How did Resident Evil 2 manage to fit on a single Nintendo 64 Cart ? | MVG 

Where can I find the n64 example of spongebob? I looked couldnt find it

Like a video of it. Not the rom

Is that a quarantine beard?

@@Metaphor9696 yes...wait you can see me?

@@nightmarezer0507 Not sure if you're joking, but I'm pretty sure they are referring to MVGs beard.

Too true lol.

So true. Imagine that kind of ingenuity and problem solving in today's world? No limitations has hurt gaming imo

imagine the much bigger MW playerbase if you didn't have to sacrifice so much space for it.

Agreed! Games back then were not that advanced, no GB, no DLC, no expansions, no annoying system updates

Game industry doesn't pay talent well enough. In the west, a lot of the talented developers have moved on, especially lower level ones.

Thank you for your service to make this port possible, a true masterpiece and a technical miracle

thank you for reaching out and clarifying! I never spoke to Todd but i would love to as i feel like theres more optimizations that were done that Im not aware of.

​@@ModernVintageGamerit's funny i was reminiscing with a friend about how crazy this game was back in 1998 when it came out and how good of a job they did with the remake. I may have to get an n64 copy to compare it myself, its super interesting how they got this to work. If you get additional information mvg you should consider making a follow-up video, it would be great to see more about the n64 port for sure.

Thanks for helping make such a big part of my childhood! RE2 on N64 was amazing.

its my favorite version of the game.

XSX/PS5 devs: *furiously takes notes*

Compression takes a lot of resources, especially when people complained about 30 seconds loading time. Uncompressed files while it large, it can loads a lot faster.

@@UltimateAlgorithm also these days people are going to notice comperession a lot more then they would in the 1990s its a trick devs cant get away with anymore. not unless they are doing it in a vaccum and its the first port of the game made.

@Ellis Dee 24MB is 6% of a 400MB hard drive. In order for a 90GB game (common among AAA releases nowadays) to take 6% of your drive, you'd need a 1.5TB drive. Yes, the cost of disk space has gone down, but the size of games relative to the size of harddrives has also radically increased.

@@thewewguy8t88 People, today, are making whole video games that take up less space than a single new map in Call of Duty.

I hope they got *PAYED*

One million split between a 9 person dev team over a two year span, with taxes that’s about $50,000 a year, not bad for game devs in the 90s.

@@jcwalker722 Wasn't the milion the budget for the game port?

@@etienneditolve1567 that's exactly what he's talking about...

It certainly was them proving a point. I remember when they ported doom to n64. At the time it was said that doom could only run of PC. I guess they wanted to push the envelope.

San Diego, not San Francisco they're also the people behind Midnight Club, Smuggler's Run and RDR

Yeah, San Diego.

I don't know much about game developers, but that sounds like a fascinating story!

Ahh yes, San Diego.... A whale's vagina.

@@astral5228 Yup, I remember their studio I was local to them, and a few years later after EA tanked the SD office (which was in Carlsbad, CA) my brother moved over to what was Angel that was then Rockstar to work on Midnight Club so I'm familiar with what you're talking about. He still is in the industry now as producer for another company after bouncing between a few for some years because how unstable that industry is with mergers and shut downs. I was in too briefly, but chose stability and bailed, did the media for years online and stopped cold after that.

About 80 percent of the original file was removed through compression. Amazing

*E.A.* -wouldn't exist- would still have a good reputation and retro gaming wouldn't have gone mainstream.

The indie game scene is absolutely thriving with passionate developers. Sad to see the state of big studios but there really is no shortage of great games these days.

Very true. Absolutely no one working in video games is passionate at all. Literally zero people with any passion. It’s weird how there is no passion in today’s game developers. They’re always saying how they have no passion and how they actually hate videogames and think gamers are stupid idiots with too much passion. Weird right?

Now it’s all cosmetics or worse pay to win

@@hajzoom4278unless these Indie guys are making there own game engines most games are shit these days

Please tell more! Very interesting!

I had Alexander Ehrath as a teacher many years ago, and he told us all about the hurdles the team had to go through to get this working. He never said why he was credited as 'The man' though.

