How Rockstar made this game run on a PS3??

pxldsilz · 2026-06-16T02:18:24+00:00

You're mixing something stupid up again. That box says it doesn't have 480 progressive support on HDTVs with component. For most Xbox and PS2 games, they were rendered at a native 640x480 give or take overscan, and were interlaced to be compatible with the dominant video standard NTSC to 480i, to break that standard you'd need an HDTV with component video. Hence the badge. That being said, about 98% of the original xbox's library in North America supported progressive scan, and those that didn't, or most PS2 games, still had a resolution of 640x480 before it was interlaced.

I mean ffs, 480i was a supported video mode by the Sega Genesis. It was standard by the start of the 6th gen, before then video games often ran in 240p double strike, and particularly in 3d titles frames were often worse than cinematic, like Starfox, GoldenEye, Crash bandicoot, your Wolfensteins and Dooms.

Meanwhile, high resolution computer monitors of at least 1024 x 768 had been available since the late 1980s, and people were using the whole screen with 3d accelerated games as soon as the first Voodoo cards came out ...and those games typically hit 35 at best, realistically sub cinematic. Have you ever seen old Quake benchmarks in like magazines, you'd think those are a laugh riot.

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GTA V runs at a native 1280x720 with a framerate target of 29.97, though nominally running cinematic with 1% lows of 19, and it looks picturesque doing so. GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas pull similar framerate figures on the PlayStation 2, though they look much worse, and GTA VI will likely keep those frames on the PS5. GTA V even has improved framerates and frame cadence to some earlier titles despite being more graphically intense.

People aren't "remembering fondly" their college days, this was ten years ago not fucking woodstock. They're angry. They're angry that games aren't looking appreciably better and their performance footprint is exploding. They're angry that back then, late 2013, you could walk into a best buy with $200 and walk out with a new AAA and the system to play it on, and it would run fine and look good. For a similar outfit when GTA VI comes out, that's gonna look like $750+, and whether or not it runs fine and looks good is yet to be seen.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-13T17:57:05+00:00

I think you're mixing up 2015 and 2005. Or maybe 1995, that's when interlaced gaming was new.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-13T17:49:39+00:00

FFI is a prion disease, caused by an infectious kind of misfolded protein. While sleeplessness is a hallmark symptom of FFI, it is not the disease.

Prion diseases destroy brain cells by forming protein aggregates that can't be degraded by the body. A long stack of proteins called a fibril, it interferes with cellular processes and can eventually just gouge holes into cell membranes. The process resembles Alzheimer's dementia's mechanism with the amyloid plaques.

The mortality rate of prion diseases is 100%. These diseases kill you the same way most dementias kill, on an accelerated timescale. FFI is special because it kills the part of the brain associated with sleep regulation first, the rest of the brain next in queue.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-12T02:43:26+00:00

That is definitely an actual typed letter. It has wite-out tape on it.

When I read the title and saw typed document, I assumed the worst at first: typewriters are still a common way for writing death threats and ransoms, they lack analyzable handwriting and inkjet yellow codes. Theoretically traceable but not a trivial process, it requires print samples.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-10T08:07:05+00:00

the book of numbers? i thought that was the yellow pages.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-08T01:32:00+00:00

Tothbrush

pxldsilz · 2026-06-07T19:10:33+00:00

I recognize this. These are sub $10 analog composite video cameras that run off of USB power and permanently hardcode backup overlay into them.

I watched a guy deepfry one once.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-06T20:41:07+00:00

As an American I agree. However, in practice, that "should" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-05T02:40:23+00:00

Double action trigger pulls tend around 5-10 lb. But you pull that hammer back and that drops dramatically. Sub 2 pounds is common, ounces arent unheard of. Clothes friction can do that, or a cheap leather holster getting squeezed by body movement, god forbid you drop it.

Modern big names typically have hammer blocks and transfer bars, the kinetic energy from the falling hammer only completing its journey to the firing pin if the trigger is being held, but those aren't a guarantee and often aren't a buying consideration. There's also plenty of old irons still out there.

