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From: "Robert Swan" <yod10@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: Ridge Racer?
Date: 27 Oct 1998 19:14:49 GMT
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DEnnis Brinkhuis <macsuppor@a1.nl> wrote in article
<1dhj92g.75ltqc1frjugwN@a1-88-136.a1.nl>...
> Second, you compare a prof game with the games we make. Yes, in
theory
> RR could have been made on a NY. But (the big bad BUT..) ...
> It would have taken much more time to develop, since the PSY-Q
makes
> development much more easy by using 8meg of Ram. The grey PSX has
3,5
> meg of Ram. So the development is done on a more powerfull system
than
> the norml grey PSX. This way you need less time for development. So
If
> they did it with the NY system with even less memory, it would even
take
> more time to develop. Personally I think that they spend at least a
year
> with a team of 4 persons on the game fulltime, and they had the
sony
> support and the propper tools.

the amount of memory is always a moot point, even though it isnt
really an issue.
3.5 megs of memory? only if you add main memory + video memory, but
then we 
have almost the same. As far as I can make out, there can only be
around 0.3 megs
difference in total. True we cant load things into vram then reuse
main memory without
being clever :) but then again, what sort of program code takes up 2
megs anyway
for a racing game? anyone want 1.5 meg lookup tables? (grin) The
development tools
the pros have dont make sod all difference really (methinks) although
it would be nice to
have instant downloads.

> I don't think we have what it takes:
> - Time!!!!
> - Pro support
> - Pro Tools (software)
> - Pro development kit

The only thing Ill agree with you there is time. oh, and maybe the
full dev libs, but like
ive said before, until someone does something that pushes the yaroze
to the limit we
shouldn't put down what we've got. :)

Rob