Hacking Homebrew Homebrew game Project Undertale 3DS (W.I.P)

[CooingMaxito]

Undertale for 3DS!

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Hello GBATemp! So, this is a project that I've been recently working on and I am really excited to share this with you all!

Thing is, I've seen a few people trying to port Undertale to the 3DS, but to no avail... All those projects eventually got abandoned and with seemingly no explanation, at least from what I can gather haha. That inspired me to do it myself!

Please keep in mind this is in it's very early stages!! And it's also being made from scratch in the Unity engine (since game maker is not compatible with the 3ds)

I've started working on this around early September-ish and hopefully I can actually finish this in a reasonable amount of time haha
I want to be as transparent as possible while making this, so everyone knows what's going on and not leave you all hanging saying "... So what happened to it?"
With that out of the way

What's been added

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• Intro cutscene (100% Done)
• Name Select (No animations or transitions yet)
• Sound test (Really small)
• Player animations and movement (Still needs polishing, also need to add Circlepad functionality

As you can see, there's not that much stuff already done, but hey, it's progress!

Current Priorities

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• Add battles and random encounters
• Make a leveling system
• Add healing items and gear (E.g. Toy Knife, Boxing Gloves, Bandage, etc.)
• Make stats and name properly show on the bottom screen / Make it interactable with touch
• Dialogue System (MUST!!!)

I am open to any feedback, suggestions and ideas! If you have anything in mind please let me know!
P.S. I'm a solo developer, so don't set your expectations too high for this project

And last but not least..

Preview

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Spoiler: Preview

If you want to see more stuff, and more tests from this join my discord!
https://discord.com/invite/KURTswPngP

Get your hands on an early, but working build here:
https://github.com/CooingMaxito/Undertale-3DS

Unreleased screenshots and images

Spoiler: Wip

Testing battles, only FIGHT works (still need to add enemy health and damage, lots to do lol), ACT, ITEM and MERCY still need functionality

Closing the game on command

Testing more rooms from the game and added GUI on lower screen (placeholder), will probably add touch

Added the third room with proper collisions, updated the movement to be more accurate

Concept for borders on bottom screen

Glimpse of a battle with some debug options, not a lot to show huh...

3D Banner in the home menu

Video showcasing borders and the second room that contains Flowey

 

[Datbo]

looks sick, when do you think a build of it will be avaliable?

 

[CooingMaxito]

looks sick, when do you think a build of it will be avaliable?

Thanks! Just updated the post with a link to my discord server, there we have a public test build that you can try out! It's pretty small though

Post automatically merged: Nov 19, 2023

It works with both Old and New models by the way!

 

[CJGamerXD]

oh man this is so cool! and updates to this since then?

 

[supershadow64ds]

Surprised it's not open source. I'd love to contribute.

 

[CooingMaxito]

oh man this is so cool! and updates to this since then?

Unfortunately not
My computer went kaput and the files got corrupted around late November (a few weeks after I posted this, and no I had no backups, rookie mistake)
After that I started to re-do it haha... I'm around the same point as the build I had, with some quality of life changes! Currently working on the dialogue system, I am dreading Flowey

Surprised it's not open source. I'd love to contribute.

I didn't think about that lmao
Though it would be embarrassing to see all my trash spaghetti code
I should probably also mention that this is being made in Unity, I will edit the post

 

[supershadow64ds]

this is being made in Unity

What an amazing time to be alive, that we can use as ubiquotous of software as Unity to make 3DS homebrew.

 

[CooingMaxito]

Update:
Dialogue is pretty scuffed, but it mostly works! Currently working on battles, so far I've got the turn based logic and have started to work on attacks and player options, also trying out compatibility with old models. Hope to release an update soon

 

[JP6ET]

Hey, I know how hard it is to optimize for o3DS.
I hope to see this project be a success!

 

[raxadian]

Here it is for DS, dunno why it uses the Steam version files instead of the freeware version:

https://github.com/C3RV1/UndertaleNDS

 

[CooingMaxito]

Hey, I know how hard it is to optimize for o3DS.
I hope to see this project be a success!

Thanks a lot! And yeah optimizing really is something lol
Right now I got it to run a battle pretty decently

 

[Datbo]

really glad to see the project continuing even after you lost your data earlier

 

[CooingMaxito]

really glad to see the project continuing even after you lost your data earlier

Oh yeah, not to worry anymore. I made like five different backups now LMAO
Progress is good so far

 

[TheMasuke]

Just curious, but do you have an idea as to how many stages of Undertale you'd include in this project?

 

[CooingMaxito]

Just curious, but do you have an idea as to how many stages of Undertale you'd include in this project?

Hopefully the full game, the first step is finishing the Ruins but my current priority is making the gameplay look and feel just right

Edit: I'm on a little break at the moment, I'll get back to working on it soon. Last thing I did was some optimization, from my testing it runs at full speed on both new and old models

 

[TheMasuke]

Hopefully the full game, the first step is finishing the Ruins but my current priority is making the gameplay look and feel just right

Edit: I'm on a little break at the moment, I'll get back to working on it soon. Last thing I did was some optimization, from my testing it runs at full speed on both new and old models

Just saying this now, but you're actually goated if you manage to do the full game lmao. Keep it up man fr

 

[supershadow64ds]

Hopefully the full game, the first step is finishing the Ruins but my current priority is making the gameplay look and feel just right

Edit: I'm on a little break at the moment, I'll get back to working on it soon. Last thing I did was some optimization, from my testing it runs at full speed on both new and old models

I'd reccomend setting up the engine to just be as versatile as you like it-- Make it modular so you can add text/events/music as you please, especially when considering possible DMCA takedowns

 

[CooingMaxito]

I'd reccomend setting up the engine to just be as versatile as you like it-- Make it modular so you can add text/events/music as you please, especially when considering possible DMCA takedowns

Oh yeah, I also really need to make it versatile... LMAO

 

[RyousukeTakeokaRY]

Since 2017 i've been interested in an undertale port for 3ds, since all the projects got cancelled a while ago, i thought this idea was done for, and that nobody else would bother trying, im really glad that this project has not been left by the community, and you have my thanks for that, good luck

 

[jamespoo]

cool