Where do I find game demakes?
from sleepybisexual@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 14:45
https://beehaw.org/post/13880045

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?

#gaming

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Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 May 2024 15:11 next collapse

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.

knightly@pawb.social on 18 May 2024 15:56 next collapse

Lol, worst autocorrect ever. XD

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 16:18 next collapse

It fits so perfectly too. Females? Oh Celeste and op is bi.

Calling women demakes is a new one.
Holy crap, my autocorrect did it too! It changed demakes into females. Wtf

Kichae@lemmy.ca on 18 May 2024 17:53 next collapse

Look at the positions of d and k on the keyboard. _ema_es.

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 17:55 collapse

And transfem, not sure if this accounts bio is updated tho

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 17:54 collapse

Yea lol Whoever invented autocorrect should have every device that can run an autocorrect thrown at them

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 May 2024 16:10 next collapse

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.

Feyter@programming.dev on 18 May 2024 17:43 next collapse

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

Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 May 2024 17:58 collapse

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?

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 May 2024 18:54 collapse

Correct!

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 17:53 collapse

Fucking autocorrect

Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 May 2024 19:20 next collapse

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?)

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 19:40 collapse

The Hajs are friendly

Poik@pawb.social on 18 May 2024 22:04 collapse

Autoincorrect.

chloyster@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 15:44 next collapse

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

eerongal@ttrpg.network on 18 May 2024 16:18 next collapse

People frequently make demakes with pico-8

github.com/pixelbath/pico8demakes

sleepybisexual@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 18:10 collapse

Yea, should look into pico8

Found a nice romset yesterday, what games are good?

Been enjoying just one boss

Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org on 18 May 2024 23:21 next collapse

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

ShadowCat@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 May 2024 11:09 next collapse

never knew demakes were a thing

HawlSera@lemm.ee on 06 Jul 2024 00:29 collapse

I thought someone was doing a Genesis Port of Resident Evil, but I"m not sure if it was just a fan trailer or if they really were doing it.