At first I thought he was the Sikh who does the Vulcan greeting, but then I noticed the one white guy and thought "No, that's him!".

I love these kind of projects. I'd love it even more if it was open source.

Preservation of the software is the most important thing and I'm glad the game pirates are very fastidious about it, but preservation of hardware like this is - if not as important - at least as fascinating!

And still, I won't buy one. I doubt I'll ever earn enough money to make retro game collecting feasible, so I'll stick with collection retro game controllers and connecting them to PCs for faithful emulation ;)

Seriously. I bought The Legend of Zelda (the original one) 10 years ago for <10 Euros. Now it's over 100! And that's a super common game (I assume)!

Wow. I see it around $35 on Amazon, and I know that I didn't pay that much for it around 6 years ago (can't find the order though, so I probably bought it in a large lot of games from Ebay).

A Link to the Past: Bought for $17.56 about 5 years ago, and it seems that I'd be paying around $45-$50 to get it now.

Zelda 2: Adventure of Link: bought for about $5 in 2010, selling for about $15 now.

Oof! This one's the biggest jump I've seen so far. Metal Warriors on SNES. I bought that in 2009 for $40, and the cheapest listing for it on Amazon right now is for $200.

I saw it in theater when it came out (twice), and then later again a few years back.

Except in the latter case they clearly played it from DVD, interlaced even! At first I was like "I can't watch this!" but after 3 minutes I was so captivated I didn't even notice anymore!

From the article you linked:

> the first compiler for it was implemented in 1975

Honestly, looking at the screenshots I don't even know what's going on.

It's great to see the pasta-making in action, but damn, that guy is annoying.

Whether that's true or not I don't think your observation adds much to the conversation.

Wow, what I nice way to counter the micro aggression of the parent post. Well done, I'll be stealing that.

Holy shit, that looks amazing.

Almost make me want to exchange my O2 for a clear CMOY :D

Apparently there is ONE theater in the world (in California of course!) that shows it and it's REALLY GOOD.

EDIT: The one floating around the internet seems to be a fan cut. I'm curious how it holds up to the actual thing.

That's what I heard.

Also the the Roadshow cut of Hateful Eight. That was shown in more places. I could have seen it, but they asked for an arm and a leg, and I need those!

I saw the Roadshow cut at our local art house. It was beautiful. IIRC it was definitely not even 2x the cost of a regular ticket and it came with a commemorative booklet.

Thing is, I'm poor, and it was roughly 3x the cost of the discounted ticket I usually use.

At minimum wage I would have paid about a day's salary, and thus I "boycotted" it.

I'm assuming they reencoded it to something more efficient than mjpeg2000 (no idea what the "standard" pirate codec for 4k is).

EDIT: According to another comment it's H264.