There's still a $5,000 prize for the original Japanese Satellaview broadcasts.
  • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Good to know the industry have been killing their games even before I was born. Great work restoring it.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 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.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 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.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          there’s no official lasting copies that anyone can own.

          Then Nintendo did a bad job of preserving it. The game could be an expensive eShop download now…

      • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 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.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 months ago

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