FalloutGuy645
Terrarian
Playing the Undeluxe edition has been a hoot. But I miss having my doors auto-close. Makes me appreciate all of the QoL that has come since.
Terraria: Undeluxe Edition - Out Now!
- Thread starter Loki
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Honestly my favorite bit of QOL through Terraria's history has been auto-climbing one-block heights.
I remember this was probably my first suggestion way back then on the long-defunct Terraria Online Forums.
EyeOfTheCosmos
The Destroyer
"delve"
AI generated confirmed????1?!1?2!;2?!1!1
Benry Gaming
Retinazer
That's crazy
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Franklin35
Terrarian
After all those years i can finally see the true beginning.
try again444
Terrarian
i literally coded this on a snes it atually works (slow and you cant save tho)
Benry Gaming
Retinazer
Really?
Glasia 森の魔王🌳
The Destroyer
Really?
CoolDude50🌳
The Destroyer
I still have Pre-Alpha stuck on my 2008 Laptop lol, since none of 1.0 and above works for it's specs. Things changed now though, NO WAY THEY JUST UPDATED TO Undeluxe and I now am just seeing this
If your laptop can't run modern Terraria, then it can't run Windows 8 or above either. Which means it can't run Steam, since they do not support Windows 7 and earlier anymore. Which means you can't get Undeluxe.
CoolDude50🌳
The Destroyer
"Things changed now though" that was my OLD Laptop so if the electricity runs off I have no choice but to play on it when I'm bored (exclude mobile) Strange how Steam's still there though... I got lucky I guess. BUT I'M NOT GONNA MISS OUT ON THIS, NEVER!
FavoritoHJS
Terrarian
That SNES cartridge nerd-sniped me into thinking if Terraria could actually run on such an ancient system.
TLDR: You'll have to compromise on world size, at least without a custom mapper for extra RAM.
So, let's think about what should be possible without expansions.
The biggest problem is memory. With only 128KB of RAM and no mass storage medium, you can't make worlds larger than 512x256 without finicky in-memory compression.
This is enough for a Terraria-like game (example: Terra only has a 256x128 world due to a 32KB memory limit) but not really enough for a full Terraria port - for example, with Heck being 160 blocks tall, this is barely one and a half hecks tall!
So can expansion circuitry save us? In short, no.
- The SA-1 only adds 2KB of ram to the co-processor, so it was impossible before it's still impossible now.
- The DSP-1 doesn't add ram at all from what I can gather.
- The Super FX chip adds 32KB or 64KB of RAM, though much of it will likely be used by the chip, and won't be available for data storage.
Ideally a custom mapper chip with something like 1MB of SRAM could be made, which would solve this problem... unfortunately i don't think any games did this so good luck convincing emulator devs to add support to your mapper.
TLDR: You'll have to compromise on world size, at least without a custom mapper for extra RAM.
So, let's think about what should be possible without expansions.
The biggest problem is memory. With only 128KB of RAM and no mass storage medium, you can't make worlds larger than 512x256 without finicky in-memory compression.
This is enough for a Terraria-like game (example: Terra only has a 256x128 world due to a 32KB memory limit) but not really enough for a full Terraria port - for example, with Heck being 160 blocks tall, this is barely one and a half hecks tall!
So can expansion circuitry save us? In short, no.
- The SA-1 only adds 2KB of ram to the co-processor, so it was impossible before it's still impossible now.
- The DSP-1 doesn't add ram at all from what I can gather.
- The Super FX chip adds 32KB or 64KB of RAM, though much of it will likely be used by the chip, and won't be available for data storage.
Ideally a custom mapper chip with something like 1MB of SRAM could be made, which would solve this problem... unfortunately i don't think any games did this so good luck convincing emulator devs to add support to your mapper.