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Hi I was watching a documentary on crash bandicoot and the lead programer was talking about using a co processor for increased gpu output for the PlayStation is there any documents on doing that floating around here or on the internet that I can’t seem to find a little help finding the right direction would be nice

Andy Gavin was talking about the GTE on the R3000A which was fast at doing vector based calculations. In the early SDK from Sony/SN Systems when Crash 1 was being developed, there was no strong documentation surrounding it so one of the guys at Sony shared how it worked on a little scrap of paper. There was also the MDEC decoder, but I don't believe they used that since it's solely used for decoding MDEC frames.

Does any other game also uses this techinque?

locarno wrote: March 15th, 2023, 12:30 am Does any other game also uses this techinque?

I am quite sure most (if not all) PS1 3D video games used the GTE for vector-based calculations, as it was explicitly designed for such purpose.