Good to know the industry have been killing their games even before I was born. Great work restoring it.
Always impressed by the lengths people will go to preserve game history and more than a little concerned about them getting cease-and-desisted by Nintendo. At least it looks like it’s already on the Internet Archive, so that’s good.
From the sounds of it, the AI wasn’t really necessary for this as the levels could have been recreated manually from watching the footage alone.
Not necessary but definitely a helpful timesaver.
levels could have been recreated manually from watching the footage alone.
The point was to explicitly not just eyeball it but to be as close to pixel perfect as possible. A manual recreation may have been very accurate but certainly not 99.9%.
Your method would be a remake, this is restoration of the original.
