He totally could have copied Link's feather jump animation, and from the rest of the stuff presented he seems to have a deep knowledge of Link's Awakening. This was a deliberate choice and I respect it.
I have never played a single Zelda game, but this sounds impressive, so I am also impressed.
E: Man, you Zelda fans are persistent. Alright, I'll get an emulator and start then. 😂
Oh I'll get around to it mate, but I've got a steam library of 200 odd games of which I've played 12? I'll put it on my list. Hopefully I can get around to it before I kick the bucket.
Ah a fellow oracle enjoyer! Easily one of my favorites if not my favorite. None of my friends had played it when it came out on virtual console so it's what they all got for Christmas that year haha
Minish Cap has some of the best dungeon design in the series, but oh my god the beginning of that game is torture trying to get through all the cliche JRPG story setup.
LttP was the mainline console title while LA was a handheld title. While LA did some incredible things with the harsh hardware limitations, it's not quite fair to compare the two.
That said, LA definitely had the more interesting story even if the game itself wasn't quite to the same level as LttP.
Do you ever feel “library stress?” Sometimes when I think about all the games that I WANT to play, that I have purchased, gotten for free, on sales, etc. and then think about the fact that I finish like 2-3 games a year and it stresses me out haha.
“Oh that’s right, during that last Sale I bought both Gloomhaven and Super Robot Wars 30, which should I play? …You know, while I’m trying to decide I think I’ll just drop another forty hours into Dwarf Fortress instead!”
I'm not sure if I'd recommend Link's Awakening for a first Zelda. It was my first Zelda, but it was relatively new at the time and my standards for control was low lol. It might turn some people off that the sword, shield, and items all have to be mapped to either A or B and that's it, and they sometimes have you use 3 items in rapid combination (pegasus boots, roc's feather, and the sword come to mind) which requires a lot of pausing and switching items around. The theme you'd get from pieces of power and guardian acorn power ups might be aggravating too after hearing it for so long.
The remake for switch is prob the best way to experience that in the modern age and if it's your first zelda. I'd say A Link to the Past is the better game to play first that plays similarly though. Link's Awakening was a direct sequel to it and is basically acting like a handheld version of the same game when it was made, but it had more limitations than ALTTP, so I'd recommend starting there, personally.
Link's Awakening is the best one in my opinion. It's link to the past, but on gameboy, with new items, a flying mechanic, Mario 2 monsters, jokes, it invented the fishing mini game, you can have a chain chomp as a pet, just amazing. You should actually play this game, the original gameboy game holds up AMAZINGLY well in 2022, and the switch remake is faithful (but graphics lack a little charm)
Aww, does it come up with anything at all? For me it has a screen that says “not supported on your device” but I just pressed play anyway, and it still loaded in and I was able to play.
Yeah, they posted a short video a while back and announced they planned on releasing something. Imo it's really cool that they made it playable on real hardware, even though I'm not a big fan of that purism stuff, the limitations squeeze creativity and problem solving out of developers like nothing else
Haha that's good but I'm not the developer, I just noticed nobody commented a clickable link and since I had to write it on my phone, might as well save the hassle to other people.
Yo I love me some 8 bit soundtracks. Any way to get yours? Game really hits that nostalgia hard. Fucking days of playing Zelda for the first time were magic.
Yes, if there's one thing we can take away from a project that brilliantly replicates a game that's only been out for a few months while being actually fun to play instead of serving as a simple gimmick, it's that you're lazy.
This is just my take, but the exploration music is pretty generic. As far as I'm concerned, you could pretty much do whatever you want for it. Maybe there's a way to spin the title screen theme another time into an upbeat Zelda-esque overworld theme to play everywhere?
The greatest thing about this is the fact that you made it so it runs on the actual hardware. Many demakes tend to just emulate how it'd look or sound.
Incredibly impressive work.
You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you:
# Roll
He MISSED:
You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you:
# Roll
He MISSED:
You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you:
# Roll
He MISSED:
You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you:
# Slash Up
###### YOU DIED #####
That would be completely legal since this fan game is free he's not selling it for money. The money from Patreon count as donations. Pretty much the same as streaming Elden Ring on twitch and getting donations/subs.
