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A long time ago, in one of the first Total Recall features I ever wrote for this site, I covered The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, the first—and in many ways still the best—Nintendo movie ever made.
And hey, whaddya know, Carnivol has done just that. Working for years on the project, and beginning with a couple of those VHS copies, they eventually got their hands on a 16mm theatrical version of the film, and have been chipping away at both restoring the original reel and upscaling the movie to 4K ever since.
This isn’t some little side project, either; Carnivol estimates that in total the efforts to obtain, scan and restore this movie have cost them in the ballpark of USD$20,000.
Below are the current (and unfinished) results of that project, a vastly superior version of the film than those previously available:
Compare that to the version I shared in 2012, which...well, looks like shit:
As beautiful as Carnivol’s work has turned out, though, it’s still incomplete, and in order to get the whole project to a more finalised state they’re in the process of handing the raw files and work over to someone who can hopefully finish the job.
The whole movie has been uploaded in the first video above, but if you want to watch the entire thing and understand what’s going on, you’ll need to know that it’s only got automatic subtitles, and in this case those are...not working great.
Source: Kotaku
