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?

  • ElectricMachman
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    241 month ago

    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.

    • @Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      141 month ago

      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?

    • Feyter
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      41 month ago

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