Dataminers found the original samples used for all the instruments in Super Mario World, found uncompressed versions of them, and recreated the music with what it would sound like at full fidelity

Super Mario World Restored - Fortress

w hat

holy shit

!

in 400 years we'll still be finding cool shit in SNES games

I remember some of the wild popoff from datamining n64 games

like the functional arwing in ocarina of time

The what?

Zelda Ocarina of Time: Arwing in Korkiri Forest

Well, okay then

that's just sitting unused in the game files

theory on the arwing is that they had the assets from star fox anyway, and it was used to test z-targeting moving targets

my theory is that someone was fucking bored at nintendo

that would make sense

well this certainly has implications about the sizes of loz characters

or Star Fox characters

Fox smaller than a real fox?