contribute to the increased frequency of the ceramic resonator in the SNES’s SPC700 APU. The ceramic resonator, which sets the APU’s clock speed, tends to run faster over time and also speeds up when ...

Recent data shows that the Super Nintendo's Audio Processing Unit speeds up over time and runs even faster as the console warms up. Findings confirm that SNES consoles in 2025 run faster than ...

making SNES consoles run ever so slightly faster than they did back in the day. The idea that "SNES consoles seem to be ...

Ideally, you'd expect any Super NES console—if properly maintained—to operate identically to any other Super NES unit ever made (in the same region, at least). Given the same base ROM file and ...

Cecil has been collecting data from BlueSky users as to how fast their SNES consoles are currently running and, while the dataset is small, for now it does appear that some ageing consoles are ...

From time to time, we at Hackaday like to publish a few engineering war stories – the tales of bravery and intrigue in getting a product to market, getting a product cancelled, and why one ...

Back in February, the team behind TASBot – a tool-assisted speedrun bot that sends control inputs to retro consoles – put out an intriguing message to appeal for more data. "SNES consoles seem ...

making SNES consoles run ever so slightly faster than they did back in the day. The idea that "SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age" was posited back on February 26 via TASBot ...