Hear Super Mario World's Soundtrack With Glorious Uncompressed Audio Thanks To Dataminers
Super Mario World is something of a cornerstone game that millions of players have enjoyed over the years. While it is an awesome game, it certainly had some limitations when released 30 years ago. One of these limitations was the amount of storage available, so some things like music had to be highly compressed to save space. However, some dedicated retro gaming fans and dataminers have recreated the music of Super Mario World from uncompressed audio samples.
In the modern era, we have games like Call of Duty that take up hundreds of gigabytes of storage to play, but Super Mario World could not use that much when it was released. In fact, the maximum storage in an SNES cartridge was just 4MB, which wouldn’t get you very far today. To squeeze a game into a cartridge, developers had to compress audio and other things to fit.
(Is this what the songs were "supposed to sound like"? Hmmmmmaybe, but consider that Nintendo was probably picking which samples to use based on which ones sounded best after the SNES compressed them down to hell.)
— Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) February 5, 2021
