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I was expecting typical youtube "you won't believe THIS!" but it was actually really informative, as someone without knowledge of how they stored levels in SMB1

I was expecting typical youtube "you won't believe THIS!" but it was actually really informative, as someone without knowledge of how they stored levels in SMB1.

VyseofArcadia 4y ago
Displaced Gamers is great. Nice dives into the code and architecture of NES games. Not so deep that it's inaccessible, but deep enough that you could go start hacking on NES games yourself (assuming some prior exposure to assembly). My only beef is the NES focus on the Behind the Code series. I'd love to see some Sega Genesis games get broken down like that.
- alickz 4y ago
  > Displaced Gamers is great. Seconded, their videos are informative and lean. If anyone has a passing interest in NES architecture or just how NES games work I'd recommend checking out the creators other videos.
bombcar 4y ago
It feels to me that the voice is computer generated, but I can't be sure - if it is, text to speech has come a long, long way.
- toast0 4y ago
  There's some pretty heavy emphasis on some words, but not when the same word is used elsewhere. Very consistent tone and timing otherwise though, and it feels like the voice was overly compressed which gives a pretty robotic vibe. I watched a bit of some earlier videos which sound less robotic, but otherwise a very similar voice. I'd guess it's just more that the presenter has been recording a lot of videos and has gotten pretty mechanical after all of that.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    It may also be that it's moderately heavily edited; what stood out to me was the "pauses" before "two" and other numbers sometimes, which is something that you hear in computer generated audio.
- indrora 4y ago
  Nope, human one hundred percent of the way through. Same with RGME, which is an absolute wonder dive into (currently) the operation of the SNES from a very approachable position.

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I was expecting typical youtube "you won't believe THIS!" but it was actually really informative, as someone without knowledge of how they stored levels in SMB1

by mysterydip 4y ago

I was expecting typical youtube "you won't believe THIS!" but it was actually really informative, as someone without knowledge of how they stored levels in SMB1.

VyseofArcadia 4y ago
Displaced Gamers is great. Nice dives into the code and architecture of NES games. Not so deep that it's inaccessible, but deep enough that you could go start hacking on NES games yourself (assuming some prior exposure to assembly). My only beef is the NES focus on the Behind the Code series. I'd love to see some Sega Genesis games get broken down like that.
- alickz 4y ago
  > Displaced Gamers is great. Seconded, their videos are informative and lean. If anyone has a passing interest in NES architecture or just how NES games work I'd recommend checking out the creators other videos.
bombcar 4y ago
It feels to me that the voice is computer generated, but I can't be sure - if it is, text to speech has come a long, long way.
- toast0 4y ago
  There's some pretty heavy emphasis on some words, but not when the same word is used elsewhere. Very consistent tone and timing otherwise though, and it feels like the voice was overly compressed which gives a pretty robotic vibe. I watched a bit of some earlier videos which sound less robotic, but otherwise a very similar voice. I'd guess it's just more that the presenter has been recording a lot of videos and has gotten pretty mechanical after all of that.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    It may also be that it's moderately heavily edited; what stood out to me was the "pauses" before "two" and other numbers sometimes, which is something that you hear in computer generated audio.
- indrora 4y ago
  Nope, human one hundred percent of the way through. Same with RGME, which is an absolute wonder dive into (currently) the operation of the SNES from a very approachable position.