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• Fresh off building a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) on the Bitcoin blockchain, the Ninjalerts team is at it again. This time, the Pizza Ninjas project has inscribed a Nintendo 64 (N64) emulator on the network, the group announced on Wednesday.
• Thanks to the integration of the lossless compression algorithm Brotli, developed by Google and a recent enhancement made to Ordinals, Ninjalerts said it is possible to reduce file sizes by approximately 80%, in turn reducing the number of Bitcoin blocks necessary to inscribe the N64 emulator.
• By comparison, the N64 inscription cost the Pizza Ninjas project $5,000 at 25 sats per virtual bytes (vbytes) due to current fees on the network.
• “If we inscribed [the N64 emulator] when we inscribed the SNES, it would have been closer to $20,000 to $25,000, between 80 - 100 sats/vbyte,”
• “It’s unlikely we go to consoles newer than N64 and unlikely we do Playstation 1,” he said. “That's the era of consoles where companies started introducing DRM, which puts them in a more legal gray area.”

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