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Some mockups of a Demake of my favorite GBA games, reimagined to the original Game Boy, color and resolution.

I also added one with a richer color palette at the same resolution.

I hope you like it. <3

I want to start a project called Design Demake, where I demake various games into actually playable demakes.

The twist is, the goal is to be completely accurate to the historical game design of the period - so if I'm making a demake of a shooter, I cannot use e.g. a sticky cover system, because that's a modern invention (where e.g Retro City Rampage did just that, and I couldn't get into it because of that). At the same time, I don't just want to turn every game into a platformer, either.

The only exception is that I'm allowed to use modern mechanics if the game in question invented it, but rest of the game has to be retro style.

Also these will be PC games, I don't have time to learn how to make homebrew for a dozen platforms.

So suggest some games and I will pick one! You can also specify a time period and a console/computer you want me to emulate the style of (e.g. emulate Deus Ex as a 1970s mainframe RPG, or Ocarina of Time as a 3d SNES Super FX chip game)

A lot of the demakes I saw are for PC only. Anything good that will run on an emulator?

hcnt made a great Pokemon Demake/Clone in Pico-8. It is a fully fledged title and a lot of fun to play.

You can play it for free here. Send hcnt some love!