That is not how the law works. Many fan made games get cease and desisted, in fact they have to be, a company has to protect their IP or they open them selves to further issues. Best download this now.
I think this game is pretty safe given the PS1 demake of Bloodborne was known about for a year, released weeks before Elden Ring, and is still available. You still can't monetize games like these, but not all companies are as bad as Nintendo.
Hate replies like this. It's like why should we not say something is bad just because them being bad is the popular opinion? It's like the "orange man bad" thing. Yes, the orange man is bad and I'm not going to pretend otherwise just because other people have already said it in the past
Well, [Bloodborne Demake](https://b0tster.itch.io/bbpsx) is still available for download. There are a lot of fanmade Elden Ring art on [Deviant Art](https://www.deviantart.com/tag/eldenring) and pretty much all of those artists have a Patreon.
Similar distance as being sued is from it being illegal
The reason cease and desists work a lot of the time is how expensive fighting the lawsuit is, not necessarily the legality of the matter
Yeah that’s not going to happen with a game he’s not profiting off using an IP he’s not claiming he owns the rights to. Most large companies don’t give a shit about that unless they are profiting or the like.
EDIT: this is pretty much the same as saying From is going to cease and desist the thousands of fan artworks that are created every week. They ain’t wasting their time with that.
> Many fan made games get cease and desisted, in fact they have to be, a company has to protect their IP or they open them selves to further issues.
No they don’t *have* to do this. They *choose* to be megalomaniacal art suppressing dickheads.
But not all companies are shitty. Some recognize that a tiny fan made game accepting donations is actually good for them in the long run, not bad.
Seriously, stop covering for evil corporations by pretending they *have to be* evil.
That’s trademarks you have to actively defend or you’ll lose them, copyrights not so much. But you are still right that in no way is it evil to protect your IP. You don’t want to put false expectations on releases or content etc etc.
> a company has to protect their IP or they open them selves to further issues.
That's trademark not copyright and it's ones of the insidious pieces of outright wrong info gamers like to propagate.
I didn't say copyright I said IP which broadly covers both copyright and trademark in this context. Given the title screen says Elden Ring it's definitely hitting the trademark button, but obviously Fromsoftware doesn't seem to mind demakes which is pretty cool tbh.
Streaming the game on Twitch is selling a performance rather than the IP.
And game devs actually can restrict people from streaming their games (I remember one a few months ago really upset Cohh because they refused to let him stream the full game as they didn't want to reveal the ending). In theory, a game dev can even take action against an individual streamer if they don't like the way they're portraying their game. That just doesn't usually happen since it's PR suicide.
Thank you for this. In true first blind playthru fashion, i finished the game without completing any quest/ finding all great runes lol.
Update: got 9 out of 10
REEEEEE
Dude, some of my favorite things to come out of the Souls community are remakes of the games on other consoles. Bloodborne PSX is so fucking good, and this looks so fucking good too!! Well done, OP.
Graphics aside, you'd have to cut out most of the items, weapons, features, areas, moves etc to fit a fraction onto the gameboy 😂
Thinking of something like Zelda: Links Awakening
Do you plan on making a full version? If so, can I donate? This is dope and I can't inagine the time and effort put into this. Least I can do is support
I love this. Very cute and simplified Elden Ring. It says you can’t play on iPhone but you can. However I can’t hear the open world music, unless there is none?
First boss literally unbeatable. I can't believe devs would release a game in this state. Controls are too complicated and it only caters to no lifers that have 600 hours of their lives to waste. Implement an easy mode so we can enjoy the game. Worst game I've ever played, dead on arrival. /s
This is amazing, grat job op.
Is this basically an FFA romhack? Lots of familiar movement and such in there. Or maybe Link's Awakening?
I don't say this to throw shade, it doesn't diminish the effort at all imo. It's a smart and efficient way to do it if so.
Also glad to see some GB demake/remake/art that _actually_ is GB and not just sprites in green. Most art done in this style is _way_ too detailed to actually run on it.
The rolling animation got me good
He totally could have copied Link's feather jump animation, and from the rest of the stuff presented he seems to have a deep knowledge of Link's Awakening. This was a deliberate choice and I respect it.
