TIL Morrowind would reboot the XBox if it ran out of memory and hide it behind a loading screen
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Todd Howard: "One of my favorite tricks for Morrowind is that if you are running out of memory [on Xbox], you can reboot the Xbox without the user knowing. So if you had a really long loading time, that was us rebooting the Xbox."
via this tweet & youtube video
How does it work?
Edit: And Microsoft considered it 3 OS'. The Hypervisor runs on the metal, then the game OS and the "shared" OS which runs the dash and apps. But personally I wouldn't really consider the hypervisor an OS, it's only job is to manage the other 2 and allocate resources to those VMs
Some bonus game hacks: #
Game Dev Trivia: To create the effect of an ammunition pack exploding and sending bullets everywhere when a backpack weak spot is destroyed in Tom Clancy's The Division, a tiny invisible AI enemy is attached to the backpack, shoots wildly all around and then suicides.
via this tweet
More war stories about video games: https://arstechnica.com/video/series/war-stories
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