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Video Game Optimization Used To Be Borderline Black Magic

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Marvelous Vermilion Party Of The First Part Foreskin
  05/09/25
a lot of those 'dark magic'/'black magic' stories about the ...
high-end white church building international law enforcement agency
  05/09/25
Nah, binary space partitioning was all it took to make Doom ...
hot house
  05/09/25
its definitely more magical today. they literally still use ...
appetizing thirsty karate
  05/09/25
AI does this in seconds now
Sapphire School
  05/09/25
The clouds and the bushes in the original Super Mario were a...
Crawly stirring nibblets
  05/09/25
mario's programmers had to use a special memory allocation t...
high-end white church building international law enforcement agency
  05/09/25
Sure, but in Doom, the bushes and clouds would have become m...
hot house
  05/09/25
now its all gay and retarded
mind-boggling indecent range dysfunction
  05/09/25


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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:44 AM
Author: Marvelous Vermilion Party Of The First Part Foreskin



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Date: May 9th, 2025 12:51 AM
Author: high-end white church building international law enforcement agency

a lot of those 'dark magic'/'black magic' stories about the olden days of computer code basically meant printing out reams of machine code and then forcing your program to allocate its memory resources in very specific ways. it actually sounds incredibly boring. you're pushing numbers around and seeing what happens until something better happens than your starting point. which could take weeks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48916113)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:53 AM
Author: hot house

Nah, binary space partitioning was all it took to make Doom run smooth on every platform. US Air Firce did it in the 1960s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48916156)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:13 AM
Author: appetizing thirsty karate

its definitely more magical today. they literally still use c++ for unreal engine

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48916123)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 1:31 AM
Author: Sapphire School

AI does this in seconds now

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Date: May 9th, 2025 8:12 AM
Author: Crawly stirring nibblets

The clouds and the bushes in the original Super Mario were actually the Same Sprite

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/01/the-clouds-and-bushes-in-super-mario-bros-are-the-same/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48916379)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 6:53 PM
Author: high-end white church building international law enforcement agency

mario's programmers had to use a special memory allocation technique for objects like the double-sized spinning flame bar, since it exceeded the parameters for standard-sized objects. speedrunners use glitches related to the memory properties of oversized game objects for that reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48917992)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 7:01 PM
Author: hot house

Sure, but in Doom, the bushes and clouds would have become more detailed the closer you got to them. How do you pull that off on a shitty 486 PC?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48918015)



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Date: May 9th, 2025 6:58 PM
Author: mind-boggling indecent range dysfunction

now its all gay and retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5722626&forum_id=2#48918008)