Idea Gba Rom Hack Remakes/Remasters

[Lord Lucario 35]

I have a question regarding the rules and community stance on remaking or remastering older Pokémon ROM hacks that have a lot of bugs, broken events, and tile errors specifically bringing them up to 2025 standards. For example, I was thinking about projects like Pokémon Dark Rising: Order Destroyed. If I were to rebuild it in Pokémon Essentials replacing all tiles, fixing errors, and generally updating it would that be considered acceptable in the community, or would it be frowned upon without the original creator’s permission? My goal wouldn’t be to claim it as my own idea, but rather to keep the spirit of the original while modernizing it. I’d of course give full credit to the original creators. I’m just curious about what’s okay in terms of etiquette and any “unwritten rules” for this kind of project as I rememebr seeing a Snakewood Remake released. All of this is hypothetical thinking.

 

[Willøw]

They kind of consider it unethical to just take someone's project and remake it or use the assets for another purpose, Without the creator's permission. I'd say you'd have to remake the assets yourself, and maybe only remake The game if the creator hasn't been online in the last 5-10 years, You can try asking the creator if he allows you to make your remake of their game, but I suppose it would be better not to be 1:1 of the original, with some unique touches of yours there

 

[A¹¹]

They kind of consider it unethical to just take someone's project and remake it or use the assets for another purpose, Without the creator's permission. I'd say you'd have to remake the assets yourself, and maybe only remake The game if the creator hasn't been online in the last 5-10 years, You can try asking the creator if he allows you to make your remake of their game, but I suppose it would be better not to be 1:1 of the original, with some unique touches of yours there

I guess I'm the core example of a remake with Stygian Snakewood? Cutlerine hasn't been seen in over 12 years and there have been multiple Snakewood projects before mine and since though mine is by far the most developed and complex. It was originally supposed to be a difficulty mod of it like Dark RIsing Kaizo but it ended up spiraling out of control as a full blown remake so it also wasn't exactly my intention.

 

[Lord Lucario 35]

They kind of consider it unethical to just take someone's project and remake it or use the assets for another purpose, Without the creator's permission. I'd say you'd have to remake the assets yourself, and maybe only remake The game if the creator hasn't been online in the last 5-10 years, You can try asking the creator if he allows you to make your remake of their game, but I suppose it would be better not to be 1:1 of the original, with some unique touches of yours there

I 100% agree, especially when it comes to assets — for the most part, there aren’t credits for many of them, so taking tiles or sprites straight from the original would be wrong. Attached is just a hypothetical look at how the game could appear compared to the original. The original came out 8–9 years ago (maybe longer), so this is purely for fun imagining how it might look in 2025 using updated Gen 3-style tiles and other visual improvements. If this were a real remake, it wouldn’t be a copy paste. There would be brand new Pokémon encounters, fresh events, and reworked areas to make it its own experience. This is just to show what’s possible visually. Once again this is just for fun.

The left two images are from the original game, while the right two show the same locations updated with modern tiles, fog effects, and other changes.

 

[Willøw]

I 100% agree, especially when it comes to assets — for the most part, there aren’t credits for many of them, so taking tiles or sprites straight from the original would be wrong. Attached is just a hypothetical look at how the game could appear compared to the original. The original came out 8–9 years ago (maybe longer), so this is purely for fun imagining how it might look in 2025 using updated Gen 3-style tiles and other visual improvements. If this were a real remake, it wouldn’t be a copy paste. There would be brand new Pokémon encounters, fresh events, and reworked areas to make it its own experience. This is just to show what’s possible visually. Once again this is just for fun.

The left two images are from the original game, while the right two show the same locations updated with modern tiles, fog effects, and other changes.

looks cooler i'd say XD, but maybe asking Catwithnojob or ENLS could be better to be sure on what they allow related to remake someone's game, imo i think is fine as long the assets arenn't taken directly from the original an a 1:1, but i wish good luck btw

 

[Lord Lucario 35]

looks cooler i'd say XD, but maybe asking Catwithnojob or ENLS could be better to be sure on what they allow related to remake someone's game, imo i think is fine as long the assets arenn't taken directly from the original an a 1:1, but i wish good luck btw

Haha thanks! Yeah, I feel the same. I think it’d be a fun, short project if I ever dive into it. For now I’m trying to wrap up Pokémon Eternal Emerald (Emerald in Essentials with new tiles, etc.). The main game’s done, I’m just missing Gen 5–8 legendary encounters. Might release soon, but I still need some people for playtesting first.