How about answering his question about why you wrote your own codec instead of using the HQVM that was already included in the SDK.

leodf1 simple guess, but I’d imagine it simply wasn’t enough. I only have experience with newer, much newer Nintendo SDK’s, and while they have plenty of libraries and tools to get the job done, they’re good all-rounders, and aren’t really that specialised. Using video as an example, they’ll give you something that does a good job of compressing video with a reasonable quality output, but if you want to absolutely maximise on space saving, or have a video that looks damn near perfect, you’ll either want a custom or third party library. And that’s fifteen or so years later.

@Ryan Trenhaile: Yeah, i've heard this was a common problem with porting Japanese games by western companies. You either got no documentation or everything you got was all in Japanese. The dudes who converted R-Type to the C64 back then tried it and all they got was badly readable FAX copies of the documentation and of course all in Japanese. So they just got an actual arcade machine, played it to no end and reverse engineered all the enemy behaviors and completely re-wrote the whole game instead of porting it.

Capcom didn't release a lot of games on the N64, I guess they wanted the few that did make it to be excellent

If I recall correctly, at that time, Capcom wanted to release Resident Evil 0 on the N64 before moving it to the Gamecube. So maybe the N64 port of RE2 was a way for Capcom to test the technologies available and to see the reception of the port.

@@cacomeat7385 That is so true that Capcom had all but abandoned the N64 until very late in its life letting a couple of PlayStation ports on it. I'm glad they were well made ports tho. My guess is that Capcom felt a need to hedge their bets. They hit pay dirt with PlayStation but didn't necessarily want to burn bridges with Nintendo as the big N has always been a force in the portable console market so Capcom probably threw the N64 a bone late in the generation to keep Nintendo on side.

I'm guessing it was actually Nintendo that wanted to show that games didn't have to give anything up to be able to be playable on N64. Just the level of collaboration mentioned at the end of the video point to Nintendo actually being the ones who really wanted this port to happen.

Nintendo wasnt exactly leading the console war and had fewer 3rd party games, yet still never wanted most studios to know how to optimize games for their machine ? Yeah thats sounds like Nintendo all right.

You would go literally insane

Right. Software Engineer as well. I think we all have our own innovations that make us proud, but something so basic and standalone feels like a masterpiece in comparison.

Look at all the old devs They are all a little crazy

I'm also a software engineer, and I find learning about these kind of things fascinating. Of course, we rarely have issues like this now, but the creative problem solving can be applied to all kinds of things.

@@driverjb09 if you think there are no issues like these nowadays you are not a software engineer at all.

212GB*

And counting

its propably largest video game i have ever seen. but ya know kids wanted battle royal so we needed to take the dump on our hdd.

@@coldtea7 FPS and COD games are cancer

you know, i thought you were joking and i had a good laugh. now that i've googled it, i'm frightened.

It wasn't that bad, almost warmer than the PS1 version.

@@HappyBeezerStudios That's what I thought. You can hear the compression on the tail end of the words, but overall it sounds warmer.

The compression must've hit the highs more.

The N64 audio sounded more natural to me in this regard, it feels like a weird dissonance seeing the less than perfect graphics and hearing waaaaay too crisp audio.

banjo: ooo eh ooo eh ay!

plus load times....ps1 was a brutal system then and now because of that

Same the first time I played RE2 was on my older sister's N64 around 6 or 7 years ago but around a year and a bit ago i managed to buy RE2 digitaly for my PS3 and yeah the music is the same amazing as allways but it plays smoother on the Playstaion then it did on the N64 probably due to how it was coded and scaled down to fit on a N64 cartridge

@@The_Blue_Otaku 6-7 years ago, 2016?? How does your sister have a N64 + RE2.. Respect.

@@serebbi It was her ex-boyfriend's he also had an NES also it was around 2015/2016

​@@The_Blue_OtakuSuch a man should have never become an ex loool. You shoulda stopped your sister

Check the RU-vid channel "GameHut", it's by Jon Burton of Traveller's Tales/Tt Games. They made a lot of things back then to get games working, and he even explains the techniques they used on that channel.

Mpeg 4 was released before this port.

