Toy Story's Hardware Defying Music - How We Did It 

Holy shit that's the best description for GameHut's videos I've ever heard.

Lol yup

Easy actually, use the weld tool to make a rudimentary platform out of the hitboxes of the props, the matches can be arranged into a honeycomb pattern to create a large barrier with little mass. make sure that everything is welded to each other for a more stable platform. Afterwards use your phys gun on the platform while standing on top of it and scroll the mousewheel down, this will pull the platform towards your feet lifting you upwards until the desired altitude is achieved.

SMole yessssssssss lad!

Gmod

Only possible on the Sega Genesis because it comes with B L A S T P R O C E S S I N G

Altima NEO funnily enough that's where the term came up... the story goes that one of the guys from marketing was chatting with a young dev group, and one mentioned getting the system to "BLAST data"... supposedly the guy liked the word blast, and soon after it became their slogan

Austin Gaming ... you're trying, but not hard enough...

Better gotta have a faster CPU clock rate unlike the SNES which was 4.09 mhz less than the Genesis thats why they call it blast processing and it sounded cool

segaretro.org/Blast_processing Behold the power of blast processing (... and also Nintendo not ashamed to lie in order to damage control)

can't believe how little attention this is getting. such politeness should be rewarded

@@cannon9009 ikr

*nods gayly*

They should be needed. People has to stop going the easy way.

Couldn't agree more. Part of my focus as a developer and computer scientist is looking at Execution Time and Performance. Things like Big-O Notation are important to me. This is a little different since its about using the hardware in a peculiar yet efficient way that wasn't thought of before. Most people took system restrictions as Challenges rather than cut and dry facts. Unfortunately it seems like this has become a lost art as more and more libraries and engines are released that take the developer away from the "bare metal".

If it's built by humans, it can be improved by humans. I agree with everything you say. I think programmers nowadays just learn the little bit they need to compel their work, there is no curiosity nor "I can do this better" attitude.

His videos are inspiring even to developers who use high-level languages. I think that, for ex., the frameworks and libraries of today should only be a way to accomplish more things in a more efficient way so you don't need to create and implement everything from point zero again and again, but this doesn't mean they substitute creative and innovative approaches on dealing with hardware issues and shortcomings, or software development questions. I think it's worth to mention that many developers today are Web developers, or maybe Mobile developers (I myself am a Web developer), and development has been cross-platform in a lot of cases, so this "next to the bare metal" approach is not so frequent than in the 16-bit era. Maybe the challenge is to avoid the easy and limited ways for everything, do research, be curious and be willing to dare new approaches to solve the problems that arise, and surely see limitations as challenges, not as unbreakable walls. Or maybe try to achieve the expected results in an unique and smart way. I'm sorry if my english is bad, it is not my native language.

Vinícius, firstly, your English was excellent. And I totally agree with you as well. My day job is a web application developer, so primarily I do work in things like PHP/HTML/CSS/JS so I am taken away from the "bare metal" quite a bit. I guess the point I am trying to make (and you touched on it as well) is the efficiency piece. Its like the case of BogoSort versus QuickSort. Sure, most languages have a $list->justSortThis(); method so don't have to develop your own sorting algorithm, but I still think that these things need to be thought of and considered.

It's a typical double blaster

B0M Honestly, almost anything that has audio capabilities at all will have a DAC - it means "Digital to Analog Converter" and is needed to convert the digital representation of a sound into an analog (electronic) signal that the speaker can play.

B0M: You're closer to the truth than you may have thought: www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/the_man_responsible_for_segas_blast_processing_gimmick_is_sorry_for_creating_that_ghastly_phrase

Except he shouldn't be sorry, this slogan is one of the best ever and based on facts. segaretro.org/Blast_processing Behold the power of blast processing (... and also Nintendo not ashamed to lie in order to damage control)

They "blasted" the video DACs. Not the one used for audio :)

That's kinda splitting hairs. The point is, the context and even the phrasing used in this video (which inspired this thread) is exactly how that phrase came to be. @Yohko I think the point he was making in that article (the "ghastly phrase" bit) is less about marketing and more about how it became a caricature of Sega. Consider how it's practically (if not literally) a meme now. Every review of anything Sega has at least ten "but does it have / that's because it has ..." posts. I can see how that would drive someone to regret having spawned the term. I have no comment on it, really. I only linked the article because it referenced how the phrase was coined. What somebody SHOULD apologize for is the whole "Sega does" campaign. Because of that, not one comment section can exist on the Internet without some melvin posting "yeah cuz Sega does what Nintendon't!!1 der hur hur" like it's still clever some 20 years later.

Spunk McKullins Me too! The most notable ones for me were the pronouns and a few of the verbs. The other parts may be Mandarin Chinese for me, but hey, I understood at least a few of the words! :D

SasDaGreat hahaha!

I know the words, but it's like they're lining up in a way that doesn't make sense to me.

Words are for losers. It's just clicks and whistles to me.

Your profile pic gives me hard nostalgia

Lol those backhanded compliments

He is praised, his personal worth is over 100 million dollars, but still humble enough to teach us some neat tricks.

That's what you get with former Amiga programmers.Boy could they make the 68000 sing.

Quite literally it would seem.

Sling Blue-Eyes Praised by normal people but not "gamers".

certainly helping me get the motivation to continue studying.

Agreed. His work and his will to share knowledge is inspiring.

