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An unreleased SNES game, Cooly Skunk, was recently discovered and likely never would have come to light if it wasn't for Satellaview broadcasting a demo of the game while the service was active, and a user preserving it on a Satellaview download cartridge. Fascinating stuff.

See: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-cooly...

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Wow, neat. The demo is new, but knowledge of the game isn't. Newly-found roms are cool.

I didn't know that, I just looked it up on unseen64.net and found some old magazine scans:

https://www.unseen64.net/2010/02/08/cooly-skunk-snes-unrelea...

If you're interested in this kind of stuff, not only is https://unseen64.net/ neat (about unreleased and cancelled games), but so is https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor

the latter being scrapped content/levels/characters/etc from games that were released with unused models/maps still included from a previous version.

A good deal of the Satellaview games we do have preserved in this manner are incomplete. The BS Fire Emblem games and the LoZ remake, for instance, both lack sound. Supposedly the BS Zelda games had "live" narration that was also being streamed over; that could not be captured, so we'll never know what that sounded like (unless someone happened to be recording their playthrough at the time on a VCR or something).

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