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Anonymous01/24/26, 13:41No.12339151
Sega Genesis - Blast Processing was just a fancy word for being able to directly write to the DMA while the image was being drawn on screen to technically bypass some limits like max colors on screen, this would require such a high level of precision and timing that nothing used it
Nintendo 64 - Technically had a 64 bit processor and could do 64 bit operations, but all the other limitations of the system made this not worth it and pretty much all of it's software ran in 32 bit mode
Atari Jaguar - Kept insisting it was 64 bits... if you added up it's two 32 bit processors together, which is kind of like trying to argue that if you put two 286 CPUs in a computer that makes it a 572 CPU system
What other "technically true" marketing bullshit do you recall? Most of the others I recall were either just slogans, obvious jokes/exaggeration, or even just flat out lies.
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Anon01/24/26, 13:43No.12339156
Quake is the first true 3D video game!!
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Anon01/24/26, 13:44No.12339157
>write to the DMA
dude...
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Anon01/24/26, 13:53No.12339164
>Blast Processing was just a fancy word for being able to directly write to the DMA while the image was being drawn on screen to technically bypass some limits like max colors on screen, this would require such a high level of precision and timing that nothing used it
where does this come from? isn't it just the CPU being faster than the SNES?
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Anon01/24/26, 14:29No.12339196
Cyrix's 486 CPUs were actually much weaker 386 with just additional 486 instructions added in
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Anon01/24/26, 14:52No.12339241
>Atari Jaguar - Kept insisting it was 64 bits... if you added up it's two 32 bit processors together, which is kind of like trying to argue that if you put two 286 CPUs in a computer that makes it a 572 CPU system
This isn't the argument. The blitter and object processor each have full 64 bit datapaths.
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Anon01/24/26, 16:39No.12339382
>write to the DMA
chatgpt-kun, I...
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Anon01/24/26, 20:51No.12339878
WOULD
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Anon01/26/26, 08:07No.12342928
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland's story mode has an open-ish world, where all the levels are separated by tunnels to mask loading times. The marketing got a bit overzealous and advertised the game with the phrase "NO LOADING", even though there's still plenty of loading screens elsewhere in the game. Plus moving through the tunnels takes a little longer than loading a level with a loading screen in the other modes.
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Anon01/26/26, 08:40No.12342952
https://www.sega-16forums.com/forum/console-talk/genesis-does/301-blast-processing?p=44679#post44679
Ishido: The Way of the Stones and Zany Golf used blast processing. or some kind of fast DMA techique.
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Anon01/27/26, 10:32No.12345478
everyone is having a giggle about writing directly to DMA but for me the best part is
>which is kind of like trying to argue that if you put two 286 CPUs in a computer that makes it a 572 CPU system
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Anon01/28/26, 05:31No.12347729
the ps2 being "128bit"
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Anon01/28/26, 06:41No.12347810
Do The Meth