Matt Thorson, creator of Celeste and Towerfall, released his 4-day developed gamejam prototype of Celeste a while back. It's an 8-bit platformer about a girl climbing a mountain available for free on the Pico 8 (an imaginary console with severe limitations designed to challenge programmers to be creative), with 30 levels that can be completed in about 30 minutes. Fans then ported the prototype to the GBA as a homebrew rom, and it became one of my favorite GBA games of all time.
Rogue Squadron 3D was licensed out for re-release and shipped to CD Projekt's Good old Games, then eventually to steam last year. With Disney, there's hope - they seem more interested in releasing the older titles than an HD collection. But the technical side is difficult even for just porting, from what little I understand.
Emulators still struggle with the propriety technology in all games in the series, including the N64 games. I imagine Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike are extremely tailored to the gamecube architecture, portable on wii because of similarities but perhaps more difficult on modern systems. I hope it's in the works now - license issues are cleared, Nintendo needs this and there's money to be had for Disney. I would love battle for naboo portable, too.
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Matt Thorson, creator of Celeste and Towerfall, released his 4-day developed gamejam prototype of Celeste a while back. It's an 8-bit platformer about a girl climbing a mountain available for free on the Pico 8 (an imaginary console with severe limitations designed to challenge programmers to be creative), with 30 levels that can be completed in about 30 minutes. Fans then ported the prototype to the GBA as a homebrew rom, and it became one of my favorite GBA games of all time.
The best way to play it is a flashcart on a GBA micro or Chinese console like this, but if you want to play his prototype free on PC (30 more levels of Celeste!), here's the link to Matt Makes Games' post:
https://mattmakesgames.itch.io/celesteclassic
As well as the community's homebrew port, with Matt Thorson's blessing on twitter:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-celeste-classic-gba-port.544992/
The 8-bit prototype was also included as a hidden easter egg in the Switch version of Celeste. You can unlock it following IGN's guide here:
https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/01/25/celeste-walkthrough-how-to-find-retro-celeste
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Rogue Squadron 3D was licensed out for re-release and shipped to CD Projekt's Good old Games, then eventually to steam last year. With Disney, there's hope - they seem more interested in releasing the older titles than an HD collection. But the technical side is difficult even for just porting, from what little I understand.
Emulators still struggle with the propriety technology in all games in the series, including the N64 games. I imagine Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike are extremely tailored to the gamecube architecture, portable on wii because of similarities but perhaps more difficult on modern systems. I hope it's in the works now - license issues are cleared, Nintendo needs this and there's money to be had for Disney. I would love battle for naboo portable, too.