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Regardless of how you feel about them (well, us), fans of Nintendo games are a breed apart. Many won’t let the obvious legal danger of playing around with Nintendo’s IPs deter them from making their own versions of Nintendo’s classic games. Case in point is this surprising remake of the 1992 Game Boy game, Metroid II: Return of Samus, which I reviewed for Aeropause. Go ahead and read that one, I’m proud of it. I’ll wait.

So what this loyal fan, going by the name DoctorM64, has done is ripped the assets out of Metroid Fusion (hey, you can read a review for that, too) and used them as a starting point to rebuild the ol’ monochrome beep-fest in much the same way Nintendo did for the original Metroid with Zero Mission (hey, what do you know…).

It’s Windows-only unfortunately, but judging by the video at the source, it’s some impressive work that clearly took a really long time to do. Let’s keep in mind that the better this man does, the more likely he is to be shut down with a firmly-worded cease and desist letter. He even points out that he’s aware of that on his blog. Brilliant job though, this guy should be cooperating for a Cave Story sequel instead of getting himself in trouble like this.

Source: Fan remake of Metroid II is not only awesome, but also playable at DSFanboy.