazing.

[True2TheBlueYoViGang]

@CrashSucksMariosaGOD nah its cool im not mad lol... still wikipedia trolled the n64 release of this game haha its still odd to me becuase wikipedia isn't supposed to be baised)its part of theyre rules facts only)

[CrashSucksMariosaGOD]

@True2TheBlueYoViGang Well, people HAVE there opinions.

So, I should not have posted that comment.

[True2TheBlueYoViGang]

@CrashSucksMariosaGOD

i knw this will piss u off or sound like im trolling u but im not its shocking cuz if you actually look up yoshi story on wikipedia (im not going to do it for u and paste it here) wikipedia actually has a section strongly criticizing the N64 release of this game... vs the snes version. that strikes me as odd as wikipedia normally isn't supposed to be baised (it used figgures of fans so i guess its legit and not baised?) I read it after seeing this vid

[CrashSucksMariosaGOD]

@True2TheBlueYoViGang don't make fun of it if you can't comment something nice on a video about it.

[True2TheBlueYoViGang]

damn i hated this game so much.... snes version of yoshi story was best... dont port this god no the agony... suxed on n64 duno how it was supposed to bea spin off sequel (wtf happened to baby mario wtfff) on n64 but plz dont compare this shit with the masterpiece released for snes... why such an old consel is capable of so much more enjoyment? everyone has zsnes or somesnses emulator on theyre andriod shit... dont lie.

[8BitROB]

O.O Cool!

[ChampionRevilo]

@chomplet26 n00b. Can't you see that Yoshi Story is entirely in 2D? The 3DS can do much more than that.