Obscure Ports & Demakes thread?

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Still one of the most impressive achievements I know.

>>386977721
I too saw mutahars video :)

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THis fucking game is ported to everything.

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Guess the game

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>>386977940
>tfw cool shit you used to PLAY back in the days is now "found out" by kids who weren't even born then via YT

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Full FMV video on the GBC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFwbfN18x0I

>>386977937
How the motherfuck did they manage this? All GBC games were 8bit stuff similar to NES games and this looks like a ps1 game

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The Final PS2 game.

>>386978112

oblivion

>>386978131
This place is not for us anymore, man. I keep saying it.

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Dragon's Lair on GBC

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>>386978436
Smart compression tech, and totally new battle system.

It did make the canceled RE1 port look like a poor MS Paint joke in comparison though.

However, that most people don't know is that Capcom was planning to do much more than that. A GBC port of certain other horror game go all the way to prototype stages.

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That AC nobody played.

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>>386977721
not really a demake, but most people don't know it exists and is a good game.

>>386978436
GBC could represent loads of colors at same time on screen.don't be fooled, the game was all 2D.

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This count?

>>386979230
It's pretty good for a basic TBS game. I didn't care for it, but it's not bad

>>386977937
Holy shit. How does it play?

>>386979371
This isn't that obscure, I remember seeing the ads for those and they showed the 15 different game boxes at the end every single time

>>386979371
How the in world is that obscure?

>>386979371
I'm still surprised that the first 2 Harry Potter games on GBC were turn based RPGs

>>386979520
Youtube it.

>>386979371
Every one of those is a different game

>>386979885
I was more surprised that they were actually decent games

>>386979520
https://youtu.be/NMrlVcgR240


Looks like one of those fake games studios come up with for like 20 seconds of air time for some fucking CSI show.

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The PSP version was good but the DS version was panned.

>>386977721
I had this, it was actually pretty good considering the limitations of the system

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I was suprised Wolfenstein TNO made it on to 360 and PS3.

>>386980603
I'm curious how that beta accessed worked for the 360 and PS3.

>>386980879
360 gave you a Code for X1. PS3 gave you a code for PS4.

Ever wondered what a black-and-white screen-per-screen recreation of Resident Evil 2 on a handheld 8-bit console looks like? Probably not, but here it is anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5JmSJcFD7E

And to think they wanted to give MGS 1 the same treatment. Those fucking madmen would have done it, no question about it.

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>>386981065
You realise a Port of SOTN was in production right? It was well underway when it was canned and it still exists, somewhere.

>>386981370
It still is pretty fucking insane, but at the very least it's still 2D. Adapting a full-fledged 3D game pretty much "as is" on a console like this is nothing short of absurd.

>>386977937

Holy shit, this looks better than most GBA games.

>>386981065
>>386981370
I'd just like to point out that as an owner of the game.com, every single game ran super slow, and the refresh rate was so bad any game with actual scrolling turned into a blur. Sonic Jam was literally impossible to play.

>>386979339
don't be fooled, all 3d games are really 2d

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It's basically a glorified conversion mod for RE4 Wii

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>>386980603
If we're counting crossgen games MGSV is probably the most technically impressive game on the PS3. Besides the lower resolution and framerate it came out virtually unscathed.

>>386984304
Rise of the Tomb Raider was also on the 360, and is also impressive at how well it looks and runs.

>>386984304
Well, MGS5 started its life as a PS3 game, so it's no wonder that it looks and runs so good. They just got a chance to crank up settings on next-gen and PC releases.

>>386985740
it's not really that hard to polish what are mostly just linear, heavily scripted corridors into mirror sheen, even on weak hardware.

>>386978112
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic on phone? I think it was, I played that over decade ago definitely.

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>>386977721
How did they get this port to work?

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>>386980069
Agreed. It is a shame the RPG format didn't get sequels.

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They couldn't fit Cinder and Riptor into the port.

>>386986617
One of the GBA games was an RPG too

>>386979230
I've been meaning to play this, it's done by the guy who created XCOM.

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>>386986247
it really is no more complicated than any 8-bit Super Mario game. The 16-bit sprites were just traced / converted into 8-bit, 3-4 color blocks, with all extra stripped away.

Not to mention they'd kinda done a lot of the work already years earlier, in the Donkey Kong Land games for the OG GameBoy. They were practically downsized versions of DKC1-3 in all possible ways.

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>>386986247
Lots of work on preserving colors, silhouettes, and simplifying sprite animations.
And slightly smaller screen.
I guess they also had their sprites, so rerendering is not painful when you figure out your target format.

>>386987146
I actually had this game and i thought it was a great port even though some level transitions were PS3/360 gameplay footage turned into cutscenes

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There were a lot of really cool java mobile games that have been lost to time and java mobile game emulation is literally malware tier which is disappointing.