@@abark I'm pretty sure it was being used as a metaphor.

abark Woosh

@@manformerlypigbukkit Yes, I admit zoomer humor meme comments go right over my head

Pig Bukkit don’t say that.

I kind of like the compressed sound, makes it sound more retro

"what happuund?"

@Balakeh "there was this....*incident*...involving cartridges...for a console"

@@BenWillock I agree, the PSX audio is so dry it's distracting. The muffled N64 voices feel like they fit the space better.

@@jasonblalock4429 Don't try to justify that.

FKn insane when you think about it.

So what content was cut?

@@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344 Nothing. But also the N64 has some features added compared to the PS1 version. The bulk of most ps1 games were their Audio and Video Files, more than the actual games themselves.

@@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344 none

@@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344 There's an exhaustive list here at about the 20-minute mark: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TQGlB1LITGA.html It's not much, in fact there's even a newly-added randomizer mode, and features some unique cheat codes.

Same with the guy who ported Doom to the SNES he also did witchcraft and the person who ported Doom to the 3DO given their time constraints and resources and it goes to show if given enough time (and money) it can be done albeit with some compromises except for the 3DO I feel bad for that person they were given 10 weeks and had to do it alone

Doom isnt exaclty that amazing considering it uses the super fx chip made for 3d, he did downgrade it a lot also. Is it really amazing if it runs in a window at like 10fps ?

They were the Panic Button for the 90s!

@@Beetlejuice_Sam Red Dead Revolver

Remake it in ue5

@@PMswe : Well, those headsets were not as chunky as the new ones, though. But that immersive experience...

Yep headphones is the best way to play. You hear things more clearly

No it’s just me

If you as a developer use binaural microphones during sound recording, you can do that with just Stereo. No fancy 5.1 setup needed. If you want to know how those microphones look like, just go Twitch, Category: ASMR and see random girls licking those super expensive things for cringe.

what, you don't enjoy day one 200 GB patch on top of the original 120 GB download for the game?

The reason is data throughput has increased tremendously, so games can afford to be uncompressed. If you waste processing resources on decoding, that's less resources for the game to use to do the heavy lifting. So you'd have smaller games, but less frame rate. One of the biggest problems of games in the mid 2000's was memory rather than processing power. Once you reached that memory limit, you'd see things like skipping, because the memory was swapping in order to display everything on the screen. This also effected resolution greatly. You could have had the processing power for 1080p, but because of memory being like 1-2GB, you'd only really be able to run 720p comfortably.

The reality is that games DO do this. Thats why the updates for modern games are generally huge. The assets are compressed together into one file, usually split up into groups so weapons go into a weapons file or models into a models file, textures into a texures file etc... But that means when one asset is changed, you have to re-compress them all together and update them as one. Resulting in bigger patches. Also as mentioned above somewhere, there are now so many audio sources in games that usually you have to leave the audio uncompressed to give the CPU time to get through it all, if it also had to uncompress it, it would take up so much resources

Every single NES SNES N64 game every made is less then 10 GB(offical releases) and we'd be happy to see one game be around that 🤣

Vampire bloodlines being a perfect example

Now that's what I call a port!

sickening skills

Um its like 500 Mb's not 64

iTheGeek Take your own advice I said Mb

@@Bewefau dude...

I picked this out back in the day, but shout out to the immortal Lotus Prince for reminding me in his RE2 version comparison video.

@@BlottaMcTablets Yep, I've seen it. Good video. I got my copy from Blockbuster video, I think they had some exclusivity deal and while it wasn't cheap it was worth it.

Yep. I noticed this myself when I first played this version. For the longest, I thought I was imagining it.

Oh that's funny. I always noticed that too but never gave it much thought.

The game wasn't that long. How many times did you replay it?

It the free one wipe charlies that he really wants.

Looking good

dollar rip off club. Safety razor ftw

@@tyler6644 dollar shave club ain't a ripoff rofl. Good razors for a good price.

Exigentable how much were you payed to say that

Makes a lot of sense! And I thought they became Pied Piper!

But I thought Rockstar was bad at compression?

@@chikipichi5280 why do you think so?