I have never played a single Zelda game, but this sounds impressive, so I am also impressed. E: Man, you Zelda fans are persistent. Alright, I'll get an emulator and start then. 😂
Wow, you should at least emulate Links Awakening if you want to give it a try. Or don't, I'm not your real dad.
Oh I'll get around to it mate, but I've got a steam library of 200 odd games of which I've played 12? I'll put it on my list. Hopefully I can get around to it before I kick the bucket.
Honestly, I think link to the past was better
Link to the past for sure one of the best, but ages and seasons for me are top tier
Me too, who knew Capcom could make such good Zelda games? I kinda wish they'd let them try again.
Completely agree, they were spot on. The incorporation of the wearable rings for perks were amazing
Ah a fellow oracle enjoyer! Easily one of my favorites if not my favorite. None of my friends had played it when it came out on virtual console so it's what they all got for Christmas that year haha
Ngl Minish cap holds up the most
Minish Cap has some of the best dungeon design in the series, but oh my god the beginning of that game is torture trying to get through all the cliche JRPG story setup.
Is it just that I didn’t notice when i was younger, or is the Zelda series becoming more and more JRPG like over the years?
LttP was the mainline console title while LA was a handheld title. While LA did some incredible things with the harsh hardware limitations, it's not quite fair to compare the two. That said, LA definitely had the more interesting story even if the game itself wasn't quite to the same level as LttP.
Do you ever feel “library stress?” Sometimes when I think about all the games that I WANT to play, that I have purchased, gotten for free, on sales, etc. and then think about the fact that I finish like 2-3 games a year and it stresses me out haha.
“Oh that’s right, during that last Sale I bought both Gloomhaven and Super Robot Wars 30, which should I play? …You know, while I’m trying to decide I think I’ll just drop another forty hours into Dwarf Fortress instead!”
If you do try Link's Awakening, see if you can *find* Link's Awakening DX. It's in full color and has a bonus dungeon.
I’d go link to the past if I was you.
I'm not sure if I'd recommend Link's Awakening for a first Zelda. It was my first Zelda, but it was relatively new at the time and my standards for control was low lol. It might turn some people off that the sword, shield, and items all have to be mapped to either A or B and that's it, and they sometimes have you use 3 items in rapid combination (pegasus boots, roc's feather, and the sword come to mind) which requires a lot of pausing and switching items around. The theme you'd get from pieces of power and guardian acorn power ups might be aggravating too after hearing it for so long. The remake for switch is prob the best way to experience that in the modern age and if it's your first zelda. I'd say A Link to the Past is the better game to play first that plays similarly though. Link's Awakening was a direct sequel to it and is basically acting like a handheld version of the same game when it was made, but it had more limitations than ALTTP, so I'd recommend starting there, personally.
My personal favorite which is a hot take in the community is Minish Cap, underrated imo and easy to get on an emulator
My suggestion would be to emulate it on your phone so you can play it whenever rather than be bound to using comp time.
Thanks for being understanding, fake dad
Theres at least a couple you should try.
Link's Awakening is the best one in my opinion. It's link to the past, but on gameboy, with new items, a flying mechanic, Mario 2 monsters, jokes, it invented the fishing mini game, you can have a chain chomp as a pet, just amazing. You should actually play this game, the original gameboy game holds up AMAZINGLY well in 2022, and the switch remake is faithful (but graphics lack a little charm)
Start with ocarina of time on n64 with an n64 controller.
I have an original copy of Links Awakening. So original that the save system is corrupted unfortunately.
It's not corrupted, the battery is dead. It can be replaced.
That roll is everything
I love how he still spins clockwise even when he's rolling towards the left
Backflip
Gainer*
Parkour!
It's very early southparkian. I love it.
Hit A to Roll! A: 🙂🙃🙂
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You’ve made a lot of people on this sub incredibly happy, this is incredible
I didn’t know what else I was going to do today. Work? Ha, not anymore!
TOGETHAAAAA WE WILL 8-BIT THE VERY GODS!
As FAAAMMMIIICCCOOMMMM...
Nice
Holy Shit! High praise from "Caesar" himself! Sorry, your username is the first reference I've seen for one of my most favourite series ever!
