What's your favourite handheld demake of a home console game?

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I liked doing Donkey Kong on the Gameboy Color and I've just remembered that DKC Returns got a 3DS port a decade ago. I find it interesting to see a last gen home console game in your pocket.

Do you have your examples?

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I liked doing Donkey Kong on the Gameboy and I remembered how Returns had a 3DS port.

I find it interesting to see a last gen home console game in your pocket.

Do you have your examples?

Not sure if some of these count, but I’ve a few picks in mind:

• I thoroughly enjoyed banjo, crash and spyro on the gba.
• This one apparently does count cuz I heard Pac-Man World on the gba is a direct demake of the ps2 classic, at least it came out around PMW2, great game by the by.
• Contra and Castlevania on the original GB certainly feel like demakes and I quite love ‘em.
• I heard some people didn’t like Aladdin on the Gameboy, I found it cool.
• This one is odd, I was confident Spider-Man on the Gameboy was a demake but apparently it’s not! Certainly has the vibes.

 

[bjork]

It took a little getting used to the perspective, but I remember Tony Hawk 2 on GBA being really impressive at the time.

 

[Deleted member 797290]

Driver 3 for gba wasn't bad.

 

[thumbsdown]

Dunno if these would count:

Halo: Combat Devolved by SofaSwordsman

A demake of the original Halo for Game Boy Color

sofaswordsman.itch.io

Disco Elysium: Game Boy Edition by Colin

A de-make of Disco Elysium for the DMG using GB Studio.

csbrannan.itch.io

 

[iisoide]

Just played a bit of the Disco Elysium de-make and that's pretty damn good.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Daikatana on Gameboy color.
Its cool how they made this game .

 

[ThunderBoy]

Killer Instinct for Game Boy

Less graphics, less characters, less background details... but incredible gameplay with only TWO ACTION BUTTONS!!

 

[Sunnyside]

I really liked the Yoshi's Wooly World port for the 3DS. In many ways it was better than its original release.

I played Super Smash Bros 3DS more than the Wii U version. It's honestly amazing how much they were able to cram into that game. Technical wizardry.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Oh yeah almost forgot!

Banger music and this also isn’t anywhere near as janky as it looks.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

That little thing they gave you for guitarhero later became a fidget toy for me

 

[Jeff]

Dr. Mario on Gameboy
Snow Bros.
Tetris on Gameboy
Yoshi on Gameboy
Yoshi's Cookie on Gameboy
Super Mario Advance games
Paperboy on Gameboy

 

[DrunkGecko]

Pac man world 2 on GBA

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Oh yeah almost forgot!

Banger music and this also isn’t anywhere near as janky as it looks.

Crawfish did decent handheld ports of SFA(2 I think) on the GBC and SF II/SFA3 on the GBA.