PS2 Limitations: What are Rumors, What is Truth?

[Futan]

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#2 is also true, but unless there is not even a single free byte left in ram, can also be changed.

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edit: apparently #2 has already been fixed.

Kind of curious where you got the source code to know that the supposed area limit is hard coded? Hard coded, of course, meaning it's in the source code opposed to an external .DAT. And that's something that would only need to be loaded into memory upon changing zones, while a bunch of other much more memory intensive things are being unloaded from memory, so there should be no issue with memory that causes an area limit.

[rog]

Kind of curious where you got the source code to know that the supposed area limit is hard coded? Hard coded, of course, meaning it's in the source code opposed to an external .DAT. And that's something that would only need to be loaded into memory upon changing zones, while a bunch of other much more memory intensive things are being unloaded from memory, so there should be no issue with memory that causes an area limit.

Check the memory? Your current area was stored in a 1 byte variable, which limits it to 255 possible values. According to someone in another thread this was changed recently, so the new the cap would be 65535, which obviously will never be reaches.

And no, it can't just be checked when zoning. It needs to constantly be in memory, just like your x,y,z position.

[Gwynplaine]

According to someone in another thread this was changed recently, so the new the cap would be 65535, which obviously will never be reaches.

What is the other thread or reference you're talking about? Is it on this forum or somewhere else?

[rog]

What is the other thread or reference you're talking about? Is it on this forum or somewhere else?

On here. Not sure what thread it was. May have been deleted even, not sure.