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Many of us have heard about the pirated rom of the SNES Mario game being squished into an 8-bit NES cart, but have never bothered to fire it up on an emulator. One guy took the time and recorded it, so here it is played through the last world. It is absolutely amazing how much they were able to fit, and how closely it still resembles the 16 bit version. If someone would do the inverse and up the production value to 128 bit and put it on my DS, I'd gladly hand them over my wallet. Or first born. [ Spotted on the Lost Levels by Press The Buttons ] For the sake of comparison, here's the 16 bit version played from the middle point of the castle. The smoother frame rate, color depth, and music quality had to be sacrificed, but most of everything else is pretty much intact.







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