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Super Mario 64 for the PS1

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300 points LaserDiscMan | 2 comments | 10 Dec 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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Larrikin ◴[10 Dec 25 19:24 UTC] No.46222319[source]▶
Are there any pictures or video of it running? I understand why they are not on the GitHub page
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platevoltage ◴[10 Dec 25 20:04 UTC] No.46222969[source]▶
here's another video that showed good gameplay shots that I happened to see last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscCFfXecTI

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ginko ◴[10 Dec 25 20:18 UTC] No.46223146[source]▶
The distorted textures and weird triangle clipping issues are exactly what you'd expect from an unoptimized port to a platform that doesn't support perspective correct texturing or depth testing.
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anthk ◴[10 Dec 25 21:11 UTC] No.46223921[source]▶
That was an issue in tons of PSX games.
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1. vereis ◴[10 Dec 25 21:35 UTC] No.46224210[source]▶
yeah this is the distinctive ps1 look I think all games look like this, at least polygonal games
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2. eru ◴[11 Dec 25 06:45 UTC] No.46228382[source]▶
You can use lots of tricks to make your PS1 game not look like this. Or at least much less like this.