It adds new tracks, cars, and leagues.
Adding fan-created content to already published games is commonplace, whether new or old.
However, this mod is unique because the makers reverse-engineered it from ancient VHS recordings.
The mod is called BS (for broadcast satellite) F-Zero Deluxe.
The creators even made box art and an instruction booklet to accompany it.
However, it wasn’t as simple as ripping data from old Satellaview memory cards.
A similar projectproduceda working version of a Legend of Zelda game.
The Satellaview peripheral combined a satellite receiver, a cartridge, and a memory card.
The Satellaview cartridge downloaded broadcasts using the receiver and stored the data on a replaceable memory card.
It would then overwrite it with the next broadcast.
Nintendo never rebroadcast the GP content, so finding intact data is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Porthor was part of the team behind F-Zero Deluxe.
The footage allowed the simple AI to recreate the tracks frame-by-frame.
After that, the team painstakingly reproduced the vehicles and track backgrounds pixel-by-pixel.
So grab it from theInternet Archivewhile it’s hot.