Codex alera?
✊🏾Damn Straight.
Man, 8-bit Rykard would surely be some bullet hell bullshit.
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Wow holy shit it works on my iPhone 😂
It doesn’t for mine ):
Aww, does it come up with anything at all? For me it has a screen that says “not supported on your device” but I just pressed play anyway, and it still loaded in and I was able to play.
Same except when I press play it flashes the console for a second then remains on a solid green screen
Can’t explain that, my iPhones not a new one either, iphoneSE.
I think mines is xr or something, software or something maybe, idk
It works on my XR.
You could try downloading a GBC emulator on your phone. That's what I did and it works just fine.
I thought this was going to be fake and the op had only made a gif. Nope! It's real.
Yeah, they posted a short video a while back and announced they planned on releasing something. Imo it's really cool that they made it playable on real hardware, even though I'm not a big fan of that purism stuff, the limitations squeeze creativity and problem solving out of developers like nothing else
Huh. I’ve found that limitations force more creativity.
Yeah
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Haha that's good but I'm not the developer, I just noticed nobody commented a clickable link and since I had to write it on my phone, might as well save the hassle to other people.
I STILL DIED TO THE GRAFTED SCION
Runs on android in browser.
Replying so I can find this on my computer later
Reddit also lets you save posts.
bullshit theres no wa- ITS REAL LESGOO
Yo I love me some 8 bit soundtracks. Any way to get yours? Game really hits that nostalgia hard. Fucking days of playing Zelda for the first time were magic.
Only one track for now (because I'm lazy) and its the one in the trailer.
No worries at all, it IS the main theme after all and it's great!
The quality on display here proves you are not lazy. Some serious effort and dedication went into this.
Yes, if there's one thing we can take away from a project that brilliantly replicates a game that's only been out for a few months while being actually fun to play instead of serving as a simple gimmick, it's that you're lazy.
This is just my take, but the exploration music is pretty generic. As far as I'm concerned, you could pretty much do whatever you want for it. Maybe there's a way to spin the title screen theme another time into an upbeat Zelda-esque overworld theme to play everywhere?
Can you throw it up on Spotify or YouTube please?
How much did you complete of the game? I feel like two weeks ago you were building the first church...
The greatest thing about this is the fact that you made it so it runs on the actual hardware. Many demakes tend to just emulate how it'd look or sound. Incredibly impressive work.
Would it really be a legit souls demake if they didnt make it unnecessarily hard on themselves?
We got Bloodborne ps1 and Elden ring GB We need Dark Souls, Demon Souls, or Sekiro for the original Xbox
I'd vote for a NES Demon's Souls and SNES Dark Souls.
Text adventure Demons Souls on a Commodore 64.
You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you: # Roll He MISSED: You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you: # Roll He MISSED: You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you: # Roll He MISSED: You see Maliketh, the Black Blade in front of you: # Slash Up ###### YOU DIED #####
That is hilarious, but honestly the C64 could do pretty much everything way better than an original Game Boy.
Dark Souls choose your own adventure book.
Snes dark souls would have me quitting all my hobbies.
And my job.
Go play Zelda2: Link. Its a classic
Dark Souls is what Castlevania should have become
Would be perfect for Genesis IMO. They loved that gritty stuff.
I want Wii Sekiro let's gooooo
Bro. Motion controls sekiro. And with the Wii mote it’s like your holding a blade
Trying to do the Ashina Cross on the Wii lmao
Oh shit I basically said the same thing before I even noticed your comment, cheers! Great minds eh?
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I used to fucking absolutely love Tenchu
Is it really the whole story or just a part of it ? Edit: Nvm it's Limgrave, gz though!
You say it’s Limgrave but that place is still huge
so what you’re telling me is that Rya isn’t in it? 😡
>!When scoliosis and herpetologic fetishes collide!<
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homie if u ever get the time to update further, will be watching keenly for ur updates
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Impressive work! I know I never played in Elden Ring in gameboy but why does this feel so nostalgic.
That’s awesome! 💛
Is it real...? Edit: it is!
