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Where do I find game demakes? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Unsure if this is the right community but here goes,

Recently I've been interested in demakes and found a GBA Celeste port one time. Where do I find more demakes?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

interested in females

Username checks out, though I’m assuming you meant “demakes”?

Anyways, the demake I’m most familiar with is the in-progress Lego island. The YouTuber behind it documented part of the process in vlogs (linked on the GitHub page), so that might be an interesting starting point.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fucking autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

~~didn’t know that was a part of bisexuality~~

I should probably flee before I get eaten by an army of blahåjar (apparently that’s the correct plural?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The Hajs are friendly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Autoincorrect.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I hate to be nitpicky; but that's a decompilation, not a demake.

'Demake' usually refers to a game that gets remade for a system older (or less powerful) than the one it was released for. A good current example is the in-progress Super Mario 64 demake for GBA.

'Decompilation' is where one reverse-engineers a game (or any software!) back to its original source code, or close enough that when you build it, it's identical to an original copy. So, the goal of the Lego Island demake is to produce source code that can be built into a fully binary-compatible copy of Lego Island, indistinct from what's on the original CD.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh I don’t mind the nitpicking, thanks for the explanation! I (apparently erroneously) thought “demake” and “decompile” were synonyms. Guess I’m one of today’s 10000.

In that case the (now taken down, but forked a gazillion times) portal64 project would be a correct example of a demake, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Correct!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks for being nitpicky, so I didn't had to.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

This is a good source: https://itch.io/games/tag-demake

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People frequently make demakes with pico-8

https://github.com/pixelbath/pico8demakes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yea, should look into pico8

Found a nice romset yesterday, what games are good?

Been enjoying just one boss

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I haven't checked it out yet, but I saw someone had made a Lumines demake for the gba. Usually I end up finding out about them through forums and youtube

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

never knew demakes were a thing