Post by K_Y in Basilisk - SNES comments

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The emulator is not real, and you don't need any smc files.

Just try to load ROM and the game will start by itself. You only need the exe-file.

You're right the whole load-rom menu seems to be fake, even when clicking cancel the "game" starts.

But... I've tried to extract the ROM from the .exe though and it doesn't seem to be a SNES file.

At the end of the MZ-EXEcutable there's a bunch of ~18MB of data what I'd suspected to be game data .. but that's way too much for a SNES cartridge.

Also I wasn't able to locate any ROM-Header and it even seems to be compressed data.

All in all I would say, this smells fishy - like fake - because it's way more data than even a full game should have.

K_Y12 days ago (1 edit)

This is not a real SNES game or real rom, it is just a regular (modern-day) game aesthetically stylized as if it was an older emulated game.

N0N0ficion12 days ago

Yeah, that way it makes much more sense. So the Emulator-Part is just sort of the style n for presentation.

K_Y11 days ago

Yes, exactly. It is also sort of a part of the bigger narrative continued in Basilisk 2000, the next game (which is also stylized as if made around 1999), and SNESi game is set 10 years prior to that so it looks even older. But both are modern-day-made games.

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