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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Many of the earlier SNES games were below 2 MB too, for example, Super Mario World is around half a MB, and A Link to the Past is around 1 MB.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

can confirm i used to burn snes roms on floppy

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

I think the original Cave Story is between 5-6 MB.