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Nighttime Apparition
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She/They. Writer of Scifi and Fantasy, SoulCalibur VI Speedrunner, Occasional Artist, Type 1 Diabetic. Nerd. Probably playing a video game within 10 feet of 1-3 cats.
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Plot 20. Graveyards sound very relaxing.
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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fabiosantana79.bsky.social
It's fascinating how Rebecca Heinemann managed to make Out of this World run on the SNES. Interplay, publisher of the console versions and the company she co-founded, wouldn't pay for Super FX/static RAM/FastROM chips. "I made a game using polygons working on a 65816 with pure software rendering."
Excerpt of an interview with Rebecca Heinemann on GrokCode in 2008. Transcript: What is your greatest achievement? That’s a tough call, since I’ve done so many projects in my career so far. I think I’d have to say was the evil MOD I had to do to get Out Of This World for the SNES to copy backgrounds quickly. Since Interplay wouldn’t pay for a SuperFX chip, I found a way to do it with static RAM on the cart and DMA which got me a great frame rate. Interplay wouldn’t pay for the static RAM either, so I ended up using Fast ROM and a MVN instruction. Interplay wouldn’t pay for a 3.6 Mhz ROM either. So, frustrated, I shoved my block move code into the DMA registers and use it as RAM running at 3.6 Mhz. It worked. I got fast block moves on slow cartridges and made a game using polygons working on a 65816 with pure software rendering.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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fabiosantana79.bsky.social
And here's Rebecca Heinemann herself telling how she freaking LEARNED JAPANESE just to read SNES dev manuals from NCL. The whole hour-long stream on Out of this World is a delight. Thank you, Becky. You'll be missed.
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Burgertime 8/9/2015: Out of This World
YouTube video by Rebecca Heineman
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November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM