I feel like I don't really encounter stories of heroics in making games work on their hardware anymore. Even at the end of PS1 with Final Fantasy their hand drawn backgrounds were too big to fit into VRAM iirc
Or in the PS2 era Jak and Daxter using the principle of hot reloading from lisp to figure out open worlds without loading screens
The fact that a single dev used to be able to complete an entire game really makes me wish I had come of age back in the day when that was possible. I feel like you can only approach something similar with pico-8 or another fantasy console these days.
I feel like I don't really encounter stories of heroics in making games work on their hardware anymore. Even at the end of PS1 with Final Fantasy their hand drawn backgrounds were too big to fit into VRAM iirc
Or in the PS2 era Jak and Daxter using the principle of hot reloading from lisp to figure out open worlds without loading screens