Comment on F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So they found some VHS tapes of the missing levels but not the levels themselves?
Comment on F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI
RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So they found some VHS tapes of the missing levels but not the levels themselves?
clubb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The whole game was broadcasted through satellite, the only copies would either be in Japanese satellaviews (If those had storage), or at Nintendo themselves (If they kept a copy), so it’s not surprising that a vhs was the only way
Cypher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nintendo had a stake in the company doing the broadcasts but is extremely unlikely to have retained copies of then by levels.
The only way to have retained the levels is by having received them by satellaview and then disconnecting the device, for 25 years, and hoping the memory isn’t too volatile to recover.
It’s extremely fortunate that some people recorded levels on VHs and that those VHS weren’t damaged or lost.