Definitely, but during my years in a CS degree at University there was seldom much of this 'stuff' with the program solving aspect - a lot of it was mainly fundamental programming of different languages, and courses which geared towards software engineering planning and management. Very rarely did I engage with the theoretical aspect of CS and delved a lot into the practical aspects of it, essentially becoming a glorified code monkey. I like computer science AS a science itself, like how you learn Physics or Biology or Chemistry with both practical and theory in balance. However, the truth is that it sucked a lot. Reason being is because the course was geared to get you straight to finding a job. The reality, is that CS is a science and should be treated as such. I was doing this as a double degree with a computer and network Engineering degree and the honest truth was that the Engineering side of things is much more enjoyable for me, because the practical content is more 'hands on' and diverse rather than coding for hours on end. But for those who are considering or are pursuing computer science, please do! There is nothing wrong with computer science and it is absolutely fascinating. Be aware though that most CS degrees aren't directed as science degrees and do not focus on computational methodologies, concepts, philosophy etc.

The electric wire went thru the sand chip yo. Fukn sweet. Computer chips are made of the beach bra

Altima NEO Lego Worlds is hilarious. It may be glitchy, but that makes it better.

@@joshuakorynta3385 "Bugs scare the DIODES out of me!" ~ Cyborg, 2014 "Have a _nice day._" ~ Grid, 2018 Thank Traveller's Tales for those quotes. They don't know what the fuck a Sonic is!

More bang for the buck?

Flammie Hi! Fancy seeing you here. I had a conversation with you on a sonic CD soundtrack video.

Hai! I've seen you on many videos too. I don't remember what I had a conversation with you about though, could you remind me?

Larry Bundy Jr yeah, very similar to Tim’s. great guy, we employed his brother for a while...

Isn't the Master System just a Z80 with its own little sound chip?

The Genesis was half SMS. It had the new hardware but it also had the Z80 and the PSG. It didn't have the SMS sound upgrade chip though.

I find you in the comments section of everything.

The Mega Drive has the SMS's Z80 CPU, the 8K of ram and the PSG. The MD VDP (Video Display Processor) had a backward compatibility mode to display the SMS graphics modes, except the SG-1000 modes (which is the reason why F-16 Fighting Falcon was not compatible with the Power Base Converter)

Micaiah the Otaku Gamer [HybridAngelZero] Lol, is that a thing?

It's uncommon, but a few games do get as large as 100 GB, yes. Part of the fact that huge games exist is because storage space isn't exactly a premium anymore. Also, more and more assets get saved in very high quality, (for example, textures at 4K resolutions).

That's largely due to people not giving a shit, not them lacking skill; it's usually a bunch of uncompressed shit that could have easily been compressed.

Hooded Man "Skill" isn't really the word I should have used, but you're totally correct

You can blame the mandatory installs on BluRay as a format and specifically the BluRay drives in modern consoles simply not being fast enough to read games at a decent speed

Actually, that's pretty much *exactly* what they did. An amiga MOD track is already nothing more than a set of audio samples for instruments and patterns that specify which samples to play and at what speed (=pitch) and volume. Writing a MOD player for the 68000 is a bunch of work but is relatively straightforward. Streaming the resulting audio over to the Z80 is the unusual part.

James Churchill I know that. What I was implying was streaming one stream of data with the entire song (like an .mp3 sorta), not having each instrument having its own "channel". Remember, I thought that the PCM channel was only capable of one sample at a time.

The PCM channel is only capable of playing one sample at a time. In this case, the main 68000 processor combines four channels into one mathematically. To the Z80 processor, however, it is only one sample. You COULD calculate everything beforehand and store the result, but that would eat up way too much disk space. Even if you could compress it to a reasonable size, you still have to decompress it when playing the sound. You are then going to eat up the system's memory or have to decompress in real-time, which probably wouldn't be feasible.

Since Batman is your avatar, you know about LEGO DC Super-Villains, right? AND HOW SEXY GRID'S VOICE IS IN THAT GAME? Bitch, Grid's voice already left me with newfound appreciation for Traveller's Tales. As well as Cyborg fearing everything in LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham.

72speedway, oh Yeah! I believe Sonic 1: The Next Level uses this exact trick to make the music sound so good.

It's possible to just stream the audio. The only real limitation is memory/space available. Sonic 1 uses the 68k chip instead of the Z80, so it doesn't have the same issues shown in this video. This also means that it can go over 10khz, I've heard examples/demos that go up to 37khz. Other examples include Tempo (the title screen at least) on the 32x, and the Overdrive demos by Titan on MegaDrive/Genesis. I could have sworn I saw another reply mentioning this, but I can't find it any more, so I thought I'd make a post, hope this helps shine some light on it.

Skitchin' uses mixed samples in places as well, I'd love to know what EA's technique was

BAC0NB!TS I didn't know you did SEGA Genesis ROM hacking

Some of the tracks in that hack (like Gust Planet 1 and 3) are SMPS with DualPCM if I'm not mistaken, and other ones like the Boss theme are simply short PCM clips that have been chained together to save memory.

Surprise me, blue hedgehog- *SHOT HARD*

Nah, I'm pretty sure that you'll find Jon by searching "Traveller's Tales' Founder" on Google ;)

Sorry, Real face reveal was six months ago!

Get em boys

Amanda Flores Same

i've never had any interest in game development but i binge these videos! SO interesting and explained in a simple way

Amanda Flores LOL!

Amanda Flores Haha me too Game Programming is so hard to understand but their videos make Game Programming interesting...

Amanda Flores interestingly enough me too. Especially because there is such an awesome, relaxing tune in the background, it complements and adds some unintentional meaning to every video.