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DannyMac@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI

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F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI

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DannyMac@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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There's still a $5,000 prize for the original Japanese Satellaview broadcasts.
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    Yes but this was also around 30 years ago when data storage was smaller and more expensive.

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      Yes but this was also around 30 years ago when data storage was smaller and more expensive.

      The biggest SNES games were only a couple of megabytes. Super Mario World is only 512 kilobytes is size. It was certainly possible to archive the complete collection which is 1.7GB uncompressed. In 1992 IBM introduced archival storage tapes that 2.4GB of data.

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