Homebrew developer LOO-E is porting the original NES Metroid to the Game Boy, it has been revealed.
M2NES: Zebes Revisited is actually a ROM hack which is built on the framework of Metroid II: Return of Samus, a Game Boy exclusive sequel released in 1991, which was later remastered for the 3DS as Metroid: Samus Returns.
It remains to be seen if this hack flies under the radar of Nintendo; it famously took the excellent AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) down via a DMCA in 2016. The fact that it's a ROM hack should be enough to avoid any legal action.
The original NES Metroid was famously ported to the Game Boy Advance as Metroid: Zero Mission. The most recent entry in the franchise is Metroid Dread on the Switch. Metroid Prime 4 is currently in development.
[source twitter.com]
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This seems very well made.
The original Metroid was ported to the GBA twice: once as "Zero Mission" and once as an "NES Classics" cart.
@Peteykins It's the same thing and arguably the most of the questionably unnecessary entries in that series of re-releases (Zero Mission was released before the Classic NES series in North America, unsure about Europe). I bought the Japanese "Famicom Mini" GBA version of Metroid because that at least had the difference of being a port of the FDS version.
However I played through the Japanese version of Zero Mission just to verify that it also unlocks the NES version of the game.
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