Demakes are not uncommon among homebrewers and late last year we saw a Game Boy fan demake of Disco Elysium. The latest such project is intended for the Nintendo DS and involves a rather popular title: Super Mario Galaxy. This project has been going on for several years; at least since 2017 according to the first video shared by the homebrew developers on their YouTube channel, 'Jesse'. In 2018, they even released a playable demo and yesterday, a new progress update video was shared on the channel, mentioning that the developers are now able to make playable levels for their DS demake:

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While there are features like sound effects missing, they do mention that what can be seen in the latest video works on real hardware, audio and all. The video description credits "Jelle, Gericom, Stomatol and Ermii" as well as shares a link to a Discord server to keep in touch with updates.

What do you think of this project? Would it entice you to dust off your Nintendo DS and play Super Mario Galaxy on it?

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[raxadian]

This is amazing but I fear the Nintendo takedown.

 

[SDA]

Will be there any Lumas in this demake?
Polari, for example. When playing the All-Stars version I love either bouncing on his head, throwing Star Bits so he can eat them and even tickling him with the Star Cursor (only in Co-op mode). And the sounds he makes are very cute 'w'

Or maybe even Hungry Lumas and Comet Tico, too.

 

[Deleted member 534570]

And then Nintendo DMCA's this...
Nintendo's going wild on romhacks and fanmade games.
It's like a nonstop witch hunt.

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

Homebrew does what Nintendon't

 

[chrisrlink]

why must they even fucking try? you'd think they'd learn after all the other DMCA takedowns

 

[scoobydude51]

Well now that every other news site is reporting on it, it'll never see the light of day. So I guess my DS can stay just as dusty as its been ;O;

yup the snitching has begun

 

[BitMasterPlus]

If they keep at it and actually finish this in the future, I am totally gonna play this.

 

[Lv44ES_Burner]

That's impressive. I'd play that over the Wii original any day, honestly, 'cause I take my 2DSXL around more than my Switch Lite now.

 

[Mollycule]

The issue here is yet again that a dev group is going to give their project too much notoriety prematurely to its release, meaning a cease and desist will effectively kill the project.

Finish it before you promote it, if you want your project to reach 100%, because once it's complete and released, cease and desist won't do shit.

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

dmca time

 

[peteruk]

Have to admit this most definitely has me at full mast. Anything Mario and I love it, anything Mario that can run on my New 3DS XL and I love it even more!

The demo looks super nice, I'm really looking forward to trying this game out.... this is right up my street.

 

[legoinventeor]

This barely even looks real!

 

[ploggy]

This is really impressive, seeing this reminds me of that fake Mario Galaxy DS trailer from years ago
I hope if by some miracle this gets finished they use/remake that trailer for the lols




The trailer for those who haven't seen it...

 

[DragonBoy]

You're joking now! This is unreal!!!

 

[MorningBlunt]

Nice nice. Although would be good to see on the 3DS too!

 

[HarveyHouston]

Wait, this is Super Mario Galaxy... for the Nintendo DS?!? I thought it was a remake of Super Mario 64 DS, but now I finally understand what a "demake" is!

 

[Jayro]

Super impressive. Just kind of wish it would have been on the 3DS instead, because of the analog stick(s) and more system hardware available to them.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Nintendo, hire this man!

 

[Jayro]

Nintendo, hire this man!

Nintendo ninjas, leave this man alone!

 

[PiracyForTheMasses]

Fun fact, GBATEMP contributes to helping Nintendo stop fan made software, mod chip installers, mod chips, etc. etc. Nintendo says jump and GBATEMP moderators/admins ask how high.