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jc dogen
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jc dogen
@dogen_1
Homebrew for classic systems. C + ASM only.
Katılım Temmuz 2016
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@dogen_1 @jmvildoza @AdamConwayIE @RandalLinden @ModernVintageG I just found a unofficial port of Quake 1 known was QuakePSX. It's a WIP but awesome nonetheless. I hope more developers will join the party!
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Massive thanks to @RandalLinden for this! An absolute legend known for his amazing development feats, I really appreciated the time he was able to give to help this article be the best it could be.
Big thanks to @ModernVintageG too who allowed me to use stills from his video!
XDA@xdadevelopers
Want to learn how @RandalLinden ported Quake to the Game Boy Advance? @AdamConwayIE spoke to him to find out! xda-developers.com/how-quake-port…
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@dogen_1 @Gamer1137592756 Thought this was a port grift; that I get
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Even the homebrew scene is a creative abyss.
Falco Girgis@falco_girgis
"Wait, WTF is this," you ask? Oh, nothing much... Just "The Tomb of Raithwall" from Final Fantasy 12... RUNNING ON AN ACTUAL FREAKING SEGA DREAMCAST!!! Mad modder Esppiral has cooked us up another round of epic console blasphemy with this one, this time teaming up with DC homebrew scene veteran, PH3NOM, who was also one of my partners in crime on our Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City ports to the Sega Dreamcast. Anyway, Esppiral has managed to warez this iconic scene from the big bad PS2 for our little white box of dreams by leveraging PH3NOM's new engine, the aptly named "Dreamcast Engine." I've been watching those two cook up crazy new scenes and push the DC to new levels for most of the week in our Discord server, so be sure to tune in to the two of them for updates! Follow PH3NOM for more updates on the engine and his science experiments with new rendering techniques using the DC's PowerVR GPU here: itch.io/profile/ph3nom… Follow Esppiral for more blasphemous experiments with bringing iconic scenes from other platforms to the DC here: @esppiral" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@esppiral
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@Vikumar11128466 @TheGhostify @pequod286 @CrownedCaribou i've never checked the entire library, but my gba playlist has some pretty alright sounding stuff. when i think bad sounding game console my mind goes to the master system, which is miles worse than almost anything else. gba just tends to sound grainy due to low bit depth.
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@dogen_1 @TheGhostify @pequod286 @CrownedCaribou And yet 98% of GBA games sound like utter dogshit so does it really matter?
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theres a handful of these GBA titles that are extraordinary technical achievements and what they all have in common is sucking a fat chode
Timeproof Games@timeproofgames
Spider-Man 2 (Game Boy Advance, Digital Eclipse, 2004)
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@TheGhostify @pequod286 @CrownedCaribou still, over double the ram and the a way faster cpu than the snes
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@pequod286 @CrownedCaribou Buddy I'm in my 30s 😂 a lot of those were just poorer versions of SNES games, and the resolution was worse than the SNES. Doesn't hold up. Awful ram, no discrete sound chip, no actual processing power. The 3DSXL is a strong contender if we're talking viability in modern day.
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@Gamer1137592756 @jsrf4893 @oriellmal @Spiders_STG people do things for reasons other than pure practicality. they still make demos for the c64 (and pretty much every other system) and they're still finding new tricks.
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@jsrf4893 @oriellmal @Spiders_STG So you're telling me they made a tech demo for 27 year old tech. Yeah no that makes sense.
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@Gamer1137592756 @Spiders_STG satisfaction of writing fast code that makes an old system do more than people thought it could
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@Spiders_STG Genuinely what is the point of these unofficial ports of old games? It's a complete waste of time, the end product is likely also worse like the final fight MD port.
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@PunchMSX @UridiumAuthor @Paranoia_Dragon @CommodoreLad The speed of it coming from a 1Mhz C64 was staggering. 7 times faster.
Can you imagine suddenly getting a machine or console today, that's 7 times faster than your previous machine.
Was wonderful.
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@resc863 @GameOverThirty Nope. Ray tracing mesh shading existed before & was created by the Graphics Group/Lucasfilm. "Real-time" ray tracing is marketing not the tech. OptiX spawned out of CUDA which was acquired from Ageia. Most of the ray tracing work was done by SGI/Pixar which nVidia acquired (SGI).
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Folks...
AMD is building 90% of the tech in the #PS6 and #Xbox Helix.
Both companies are going to rebrand the technology, and claim it as their own, but here's the reality...
It's mostly AMD.
The PS6 and Xbox Helix will use similar technology when it comes to rendering, ray tracing, and path tracing. They aren't going to be that far apart in tech because they are both being designed and built around the same timeframe.
Look at gaming PCs. That's your model right there. I don't care which API set the hardware/ software uses, it's the same technology that AMD places in their GPUs and SoCs.
The biggest difference is the software layer these days. Hell, the real winner here is AMD. They figured out to sell everyone a new PC every 7 years. 😆
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@GMcHorseman @Programancer @TanKer_Koator I'm sure it sounds good but sometimes I find it hard to get into arranged soundtracks like that
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@dogen_1 @Programancer @TanKer_Koator so... MSU-1 Chrono Symphony Soundtrack from zeldix with the Bugfix/Uncensoring romhack?
The relocalization by wakkoswami is really good, too.
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BuT ChRoNo TrIgGeR WiLl Be DiFfErEnT!
PROGRAMANCER @PAX@Programancer
Square-Enix release a port that has care put into it challenge failed
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@beyond_fps @sighaboutlife Honestly, nvidia could be forcing it to run with DLSS and DLAA off for that video.
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@Programancer @TanKer_Koator @GMcHorseman both of which are pretty skippable. also not a fan of the redone translation or (slightly) downgraded music from the snes.
