Nostalgia is a funny thing. If you experienced the early days of video games in the 1980s and 90s, there’s a good chance you remember those games looking a whole lot better than they actually…
I would expect hackaday to go into more detail. Ironic.
It looks like all they did was uncap the render distance, to let the game render the high detail level at ranges that would have crippled the original hardware. They didn’t actually hack higher quality resources into the game. Same resources, just all on screen at once.
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I would expect hackaday to go into more detail. Ironic.
It looks like all they did was uncap the render distance, to let the game render the high detail level at ranges that would have crippled the original hardware. They didn’t actually hack higher quality resources into the game. Same resources, just all on screen at once.