Left for 2.26 years, it will overflow.
When it does finally overflow, we get "minus" time and the game breaks in funny ways. I did a video about it: https://youtu.be/f7ZzoyVLu58
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Excalibur_II_(Final_Fan...
(I also never managed to get it)
I'm guessing the game probably streams FMV cutscenes of the disc as they play, and the fallback behaviour if it can't find them is to skip rather than crash.
Who knew at the time they were creating games that would be disassembled, deconstructed, reverse engineered. Do any of us think about that regarding any program we write?
Although for old games released before internet was widespread in the general population, it might have not been this obvious.
Sadly it appears that archive.org didn't capture all of the site formatting, but at least the text is there.
Doom is actually such a good game, I always go back to it every few years. The 2016 reboot is also pretty fun, but the later two in the series didn’t do it for me.
So valve next?
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The problem being so many micro-controllers, non-interfaceable or cheaply designed computers/devices/machines might not follow the standards and therefore be susceptible although your iPhone, Laptop and Fridge should all be fine.
@ID_AA_Carmack Are you going to write a patch to fix this?
"See this crash?
I predicted it years ago.
Don't ask me how, I couldn't tell you."
p.s. I had an old iPaq that I wouldn't have trusted to run for longer than a day and stay stable, kudos for that at the very minimum.
Maybe I need my morning coffee. :)
[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weathe...
It's a router.. oh my god that made me laugh