• @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    413 days ago

    Ps1 is great because it’s a mips core, a funky 3d engine and the main weirdness is the spu.

    The n64 is all weird (albeit with a similar but 64bit mips core).

    • kadup
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      313 days ago

      The PlayStation hardware is barely capable of 3D at all.

      Sure, it can accelerate some polygon math, but that’s about it. No texture mapping, no Z depth, no floating point precision, no anti-aliasing, no shading.

        • kadup
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          212 days ago

          and floating point isn’t a precision

          Floating point precision does not mean I’m saying “floating point is a precision”, whatever that sentence means.

          The PlayStation can’t use anything but integers to place points in 3D space.

      • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        113 days ago

        It does texture mapping but that’s all. I think it does very limited, basically gouraud shading.

        You have to clip your triangles, basically clip everything.