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In fact, I know exactly why that Spyro glitch @WEDC517 showed off at #SGDQ2016 happens. Side effect of how the PS1 draws graphics.

PS1 stores screen buffer + textures in the same 1024x512-pixel "page". Pausing changes screen res, but apparently not quite in sync @Wedc517

i.e. if you increase screen res but don't clear the screen too, you see a band of texture data that's just to the -> of the screen in VRAM.

And yes, this does mean that as a PS1 developer, if you wanted to increase the screen resolution, you usually had to sacrifice texture space

as someone who nominally worked for sony when the PS1 came out, I'm surprised anything worked

And yet to my eyes it seems like a more well-rounded console than the N64, and I say that as a die-hard N64 fan. :-)

also, if playstation hadn't done well it would have sunk sony. Hence the hedging with memory

It's a shame, really. Between sound, video and main RAM, it was just shy of the N64's stock 4MB. If the former had 8MB, oh man...