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• Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My copy of Beetle Adventure Racing on N64 went through the washing machine after it got picked up with my bedsheets. Left it in the sun for an hour afterwards and popped it back into the console and it kept working perfectly. I don’t know why any console devs ever decided that discs were better than cartridges; it’s just objectively untrue.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The issue was that you can hold far more data on a CD - 650MB on a CD vs 64MB on the largest N64 cartridges. The N64’s 3D hardware was far superior to the Playstation, so sometimes I wonder if having a larger storage medium could have resulted in even better games.

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    • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Take a look at what Kaze Emanuar is doing with SM64 if you’re curious what the N64 can do with modern software practices ;D

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I’ve seen his videos - very impressive. He’s spent years working on it though (way more than most N64 devs that built commercially released games), and compiler optimizations that exist today didn’t exist back then.

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