This only reminds us how some of the best inventions were created under the pressure of limitation. Some of the prettiest games were developed for the systems technically unfit to run them.

I wouldn't mind learning how the visual effect of the portals in the Spyro games works and the way level transistions work in the first Spyro game (the later games just do a cut across black screen and then spawn the level and player, but the first game had Spyro go from one level, flying through the portal, flying in the loading screen then gliding down into the new level's starting area in a single cut).

Spryo 2 was the second game I ever got on my PSone, and it absolutely blew me away. I remember climbing to the tallest point of the first home world (Summer Forest I think it was called) and just rotating the camera and staring at everything.

Stewart Copeland music was so amazing in Spyro , love you put the Dream Weavers theme into your video

Hey, I really liked the video. You do a great job of introducing the technical elements of games. They give enough info for the unfamiliar to understand the video but are brief enough that they never seem to drag. If I vould make a suggestion, I would say that you should spend more time displaying the effect in action in your game video. In this video and in your Mario Sunshine video I ended up having to rewind a couple times to pick out the effect in action. So I think it would be helpful if you spent some time really detailing what is happening on screen. You've just tought the viewer what to look for so it would be good to show them where they can see it. For instance for this video you could play a clip of the game and say "watch the building in the background as Spyro walks toward it" Then viewers could see the effect that they newly understand in action. You could even show the same clip again slowed down or zoomed in to really hammer in the point. Just make sure you keep talking over it so you don't have too much dead air. Really love the channel. Keep it up!

Okay comeing off the jak and daxter extra play video and seeing clive n wrench ...i love what ya did with the monkey

Wow, that music at the beginning brought back so many great memories...

How does Square Enix make Final Fantasy Hair look soooo frkn gooood

I never thought of using vertex colors to save on texture usage. Real old skool ingenuity there!

Thanks for the credit, I appreciate it. I probably should thank LXShadow as well as it was him and Kly_Men_COmpany that really started blowing Spyro hacking out of the water, inspiring people like me and others to look closer at the game with texture hacks and such. SpyroEdit helps illustrate how the LQ and HQ textures exist in the game.

Now that you mention it, I'm curious how the original Spyro trilogy created portals. I mean we see it nowadays in games like, obviously, Portal, but no doubt the scenarios are different. What I'm really curious about is how a PS1 title had these smooth transitions between levels the way it did. It's frankly incredible and I never did find out how they did it.

spyro was my shittt

I'd like to know how Butter Building was animated in Kirby's Adventure on NES. It looked 3D.

I've always wondered how they create wind in video games. Are your characters' clothes and hair - and parts of the landscape like grass and leaves - just programmed to flap about when they're in what would typically be a windy setting?

Oh my god! As a development myself I've wanted to make a show like this for years! The ambitious side of me is sad but the lazy side is happy as hell. Whoever you are, I think love you!

Loved it, man! And Spyro 2 has such an amazing soundtrack, to boot.

Great video and explanation!

I really enjoy these videos! Keep up the great work. Additional technical detail or information about specific hardware used (mentioning a limitation in the PS1 GPU relating to this video's topic, for example) would be my suggestion for a less abstract and more application-based approach.

This is a pretty good show. You've just earned yourself a new subscriber!

Nicely done! Spyro 2 has to be one of the best PS1 games ever made!

Just found your channel, and hey, amazing work man, very cool and interesting stuff, keep it up o/

wish more games used this

Spyro games are a technical marvel, such charming graphics, they look awesome running in duckstation, sometimes i feel like im playing a ps2 game.

How did they do Earthbound's animated backgrounds (especially chaotic and multilayered ones, as in the final battle)?

I do not know if you have already covered this yet, but the system used to create the 3d feel of the original doom was very inventive. Maybe a topic for a future video?

I think the most impressive part of this is that it was all done on the CPU. Later implementations were able to hand it off to the GPU instead.

