A demake is a Game that's purposefully built as if it where conceived and produced during a previous hardware or software generation.
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All post in some form should be related to the community topic at hand, may it be directly talking about demakes or adjacently.
As long as it is in the spirit of this community, all posts are allowed (example: OOT on the gba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAtqi84_U0o, as long as its not random game stuff, youll be fine)
Bringing Super Mario 64 to the GBA: A Technical Demonstration of GBA's Capabilities
Someone is trying to bring the classic Super Mario 64 from the Nintendo 64 to the Game Boy Advance (GBA), and it looks incredibly impressive given the hardware constraints.
The Project and Its Progress
The modder, Joshua Barretto, explains that the GBA is significantly slower than the N64 and lacks native support for floating-point numbers, which makes his task even more challenging. However, he has managed to implement a basic physics and collision system along with a fully 3D camera, texture-mapping, and transparency support.
In a recent update, Barretto introduced Mario models into the game. You can now switch between characters such as Yoshi, Luigi, and Larry using pause and select on the GBA. The environments have also seen a significant upgrade with additional graphical details and new mechanics from th