A trip down NBA Jam Graphics Pipeline

▤ Summary

Inquiring with the owner of the cabinet, I learned that hackers had released a SNES mod name "NBA Jam 2K17" allowing to play with new players and MJ. Around the same time "Universal Soldier" got released, "Midway Games" had developed a technology allowing to manipulate large digitized photo-realist sprites and preserve the likeness of real actors. They had used the technology with great success for the popular shooter game "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"[2] but were unable to secure a license for "Universal Soldier" (JCVD financial conditions were deemed unacceptable[3]). Featuring a lot of blood on screen and insanely gore "fatalities", the game became an instant worldwide hit gathering close to 1 billion dollar within one year[5]. All chips (System RAM, GFX EPROMs, Palette SDRAM, Code, Video Banks) are mapped into the same 32-bit memory address space and are connected to the same bus.

▦ Linked Companies

GitHub, Inc.

$1M to $5M