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The world's best counterfeit games

The fan-made games that put the devs to shame

Words: David Houghton, GamesRadar UK
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Paper Bowser World and Paper Bowser World: Operation G.R.O.M.

Remember that bit in Paper Mario And The Thousand Year Door when you got to play as Bowser for the first time in that brilliant parody of Super Mario Bros? Remember how you cackled with laughter like a raving Victorian asylum inmate and wished there was a whole game based around that idea? You weren't alone, and now there is.

We fell in love with PBW and its sequel instantly. They look and sound great, play amazingly well for fan games (G.R.O.M. in particular has some level design that wouldn't be out of place in an official Nintendo title) and do a fantastic emulation of the their inspiration, right down to the scene transitions and authentic Paper Mario sense of humour. We like. We like a lot. More please, Toodles Team.

Get both of them at Mario Fan Game Galaxy.  


 
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wrathful  - 11 months 11 days ago 
wow .. that looks really boring
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adertysohck  - 11 months 8 days ago 
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X3ni92  - 11 months 8 days ago 
Interested in Metroid 2 Remake, but thats about it, sadly...
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cobracommander0  - 11 months 8 days ago 
How can you leave out this game!!!!
http://www.barnettcollege.com/index2.htm
Indiana Jones point and click adventure remake!
Seriously. I thought this was a decent site. I signed up just to fix this egregious error!!!
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RedOutlive10  - 9 months 14 days ago 
Black Mesa mod for HL2 indeed looks jaw dropping, better than many games out there (even if it's simply remaking an older game with a new engine), really promising stuff. By the way there's another trailer for it that looks even better.

And goddamn that Chrono Trigger 3D remake looked outstanding, too bad it got cancelled. C'est la vie.
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GRwarrior  - 7 months 24 days ago 
oh my god that Chrono Resurrection was fantastic.
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onesweetdream11  - 4 months 15 days ago 
square, so foolish in their age! they already knew that chrono trigger was good enough to resell without much content upgrade...but WTF! Tragedy is the right word.
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r3ap3r  - 4 months 15 days ago 
wat would be pretty cool if they did a whole redone half life game with dlc packs and all.
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baggins  - 4 months 15 days ago 
Why the heck didn't Square wait for those guys to finish and then say, "Sell us the game for $250,000 and we'll forget that we could totally pwn you in court"?

At least that way it would get released, Square would make money, the fans would rejoice and the developers could at least take solace in their hard work not being wasted.
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reroxas  - 4 months 5 days ago 
Man I loved Chrono Trigger and I totally agree with baggins although 259k isn't alot a million would have been more than fair
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reroxas  - 4 months 5 days ago 
Oops I mean 250 k sorry
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w1n5t0n  - 4 months 2 days ago 
That Chrono Resurrection looked insane. They should have just changed some names of characters and places and told Square where to put their legal team. Especially after even the work it would have taken to make what they had, it kinda sucks that square didn't at least offer them jobs.
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reyalejandro13  - 3 months 28 days ago 
I would love to play all of these games, but my computer sucks. However, I must say, one fan game I liked that wasn't on this list was the Pokemon Fire Red Hack that changed the game to be the Generation 2 games. It's pretty redundant with HG/SS coming out soon, but it was still fun.
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Maximillion  - 3 months 26 days ago 
Anyone who is reading this you are fucking nerds man,seriously who goes here...only joking (NOT!)
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Lavos  - 3 months 24 days ago 
Goddammit You now I'm mad about Chrono:Resurrection.
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ready4war  - 3 months 14 days ago 
the halo game looks cool but its fake
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seifer93  - 3 months 2 days ago 
Chrono Resurrection looks orgasmic (I just finished beating Chrono Trigger again,) I would have loved to play that. The rest of the games look really good too, I am about to start getting them all, with the exception of Sonic. I don't trust any sonic games anymore, fan made or not.
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Felixthecat  - 3 months 3 hours ago 
I want the Halo one!
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noobastar  - 2 months 9 days ago 
Im both disappointed and angry that Chrono Resurrection never make it. :(

The evil wizards at squareenix just want to milk the classic franchise with more 'ports' and dull remakes.
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