Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:18:45 JST Sick Sun
   I didn't realize someone wrote a working Quake engine for the GBA in 2002 (they didn't reveal it until 2022 though)
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:20:21 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to
     Here is a video about the GBA Quake engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43k-p9XdIk
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:22:01 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to
     The realization that I will NEVER be even close to being as good of a programmer as the guy who did this.
   • Embed this notice
     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:22:11 JST Nudhul

     in reply to
     @sun but can it run doom?
     Sick Sun likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:22:25 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

     in reply to

     @sun Recently been recommended some videos on YT about someone remaking all of Super Mario 64 on the GBA. It's not very far along, but still, it's crazy what people will do.

     Sick Sun likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:23:16 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:
     @BitBun it's so funny because every homebrew guide from 2000 or so says the framebuffer mode of the GBA is functionally worthless.
   • Embed this notice
     Surströmming (selfhost arc) (xian@ak.kazuma.family)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:24:36 JST Surströmming (selfhost arc)

     in reply to
     @sun didn't know it was the Bleem! guy doing it, nice.
     Sick Sun likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:27:32 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

     in reply to

     @sun I'm not very familiar with GBA programming, I've programmed a DS game, which I was told the 2D mode acted quite a bit like a GBA, though I'm not sure how true that is. But I only did pretty basic stuff with it.

     I'll have to watch the video you shared about it, but my first impression is that the throughput of updating it before a redraw would be tough to manage on a GBA. But if that's what they're using, I guess they found a way.

     Sick Sun likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:28:05 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:
     @BitBun I think some of the guides I read suggested that it would be good for start and load screens
   • Embed this notice
     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:31:36 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

     in reply to

     @sun that makes sense, largely static screens I guess. Anyways, I'm glad some people do stuff like this because it's interesting to see.

     Sick Sun likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:32:15 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:
     @BitBun I am not sure if the source code ever got released for the Quake port. I'd love to see it. Not that I could probably understand very high performance 100% ARM assembly code
   • Embed this notice
     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:36:04 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

     in reply to

     @sun Yeah when we get into ASM that's where I start to struggle to find interest in reading the code. Even some tricky highly-optimized C code starts to get a bit uncomfortable to me. But you can really do some hellish things in C.

     Sick Sun likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:45:15 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

     in reply to
     @sun >MVG
     
     rated #1 most hated (by hj) youtuber ever
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:45:34 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
     @hj what's the problem
   • Embed this notice
     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 06:57:42 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

     in reply to
     @sun number one:
     
     that's terror
     
     number two:
     
     that's terror
     
     serious answer after the cut:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     first of all there was one video where he WITH A STRAIGHT FACE shilled for Raid Shadow Legends and everyone knows it all was a fucking lie but he did it AS IF it was THE best thing ever, which in my opinion put in massive jeopardy everything he ever says. Like, this dude can lie to camera with a straight face so well, anything that he says to camera might be lies :todd:
     
     Second of all there was a video that was fucking peak cringe - he was trying to... i don't even fucking know.... i guess deliver a point that "console wars" is bullshit and that from "developer standpoint" he wants to "take advantage" of "what console has to offer", in the meanwhile virtually all the points he was TRYING to make, even at the time, were easily debunked by sheer mention of "PC". Further more, somewhat minor but still a "death by a thousand cuts" on his videos really reveal that he is a corporate shill that is willing to suck Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo dick, oh i'm sorry, did i say "suck" i meant "DEEPTHROAT" their dicks all at the same time.
     
     Bottom line, he's a spineless corporate shill.