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Re:Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era by dragontamer on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:56PM (#28699834)
Crash Bandicoot solved this problem by writing the level data in a streaming fashion, so that the CD-ROM would never have to seek while playing through a level.

Of course, the CD-ROM only spins in one direction however. Crash Bandicoot programmers solved this issue by making it impossible to run backwards in the game.

The game was basically one dimensional on purpose: you can only run forward, and never backwards, to optimize the CD-ROM bandwidth. Still, the game was groundbreaking, the gameplay and characters fresh. Its an incredible technical achievement, to the point where most people didn't even realize that running backwards was a technical hurdle they felt like not solving.

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Re:Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era by beefjerkins on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:17PM (#28700079)
> Of course, the CD-ROM only spins in one direction however. Crash Bandicoot programmers solved this issue by making it impossible to run backwards in the game.

I've been playing crash since I was a kid, and I never thought about why you couldn't run backwards. What a brilliant solution.

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