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

yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not exactly killing a game, it was never released outside of Japan - and even there it wasn’t widely purchased.

  The sad thing is the US SNES did actually have a port for this on the bottom, I always wondered what that was for.

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s just as much game killing than any live service today. Satellaview relied on server connection, there’s no official lasting copies that anyone can own.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Were they full priced games as well?

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was a service, but my point is less how much was paid, but that much of it is dead and gone. A completely free game that shuts down its servers and becomes unplayable is still a loss to our culture.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is in the sense that you had to delete the downloaded game to play another, it’s why it’s hard to preserve these satella games.

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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