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[Retrogaming] Driving the Monster Truck for the Happy Hour! | GTA: Advance (Game Boy Advance)

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Published: 01 Aug 2026 › Updated: 01 Aug 2026[Retrogaming] Driving the Monster Truck for the Happy Hour! | GTA: Advance (Game Boy Advance)

[Retrogaming] Driving the Monster Truck for the Happy Hour! | GTA: Advance (Game Boy Advance)

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  Hey, what's up, players! Be welcome once again to this retro gaming channel on 3Speak, your presence and time here are an honor to me. Today I am pleased to bring you once again to the streets of Portland in Liberty City, hand in hand with our protagonist of GTA: Advance, Mike, who continues to develop the mission arc of the Fat Slob, Jonnie, with the clear objective of obtaining information that leads him after the list of the killer of his friend Connie, therefore today we will play the role of driver for Jonnie's bar, looking for a large amount of cargo necessary to prepare, you know, the adulterated brews that the Fat Slob usually serves in his bar in Harwood. All of the above aboard a huge red Monster Truck and in a limited time.

The Happy Hour. This mission consists, to be more specific, of going to collect the raw material necessary to manufacture the adulterated drinks that Jonnie usually sells in his bar, so we will have to do it within a time of 4:00 minutes aboard an imposing but not very fast red Monster Truck provided by the Fat Slob, so this mission, although in principle it should be quite simple, can become complicated if we take into account the not very good handling of the Monster Truck, in addition to its evident lack of speed, which you can easily check in the gameplay seeing the small HUD speedometer in game.

Knowing More About the Lore of Jonnie's Bar. It is truly useful to pay special attention to the characters' dialogues in this game, especially if you are a fan like me of the GTA saga and you are interested in knowing more about the lore created by Rockstar Games. For example, in this mission we find out through the dialogue with one of the dealers, as we can see around minute: 02:35, 'the existence of Russia as an official country within the GTA universe', just as this dealer tells us regarding the fact that these materials serve to prepare brews even much stronger than those his grandfather prepared in Russia 💀

Another Massacre Mission and Low FPS. After concluding the collection and delivery mission of raw materials for Jonnie's bar, we carry out another massacre mission in Chinatown, and for said mission we were assigned the always very fun to use 'flamethrower' to eliminate 20 members of the Chinese Triad in just two minutes, but with the use of this powerful weapon it was a piece of cake to carry out our objective to thus earn another $1000. On the other hand, in this gameplay we had significant FPS drops, but I can truly assure you that it is not due to hardware shortcomings on my part, but rather it is very well known how 'the GBA always struggled to run this portentous open-world game' by Rockstar, therefore the FPS drop in this game is normal, especially when we are in areas with many objects on screen.

Friends, I leave today's GTA: Advance gameplay up to here, to go on to say goodbye to you sending you as always thanks for your time and support for this gaming channel on 3Speak 🤗

--paultactico2.

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Some technical details:

1. Video game: Grand Theft Auto: Advance (Game Boy Advance) (USA ROM version)
2. Emulator used: Action mGBA v0.10.5 (Win x64)
3. Video capture software: Action V 4.4.0 (Win x64)
4. Edited and rendered: Capcut (Professional Edition x64)
5. mGBA Emulator Video Config:

  • Display Driver: Opengl;
  • Vsync: On;
  • Frame Skip: 0;
  • Shader: GBA - Color (developed by Pokefan531 & hunterk);
  • Enhancements:
    Video Renderer: Opengl;
    High-res Scale: 2x;
    Dark Intensity: 1.000.

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