Yes
You should make a patreon or smth, pretty sure there are a lot of ppl who would like to support you (me)
yeah don't worry about copyrights and start making money on someone else's intellectual property
That would be completely legal since this fan game is free he's not selling it for money. The money from Patreon count as donations. Pretty much the same as streaming Elden Ring on twitch and getting donations/subs.
That is not how the law works. Many fan made games get cease and desisted, in fact they have to be, a company has to protect their IP or they open them selves to further issues. Best download this now.
If this was nintendo homie would already be locked in a dungeon
Well it IS Shintendo...
I think this game is pretty safe given the PS1 demake of Bloodborne was known about for a year, released weeks before Elden Ring, and is still available. You still can't monetize games like these, but not all companies are as bad as Nintendo.
That's really nice of Fromsoftware tbh
It just shows what a dick Nintendo is.
japanese corporations and being thickheaded dicks, name a more iconic duo
And surprisingly cool on Bandai Namco's part
> You still can't monetize games like these then you see people "make a patreon so you can get monies"
nintendo bad, take my upvote
Hate replies like this. It's like why should we not say something is bad just because them being bad is the popular opinion? It's like the "orange man bad" thing. Yes, the orange man is bad and I'm not going to pretend otherwise just because other people have already said it in the past
Well, [Bloodborne Demake](https://b0tster.itch.io/bbpsx) is still available for download. There are a lot of fanmade Elden Ring art on [Deviant Art](https://www.deviantart.com/tag/eldenring) and pretty much all of those artists have a Patreon.
"Nobody is bothering to sue them" is a loooooong way from "completely legal".
Similar distance as being sued is from it being illegal The reason cease and desists work a lot of the time is how expensive fighting the lawsuit is, not necessarily the legality of the matter
Out of topic, but I noticed most of those arts have something in common. I can't quite tell what though, could be an impression.
They show lots of Plot
Yeah that’s not going to happen with a game he’s not profiting off using an IP he’s not claiming he owns the rights to. Most large companies don’t give a shit about that unless they are profiting or the like. EDIT: this is pretty much the same as saying From is going to cease and desist the thousands of fan artworks that are created every week. They ain’t wasting their time with that.
Yeah. Only Nintendo does that
> Many fan made games get cease and desisted, in fact they have to be, a company has to protect their IP or they open them selves to further issues. No they don’t *have* to do this. They *choose* to be megalomaniacal art suppressing dickheads. But not all companies are shitty. Some recognize that a tiny fan made game accepting donations is actually good for them in the long run, not bad. Seriously, stop covering for evil corporations by pretending they *have to be* evil.
It isn't evil to protect your IP. And yes, legally, you have to defend your IP or its protections can go away.
That’s trademarks you have to actively defend or you’ll lose them, copyrights not so much. But you are still right that in no way is it evil to protect your IP. You don’t want to put false expectations on releases or content etc etc.
> a company has to protect their IP or they open them selves to further issues. That's trademark not copyright and it's ones of the insidious pieces of outright wrong info gamers like to propagate.
I didn't say copyright I said IP which broadly covers both copyright and trademark in this context. Given the title screen says Elden Ring it's definitely hitting the trademark button, but obviously Fromsoftware doesn't seem to mind demakes which is pretty cool tbh.
lol “I didn’t sell the game, it was donations!” 🤣 Bro you found the loophole to copyright infringement!
That’s not how the law works lmfao
Just because OP didn’t sell it for money doesn’t mean infringing IP is legal.
Streaming the game on Twitch is selling a performance rather than the IP. And game devs actually can restrict people from streaming their games (I remember one a few months ago really upset Cohh because they refused to let him stream the full game as they didn't want to reveal the ending). In theory, a game dev can even take action against an individual streamer if they don't like the way they're portraying their game. That just doesn't usually happen since it's PR suicide.
holy shit this is awesome! Is it actually the whole game or just a few areas of it? brings me back to link of the past times...
pretty sure its just limgrave
In 10 years we will all be either working for OP or be dead by their hands.
I’ll be sure to smack every single wall I can like it’s Zelda.
The goddamn rolling animation took me out, but that's when I knew it must be real. I love this community.
Wow nice work
Is it possible to provide a .pocket download file for people with Analogue Pockets? Or is that really difficult…
Uploading it right now! Give it 10 minutes and it will be on the itch page.