I remember playing Doom RPG on my shitty old phone when it came out and it was honestly super good for what it was. A first-person turn-based dungeon crawler rpg with Doom's guns, enemies, setting and secrets.

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This.

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Fun game, but it sucks that the game breaking bug was so easy to get.

>>386987421
You can still play these by downloading the .jar and using a mobile Java emulator. Wolfenstein RPG is the shit

>>386987760
Do you know of any good mobile java emulators? As I said I actually searched and tried a few of them and they were all malware tier, crashing constantly and setting off my anti-virus. And I'm no stranger to emulation or piracy and etc., just couldn't find one that worked like it should.

I never played Doom 2 RPG or Wolfenstein RPG but I played Orcs & Elves on my DS which was great too. Unfortunately Orcs & Elves 2 never made it outside of phones either.

>>386987421
there was this God of War java game that was basically a castlevania knockoff but was fun as hell. Played it all the time in junior high

>>386987903
It's been a while, so nah. Ask emugen

>>386984304
Did they revamp it a lot from GZ because that game pretty much killed any interest I had of TPP, before the PC version was announced. Ran like absolute dogshit while looking worse than MGS4.

>>386987421
My nigga.
People actually tried to make decent games for shitty phone hardware before freemium, so sad that better technology gave us so many shitty games.

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>>386981370
SOTN did get a handheld release eventually

>>386978436
>>386979520
>>386983049
they also did resident evil and mgs demo on gbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRCd2VVmLXw

sorry my bad on the gba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27pO38Z3l0


also get this re 2 on gba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9va7ugOy5vo

give me some (you) i deserve it

>>386977721
I always wondered how they managed to make Max Payne that great playable and good looking on the Advance. Must be some sort of witchcraft.

>>386989890
fuck thats insane

>>386989890
The MGS one blows my mind.

>>386990610
>>386989890
MGS GHost Babel is fucking insanity.

It's easily comparable to the PSX one, right down to the gameplay, and has a shit ton of VR missions, most direct ports from MGS1.

Just crazy stuff.

>>386980026
>Every one of those is a different game
But why

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEgLvaMDT4E

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/Thread

>>386986247
holy shit, i still have that game it was pretty cool and had nice graphics

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It's basically advance wars

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It was more a compilation of the first three games on handheld, but it was 2d.

>>386977937
wow I've played this

Not bad, just the control is a bit iffy since the game is design with more than 5 buttons. Combat isnt any easier.

Not really the most obscure one but I thought it was sort of an interesting one, it's literally just Chaos Theory with fucking gameboy graphics (there are a few differences of course). I probably wouldn't have played it if I didn't have a friend to co-op through the whole game with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXYo22soJc

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>>386978527
So this is the power of South Americans huh

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>>386979087
speaking of that

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Dreamcast RPG scaled down to a Neo PocketColor

>>386995438
It also got a sequel, adding elements from 3 and Wrath of Cortex. It's also the only game where Fake Crash has plot significance.

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>>386980096
its like watching a shockwave or java based browser game from 1998 that takes 11min to load before you can play it.

>>386987658
I debated asking for this as a kid since it could work with the expansion pak on n64. I was curious what content it could add to the n64 game.

I know mario tennis adds the gbc characters to the n64 game. Pokemon transfer pokemon to stadium 1/2.

I think this was the only other game for that hardward attacfhment....

>>386987421
Remember playing this shit for hours and hours on my flipphone when I like 13,cheat codes made it godtier

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RE4 on zeebo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAwupPdY0k

>>386997517
recently translated!

>>386998218
FYI its actually the mobile version of RE4

>>386996247
Haha, I had the DS one. It was actually pretty decent for what it was.

Serious Sam GBA was impressive but a fucking pain to control

>>386978257
>Full FMV
>tfw when the ATM machine doesn't recognize your PIN number

Neither port, nor demake but that Grandia game on GBC is really good and not many people seem to have played it

>>386978527
>Releases this shit on a console only collectors and people who don't play games have
>Can't get a Madden port on PC

I fucking hate EA so goddamn much it's in healthy

>>386999081
*Un

>>386999140
>2giochi in 1
Mamma mia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWBUdgIa0oE

This is also an impressive looking game for its system

Fucking Diablo was had a GameBoy prototype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPwIFLv_ak

>>386987421
I had Doom RPG 2 on iOS. It was pretty good.

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Japs used to love weatern CRPGs, which caused stuff like Wizardry 7 on the PS1 to happen. Theres even Might and Magic on the super nintendo with a JRPG asthetic.

Oblivion on PSP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddHdGyJuys

>>386987421
Heard about an attempt to bring those games to pc.
https://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/87871-wip-the-ids-rpg-series-coming-soon/
It probably failed, so the closest thing is either some gross emulation or a bunch of features for MetaDoom.

>>387000334
>It probably failed
It didn't they have assets and engine ready, they just polish their Doom64 port for now.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svej9LWbF3Y

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The GBA version is better than the DS version