How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica

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• pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They also pulled a really cool hack on Jak and Dexter. They were able to hack into the PS1 chip hidden away in the PS2 for backwards compatibility to get some extra processing power!

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  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    source? I’d really like to read about this

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    • pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I read about it over a decade ago. Something about the game being difficult to emulate because of it. Now I can’t find anything :(

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  • million@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    PlayStation 2 software is distributed on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. In addition, the console can play audio CDs and DVD movies, and is backwards compatible with original PlayStation games. This is accomplished through the inclusion of the original PlayStation’s CPU which also serves as the PS2’s I/O processor, clocked at 36.864 MHz in PS2 mode.

    From Wikipedia

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  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Their engineers were crazy good to pull off this sort of stuff.

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  That was a fun watch. Hard to believe naughty dog started with 5 people and a million dollars worth of hardware

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• Astaroth@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Already saw this a year or two ago, it’s a great watch and would highly recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it yet does watch it

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• iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  This made Naughty Dog the pioneers of the streaming levels, I guess.

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I found this so interesting that I then went and watched the full version, absolutely fascinating view into how you make a video game in the brave new 3d world of the 90s!

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• i_ben_fine@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I want more Ars Technica War Stories. They’re the reason I subscribed to the channel.

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