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Demo Derby

Demo Derby: PlayStation Underground: Volume 3 Issue 2

All your favorite games, lingo, and camera angles of yesteryear. It's so fast!

The past and the present collide as Giant Bomb digs into the dark world of old demo discs.

Nov. 7 2017

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Ben

Posted by: Jason

115 Comments

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Ape Escape is damn good! Still holds up well, too.

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ben is being alot during this demo derby. Don't need to control the flow of the disc, let them speak for themselves and worry about the codes at the end.

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Today I learned Brad, Jeff and Ben suck at vexillology.

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I played that FF8 demo so many times that to this day, the different BGM in the final version of FF8 still catches me by surprise.

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that email address is at least still valid lol

https://email-checker.net/check

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Soul of the Samurai looked kind a neat. Wish you guys played more of it. I never heard of it before but may check it out now (I'm a sucker for non-horror RE clones like CHASE THE EXPRESS but maybe that's because it's called CHASE THE EXPRESS!).

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Who the fuck is throwing balls at the kung fu baby, you coward

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In that hamster game, what I really want to know is can you stack more than 2 boxes, can you stack all the boxes at once? This is important.

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The FF8 demo always fascinated me after the fact because Rinoa was in your party, and the various other ways that Galbadian invasion is different in the final game.

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"That Ape did not escape."

5/5 stars.

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Now Ehrgeiz there's a game that demands scientific evaluation.

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What is up with that ff8 demo. That is not what squall is wearing at that part of the game and rinoa has not even been introduced yet.

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Wow, that was really a 128-bit CPU? That's incredible, and so incredibly useless. There might not ever be a use for 128-bit CPUs given how the standard structure of PCs are likely to go away from the standard 0 and 1 based CPU/GPU/Ram/Motherboard setup before 128 bits are actually needed for consumer CPUs.

Small clarification: Whilst calling it 128-bit is marketing nonsense (it's not 128-bit in any meaningful sense of the word), your PC has been doing exactly the same (using 128-bit instructions) since 1999 through SSE, and we're now pushing out to 512-bit. When you're doing the same operation on a lot of data (which is exactly what the PS2 will be doing a lot of the time), wide instructions are precisely what you need (because you can put 4 32-bit numbers in there and do them all at the same time).