[doktrin]

> The point of all this? The Breaking Madden games are really an outlier that you'd have to specifically code for.

Rather than coding special exemptions or rules, it seems that using 8 bit storage would have to be a deliberate choice on any modern platform.

[m_myers]

Sure, on any modern platform. But you don't change 25-year-old code unless there's a pressing reason.

[BlackDeath3]

Fair enough. I suppose I could see twenty-five year old code relying on data sizes in such a way that a seemingly trivial change could cause issues.

The real question is, what the hell does a Madden developer do for the rest of the time that dealing with data type changes is not worth it?

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

How about things like 'physics' and 'ai'.