The Elden Ring community has obviously not finished surprising us. Where many players have decided to tryhard the game to achieve a speedrun record, where some Heroes like Let Me Solo Her come to the aid of the poorest adventurers, the streamer shintendoTV has decided to bring its stone to the building of a very curious way.
A great lover of games and Nintendo, he decided to merge the universes, but 30 years in the past ! He is currently working on a demake of Elden Ring for his Game Boy and the first images are very convincing.
What is a demake?
A demake is quite simply a port (almost exclusively community, very rarely official) of a game on a medium prior to the console originally used by said game. The practice is opposed to the remake (or remaster) which is reverses upgrading an older license to run it with better graphics on newer media.
It's hard to trace the origin of demake, but the practice has become popular twice :
- In the 2000s , when manufacturers were racing for new consoles and it was getting hard for wallets to keep up with releases. Amateur developers then had fun transforming the titles of the moment into retro games so as not to have to buy the new generation consoles.
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More recently with the fashion for somewhat lazy remakes that take the place of potential original titles. The Internet has exacerbated the phenomenon, and although parodic at first, the concept very quickly became an art in its own right .
It is then an interesting challenge to take up, the objective being to do as much with less . Excellent games then became very popular in their demake version, such as Hollow Knight on Pico-8 (renamed "Low Knight" for the occasion) or Zelda Breath of the Wild on Game Boy Color .
What is Shintendo planning for Elden Ring?
After announcing his project in the Reddit post that you can see just above, the Shintendo streamer began broadcasting the development of the game live on the Twitch platform. He makes two points that seem important to him:
- It is a personal project for which he has not yet planned anything in terms of content, distribution or partnerships. What you have to understand is that even if it amuses him to share his development with the community, he doesn't intend to put pressure on himself to release a perfectly finished version of his demake one day.
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He plans to run the game on hardware , without giving further details. It is therefore not even emulation that it offers, but rather a hard game. We don't know yet if he really plans to create a native Game Boy cartridge or if he has a development for Analogue Pocket in mind, but doing without emulation is an additional challenge for the streamer!
A developer, Lilith Walther , had already had fun hijacking a FromSoftware title, Bloodborne , to make a PS1 version. She also plans to make a "Mario Kart" version of this game, so we can expect everything from the community!
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