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by cogman10 891 days ago
> Depending on what the issue is, how well the hardware is documented (you may even hit an undocumented hardware bug!)

What's fun is, particularly with older games and hardware, it wasn't uncommon for devs to use hardware bugs to their advantage. DK64 is notoriously hard to emulate because of that.
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zwirbl 891 days ago
Can you elaborate on DK64? AFAIK it shipped with a memory leak that was known to the deva but could not be fixed in time for Christmas season 199x. This bug lead to a OOM crash in less than two hours or something so it was decided to require and ship it with the Expansion Pack with 8MB (?) RAM instead of the default jumper pack with half as much. I
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dallen33 891 days ago
That turned out to not be true, FYI:

https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/t2owki/psa_dk64s_expan...

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