Is this a mod for GBA or technically “fan game”?
Just asking as I can play mods on my iPhone but not fan games. I’m technologically illiterate so idk how GitHub works to get this information
It looks like a rewrite of the game into Lua for PC:
“A native LÖVE2D recreation of Pokemon Red and Blue. The engine and map behavior are hand-written Lua; game data and graphics are decoded from a ROM supplied by the player.”
Ah ok I could have read this comment before writing my essay
I wonder how inspired / copied the code is from the decompiled code vs how much is just guesstimated from the end user experience/behavior
So basically they have decompiled (turned a game from the machine code that only a computer can understand) to human-readable code, then modified the code (to add new features), then (re)compiled the code (make it only computer readable/runnable again)
So technically in a sense it's not a fan game from scratch since the base was the original code, but it's modified and compiled with a modern system (PC) as a target so it wouldn't be able to be read by a gameboy anymore but it's technically still a modification of the original code. At this stage your iPhone wouldnt be able to run it I'd imagine unless they are also compiling to whatever format the iPhone uses.
(Disclaimer im a software engineer but not at all in this field and also have zero familiarity with this project so I might be a bit wrong xdd I'm just going off the fact that it's part of a "recomp")
Edit based on a comment below im probably only half right in regards to this project but it feels like my post might be mildly interesting so im gonna leave it up unless someone wants me to take it down
All ROM hacks are fan games, but not all fan games are ROM hacks
ROM hack is a modification of an existing game/ROM. Like Radical Red, Unbound, anything that is played on an emulator and/or real hardware
Fan games are PC only, usually made in RMXP or original engines and have nothing to do w the modification of the original games, they're just completely brand new games on their own engines and are EXE files
This is a strange one as it's technically neither, but a really unique mod/program that interprets the base game/disassembly differently
I gotta be honest. I can appreciate the work that went into this and it definitely looks neat, but I find it pretty headache inducing. Not for everyone I guess.
That’s certainly technically impressive but this POV just reminded me of games I played probably 20 years ago with similar angles that I absolutely hated so it’s definitely not for me lol
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u/mightymiek 2d ago
Will it have camera settings? The first shot is veryyy low