Fun fact: the Up button doesn’t work in the menu, because Farb-Rausch were scrambling to get below 96 KB. They made a tool that noted which bytes were read during a playthrough and just zeroed anything that did not get referenced. This improved compression enough to squeak under that round-ish number. But whoever did the final playthrough only went down the menu before starting the game.
Fun fact: the Up button doesn’t work in the menu, because Farb-Rausch were scrambling to get below 96 KB. They made a tool that noted which bytes were read during a playthrough and just zeroed anything that did not get referenced. This improved compression enough to squeak under that round-ish number. But whoever did the final playthrough only went down the menu before starting the game.