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This Video is 286 Times Bigger Than Mario 64

TheChiptide

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Super Mario 64 is one of the most iconic games of all times. And somehow, all 24 levels and 120 stars exist in just 8 megabytes of space, making it smaller than a couple old vines saved on your phone! Today, I break down all the computer science and engineering that made this possible.

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20 Comments

@PCubiles 6 hours ago

I pressed the Screenshot button (browser extension) on the bottom right of my YouTube video while you said "The same size" and that SINGLE IMAGE is already more than a third, 3 of those and that's already more than Super Mario 64, so basically a single 4K image is around the size of Mario 64

@SourceOfBeing 6 hours ago (edited)

Compare Mario 64's file size to other things, then realise that Mario 64 is still at least 8* bigger than Pokemon Red.

@Justamag1c 6 hours ago

With todays prices on storage and ram developes may actually have to remember how to not make 200+ gb games

@retrokoh 6 hours ago

Me, as a ROM hacker hearing the intro: "Yep, that sounds about right."

@yuu3024 6 hours ago

We clearly did not actually improve our data efficiency and data storage as much as we like to pretend we did

@theominouspigeon 6 hours ago

i mean there's a lot more triangles in this video

@henke37 1 hour ago

Ah yes, three cds, all labeled cd 1 of 3.

@rzezzy1713 2 hours ago

15:18 PANNENKOEK STRIKES AGAIN

@BenjaStf 3 hours ago

"Why don't we have this kind of space optimization now?" Because y'all want to see every single hair of a fly

@Lampas-Kompas 4 hours ago

10:31 it's the same vibe of Skylanders Trap Team and Skystones Smash

@larilille 1 hour ago

I don’t think you said, but you can fit 80-90 copies of Mario 64 on a data CD, depending on whether it’s an early or later CD.

@NotBigSurprise 1 hour ago

super mario 64 fit in discord's original upload size limit

@Subject_Keter 5 hours ago

13:38 Leaked Beta Luigi from Luigi Mansion 💀

@NikolaM8421 5 hours ago

My smallest game on Steam is 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel at 9.7MB. My second smallest is Understand, a puzzle game only consisting of simple shapes, at 18.5MB

@bobsmith8219 4 hours ago

Blowing on cartridges actually does temporarily help. The moisture can help the pins connect.

@KazeN64 5 hours ago

Mario 64 could have been 4mb if they weren't fucking around btw

@SushiElemental 34 minutes ago

Even apples had less bites in them back then

@Sliggoo_ 6 hours ago

epic refresh

@jakksonkobalt 2 hours ago

Nintendo is still the king of storage space optimization. Tears of the Kingdom is under 16 gigs (which was the largest file size from a Nintendo game until Mario Kart World at 24 gigs.). They updated Kirby in the Forgotten Land with higher resolution textures and DLC and the file size shrunk.