After more than a year of development, fan-made Pokemon Emerald remake Gamma Emerald is getting its first demo in just over a month. Posted today by developer UndreamedPanic on their YouTube channel, a brief one minute trailer showed a May 15th release date for the demo after being teased yesterday.

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Built from the ground up in Unreal Engine, UndreamedPanic has shown the overworld, attack effects, trainer battles, an updated UI and more since their first video in January of 2024.

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Further updates can be found on their YouTube channel, with the full game’s release date as yet unknown.

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[Osha]

This video will eternally be relevant.

 

[Ericzander]

I came in here thinking "oh great, another Pokemon Emerald rom hack, big deal... How long until Nintendo tries to bury it?"

Now after seeing the videos I'm thinking "Woah, that's awesome! A new and 3D Pokemon Emerald! This is a big deal... How long until Nintendo tries to bury it?"

 

[Robert Newbie]

Yeah, I have the same apprehension as everyone else. A fan project with Nintendo IP's in play is a fast way to get DMCA'd. It's a shame because this looks great, but there will come a time when Nintendo's lawyers come knocking.

If we know about it, they know about it.

 

[Plazorn]

He should’ve finished it before posting videos about it. That way a DMCA wouldn’t harm as much. It looks incredible, but like everyone is saying, ip issues are inevitable

 

[Scarlet]

I do wonder when the cease and desist will come though. They've been posting videos of the game's development for more than a year at this point, and it's not like they've flown under the radar with one hitting 100k views.

Would really love to see this make it to release.

 

[Latiodile]

people need to stop announcing these projects before they're finished. this is guaranteed to never see the light of day

also unreal engine

 

[handy333]

I don't understand. Do they not know? Why risk a DMCA with a company known to be terrible in this regard? It's a lot of effort to be thrown down the drain.
I need to know. Is it gorilla marketing for the team or their other work? What is the pay off?

 

[raxadian]

Yeah, I have the same apprehension as everyone else. A fan project with Nintendo IP's in play is a fast way to get DMCA'd. It's a shame because this looks great, but there will come a time when Nintendo's lawyers come knocking.

If we know about it, they know about it.

Yeah the worst thing you can do is give it publicity.

 

[HalfScoper]

Shouldn't have teased people with trailers but release it when it's done, now N's lawyers are already aware and could potentially stop development even before it's finished.

 

[LightBeam]

I don't really understand why Unreal Engine, probably because it's easier to develop for. I just hope it's not smeary all over the place like so many other UE games.
It'll be fine as long as it's not being republished by garbage "gaming journalists" just like AM2R and Prime 2D, but I'd be surprised if it didn't happen.

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I don't understand. Do they not know? Why risk a DMCA with a company known to be terrible in this regard? It's a lot of effort to be thrown down the drain.
I need to know. Is it gorilla marketing for the team or their other work? What is the pay off?

Talking about what you've been doing for a while and receiving support for it can be a motivator.
That's the only thing I can think of. It can be pretty hard to do stuff without ever feeling the need to talk about it lol. But I wish they were trying to be a bit more discrete instead of building teasers for a demo or something.

I'm genuinely hopeful it gets finished, but I would be very surprised

 

[MariArch]

They never had any intention on finishing it. They just want to give themself free publicity then use dmca as an excuse for never finishing it

 

[The Catboy]

This video will eternally be relevant.

This
Nintendo is going to DMCA this project. I understand making hype but it's kind of stupid to promote projects like this before they are released. They should have released the game and then promoted it

 

[Flame]

....and its gone

 

[ftjiso]

this person using their talent and brains to make this cool looking game but doesn't use their brains that nintendo will come and dmca this project

 

[x65943]

I'm convinced people announce these things when they decided they don't want to work on them anymore

 

[limpbiz411]

funny way to give up on the project blame it on a DMCA

 

[DuoForce]

Fan Game developers try not to show off game before release (level: impossible)

This is why we can't have good things. Fan game creators get a big ego and think Nintendo won't notice, then BOOM, cease and desist order

 

[OilFreak]

I don't get how someone can be this passionate about a project that will get slapped down by the people that inspired it

 

[DuoForce]

They never had any intention on finishing it. They just want to give themself free publicity then use dmca as an excuse for never finishing it

I absolutely hate that you're right.