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> A suggestion from me is to provide sources, and also maybe an epub of this

What do you mean?

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By the way, I'm always open to criticism ! (https://github.com/flipacholas/Architecture-of-consoles/issu...)

[1] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/

[2] https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/

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For this reason I humbly ask, if you find any mistakes, please report them here:

https://github.com/flipacholas/Architecture-of-consoles/issu...

That will make sure I don’t miss them, thanks!

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> Showing the 'Xenon' revision (the first one), taken from my model from 2005. Xenon motherboards are also famous for being defective by design (they get too hot to play games with!). Remaining GDDR3 chips are found on the back.

Btw, I've replaced the bad links with archived ones. I triggered an archive of that site back in December just in case such great source would disappear, never expected to happen just after releasing the article!

Statements denoting speculation are started with words like 'presumably' or 'it is assumed that'.

I've also took an extra month to send the draft to many experts (part of whom are still active in the Xbox 360 scene) to gather feedback and make all the appropriate corrections. See the 'Changelog' at the end of the article.

I'm afraid I can only do so much. Just like you said, this is all voluntary work. I also keep a repo with all the manuscripts to correct all the mistakes after publishing any content (https://github.com/flipacholas/Architecture-of-consoles).

I don't know how else I could improve this, but I'm always open to suggestions.

I don't know what you mean with reorganization and editing.

(works better with accessibility tools, like text to speech; and translators)

There are also new PDF and EPUB editions here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/67035520 (it's a public post, I just needed a place to upload those files without consuming my hosting's bandwidth).

If you spot a mistake, please log an issue on the repo (https://github.com/flipacholas/Architecture-of-consoles) so I can review it. Thanks!

While it's true that the PS1 handles perspective projection through the GTE (as the GPU is a primitive rasterizer, after all) I don't think it's fair to call it 'faked 3D' since, in my understanding, 3D projection is another fundamental stage in the graphics pipeline (our displays are 2D grids of pixels, so we need to transform the 3D world into something it can be displayed there). Other consoles like the Nintendo 64 provided more capability on the GPU side (the RCP) which allowed to move part of the matrix operations away from the CPU chip.

Be as it may, I've seen the 'fake 3D' claim before and I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing something in my understanding of this technology, maybe someone can offer a third opinion?

P.S I'm the one that wrote https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation which is referenced at the bottom of the article (the 'Other reading'), I'm glad the author found it helpful (or interesting)!

(ideal if you use accessibility tools, like text to speech, or want to read from an eBook or legacy browser)

If you spot a mistake, please log an issue on the repo (https://github.com/flipacholas/Architecture-of-consoles). Thanks!