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Toca 2 PSP screens
- Thread starter Elios83
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its still pretty DC to me. Certainly not PS2 level by any stretch. Just noticed the top image, which at least seems to have some reflections on the car - and some mighty dithering.
Still, fingers crossed it'll play well. Codemasters are a bit all or nothing when it comes to TOCA games. Very difficult to predict whether they'll be fun to play or not.
Still, fingers crossed it'll play well. Codemasters are a bit all or nothing when it comes to TOCA games. Very difficult to predict whether they'll be fun to play or not.
SolidSnakex
Member
Jeff-DSA said:
Yes, and especially Gran Turismo Portable.
slidewinder
Banned
Ditto, especially if they're good ones like this could be.
SolidSnakex
Member
Elios83 said:
I think the reason we aren't seeing GTP is that Kaz said he doesn't want it to be GT4 in portable form anymore. He wants its own game. Which is good, except the way it going to be long now.
Roland Hood
Member
Are you hardcore GT4 guys concerned at all about control on the PSP - loose analog nub aside, it would seem that going from, say, the Logitech wheel to the PSP's digital buttons (correct or no?) would be kind of a step back.
Doesn't matter to me since I always put the pedal to the metal. But I always assumed the hardcore group is pretty picky about handling, accerleration and braking subtleties, what with all the tweaking and what not.
Any word on whether the the physics or handling will be altered to make it more PSP friendly?
Doesn't matter to me since I always put the pedal to the metal. But I always assumed the hardcore group is pretty picky about handling, accerleration and braking subtleties, what with all the tweaking and what not.
Any word on whether the the physics or handling will be altered to make it more PSP friendly?
mr_sockochris
Member
Gek54 said:What DC game with different cars on the screen looks better. Closest one I can think of is Le Mans but thats iffy.
SolidSnakex
Member
Roland Hood said:
It won't be as good as with the DFP, but i've played GT beofre with digital buttons before so it shouldn't be too bad.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Sumo Digital are handling this. A really cool small dev in the UK. 
Err no.mr_sockochris said:
First of all, MSR has few cars on screen. However, more importantly, the cars in MSR look like absolute shit and also lack any sort of lighting (dunno about the Toca cars).
Also, look at some of those background details. See that building in that background? It's a completely flat texture! Not a good example...
eso76
Member
ok, if you are really thinking Toca and PSP graphics in general are going 'beyond' Dreamcast levels you need to start holding your psp's a little farther from your eyes while playing : P
I would agree that knowledge in modelling and using environment mapping has been perfected, or has evolved since those days, but other than displaying less cars on screen, GT1 with filtered textures wouldn't look much worse than this at all on such a small screen, and the tiny size allowes for drastic poly reduction and LOD levels without cars looking too square.
The number of cars on screen is more of a cpu/ia intensive task rather than graphical, especially when talking about games like gt; even on current gen consoles (say, xbox) Toca uses a few tricks; for example only cpu controlled cars near the player are subject to physics and have some kind of ia: all farther vehicles are replaced with "drones" which merely move along the circuit ignoring any physics or ia.
Having said that, Toca Psp looks very, very good.
I would agree that knowledge in modelling and using environment mapping has been perfected, or has evolved since those days, but other than displaying less cars on screen, GT1 with filtered textures wouldn't look much worse than this at all on such a small screen, and the tiny size allowes for drastic poly reduction and LOD levels without cars looking too square.
The number of cars on screen is more of a cpu/ia intensive task rather than graphical, especially when talking about games like gt; even on current gen consoles (say, xbox) Toca uses a few tricks; for example only cpu controlled cars near the player are subject to physics and have some kind of ia: all farther vehicles are replaced with "drones" which merely move along the circuit ignoring any physics or ia.
Having said that, Toca Psp looks very, very good.
gamewhooper
Banned
Looks good graphically but we don't need any more sports/racing games on the PSP as it is.
