harcodia: suppermariobroth: In Mario Party 8, the way the text pop-ups (like the “You Got a St
harcodia: suppermariobroth: In Mario Party 8, the way the text pop-ups (like the “You Got a Star!” one in the top image) are stored in memory is as a texture that contains only one of each letter, but is then cut up into segments at runtime, which are then rearranged into the finished sentence. This allows the texture to use up less space than if the entire sentence was saved as a texture.This results in the textures appearing to show the sentence in a jumbled way due to repeat letters being missing. The bottom image shows how this pop-up is stored in the North American version (”YouGtSars!”), European version (”YouGtaSrs!”; the European version often has a different arrangement of letters from the North American one despite showing the same text), and the Japanese version (”SARGET!”, which is used to create “STAR GET!”).Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source -- source link