2013-08-06, 12:25 AM
King's Field textures are definitely "minimalist", but the Playstation does support 24bit (16million) color graphics, developers just used low color TIMs when possible because they take up less space in Video RAM. The Playstation only has 1MB of VRAM, and only about half of that is usually available for textures. Small 4 bit textures also reduce disk load times so KF probably used them to enable streaming whereas games like Crash that use high color TIMs, usually require load screens between each area while they swap out all the textures.
I've never done it, but it might be possible to swap 3D models between KF games- that would be cool!
I've never done it, but it might be possible to swap 3D models between KF games- that would be cool!