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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[Bladexdsl]

and as soon as they finish and release it on that very same day who do you think will be waiting in the shadows?

 

[Jacklack3]

Woah! I didn't even know this project was a thing! Looks really cool. I hope they change the name though, usually any fan game that uses an official name gets booted (ex: "A Fox in Space" which is a StarFox fan-show hasn't been taken down, and the creator suspects it's because of the titles of these projects).

 

[lordelan]

Doing the physics alone is pretty impressive.

 

[gaga941021]

and as soon as they finish and release it on that very same day who do you think will be waiting in the shadows?

Who cares? It will be uploaded everywhere in a nanosecond.

 

[Sathya]

Wow! You can beat nintendo! Good work!

 

[pustal]

Well, this is amazeballs.

 

[Wavy]

If you told me that this was a video of Mario Galaxy scaled down onto a DS screen I'd 100% believe you

 

[Lumince]

That Is INSANE

 

[Lucifer666]

This has officially reached Sonic fanbase levels of insane. My god, the dedication.

 

[N10A]

I think I remember watching a beta 64 video that said that they were going to put Mario Galaxy on the Gamecube, but that it lacked the specs to make it work, so they waited for the Wii. Just goes to show that where there's a will, there's a way. Super excited for this, Galaxy is one of my favorite games, and this is so impressive on a technical level.

 

[Deleted member 506316]

The amount of effort and skill...props to the devs this is super supreme.

 

[Stealphie]

woah this is amazing

 

[RichardTheKing]

At least there's no stupid motion controls in this demake, making it already superior to the original...still has limited lives and 3 HP (instead of 8, a la 64 DS and Sunshine) as flaws, though.

 

[Nerdtendo]

At least there's no stupid motion controls in this demake, making it already superior to the original...still has limited lives and 3 HP (instead of 8, a la 64 DS and Sunshine) as flaws, though.

Did 64 really have 8 HP if most damage took three slices?

 

[spotanjo3]

Beware of Nintendo because they are like a hawk. And they are money lover and a greedy. They loved to sue even not important stuff under Nintendo's.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

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;

 

[1B51004]

very nice! cant wait to see the final product!

 

[ZipMartin]

Is that really on the DS? I'm very impressed

 

[RedBlueGreen]

If it weren't for SM3D All Stars this would be a lot mor exciting. Still impressive though.