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@TanKer_Koator @GMcHorseman I would say absolutely yes, either the SNES one or the DS one if you want cutscenes and some extra content
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@opinali @LJITimate @GeForce_JacobF TAA doesn't invent pixels. It resolves a super sampled image by gathering the samples from multiple frames.
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@LJITimate @GeForce_JacobF Yep I mean native with some effective AA that doesn't invent pixels. Not algorithmically, not AI, only real pixels so the only option is MSAA really. AFAIK, AI upscalers like DLSS and FSR are trained with captures of native renders at super-high resolution which is equivalent./
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Those "native vs upscaled" tests are as deceiving because the baseline is not raw native output, it has simple antialiasing (or none). DLSS4+/FSR4 vs vanilla TAA will win. But look at Native + MSAA 4X, it's just perfect to the last pixel. Heavy, but there's no improving on this.
Jacob Freeman@GeForce_JacobF
Well, I guess in fact DLSS does often provide better image quality compared to native, even more true today than my video from 2024! 😀 tomshardware.com/pc-components/…
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@InsertValue_ @Billym_lzg @DialgaMarine92 @oliver_drk I'm not an expert, but I remember Halo 4s visuals being praised at the time. I think you have to consider that the 360 was designed to be easy to get good performance out of, maybe focusing a bit less on peak performance. This is exactly what nintendo did with the gamecube.
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@Billym_lzg @DialgaMarine92 @oliver_drk Uncharted 2/3. Killzone 2/3. God of War 3. MGS4. TLOU.
Not a single 360 game can compete with these graphics. Maybe Gears3.
Maybe.
GIF
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It's been almost 20 years which means automatically some historical revision kicks in.
Sony didn't charge $600 for PS3 because they just felt like it. Launch PS3 had cutting edge tech, Blu-ray & full hardware back compat. Production cost was $850. It was more hubris than greed.
NikTek@NikTek
Some people who were celebrating the "downfall" of Xbox as a console brand after Phil Spencer left seriously need to reconsider the ramifications of what the future of gaming will be if Sony has no competitors left. If it wasn't for Xbox 360 competing with PS3, Sony tried to sell it for $499 and $599 which is equivalent to $700 and $850 worth in today's dollars for base consoles alone. With no competitors left, there's nothing stopping Sony from cutting the prices of their consoles as the generation reaches its end of life or selling the base console at a loss.
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@Billym_lzg @DialgaMarine92 @oliver_drk in a practical sense, I think their pros and cons almost balanced out in the end. The cell is cool but Sony spent a lot on a wide CPU to run code that is very hard to parallelize, and Microsoft spend a lot on a wide GPU to run easily parallelized code.
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@DialgaMarine92 @oliver_drk Yet it still couldnt produce graphics on par with the apparently much weaker 360 which had limited back compat through emulation
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@ScapismAdvocate This would never run on an NES in a million years lol
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I'm gonna skip the talk here and say PRISON CITY PHYSICAL PREORDERS are live NOW! (in replies)
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@SebAaltonen Wrong. Doom TDA requires RT and runs great even in my old RTX 2060 laptop.
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Game developers are facing an interesting dilemma today. Do you spend one generation's worth of GPU performance advances on real-time lighting or not? That's basically what you get with fully dynamic ray-traced lighting. Real-time lighting has advantages, but the cost is severe.
Sebastian Aaltonen@SebAaltonen
Five years ago, the PS5 was a steal at $399. Steam Machine specs are similar to the PS5 base model. The AI boom has significantly increased chip and RAM prices. Usually, you get a 10x perf boost in 5 years. Now you likely get the same performance and a higher price instead :(
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@SoulBlazerz @DanFriedman81 the art changes in those were pretty terrible honestly.
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@DanFriedman81 Lol, so you truly think Demon Souls and TSOTC Remake were just "AI level" work?
Yeah, you're a tourist.
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I don't think the industry and games journalists understand how little gamers care about what is happening to the games industry right now.
The 40-person studio that made "Expedition 33" is comprised of former Ubisoft developers. Ubisoft hasn't made a game as good as "Expedition 33" in at least ten years.
Ubisoft employs 17,000 people. If all of them lose their jobs and some of those people manage to form even a single small studio that makes a game as good as "Expedition 33," then we one more great game to play than we would have had otherwise, because Ubisoft will never make a great game. Great games are not Ubisoft's business model and that is why Ubisoft is unsalvageable.
What is happening in the games industry right now is not the destruction of anything that deserves to be preserved. We are seeing the inevitable collapse of giant corporate studios that make mediocre games that nobody wants to play.
Reece “Kiwi Talkz” Reilly@kiwitalkz
I don't think gamers really understand how bad of a state the video game industry is in right now. The Rockstar developer I am interviewing next week has been unemployed for a year, he can't find work and this is someone who worked on L.A. Noire, RDR1, GTA V and RDR2!! Even with an impressive resume he can't even get interviews, I wasn't exaggerating when I said we are in the midst of an extinction level event of talent in the game industry.
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Techniques like this looks clever, but it shows how stuck gamedev really is. Engines keep recycling old tricks instead of evolving. Basic things like I/O are still tacked in like it's 2005. Meanwhile, other fields of software development have long since moved on to more robust solutions. It's no wonder technical progress in game engines feels frozen.
The Wolf in Me ⚡️ A Game by Dani Marti@Dani__Marti
Smart loading, zero immersion break. In Lobo: The Howl Within, I’m using narrow passage mechanics to stream levels seamlessly in and out—no loading screens, just smooth exploration. #GameDev #UnrealEngine5 #IndieDev #LoboGame #UE5 #SoloDev #LevelDesign
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@KDragnev35390 @meesedev @ankkala ps2 had a 300MHz single core cpu less sophisticated than the pentium pro from 1995 and 32+4MB of ram.
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