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Why did the GameCube dedicate so much of its RAM to audio?
by creata 6y ago
Why did the GameCube dedicate so much of its RAM to audio?
- bombcar 6y agoIt wasn’t dedicated to audio - it was DRAM (slower than the main RAM) that could be used for various things - but audio was one of the most common.
- kevingadd 6y agoThe RAM could be used for things other than audio, but audio on the GC was driven by a dedicated special DSP chip, so it's not weird for that thing to have its own bank of memory. AFAIK the Wii used the same audio chip and I think the Wii U might have as well?