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[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's so wild. No matter how many things I see, I am still surprised at what people are capable of

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm wondering how long it is until someone pulls another Kaze and over-optimizes an old console game until it runs in 1080p@60fps on original hardware or something.

(Kaze Emanuar is a ROM hacker with a deep understanding of Super Mario 64. A couple years ago he released a video showing how he spent a ton of time optimizing the game, resulting in a game that runs on original hardware at 60fps instead of 20fps. Afaik he hasn't released the vanilla code yet, but I've heard he's used it in some of his other rom hacks and it's apparently extremely obvious because they run significantly faster than hacks that use the default, unoptimized ROM)

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I've been playing ROM hacks recently, love their stuff. After seeing Bloodborne at 60fps, as well as Switch 60fps hacks they almost feel like a given at this point. That is by no means meant to diminish them, and I appreciate the hell out of it.

Pushing technology has always been a big interest of mine. I'll mod any console that I'm able to. Love watching speed runs and seeing the crazy hacks and things that come out of all the different communities. Still, I keep being amazed

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What the hell is that clickbait thumbnail. Halo 2 did not look like the left picture on Xbox lol

[–] BinarySystem@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

The left is what the original looks like right as the cutscene switches to that scene. It only looks like that for a fraction of a second and then it renders correctly and looks like the image on the right. In the video, the guy mentions how he added a hard drive overclocking feature to make that pop in not happen or at the very least, significantly reduce it.

But yeah out of context that thumbnail is confusing.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The graphics were like that on the left due to the modded xboxes. The, upresing caused the textures to be weird which is why it looked like that. A large portion of the article is about then fixing this issue.

[–] Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain that the left one is Combat Evolved

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Combat Evolved didn’t look that bad either. That just looks like someone on PC put the graphics down as low as possible. Something you can’t even do on Xbox