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Why Super Nintendo consoles are getting faster as they get older
The engineers squeezed as much performance as they could from the 16-bit processors of yore and then turned the job of ...
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14 best emulators for Android to play old favorites
John NESS (Google Play) does SNES and NES reasonably well ... NetherSX2 played every game we tested on modern hardware, with options for widescreen hacks, upscaling, and more.
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16 classic game remakes you have to play
Hardware changes, graphics get better ... And if you really want to play Dungeon Master again, you can do that with an add-on mod. Tomb Raider was ambitious back in 1996, with its cavernous arenas, ...
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 ...
ZME Science on MSN2d
Speedrunners Just Discovered a Strange Problem With Old SNES Consoles: They’re Sounding Faster
There are also tool-assisted speedruns, and this is where things get trickier. TASBot relies on frame-perfect inputs, meaning ...
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 ...
SNES consoles appear to run faster with age — APU frequency increased by up to 182 Hz after 35 years
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SNES emulator
Emulating SNES games hits us right in the nostalgic feels, but playing SNES games on an 1920×1080 monitor is a painful reminder of the limitations of SNES hardware. [DerKoun] felt the same ...
Nintendo Wire7d
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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iPhone SE 3 Transformed into a Classic Windows Phone With a Hardware Mod
Keep in mind that this is just a hardware mod, so the iPhone SE 2022 isn’t running on the Windows Mobile operating system. So if you were curious to see what an iOS running Windows Phone looks ...