@@chikipichi5280 Since when?

​@@chikipichi5280 Well GTA V in PS3 is 17GBs

That's why I loved that version the best. so much smoother than tank controls

I'd like to see them put it on an Atari 2600 cartridge now.... :)

@ken parvu some a hole has a unopened greatest hits version of res 2 on ps1 for $1,900. If there's an unopened res 2 game original out there for ps1 I bet Paul Logan would buy it for a million. Like he did with a unlimited charizard card

uuuhhuh

The same studio who brought you the Red Dead games and RAGE, the engine used in all rockstar games since 2006

Yeah, and they also made the original Midnight Club for PS2

FACT:Angel Studios also made a N64 baseball game entitled Ken Griffey Jr. Slugfest & mere weeks after that game was released Angel Studios announced that they would no longer make sports games in order for them to focus on making RE264.

Awesome work on that port, thank you very much.

Factor 5 or Angel Studios ?

@@houssamassila6274 Angel Studios did the port, but we borrowed Chris Huelsbeck from Factor 5 to do half of the music conversions to MusyX

@@inventorwithadd Awesome! You are a hero sir. I hope you realise that.

HERE COMES THE VERY PORTER HIMSELF!

Lol that is not the same. Bro RDR2 is several gaming systems ahead of the ps2. N64 was actually more powerful than the PS1, the cartridge was the only issue. RDR2 would be so dumbed down and would need several PlayStation discs to work.

@@thegamingchef3304 did you even read what I commented? I didn't say to port it on the PS2 lol. I said, 'a PS2 storage size disc' which is a either a single layer or dual layer DVD storage sizes. Basically compressing the shit of RDR2 to around 4 - 8GBs.

@@carl8790If you ported RDR2 to a ps2 storage disc you are essentially porting it to the ps2. This is a dumb comment and the fact it has so many likes without someone calling you out on your stupidity amazes me lol.

Porting MGS4 to Xbox 360 in a single DVD disc. It could ne possible to do it in 2-3 discs compressing audio, bit the game still wouldn't fit in just one disc.

@@thegamingchef3304 get wrecked

power wise, the n64 is actually more powerful than the ps1

@@akhtarjaviero3627 It's not that simple, PS1 can do a lot of things that N64 can't do and vice-versa. So it's hard to compare.

​@@Mari_Izu They still believe the whole bit thing matters.

Kinda same memories for me. I've missed those moments more than being able to express

Damn you parents had some good hearing if you were in the basement playing the game and they were upstairs asleep.

That's fun, thanks for sharing

Did you ever get caught? Lol

@overclockeador but yet I bet they were secretly playing them in their closets themselves.

Dying, holding in his own guts and he feels he has to apologize to the rookie that they can't throw him a party.. he must be Canadian.

"What happened..?" Says Leon. Having just survived a near death experience with a runaway tanker, the city around him burning down, and, oh, dead people running around trying to chomp his ass cheeks off. Gotta love those 90's computer game scripts and acting. No ballsing about.

what a boss... torn up, bitten, and transforming... he can still maintain being the station's Captn. Obvious... i wanna see that this man get a promotion.

To be honest, the sound in the n64 version seemed more fitting with the environment in my opinion

F

They still exist btw, just under a different name

Can you tell more about that Evangelion game? Why is it so impressive?

@@DrumEagle well at the time (99) it was pretty rare to hear audio both voiceovers and music on the n64 so crisp; this game has lots of it. Its has good quality fullscreen fmv too but not as much as the puzzle pokémon game. There are constant mini fmv on the hud when characters talk and show emotions which resembles the cartoon a whole bunch. They managed to capture it precisely and sometimes there are several appearing onscreen at the same time. Not that impressive when compared to its fmv counterparts on the pokémon game which are as MVG said fullscreen but great nonetheless. Given more time (or tools?), Bandai could surely put some action sequences from the tv series on the cart for sure. Good and weird game, go check it.

