July 13th, 2021 Livestream

Jace Talk: FPS targets on the Playstation 2

https://youtu.be/MBX7aUP_wsY

Topics

• Technology > Graphics

Transcript

I saw, I saw a tweet the other day about someone talking about a ps2 game that they worked on and and, so they you know they worked really hard on the ps2 game they could only get it to run at 20 fps and their public publisher was like well you know what the game has to run at 30 fps all right we're not publishing your game unless you get it, -, unless you get it to 30 fps and so they tried to optimize it to get this 35 ps they couldn't so they added 10 they just added 10 to the fps counter so that it just it just said 30 and the publisher was like great job and they published the game they shipped it on time- I've heard I've heard like a lot of weird stories like with certification and stuff like consoles that can sometimes be like you can't have like a loading screen that is static for this amount of seconds at a time otherwise you fail certification and then people would just like subtly change the color of the black on the background or something every couple seconds and then it's like well technically it's a different color now and then they're like sure