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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh, absolutely this. I think the YouTube channel GameHut is a great example of the lengths devs went to to get things working. In Ratchet & Clank 3, Insomniac borrowed memory from the PS2's second controller port to use for other things during single-player (PS2 devs did so much crazy shit that within the PCSX2 project, we often joke about how they "huffed glue"). The channel Retro Game Mechanics explained and the book "Racing the Beam" have great explanations for the lengths Atari devs had to go to just to do anything interesting with the system. Even into the seventh generation of consoles, the Hedgehog Engine had precomputed light sources as textures to trick your brain.

[-] weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Heeeyyy buddy, wass up didn't expect to find you around here! And yeah. Rachet also has some ass backward stuff with The way it tries to force 60 FPS all the time which Ironically made it run worse in PCSX2 for the longest time till more accurate timings for the EE were found.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh shit, hey Beard. I didn't expect to see you here either. For that matter I didn't think anyone else surrounding the project used Lemmy. Cool to know I'm not alone.

[-] weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah! I think Kam might be around here somewhere but not a hundred percent on that. Ofc, Rachet is a good example. But we all know the real insanity is Marvel Nemesis xD

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