Tuesday, 10 March 2020

The Story of the PS2’s Backwards Compatibility From the Engineer Who Built It

quote [ For that reason, it was chosen as the game to show off the PS2’s backwards compatibility. There was only one problem: sometimes it froze in emulation.

It goes without saying that there’d be big trouble if the game locked in the middle of the demo in front of such a large audience. Unfortunately, I hadn’t nailed down what was causing these freezes to happen. ]

Oh that poor person! Nice insights on how jobs get appointed at Sony though: seemingly a mixture of faith and pressure. And a nice job of the translator.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+4 Original]
[by Paracetamol@10:05amGMT]

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avid said @ 5:53am GMT on 11th Mar [Score:1 Underrated]
There's always this disconnect between management and engineers. At some level, management can never understand technical limitations or difficulty, and simply expects functionality and progress. And each time it's delivered, the expectations simply increase. Captain Kirk and Scotty isn't entirely an exaggeration.

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