With some basic Googling It looks like that the max size was around 512 KB. How is this even possible to fit games of this size onto such little memory? What is this magic?
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A lot of reused assets. If you look at the dungeons in the game they all look the same, but just rearranged and maybe with different colors. The different colors aren’t even separate files, they are changed programmatically.
For that matter there’s other tricks like using black space. The areas that are black in the game are actually just the absence of any assets being loaded.
For both Zelda and Final Fantasy they even reused sprites for enemies. So you could have a variety of enemies that just have maybe the color changed about them to differentiate them.
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