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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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] 24 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago

Correct!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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