I am convinced f-zero and metroid are in the same universe, in the core you have big cities, the ultimate motor-sport, and bounty-hunters like capt falcon, on the periphery, dead civilizations, space pirates, and bounty hunters like Samus Aaron.<p>Now, admittedly, this is mainly based on them being based in the far future and having the same art style. But you have to admit Samus would not look out of place racing in Big-Blue
DidYouKnowGaming did a great video on this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcrM706gws" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDcrM706gws</a><p>My favourite part is where they used specialty software to recreate the button presses on the video with frame-perfect precision, and from that was able to recreate course layouts.
Here is FlibidyDibidy's "every Super Mario Bros. speedrun all at once" video mentioned in the article:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisWoTNyfeU&t=70s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisWoTNyfeU&t=70s</a>
I read the article, but failed to understand what the satellite service was. Did they "stream". Was like twitch? Or did they stream a game over satellite and player could play while game data was being streamed?<p>If the latter, how did the voice over work?
F-Zero was fun, I spent a lot of time on it. I really liked to find shortcuts by boosting just before a jump and trying to land on a completely different part of the track. But it was so annoying that you couldn’t outrun other opponents. You could do the perfect race, but if you made the slightest mistake in the last lap, the 2nd would be right there on your tail.
Actual link to content here:<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/bs_f-zero_deluxe_v1.0" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/bs_f-zero_deluxe_v1.0</a>
The fact that a $5k bounty still exists for the original makes you wonder where the copy is going to be found.<p>What content is being produced today that we will offer a $25k dollar bounty for in 50 years? Perhaps something in Roblox or Minecraft?
If you're an F-zero fan, like me, Nintendo has done a really good job taking the original game and turning it into a large scale multiplayer game with F-zero 99.
From when this was previously posted two days ago:<p>> For the JRPG fans, Satellview was also used in a Squaresoft game called Radical Dreamers, a kind of side story for the much better-known Chrono trigger. Since it's been re-released, it's not quite so big of a target for preservationists though.<p>> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Dreamers</a>
The Satellaview was incredible. To think that technology not dissimilar to Sirius satellite radio was used to allow people to download games, stream voice acting tracks, plus there was a whole Mii-like system of avatars. All in the mid-90s.
It's wild to me to see F-Zero on the front page of... well anything. It's a really fun racing game with a hilariously cheesy story, dripping in 80s glam-rock visuals.
This is really fascinating<p>We should have events like this where games are altered substantially with external inputs like this<p>I know of several modern examples where sound is used to transmit saves and other rudimentary things, but no hosted events or games ready to accept those hosted events as input<p>online matchmaking and “seasons” might be better for the companies for now, but I think this would just be more fun
I could swear that I've played the bsx version before... did the dump get lost? Maybe I'm just misremembering for another bsx game.<p>Unfortunately I don't have the file anymore if I did, because I lost the mdadm array it was stored on in 2011.<p>Edit: I didn't realize there were two for the bsx... it was probably the first one that I had.
Actual article: <a href="https://www.pressthebuttons.com/2024/02/lost-satellaview-f-zero-tracks-return.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.pressthebuttons.com/2024/02/lost-satellaview-f-z...</a>
Some B747s also came with F-zero on the seatback entertainment system. I think this was also a special version as I don't imagine they mounted a super nes under every seat :)
I'm glad for this article and these comments. How I've never heard of Satellaview or Sega Channel before now I'll never know, but fascinating to find out about!
I wish Nintendo would give us another F-Zero game. F-Zero X and F-Zero GX/AX were wonderful games. I know it probably won't be super profitable and the brand recognition isn't at the level of Nintendo's heavy hitters like Mario, Zelda, & Pokemon, but still would be pretty cool to see a new one, especially if they were able to modernize the random track creator that was in F-Zero X.
F-Zero:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Zero</a> :<p>> <i>F-Zero begins in the year 2560 where the humanses' countless encounters with alien life forms throughout the universe greatly expanded Earth's social framework resulting in</i> [...]
Somewhat off-topic but one thing I noticed in the article's videos is the stark difference in visuals between the emulated game and the old VHS recording. Even though the image is much sharper and cleaner, it somehow looks uglier to me compared to the fuzzy recording.