/vr/ - Retro Games

>mfw hearing that Planet Coaster is having an alpha next week
Fuck how did I miss out on getting in on that

>>2712897
This is really impressive. I've never actually seen X in action on a Gameboy or otherwise.

I do want to point out that once you have a highly optimized line drawing routine (something like all integer and only using either 4 multiplies/1 divide and a bunch of adds per line), many of the effects in X really aren't that hard to do. People don't realize how powerful even the most feeble of hardware can be when you carefully utilize systems resources, nor how small and simple a 3D computer graphics library can be.

Just look at the demo scene:

SNES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-NxM1EaXM

C64:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SRRTgo-LWA

2600: (pretty sure this would have melted peoples minds back then)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Wk9Oi_Fsk