This is really cool. Kaze Emanuar[0] seems to be able to hit 60hz consistently with his Mario 64 rework, I wonder if such perf is achievable for these wide open landscapes. Iirc Shadow of the Collosus rendered distant geometry into the skybox, which always struck me as a neat trick.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64

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smithcoin 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

VRAM goes vroom vroom.

I emailed him the video from OP and he mentioned they’ve done some collaboration. I’m assuming there’s a retro programming discord that I’m not worthy of.

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uyjulian 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of stuff is happening on the n64brew discord. https://discord.gg/WqFgNWf

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charcircuit 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

VRAM on the n64 is notoriously slow.

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msk-lywenn an hour ago | parent [-]

It's RAM that is notoriously slow. VRAM is fast, but there's only 4K...

	▲	charcircuit 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That 4K buffer is not VRAM. The 4/8MB of RAM is also used as VRAM.

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01HNNWZ0MV43FF 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah I remember hearing that SOTC's "SuperLow" LOD was a 2D image. Trespasser also did that, but only for trees and props, not for terrain objects. Trespasser being basically a heightmap with dinosaurs dropped in

	▲	estebank 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hey! It also had a barely working physics engine. Then again the dinosaurs were physics entities, so maybe you already mentioned it. :)
	▲	dcrazy 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Even modern games replace distant geometry with billboards. Simplygon is one middleware that does this. The Remedy folks talked about how Alan Wake 2 used it at GDC last year or the year before.