Streaming Video on 80's Gaming Hardware

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A project that turns a Sega Mega Drive / Genesis into a streaming video player by pushing 16-bit sprite hardware, creating custom video encoding and unconventional compression, and performing low-level hardware modifications. The implementation delivers 240p video at 10 fps with 8-bit audio and fits the whole player into 64 KB of RAM.

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