About Brian Penzone Expertise I can answer questions regarding coin-operated arcade game questions down to the logic board. Error codes, erratic operation, dead boards, i can help with them all. I cannot help with monitors. I can help to a certain extent on PSP, PS2 and PS3 consoles as well.
Experience I am the lead technician for a very large national coin-op operator and have 11 years of arcade technical experience.
Education/Credentials BA from The Ohio State University, Associates from DeVry University
Expert: Brian Penzone Date: 8/9/2007 Subject: games
Question hi-i wish to ask some questions.
alought this isnt about videogame repair as such i will ask anyway.
I have a gran turismo 4 ps2 disc and it didnt play but it does now. What would be the cause? it did look like a gold disc.
Which is more important on how a game looks? processing power or polygon power?
thanks
Answer Interesting questions, Jack. I'll try my best to answer them.
1) Your GT4 disc, unless you have a mod chip and can play backup games, is likely not a bootleg. The fact that it didn't play before could be because it was dirty, because the laser wasn't reading correctly, there may have been a fingerprint on the disc...any number of reasons. The fact that it is working now is all that matters though! Enjoy the game.
2) Processing power versus polygon count....that's what i assume you mean. Look at it this way, all the way back to games like I,Robot (1983) and Hard Drivin' (1991) in the arcade, polygons have been used. Of course, those are absolutely archaic by todays standards, but they were made with what processing power was available at the time. Had they tried to do a game from today that uses millions upon millions of polygons, you would not even be able to get 1 frame per second out of them. It would be more like 1 frame per minute. Having said that, polygon count is going to be directly proportional to processing power. Meaning, as processing power goes up, the limit of polgon processing goes up. Of course, there are ways around it, meaning that you can do more than you should be able to do with what is available.
In the end, it's a mix of power, programming and hardware. Processing power is very important, to put it in a nutshell.
