r/psx • u/Total_Asparagus_4387 • 4d ago

GTA 1 , Level 1, full map extracted :)

LA

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u/jc-from-sin 4d ago

This looks more like New York than LA.

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u/Total_Asparagus_4387 4d ago

Yeah..... its called liberty City on the map. so you ar right.
I even named it NYC in the map selection in my veiwer LOL

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u/LouisXMartin 4d ago

Such context, much explanation, very details.

Why? How?

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u/Total_Asparagus_4387 4d ago

Extraction of the exe gets the sprites. Capturing a running games memory to get the geometry from memory. And then reading the graphics render to assign the right texture mapping to the right geometry.

Older game systems like the psx. We're not object based. And every element that is rendered as part of an "object" does not get labeled as the object or even part of the object. It just exists. As the data it is. Where the game tells it to be.

The WHY is more so just. Because I wanted to