Comment by rustyhancock
4 hours ago
I wonder too, DMA plays a huge role in most older gaming consoles when the CPUs were far more sluggish.
Perhaps that's what made them think to try.
Perhaps the current batch of smart memory cards which on the PS2 I believe have quite complex DMA capabilities to stream from the SD card game data.
Why not the PS5? That's when games started streaming assets straight from the NVME SSD to the GPU. In this case the assets are weights.