The port was made by a programming wizard, and yet the skung is still guaranteed.
If you ever caught yourself thinking you really wished that Quake had been ported to the GBA… that’s an oddly specific thing you wanted back in the early 2000’s. But it is a desire that shall no longer wight upon your heart. For, you see, back in the early 2000’s, a prototype Game Boy Advance version of Quake was made. And it was just discovered on an old flash card by the person that programmed it.
Way back in 2002, Randy Linden — I should mention that he’s responsible not only for the SNES port of DOOM, but also the Bleem! emulator that set off a massive court case — was working on porting the game to the GBA.
Thankfully, this prototype was discovered, and summarily preserved by the good people at Forest of Illusion.
As Forest of Illusion takes note of, just because this version of Quake never saw release doesn’t mean that the engine it’s running on never did either. Linden repurposed it for the GBA game Cyboid. That said, this prototype doesn’t feature any of id Software’s assets, though there apparently was once a version that did that is currently MiA.
Source: Nintendo Life
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