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I'm really glad that video became a meme (probably because of the completely unnecessary argument about what a half-A press is) because it got me interested in

by xmprt 6y ago

I'm really glad that video became a meme (probably because of the completely unnecessary argument about what a half-A press is) because it got me interested in how a lot of these old games work. The engineering that went into optimizing them is incredible and it's a shame that newer games typically don't bother as much.

wiz21c 6y ago
For optimizations, the compilers do much work for you now. So it's not like it's not done anymore, it's done in another way. I myself stopped handcrafting assembler when I noticed that GCC beaten me 9 times out of 10 :-)
- semi 6y ago
  But notably not in SM64, where they disabled compiler optimization for some reson. Vintage Gamer has a good video about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKlbE2eROC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKlbE2eROC0