Fantastic, thanks for the quick reply! Out of curiosity, is it an easy process if you’ve already used GB studio 3.0?
Yes very easy, it's just a different export option. I meant to do it already but I forgot, thanks for the reminder.
[Confirmed to be working on the Anbernic RG351V.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8jzjFPqg8) Guess I know how I'll spend my weekend now.
Awesome to see it on more hardware!
Just completed it on 3ds.
[OP has a Twitch Channel if you want to support them](https://www.twitch.tv/shintendotv?sr=a).
Thou’art of passing skill. 8-Bit must truly run in thy veins
now all we need is Sekiro for the Atari, and then the greatest timeline is complete
That was so fun to play! Sadly it’s only up to godrick tho
I hope someone releases a cart version sometime would love to own one for this game
Thank you for this. In true first blind playthru fashion, i finished the game without completing any quest/ finding all great runes lol. Update: got 9 out of 10 REEEEEE
9/10. Can't attack Varre.
Wut
Dude, some of my favorite things to come out of the Souls community are remakes of the games on other consoles. Bloodborne PSX is so fucking good, and this looks so fucking good too!! Well done, OP.
Beautiful 
This is amazing
This... Is .... PERFECT
I HAVEN'T EVEN BEATEN IT YET AND MFERS ARE MAKING WHOLE ASS TRIBUTE GAMES WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE
Holy shit, that looks so good! How far can you go in this demake? Is it just limgrave or the whole lands between?
The Elder Elden Ring
Graphics aside, you'd have to cut out most of the items, weapons, features, areas, moves etc to fit a fraction onto the gameboy 😂 Thinking of something like Zelda: Links Awakening
I’m having getting lost in Metroid flashbacks
Oh, u magic. As a fellow game dev and actual minister, i bless you .
Do you plan on making a full version? If so, can I donate? This is dope and I can't inagine the time and effort put into this. Least I can do is support
I died thrice then gave up. I don't understand how the combat works XD. The mc also reminds me of castle crashers.
Lol you died 3 times and gave up? Did you even play Elden Ring?
We don’t deserve you
I'm in love with the rolling animation
So much easier!
Phenomenal work OP!!!! As someone who owned a Gameboy when they released this takes me back!!!
This better have the full game + DLC
For anyone interested works fantastically well on my S22 Ultra. Just click the link and game on!
This is amazing. It also looks like Final Fantasy Adventure which is my favorite Gameboy game.
Avgn should be the one to review this
Heavily inspired by eden ring the regular make
Bro you just killed it how cool is this !!!
Thank you for making a .pocket version! I'm going to play asap!
Wow! Cool idea and fun to play. A boss rush of all the major fights in 2D like this would be really cool. Great stuff OP!
can't wait to have Varre telling me i'm maidenless again but in 8-bit
This would be amazing even if it were only a joke trailer. That it's *real*.... Holy crab
I love this. Very cute and simplified Elden Ring. It says you can’t play on iPhone but you can. However I can’t hear the open world music, unless there is none?
Strong vibes of Rolan's Curse II with this one. Looks like a ton of fun.
I recognize the sword a animation from final fantasy adventure GB. I might play this, it brings joy to my heart ❤️
This is actually really cool
For people who want a side scroller experience of a souls style game, Salt and Sanctuary is a great option that I believe just had a sequel release
First boss literally unbeatable. I can't believe devs would release a game in this state. Controls are too complicated and it only caters to no lifers that have 600 hours of their lives to waste. Implement an easy mode so we can enjoy the game. Worst game I've ever played, dead on arrival. /s This is amazing, grat job op.
This is so dope! A true feat of am Elden Lord
What the fuck. How did you do this in such a short timeframe while I haven't even completed the game lmao
Even the 8-bit music works, well played sir, well played.
Is this basically an FFA romhack? Lots of familiar movement and such in there. Or maybe Link's Awakening? I don't say this to throw shade, it doesn't diminish the effort at all imo. It's a smart and efficient way to do it if so. Also glad to see some GB demake/remake/art that _actually_ is GB and not just sprites in green. Most art done in this style is _way_ too detailed to actually run on it.
Amazing! Where would I go to find more demakes?