I wish there was a transparent shadow showing where the d-pad is without touching that part of the screen.

You might love this then:

https://openarena.live/

Edit: I would love to know what this post did to deserve a "down vote".

Much appreciated <3

I was a developer on that version!

We got the team back together and did a spiritual successor, Marble It Up!. If you are still enjoying the original I’d recommend checking it out (on consoles and Steam).

This is fantastic. I fell in love with Marble Blast Ultra on Xbox 360 and sunk many hours into it.

Fun fact: if you still have a physical Xbox 360 and previously purchased the game, you can still download it and play it.

Of course I might not have gone through the trouble if I knew about these ports, but at least I got a new hobby out of it.

Ahah! So did I https://store.steampowered.com/app/1384840/XOL/ <3

You won't believe this: it _is_ playable on mobile! I see a lot of people playing this on their phones and iPads.

I contemplated adding gyro controls, like in "Marble Blast Mobile" from back in the day, but they are very imprecise and don't really scale well to high-level play. With the current d-pad controls, there's actually a mobile player who holds the world record on many levels. Never would've expected mobile controls to scale this far.

Gyroscopic control might be even more suited for something like Neverball where the physics are based on tilting the board. In Marble Blast the board was stationary but the ball could be moved by acceleration which turns out to be quite different in terms of controls.

Thank you so much for posting this. This looks a lot like the game I played back then, but I cannot find videos of the last level which I always played... guess there's only one way to find out...

Marble Tokyo Drift. And it should have a squealing tire noise. ;)

You have to click and drag.

You can use your left hand to steer the marble (via WASD) and then the right hand on your arrow keys to move the camera around.

I miss it when Macs shipped with games

Yo, that's awesome and incredibly sweet. There's actually a centralized repository nowadays with all custom levels for the game, here: https://marbleland.vaniverse.io/

Pretty sure you can find your levels on here.