How Rockstar fit a whole city into PlayStation 2 memory

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How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory

Video from Game Maker's Toolkit on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIbCxbrBCys

Old video, still my favorite thing to send to people who complain about game sizes.

@cal_reyes · Steady contributor

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@ikram_b

Everything clever in this video is an effort to hide things from you, and it's beautiful.

@yuki_sato

Running out of memory and being forced to get creative is, I think, a lost art.

@lucas_pine

I played that game for hundreds of hours and never noticed. That's the highest compliment.

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