The first week of "BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2" has been found and preserved

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The obscure Broadcast Satellite system, also known as Satellaview, received many unique iterations of beloved classics from the SNES era, including even original titles, like The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets, which has still to receive an official release in any shape or form since the original broadcast, and still to this day, much of said title was recreated based on VHS tapes from the original broadcasts made back in the day.

There are still several ROMs and data from the Satellaview releases that are still lost to time and haven't been found, with some instances like the BS F-Zero weeks. However, with the increasing amount of people interested in the preservation of videogame history and lost media, more and more of these titles are starting to appear, with the latest one being the first week of the BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 title for the Satellaview.

Research and emulation enthusiast, @LuigiBlood, in an effort to find more of these ellusive titles, put up a $2'500 USD bounty for anyone that could get their hands on even one week of those titles on their hardware, and after Did You Know Gaming's recent video about the Satellaview, titled "Nintendo Satellaview: Another 90's Failure", LuigiBlood and the team behind the SuperFamicon.org website got offered the first week of BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2, which includes the tracks for Forest 1 and Forest 2.

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With this, the $2'500 USD bounty was paid off to the anonymous user, while there's still another $2'500 USD bounty for anyone that might still have Week 2 of BS F-Zero Grand Prix 2 in their hands, which should include Forest 3, as well as Metal Fort 1 and Metal Fort 2.

Thanks to this new preservation, the team behind the BS F-Zero Grand Prix Reconstruction hack were quick to work with the new dumped data for this entry, and they have now included a detailed comparison between their Reconstruction work and the original BS F-Zero data obtained from it, with the final results showing that the Recreation managed to faithfully recreate the original tracks with a rate above 90% of accuracy.

Those interested in following the process of obtaining the dump and comparing it with the recreation can visit the SuperFamicon.org website.

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