/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10456645]

Maybe this question doesn't belong here, but even though I play retrogrames I'm generally uneducated on stuff like retro hardware and software. I have no real idea what stuff like FMVs or soundchips or framebuffers mean. Do you guys have any good sources for learning about this stuff or is it iust aggregated knowledge?

[Anonymous No.10456646]

>>10456645
>iust
*just. Sorry for being a Roman time traveller

[Anonymous No.10456650]

>>10456645
FMV = full motion video, typically pre-rendered
sound chip = the part of the machine that generates sound
framebuffer = idk what this means either lol

[Anonymous No.10456845]

>>10456645
>aggregated knowledge?
For the most part yes, most /vr/ is well documented but there is no single comprehensive source for basic information.
When talking about how the hardware itself works your best choice is Youtube:
>https://www.youtube.com/@RGMechEx
>https://www.youtube.com/@DisplacedGamers
On the software side/history of the medium there are people like:
>https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyParish
>https://www.youtube.com/@RndStranger
Some even that talk about really obscure stuff like old japanese pc games:
>https://www.youtube.com/@BasementBrothers

Even watching old AVGN videos you can learn a lot

[Anonymous No.10456848]

>>10456845
>When talking about how the hardware itself works your best choice is Youtube:
No thanks.

[Anonymous No.10456853]

>>10456645
Most of this can be easily Googled or found on Wikipedia, but a lot of it is kind of useless information. Some SNES games had special chips like Super FX and SA-1 that allowed them to do different things, but you don't need to know what processor the console is running just to enjoy the games. Same with any other console. If you are really interested though there is a lot of engineering and reverse engineering stuff you can look into for homebrew or rom hacks.

[Anonymous No.10456875]

>>10456645
Unironically wikipedia. It's often boring, incomplete, or even inaccurate, but you have to start somewhere. No superior waifu console war emulation threads need die for stupid questions.

[Anonymous No.10456903]

>>10456645
FMV is just short for full-motion video. So games using it were called FMV games. The other two are more hardware related. Soundchip being the sound-producing unit of a device. And framebuffer being the part of RAM used for displaying graphics.

Probably easiest is just to look up stuff on wikis as you come across them, or use wikis to read up on your favorite computers or consoles if you're interested.