This still happens, it’s known as Nintendo Switch compared to the other Hd consoles

It's less impressive when you realize that each disc only held 370MB of data, and a huge portion of that was completely redundant. All of it could have fit on a single disc easily, but selling it as a 2-CD game was a brilliant marketing move. Pressing an additional disc made the customer think they were getting double the bang for their buck when they actually were not, and it cost barely any extra to manufacture. Capcom is by far not the only company who used this cheap trick back in those days.

@@djhenyo lol this doesn't diminish the accomplishment in any way it just proves capcoms always been lazy and a money grub company

@@shellshock24classicgames61 There's a significant difference between 1.2GB and ~500MB. That was my only point. Now that you mention laziness, it was pretty lazy of MVG to not take 2 minutes and check out the size of the data on each disc and account for the vast majority being redundant. That stood out as a glaring mistake in an otherwise great video.

@@djhenyo Its still a 10x reduction in size even if they fit the entire thing on one CD. It's still quite impressive.

@@djhenyo its k bro your opinion is still valid no need to trash MVG relax we all have opinions have a drink of water and breath we're all valid here 👍

Creative and extremely skilled. Back then most devs also had to develop their own game engines, which was a massive undertaking, instead of copy-pasting a few elements around in Unreal or Unity. I have the biggest respect for these legends.

@@MrZoolook 50GB update to break* one reticle

Destiny 2 effectively uninstalled two of the game's expansions to add a new one without expanding the game's file size.

That’s only because D2 devs are greedy fucks that will sell you a steak, shove their fingers down your throat and then try to sell the vomit back to you at an increased price

That's because we aren't dealing with the limitations of the past so it isn't necessary and most are trying to achieve the best visuals possible.

Developers back then did so much to compensate the lack of hardware. They did so many ingenious trick and figured out so many crazy ways to improve quality while not sacrificing performance. Nowadays many games waste resources. I know, games being this complexes as they are don't help, but some devs just release the games as they are and don't give a crap about optimization, compression.

With 'nary a loot box in sight...

@@jrr7031 Yep you payed your dues for the game and got a complete game.

It's like throwing a Master Mechanic in a junkyard & asking him to build you a running car. Just give him a little time.

meanwhile, whatsapp on my phone is a 500mb app. a goddamn messenger app. lazy ass devs stopped caring about optimization

The image resolution - yes, but FMV and texture resolution - definetly not. In practice you had a high res picture with blurry ingredients 😂

@@Ashitaka0815 so you were playing a video in 140p.

@@dianaloayzat4975 no I was just pointing at the fact that the higher output resolution doesn't affect the texture resolution stored on the cartridge. Of course it doesn't - even with more video ram, you can't magically cast texture data out of nowhere. So sharper corners and picture quality - yes, sharper textures in the distance - also possible because with more memory you can mipmap further away. But up close - nope, otherwise they would have to store two versions of the same textures on the cartridge, where storage place was on a premium at the beginning.

Download and burn resident evil 2 and play in a real ps1

ALL N64 games are BLURRY. that is the only reason i hated this sytem BUT i love cartridge based systems! and there was not a single capcom game on here from fighting like x-men vs. street fighter or street fighter alpha series

Did you play the remake?

I got goosebumps ....

My cousins and i had to turn the music off or play something happy instead. Scariest game that ive ever played. I'd pause at every corner, dreading to move forward. The music set the tone and atmosphere. Excellent game.

It’s the version I had. I owned an N64 and a Playstation. To this day I have no clue why I got the N64 version.

Dammm i used to play Re2 back on the days but neverrrr at nigth😂😅, and to be honest im afraid to play the remake😂😂😂 i cant deal with the remake its to scary😂😂😂😂

To confirm, yes it had custom hardware, I forget actual details but it contained double the storage but even with double the storage on the cartridge, it was still under half the storage used for the original game on playstation so still alot of magic happening here.

@@Bloowashere well loads of data is duplicated across the PSX version (each CD has 99% the same roomcut.bin etc)

Pretty sure RE2 would fit on a single CD with no loss in quality and resolution. Both CDs were exactly the same except for Claire & Leon. Still shrinking 650MB to 64MB is quite impressive! My favorite port and I didn’t have a N64!

they skipped compression work on games this generation when they found out they can pass on those savings to, you, the customer.

