How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
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🔴 Get my premium monthly newsletter - https://gamemakerstoolkit.com/digest/ 🔴 With Grand Theft Auto III, Rockstar North performed a magic trick: it squeezed an entire 4 kilometre wide city into the tiny 32 megabyte chip of the PlayStation 2. Here's how they did it. === Sources === [1] Hackers Reveal Rockstar Earns Over $1 Million A Day From GTA Online | Kotaku https://kotaku.com/hackers-reveal-rockstar-earns-over-1-million-a-day-from-gta-online-2000687207 [2] ABC Nightline Broadcast, July 2002 | YouTube https://youtube.com/watch?v=zeWMXFkJAU0 [3] Tapping into the power of PlayStation 2 | SCEE https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105403/http://www.technology.scee.net/files/presentations/agdc2000/ThePowerOfPS2.pdf [4] IDUSTNE.IPL | GTA 3 Files [5] Streaming | Inside Rockstar North https://gist.github.com/WillPresley/d57d48b3d5f7f7b4bde4a2a3547c7de6#streaming [6] WORLD.H | GTA 3 Files [7] STREAMING.CPP | GTA 3 Files [8] Crime of The Century | Play Magazine https://pocketmags.
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