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| Posted by corpse on 15-May-2003 17:13 GMT | "No, it has 650 Megs of STORAGE. Suppose I stuck a 80GB hard drive in a vanilla A1200, would it be more powerful than a 2.4Ghz p4 with a 1gig drive? Really the size of storage is irrelevant in this discussion. What we're talking about is the ability of a PDA to play host to a decent quality game, not reams of FMV and CDDA music."
A vanilla A1200 has no hardware 3D or high speed buses so you're point is null... Look at the N64 vs the PSX, the N64's hardware wipes the floor with the psx but the storage space isn't there to provide for rich graphics.
"This is really irrelevant. Think about it. The Playstation has 2MB of RAM* At any given time, in any given scene, the Playstation only has access to the 512k or so textures in VRAM. It can only draw what it has in VRAM. A PSX game is usually running in 2 frames, is it really going to access the CD mid-render, load more textures and carry on rendering?"
Scratch up a psx disc and see what happens : the game either crashes or fills the scene with junk.
"If you have MGS for PS1, load in the first level, take out the CD. Does the game stop? No. Was it streaming in data? No. Everything in each scene of MGS is held in memory, until the next load. You go to the lift and, hey, it loads in some more data.
Now try ridge racer. Start a game, and start racing. Take the CD out. The music stops, that's all. Same with Rage Racer, same with pretty much any PSC game I can thing of actually."
You're talking about games that really aren't the cream of PSX games, I can take the disc out in GTA but try it in a newer game e.g. GTA2 which is streaming data from cd and the result is a crashed game.
Many games now work in JIT, a good example although not PSX1 is GTA3 on the PC or PS2, if you happen to have a buffer under run the engine starts to fill the scene with blue textures, you can test this by disconnecting your harddrive or kicking your ps2 ;)
Try playing newer games on a 1000 series ps thats had some beating, you probably won't complete Resident Evil 3 without it giving up on a cd read 4 or 5 times(the explosion scene at the start makes my 1000's laser scream for mercy;)).
N.B. Quake 1 ( maybe even 2) exist on the PocketPC so its not like fast paced 3D games can't be done on a PDA, but its hard to control and the screen can't usually keep up. |
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