Thing is, its not unheard off - its just that most shitty devs today dont give a single fukk. Same with the C&C remaster. The games remastered only took up 2gb of space, IF you took the most bloated versions at your disposal. Red Alert 1 on PSX vs PC is night and day. So take the most bloated ones and up them to nearly 40gb, which is insane and stupid. The reason given was 4k, but 4k is simply not a one-way street. HD-Resolution, aka half that of 4k, had many different methods at hand. a picture in HD could either be 50MB or 100KB. Not compressing anything today is the simple expectation that the customer has space. Yes i do, but i dont want to bloat my 2TB of SSD-space with shitty uncompressed data. Its wasteful, idiotic and unrespectful. Devs should compress their games. It should be one of the last steps to take. But no, "SSDs are cheap so who cares". Fukk such devs, really.

These days stuff is usually straight up uncompressed/very little compressed because it means less unpacking by the CPU which = better performance. The size for MW/Warzone is still straight up wtf though

@@maxchenmusterhausen5311 I agree with DarkNinja, but just wanted to add some stuff. I also thinks, that sometimes devs can be lazy and file sizes dont have to be this big, but I also see some arguments for it. Just to keep some stuff more to reality. Firstly 4K is 4 times the resolution of Full HD not 2 times. Secondly an uncompressed full HD texture with 10 bit color and 4 colors (RGBA) has a maximum of 10 MB (1920 * 1080 * 10 * 4 / 8 (8bit = 1 byte) / 1000 / 1000 = 10.368 MB), so if you have 50MB you might have 50 bit color which I am not aware, that any monitor could display :). Still, some games are just ridiculously big. However I think a lot of it has to do with the computational effort, that goes into decompressing stuff and picture quality. If you ever worked on badly lossy compressed images (e.g. small jpegs) you know even tho it looks okay from afar if you zoom in it is horrible and having these artifacts in a game asset would be obnoxious. Additionally most video hardware just needs color values for each pixel and most compressed files dont save these values in place like e.g. a bmp, where every pixel color is simply saved as a number. We already complain about long loading times and decompressing all textures in a given level would put a lot more stress on your CPU/GPU. It is also not just loading times, but many textures might be loaded later because Video RAM is limited too and this would cause stutters if you have do decompress it. And to be fair HDDs are just so much cheaper than CPUs. But I don´t think they are not compressed at all, but the more sophisticated your compression the more compute power is needed to decompress. I just bought a 1TB HDD for my parents for 40€ and I could put a lot of games on that much space. But I also dont play CoD so yeah ^^. Also, some textures cannot be lossy compressed at all as they dont contain pictures, but raw data (I think there was a good GDC talk about the environment creation in Horizon Zero Dawn, which uses textures to populate environments with trees and the like. The textures were like top down maps where everything was and compressing that lossy would go horribly wrong ^^). This might not be the majority, but it is still something to think about. So in the end you have to make a trade off between speed and space, and as space is super cheap right now I think the decision is pretty easy.

@Harry Beaver did they? Other than indie devs, big devs/publishers seem to be run on hard line neoliberal lines; firmly a center right construct.

TLoU2

Holy shit that's so true 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Developers used to get paid reasonably and been given time and care to produce a quality product. It's right-wing policies that have forced developers to do more with less, and this is the result. If you earn less than you would on unemployment, that's a problem with corporations paying slave-wages for back-breaking work. Skilled labor vs. unskilled labor is its own cruel thesis.

@@SeppelSquirrel spot on.

Same here!!!!

Awww, it's okay. *Pats your head* We still love you all the same.

@@RippahRooJizah i grew up with the n64 My friend had a PlayStation and I would come to his house to play re1 but when I seen re2 is coming out on n64 I was so hype Re2 became my favorite resident evil game in the series

Kinda like the Residential Evil equivalent of "how I experienced & loved MK3" then :p I only had it on SNES and it was great (looked much better than SSF2 Turbo!)... Years later I saw the arcade (original) version. OMFG!!! The difference was unbelievable. Literally everything about the arcade version was atleast 2x better (the sounds, the music, the graphics, the animation, the violence etc). It just showed me how much a game "needs to be squashed down" to fit on an "of the times" cartridge based console.