I'll say it again in case you missed it, I'd really like an episode about fur in the Gamecube era ^^

Crash Bandicoot would be a good game to cover. I heard that Naughty Dog managed to fit the levels into the games RAM with only 2 bytes to spare. It was interesting to read the development of the games on Andy Gavin's blog. Since you're a game developer, I'm going to assume that you've already read it but I'll post it here anyway. all-things-andy-gavin.com/

Great video!

Very good video! Was this technique really that new back then, though? For example Quake 1 did this as well two years before Spyro's release

if i make a 3D modeled game (wich i probably will at some point) i will definitely use this!

What about Jak and Daxter's lack of loading screens? I heard they wrote a whole programming language for that one.

I'd really like to see an episode about Conker's Bad Fur Day, but I don't know what the subject would be...

Great video! Now how did Rare do draw distance on Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie on N64?

Do an episode on Wolf3D's ray casting.

how did they do both the action battles with hitboxes and such and the general overworld in mario and luigi superstar saga also, how did they do the quick-time action sequences in the battles from the same game? is it just start a timer, and when time is between x and y, success, if not, failure?

How'd they make the portal effects in Spyro?

very cool

How does cell shading Okami style works.. Other examples, tales of symphonia's character models and most recently Ryu's focus atack black outlines that change in position depending on the camera.

How would they switch between the two versions, low detail and high detail? Would it be decided by draw distance, and would a "seam" be visible at that location where they cross?

How did they do the cel-shading in Wind Waker (or, well, cel-shading in general)?

Hi. I really enjoyed your video and learned a lot :) Thank you very much. I have still only one question regarding this game. There are various portals placed all around the game. As I was young, I always wondered how did they do them. I know they are flat, but at the same time they show the 3d skybox of another level. How do they work? Is it some sort of non-euclidean geometry?

Can you please do how physx does there amazing physics with minimal lag?

Excellent explanation! I loved this, have a like :) I'm gonna take a look round your channel and I'm sure I'll find stuff just as interesting!

how did they do the seamnless grass edges on plattforms in Jak & daxter? :D

Your game Clive N Wrench looks really good.

Nice

You should do a video about how Skyward Sword does it.

How did they animate characters in paper mario 1 and 2? What parts are flat models and what parts are animated on the textures?

How did you rip/come across those models and textures?

Basically this game was ahead of its time…most games were just transition out of the 2D side scrolling effects. The ones that were 3D multiverse lol platforms had poor quality and visibility. Like GEX. I still have my PS1 and the original Spyro trilogy

Did he ever make an episode on how Jak and Daxter has no loading screens?

Classic Game Junkie Mario's head in Super Mario 64. Chao AI in Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 Pokemon's storage system in the entire Pokemon series.

The gameplay footage in this video is quite hectic and action packed and does not really show off the technique well.

How did they make GTA?

Toy Story 2 on PS1 used the same technic.

How did they do Duke Nukem 3D's actual graphics? It's obviously not true 3D because if you look too high up or low down the graphics get distorted and skewed.

Maybe you could do a video on how Konami managed to fuck up this badly /kappa #FucKonami.

Great work. Now, don't get me wrong but it sounds like you're ending sentences by murmuring so it's kind of hard to understand them. Just a thought.

#SavetheDragon #SaveSpyro #UnleashtheDragon #Remaster #BestPlatformGameOfAllTime

You missed some important things: There are 3x modells: Non-textured model, low textured model und full textured model. It also should be mentioned 1. That the level design, geometry and textures are more simple without many details compared to ape escape or gex3d. 2. The levels are devided in smaller areas (but still big areas for this time) connected with tunnels but they are still much smaller compared to games like gex3d. In Spyro 3 you have some big areas and in this case they had no other option than use black fog in the distance.

How did they do: The Order 1886. Meh game but really good looking. Even better looking than some PC games.

Pubg mobile use this method especially when the players are sky diving or using a sniper, I wish minecraft use this method so players can see from far away places without having low framrates.

guuugghghugh this games ost

Here I'm left wondering, WHY CAN"T MODERN GAMES DO THIS?

You could have shortened this video down to 20 seconds instead of 3 minutes.

Any N64 game can beat this?