Very true, the AGB is a *very* fast bit of kit. I'm used to coding low level
for the old Atari ST, where a decent mod player would take 20-25%+ CPU time.
I wrote a mod player for the AGB using similar optimisation techniques and
it comes in at about 5%!

There will not be any problem in writing a 3D engine for the AGB to kick out
some Starfox quality visuals. I'd say the ARM CPU is at least 4x quicker
than the ST, especially when doing things like fixed point where barrel
shifting comes into it's own for optimisation. And that could do some good
3D games.... even though it had planar graphics modes, which are a bitch
compared to the byte / nibble per pixel of the AGB.

The AGB has awesome potential in every aspect of gaming, and is very easy to
optimise in assembler. Coding has never been so mcuh fun..... ;D

--Jim