@Kalina Ann Yeah MK3 (Ultimate MK3). As much as I like the series as a classic fighter thats especially fun with friends EG on a "retro session", I myself have always thought (and so, I agree with your criticism) that the controls and 'gameplay mechanics ' (of the entire series IMO, including the HD era sequels, and Injustice) feel extremely stiff, clunky and awkward. I used to say "MK series feels like you're controlling wooden puppets with arthritis". From an audio-visual standpoint though, on arcade hardware, MK3 looked & sounded better than most (or all?) of its 2D arcade peers from EG Capcom & SNK. The appeal of MK to me (since 90's young childhood) is how insane, brutal and OTT it is. The gameplay IS the series worst enemy, by far. But that wonky "unplayability" can also make it hilarious to play (again, chill retro sesh with friends. Not alone; then its just frustrating lol). I have exactly the same problem with Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo as I do MK. But thankfully Capcom fixed the horrible gameplay with the Alphas and SF3's, but then ruined it again with SF4 and beyond (WTF!?)... Bottom line: SNK, Capcom, Namco, Tecmo (whoever makes DOA, I forgot), they're like "German/Japanese car engineering" (excellence) while Midway (MK) is like "American car engineering" (IE, fun, but not good engineering at all!).

Alone in the dark ( new nightmare)ps1 ♥️

RE1 on GBC was also kinda of an achievement though it was never released. The builds found on internet looks still impressive.

Lmao facts

It had 4KB of Texture *CACHE* not texture *MEMORY* PSX had only 2KB of texture cache, even less than N64

@@t0biascze644 People that call it cache in the N64 are seemingly unaware that it is indeed correctly referred to as texture memory. 'TMEM' in technical documents. It was a manually managed tiny piece of memory. You're welcome.

... And Sega Mr bones and the Peter Gabriel frog video which won them an MTV award. We had it in our conference room.

Alexander Ehrath Were you a part of Angel Studios?

@@T-MAX_X-H for a long time, yes.

Alexander Ehrath Awesome! Loved the RE2 port and Lawnmower Man CGI the most from your studio!

Alexander Ehrath Dude Thanks For being part of that team, Do you Have a Favorite Project That You got to work On during your time there? Huge Fan of The Midnight Club series And Smuglers Run

the good thing about CRT was that the pixels blur into each other and create a pleasant picture. But flatscreens have super sharp pixels so artifacts would be seen emediately. Now we start to achive better looking images throught the new super sampling DLSS technology that eliminates artifacts, but 20 years later lol D;

that is exactly what i am saying.

gotta love that "hardware" anti aliasing.

CRT's are the way to play the 5th generation by far. I keep a CRT in my garage just to play N64 and PSX on.

I'm playing it in HD using Hyperkin active HDMI connectors... looks good. plays good. you are very wrong.

Compressing music/audio is very different than compressing video. The hit in quality would have been quite a lot more noticeable.

Tony Hawk uses licensed music, which is much harder to play as midi

@@r033cx hahhaha

@@RetrOrigin Mono and 32 khZ samplerate save over 50% and are, for N64 players, not really noticable. I mean, when you bought a console, just like today (console vs real gaming rig), you knew you have always a low(er)-fi device. PC in 1999: 2.500$. Console: 399$?

@@Zedek Back when consoles had a reason to exist. Excluding portable consoles like the Switch and such.

Rockstar: *”What’s that you say, you want a 30GB update to our 150GB base game?”*

And optimization.

Gotta love uncompressed audio. I wonder how long before they'll stop compressing video too. It's only storage space, right? It's so cheap. Who cares if one game takes up half a hard disk?

@@benjamincrew1949 Hasn't the use of video gone down in the last years because a lot is done in engine? Video is still an option for low end specs that can not handle that smoothly but I feel like it will go down even more in the future.

