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Demake - When a game is remade for a generation older than itself.

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What is a demake?

A demake is a Game that's purposefully built as if it where conceived and produced during a previous hardware or software generation.

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[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 week ago

You categorically could not get some of that parallax scrolling in the background. It would take an obscene amount of ROM or CHR-RAM shenanigans for an effect that is so subtle it's nearly invisible.

It's an odd choice to add, when these mockups at least imply sprites-per-line flicker.