“In early 2021, a 32 MB development cartridge of F-Zero X was discovered and dumped by Forest of Illusion, a well-known video game preservationist,” the project’s Github page reads. “F-Zero X is only a 16 MB game, so half of that 32 MB development cartridge should have went unused. As it would turn out, however, something was taking up the extra cartridge space at the end.”
“Upon further inspection, exactly half of a 32 MB Ocarina of Time prototype dating back to 1997 was discovered,” the explanation continues. “It is likely that this cartridge originally held the Ocarina of Time demo showcased at Space World 1997, but the first half was overwritten by F-Zero X afterward when the development cartridge was reused. This extra data, now dubbed the ‘overdump,’ provided the basis for this project’s conception.”
And while the folks behind this Zelda Space World ‘97 Experience, as the project is dubbed, admit that it’s not a 100% accurate, 1:1 representation of the Space World demo, it’s close enough to give players a first-hand idea of what Nintendo showed attendees almost 25 years ago. Their work is the next best thing to going back in time or finding a full dump of the actual build used at Space World ’97 (odds for both of which are astronomically bad).
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