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Super Nintendo Getting Faster With Age

Summary by adafruit.com
It’s pretty rare for electronics to get faster as they age but the SNES is doing just that. Emulators and speed runners noticed there was an issue matching original hardware. Over the decades some chips are running ~40hz faster than the they should: Summary from the Verge: The SNES’ main CPU, featuring a quartz crystal, is okay. But the console’s audio processing unit, which uses a ceramic resonator, is now running faster and speeds up as the ha…
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Super Nintendo Getting Faster With Age

It’s pretty rare for electronics to get faster as they age but the SNES is doing just that. Emulators and speed runners noticed there was an issue matching original hardware. Over the decades some chips are running ~40hz faster than the they should: Summary from the Verge: The SNES’ main CPU, featuring a quartz crystal, is okay. But the console’s audio processing unit, which uses a ceramic resonator, is now running faster and speeds up as the ha…

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adafruit.com broke the news in on Saturday, April 5, 2025.
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