(07-05-2014, 04:34 PM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote: I've read your post and the written article, but I still don't get why they wanted to place the players closer if they couldn't have them all on the screen at once. "having eight racers on the screen all the time, didn't work all that well"
"game developers wanted to keep good players from perpetually having the lead spot and jamming up the N64's processor"
I don't understand how that would jam up the processor?
If someone with technowizardy can chip in that would be great.
I know right? they might've outdone themselves
(07-05-2014, 06:12 PM)Takahashi2212 Wrote: Since the courses in Mario Kart 64 aren't rendered at once, but rather as it is gotten to, having one person all the way in front would mean they would have to render later portions of the track while the other racers are forcing a different part of the track to be rendered, along with the extra background stuff on tracks, items boxes, racers, and the items themselves.
Although this is just an assumption based on what I know, it might be wrong.
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