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On the subject- a technical spec in the way the dreamcast's 3d architecture was designed made mirrorable (single or both axis) texture maps, and consequently: UV maps and the poly models themselves- All revolving around the way dreamcast happened to leverage that type of artwork, giving the devs in exchange better performance and faster development speed. It was probably interesting to be a dev at that time, to be put in a corner and having dreamcast come up to you, shoves you, spits at you and says in a cave man voice "you. make. art. like this now. me mirror. me mirror for you now. you make mirror art now.." with mirroring textures a big part of the pipeline for artists across the whole team. The results of that technical specification, giving a developer performance/convenience benefits in exchange for free mirror-centric art. a cool perspective to think about