Halo: Combat Devolved
UPDATE: Level 2, Halo, is live! This iconic level sets the tone for the rest of the game. It introduces new enemies, vehicles and weaponry in a semi-open world format that the player can explore as they choose. Double down in the fight against the Covenant in the second installment of Halo: Combat Devolved for the Game Boy Color.
On November 15, 2001, Bungie released its legendary first-person shooter for the original xBox. As a longtime fan of Halo: Combat Evolved, I 'm creating a faithful demake for the Game Boy Color using GB Studio.
I'm sharing a demo with the first level, the Pillar of Autumn and have plans to continue adding levels to the project as time allows. Can you blast through the hoards of Covenant boarders and escape the ship alive? What lies ahead on the mysterious ring formation?
You can download the ROM or .pocket files to play on actual Nintendo hardware and the Analogue Pocket, or play the HTML version here in the browser. However, downloading either game file offers the best experience due to sound limitations with the in-browser emulator.
CONTROLS:
Movement: WSAD or arrows
A: Z or J
B: X or K
Select: Shift
Start: Enter
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i want this as an actual rom
It is one! The downloads are right above the comments section. It's completely free.
A Halo demake? Amazing. Are there any ways I might be able to contribute? It could be a ton of fun to help work on this.
What are you trying to contribute? My only real deficit is sound. I have crunched a lot of the .wav files from the actual game, but the plasma weapons don't sound great. I'd also like more varied music. Other than that, playtesting would be nice, too!
Happy to try and help with either! While I don’t have formal musical training, I’ve been playing and recording music for 15+ years (guitars and synths, primarily heavier music). I can figure out just about any DAW and have been working in Reaper for a little over 2 years, but I’m most experienced using Logic Pro (10+ years). Looking at the docs at https://www.gbstudio.dev/docs/assets/sound-effects/, it seems straightforward (which != ‘easy’) to implement sounds.
Sweet my Discord is SofaSwordsman#5216 if you want to DM me there. The music in my game is the only thing I haven't made myself so I could really use some help! The main theme playing on repeat does get a little old...
Awesome, just sent a request. Sorry for the delay, I got a bit tied up this week.
This is stupid in the best way possible: Completely full of unrestrained passion. This is a treasure.
Thank you so much for this complement, Spartan.
You know what? Screw it!
*Devolves your Combat*
i look forward to supporting the creator of this or donating to a charity of the devs choosings. The first two levels are incredible and I can't wait for the roll out more. - Works great on modded GBA with EZ-flash cart and SimpleDE v1.3 firmware
you should do halo reach next
Made this for the game, feel free to use it!
Truth & Reconciliation when? Cuz shit was fire
OMG!! I’m Absolutely in love with this! Not all heroes wear Mjolnir Armor, some make bada$$ stuff like this!! There are 3 things that shouldn’t be as insanely good as they are….. PB&J sandwiches, pure Colombian BamBam, and this masterpiece 10/10
This is fantastic. Very satisfying. Great work and thank you. You revived my love of the halo franchise but I can't wait for more of this. 10/10
9 y/o Me: Mom, can I get Halo: Combat Evolved?
Mom: We already Have That game at Home
Halo: Combat Evolved at Home:
I put togther a sticker for my cart. Thought I might share.
This is badass, thank you for this!
Amazing
I FOUND A BUG if youre shooting the rifle and swap to the magnum you get a full auto magnum
That is kind of awesome, but I have fixed it in a big update that's coming out soon.
This is so incredible! When I reached Halo and the Marine said the cavalry has arrived and it really took me back. "This cave is not a natural formation" really cracked me up!
Well done!
When will the full game be released?
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Halo on GBC are... Just gbc, but I have no outstanding toward these fine halo-fans and so am i, so i'll be able to this game describe opinions to You.
* The Music Main-menu begin the loop end over loop
* The energy Shield have No animation.
* There No weapon & ammo sign the top-left screen
* And The most at all, did nintendo, bungie (oh though No longer being with it). & 343 Industries really love this Gameboy or gameboy color.
My options, the gameplay feel like 18-20 min long and few of 10 mission on the level skip, cut and some easy, normal, hard and legendary.
If you don't believe me, ask him. (By him, I means myself). This long comment is just a Lucky day.
Love supporting stuff like this, great job.
Not sure where to post bugs but player and enemy landed in the same tile at the same time and can no longer move player.
It wont let me select any of the options on the home screen, when I press ENTER on any of the options nothing happens?
This is awesome! so keen for the rest of the development. Amazing work, mate!
This is fantastic, so true to the original! I’d be happy to offer resources or support to see level 3! I love how you’ve basically thought of everything devolved to a gbc level. The mechanics in level too were amazing! I was genuinely blown away! Great work so far and thank you for your efforts and the time taken!
We have Atari 26000, Nintendo 8bit... We just need a 16 bit demake and we will have a complete set.
Im gonna need someone to make a label for my cart now lol
Absolutely amazing game, excited to play more levels when they are out :) are you planning to add harder difficulties at any point? Would love an excuse to replay the levels already out
Love the work you're doing, if you need any help with sprites/art work let me know I can lend my hand. Cheers!
Hey Sofa. How can we support you?? I know there's a few other souls out there that would love to support the continuation of this
I second this!
this is one of the coolest projects I’ve seen in a long time. Is there a plan to complete the whole game? Great work, hopefully this opens the door for other projects of this caliber
Really wonderful, quite well done. The new Warthog and sniping game play is a really clever way to evoke the moments of the original while translating them to GBC in a way that is actually fun. Those jumps over the river are iconic. Great work!!
OMG <3
Heroes NEVER DIE!!
I hope you add the trigger buttons of the game boy eventually so we could potentially have grenades be the left trigger and A or B be a gun bash or there's other cool mechanics you could add doing that.
If you add a bash the simplest way would probably be putting a sprite animation over chief corresponding with his direction that shows a little arm movement with a slash like animation would be pretty cool
Thanks for playing! I did want to add a melee, and it would be easy to implement, but there just aren't enough buttons. The Game Boy Color doesn't have trigger buttons, so I can't map to those. Additionally, while each mechanic is easy to implement in a vacuum, its adding everything together cumulatively that can have an impact on performance. I had to think critically about which mechanics to cut in order to preserve smooth gameplay within the limits of the GBC.
I think the project is pretty cool and I hope you are getting a lot of love from the community! You're right the game boy color does not have enough buttons, but maybe this project has potential being turned into gba advanced game one day and be able to handle more ideas you get. But I'm just a fan who doesn't know how that coding works tbh
Amazing work!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
This is really impressive! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for playing!
This is Halo for GBC!
Nice project!
Amazing to see this!! The art, music and gameplay all together! Halo <3
Good work! Despite the limitations of the tech being used you still get a great feel of the original material.
That is a great compliment! Thanks for playing :)
Incredible! Where can we follow you for updates?
Either here or on the GB Studio discord channel are the best places!