/vr/ - Retro Games

>>11042738
N64 games look and run better than PS1 games due to better hardware to render with. The storage medium had no impact on that. Developers used the extra space on the CDs for FMVs which look primitive and terrible.

>>10741813

>>10655874
>Your console was simply badly designed.
The PS1 was too retarded to even render textures correctly.

>>9490179
here we go again

again

>>9434705
>more z buffer means more working memory to keep track of where things are depth-wise as it relates to the camera view?
Exactly. And if you don't have one, like on the PlayStation, the programmer is manually responsible for keeping track of depth. He can make mistakes, especially when tryingt to be efficient.
>so the jiggly textures in, say, ps1 walls are due to perspective confusion while working with a limited z buffer size?
That's different, but related. The PlayStation GPU doesn't just forget how deep each polygon is - it never even knows. If the depth isn't used, the textures are applied incorrectly onto polygons. The error changes as the angle of the polygon to the camera changes, which is why textures can "swim" as the camera rotates. The z buffer tracks how deep pixels are after drawing, but this is an error caused by ignoring depth while drawing.

>>8404421
_230_

>>7448338
143

039 see >>7403774

>>5882073
It was something to do with the fact that it couldn't do a perspective divide when calculating texels.

>>5456018