Nintendo should teach their 3rd party supporters their file compression secrets.

[DonFerrari]

MajorMalfunction said:

Peh said:

Ehm...no. That's not that kind of compression people are talking about. You don't get a loss in quality unless they put lower quality files on the disc/ cartridge. The files are compressed and will be unpacked when needed. This needs cpu resources and could lead to higher loading times.

There's a difference between lossless and lossy compression. Most every game engine already supports lossy compression for textures. It's called BCN (BC = Block Compression, the N is a number between 1 and 7, each compression being optimized for different things). BCN is also something that hardware can directly consume without any additional processing.

Not related to the topic of size and the BCN.

But there is also those techniques to "compress-not detail" that will render on lower quality what is far and will make the game lighter and also improve drawing distance, but sure some devs make mistakes on it by making the transition not be smooth and generate the popins and "out of foucs" texture.