Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem
To some observers, this is evidence that SNES APUs originally produced in the '90s have been speeding up slightly as they age ...
Super Nintendo consoles appear to be running ever-so-slightly faster as they age and speedrunning detectives are hot on the case
The legendary Super Nintendo Entertainment System is 35 years old and still a mainstay in every classic gamer's heart. It's ...
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Speedrunners Just Discovered a Strange Problem With Old SNES Consoles: They’re Sounding Faster
Some things in life are hard to understand. Why do socks vanish in the laundry? Why do cats stare at nothing for minutes on ...
Retro acceleration: The SNES might be running faster as it ages
Tinkerers and speedrunners have recently discovered that the audio processors in many aging Super NES consoles are now ...
The Super Nintendo is somehow getting faster with age.
We’ve come to expect reduced performance from aging hardware, but some gamers have discovered the opposite with the Super ...
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Super Nintendo Entertainment System improves over time
Like a fine wine – if wine makes Mario jump higher The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) console is somehow ...
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New report suggests SNES consoles are seemingly getting faster with age
In a rather bizarre turn of events, it appears that older SNES consoles are actually getting faster with age rather than ...
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Ancient Nintendo SNES Console Appears To Be Running Faster As It Ages, Baffling Experts
It is fine," the TASBot team wrote while the data was still coming in. "The 24.576 MHz APU clock uses a ceramic resonator. It is not. It seems to run faster years later. It also seems to speed up ...
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SNES Super FX Overclocking
marshallh removed the 21.4Mhz ceramic resonator from a Vortex cartridge and replaced it with a 24Mhz oscillator and a couple caps. The result is a smoother frame rate and minimal slow down with ...