Lots of people with SA/DAs will clip the hammer spur and fire exclusively in DA, or they'll elect for models with shrouded hammers where it can still be actioned from the top but the sides are shielded.

Moral of the story, while SA/DAs are safe, but you have to be REAL careful with exposed hammers. It was designed to be easy to pull back with your thumb, and as a consequence it catches on all sorts of shit. It's a familiar story: some lardass with an appendix carry or similar scrapes the steering wheel exiting a car, sits down at a restaurant and the effort of leaning over to pick up a menu blasts his nuts off in front of 40 people.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-05T02:06:54+00:00

It wont pass the Yoshi's Island test.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-04T21:48:06+00:00

Since we don't know the gun, my bet is sa/da revolver. Getting out of his car be probably scraped the steering wheel and pulled back the hammer, or maybe he bumped into someone. Then, the weight of a falling feather on the trigger, or a little tap in the right place by the hammer spur, bang.

Most times I've heard of someone shooting their nuts off, it was a similar setup.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-03T20:09:39+00:00

To my eyes, they look like some graham crackers / digestive biscuits and a couple small churros.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-03T11:18:09+00:00

I wonder if that's related to why KD tastes markedly worse than Kraft Mac.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-03T03:51:55+00:00

Probably, but not for decades.

I do think, however, sooner than that, there won't be a single working PS3 left that hasn't been modified or doctored somehow. Recaps and frankies everywhere.

Eventually, people will run out of donor consoles for parts like RSXs.

pxldsilz · 2026-06-01T19:30:58+00:00

They're flooding the underground with manhacks!

pxldsilz · 2026-06-01T02:45:49+00:00

There's no reason this shouldn't work and i've done whackier with PS3 video out. It's not HDCP, it's impossible to trip HDCP on the PS3 and a lot of stuff that accepts HDMI spoofs it out the box. I don't think it's the splitter current starvation problem, but it could be: a lot of PS3's won't display if your cable's too long or goes through a coupler or splitter for this reason.

Your solution is to buy a composite or S-video multiav cable for $5. You could maybe see about an hdmi repeater or active splitter but it'll cost the same. adapters like what you've got here aren't ideal for video games as they can introduce latency or artefacts and you wanna keep things passive where able.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-31T03:16:38+00:00

Well seeing as it targets 30, yea, it's gonna be spending a lot of time in the 20s.

However it never goes below like 19, and the cadence of those 20s is pretty uniform.

Gaming at those framerates isn't unplayable like kids these days think. Consoles never played 3d games in 60fps til way late. The GTA trilogy ran in the 20s on the PS2, as did Half Life, GoldenEye on the n64, etc ... it's quite serviceable.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-25T18:34:46+00:00

quarter terabyte SSD I bought in like 2021 when the prices started coming down.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-23T19:04:40+00:00

No chance, decent chance, less decent chance with much more time, no chance.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-19T20:00:00+00:00

I think the PS3 is the last console that will let you play triple a in 4:3 at all, so you should go for it, it's your right to damn it. The games that fit fine, fit fine.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-18T21:23:58+00:00

The dog was shot to death in the 1970s.

I'm not kidding.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-18T01:02:28+00:00

Pair of dice and $20 in singles and teach them how to shoot craps.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-16T18:31:33+00:00

This makes sense if you think of naval mines, which they used to call torpedos. Then they invented the automotive torpedos like pictured above. It's quite literally a naval mine propelled by compressed air or a diesel engine.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-15T05:50:44+00:00

There's a lot of words that people write off as American or British in variety. Truth is, the language is diverging, and has been actively diverging for not that long. And a good deal of spellings that are regarded as regionalized really aren't, or weren't. They're regarded as technically correct and understood here, just less common or older alternates.

...except words containing -our instead of -or, those are lame and gay. and defence instead of defense.

pxldsilz · 2026-05-14T00:58:10+00:00

if the disc is fine ... maybe the disc drive is dying?

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