@@wynard A lot can be done in engine now then before, but video is still used fairly often. Uncompressed audio isn't going to sound any different except maybe to extreme audiophiles and even then is probably more a placebo effect. Uncompressed textures can take a good amount of space too but at least that may be slightly more justifiable as resolutions increase.

at 111K, I'm sure compiling a game and writing a custom codec for it is pretty worth it. still, making this fits into 64Mb is closer to demoscene stuff by today's standards. still should've released DD64 so more videos, more music and better textures would have been a hit. ROM always been more expensive than optical.

Developers tend to like coding and like challenges

Even the Genesis and SNES can do FMV lol. It's all about storage.

@Andrew Mitchell Of course. What I mean is that a lot of people think it might be a hardware limitation or something (and it is, but not of the console but the storage format). Today you can play via SD card games on SNES with CD quality soundtracks and FMV. Of course, some consoles do make it easier with built in hardware specifically for video and stuff (like the PS1).

Andrew Mitchell The market wasn't as big as it is today, and Nintendo was already deeply rooted. Also many parents were against video games. Basically, it was too soon.

@Andrew Mitchell Optical discs as a storage media would've made little difference success-wise in console. The key to success would be aggressive marketing as well as developer & publisher support. Sony nailed it on that front.

@@xmaverickhunterkx GBA also

Same in all honesty but there leaves the other impossible port and that's mega man 64 "legends"

@@CecilTheDarkKnight234 Maybe they get a video too

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@@marcowulliampopirers2216 1000*

Excluding the day 1 patch...

This was the version I played as a lad and it was the only RE2 I knew until I was later able to play the other versions, the sound quality is only a small compromise, don't remember it being a problem back then, but I wish he would of said something about the RAM expansion.

The N64 port was the way I played this game as a kid. When you look at them side by side it's a huge difference in video quality, but on a CRT that difference was barely noticeable. I did notice the particularly bad voice clips back then, but most games on N64 had no voice acting at all so the fact it was a little subpar was completely overshadowed by the fact it was there at all.

With the 64, the one upside is that there was way less jaggies on the character models.

Not just cosmetic reasons. Originally the door sequence was left out of the game. Playtesters said they *missed* the old animation, so they were added back in, even though it wasn't necessary.

@@SpearM3064 that's a Cosmetic reason

@@SpearM3064 bruh that's a cosmetic reason

In the PC version you could click away the door opening sequence, possibly also on the Dreamcast version. These are the best versions ever released, unfortunately also the rarest.

Lol

But thats exactly why he's asking what happened...

That kind of voice acting won't get a pass on AAA games today. It will be mocked to oblivion by players and critics. Surely if that released today, it would become a meme.

The dialog was full of cheesy charm in re games. Now everything is Soo serious.

@@UltimateAlgorithm The Final Fantasy games still do. They have shit localization voice direction, at least for the English versions. FFVII Remake wasn't too bad in some spots, but that's not saying much, with all that excessive Japanese grunting bullshit undermining the acting.

I agree generally speaking, but today there's an expectation of such high realism that there's just not as many short-cuts you can take. People want TRUE 4K and what-not and eventually it gets to a point where there's just no real way around the massive sizes, even once compressed.

I blame the publishers. The industry is now ruled by some bad people, mega corporations who try to do everything cheaper than it should be, faster than it should be, while working the devs into nervous breakdowns and early retirement. It has become a giant racket rather than an entertainment industry, not even the movie business is as unconcerned with quality and experience

Not only are games orders of magnitude more complex today, the reason for large day 1 patches are most of the time not the developers' fault. Publishers rush development studios under very tight deadlines to the point where developers are working on the game until the night before release. The large patch sizes are an optimization trick due to hardware limitations on the HardDrive access speed. Developers create duplicate files for assets for various scenarios so that the harddrive doesn't have to move the read head far away. Hence, you get very large patches. Next gen should reduce patch sizes significantly with SSDs.

@@MrSlowestD16 I want a true or native port for Windows games that stems from console games. The "ports" feel like you emulate a Windows game on Wine.. "It runs"...

@@MrSlowestD16 I don't think it's coming from the customers, otherwise we'd see a lot more high fps console titles. I think this generation is going to see a lot of innovative upscaling techniques, and some titles are going to run assets at 8K down the road.

It also was the only RE at that Time with Cheat Codes :-O

haha