How did they fit open world games like Zelda and the original Final Fantasy into NES cartridges

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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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**Turn back, this way lies madness.**

It is all highly optimized code using weird tricks on top of tricks on top of tricks. The kinds of things where one engineer explaining to another might take an hour to show how 5 lines of code does anything, let alone what the first engineer is claiming they are doing with it.

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