Kirby's Toy Box's arduous path from Nintendo's Japanese-only '90s satellite service Satellaview to being playable by today's fans highlights the precarious nature of games preservation.
at superfamicom.org came with the news that, “the Flash memory was rotting away the data,” which meant the game wasn’t “in its pure state.” The second dump ofwas also suffering from bitrot and couldn’t be fully repaired: both titles work, at least, but they’re still considered bad dumps given their impurities.
“In a Satellaview ROM there are at most 8000000 bits, much more room for error. Sometimes the damage is in a benign spot like empty space, sometimes it is in graphics, sometimes code, etc. So not all damage is equal. The ROMs will usually include a checksum to indicate if this has happened, but sometimes that is blanked out so it is difficult to tell.”
Of course, if you were looking for a straightforward way to play an old game, Satellaview emulation might not necessarily be for you, anyway. It’s not always as easy as just loading up the game in SNES9X or what have you. Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes it’s not. The first time I played any of thetitles, I did so by just loading them right up in an emulator like any other ROM.
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