Polygon Graphics

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Bring your PlayStations and Dreamcasts.

This community is about generic technical and graphics stuff, roughly focusing on old (3D) game consoles.

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Golang on the PlayStation 2 (rgsilva.com)
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The PS2 is more than capable of doing some wild things, including running Linux. I always wondered if we could just write baremetal Go code on it, so I decided to give it a try.

kind of crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/27658407

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The beginner's guide to making a game for the N64 using libdragon (www.youtube.com)
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A closer look at the Super NES DOOM Source Code Release | MVG [2020, the old, partial release] (www.youtube.com)
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The source code for DOOM on the Super NES was released on July 14th 2020. In this episode we take a closer look at how its developer Randy Linden was able to...

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Doom for SNES full source code released by former Sculptured Software employees (gbatemp.net)
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Well, the SNES isn't quite a "3D" console, but I'll say that Doom counts.

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Vid Title: Low Poly is OVERATED (optimization for n64) (youtu.be)
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The Truth about the Fast Inverse Square Root on the N64 (www.youtube.com)
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N64 recompilation is here - and its looking good! (www.youtube.com)
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PS3 Real-time Ray-tracing (www.youtube.com)
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IBM Interactive Ray-tracer (iRT) using three Sony Playstation3s (PS3) to render a model that is 75x more complex then those used in today's games. Ray-traci...

This kinda goes beyond what I wrote in the sidebar, but it's cool.

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How Modders fight Mario 64's Biggest Problem (www.youtube.com)
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Kaze talks about ways to avoid unintentional invisible walls.

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How I implemented MegaTextures on real Nintendo 64 hardware (www.youtube.com)
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This demo showcases a technique I came up with for the last N64Brew gamejam.You can download the ROM herehttps://github.com/lambertjamesd/n64brew2023/release...

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Mario 64 VR powered by N64 (www.youtube.com)
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James' projects go hard.

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Was the PS2 "Emotion Engine" over hyped? (www.youtube.com)
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Sony launched the PlayStation PS2 in 2000 to massive hype and promises. One promise was the brand-new Emotion Engine ( EE ) , the main SoC that powered the P...