10a. (Native 60 FPS GBA) NORMAL - The Toxic Landfill - Wario Land 4

Look't all this junk! Whatta dump!

And look't all this TREASURE. Whatta dump!!

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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This level... is such a mean level treasure/secret-wise! The whole palette melds together in such a trashy dump heap that it's hard to pick out where to go sometimes! It also doesn't help that it feels like seemingly random blocks will break while others won't! I mean, check out where the CD box is hidden! What, you didn't see me get it? Yeah, I missed it, but I add it in at the very end of the video. Look how rotten it is! Nyah~!
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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!

[fins]

I can't believe I never noticed the mine carts in the background of this level beforeO_O Also how it looks like there is somebody sitting in the front seat of the truck at 11:48. The music for this level is awesome=D That and the stereo right next to the frog switch is a nice touch. Overall this level is flat out awesome with all the multiple paths and having diamonds all over the place.