How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica

Why HN readers recommended it

It is one of the most frequently recommended videos on HN for old-school game development hacks under tight hardware constraints.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Ars Technica

Topic

playstation game development

Format

interview

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

13

HN mentions in dataset

17

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I'm loving this series from ARS, another great one about Crash Bandicoot where apparently they needed extra RAM so selectively overwrote the sony libraries in RAM with their own data, by experimenting which areas were needed on whether it crashed or not. [VIDEO]

• This is part of a great series of interviews with the developers of some of the most influential games in history. Two of my favorites are Andy Gavin on Crash Bandicoot: [VIDEO] and Sid Meier on Civilization: [LINK]

• For anyone interested how it was developing for the original PSX (and therefore under hardware constraints) How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation [VIDEO] Immensely interesting video! "Old" hardware makes me feel so humble regarding what we have now. Hardware limitations back then really pushed …