Super Nintendo consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years, but it took until 2025 for the SNES fandom to notice
It's been 35 years since the SNES first launched as the Super Famicom in Japan, complete with a sound chip designed by the ...
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Creative Limitation And The Super Nintendo Sound Chips
The SNES processed sound with two chips, a processing core and a DSP. They only had a capacity of 64 kb, meaning that all of a game’s sounds and music had to fit in this tiny space. This might ...
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A SNES Music Player You Can Control With A Browser
[Kazhuu] is one such enthusiast who feels this way, and set about building a hardware player for SNES chiptunes that can ... the capable wavetable synthesis chip in the Super Nintendo, and it ...
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A quick look back at the first Sony PlayStation, which launched in the US 28 years ago today0 0
The deal would allow Sony to create a sound chip for the SNES console. Kutaragi originally made the deal without telling the higher-ups at Sony beforehand. In the end, Sony's then CEO Norio Ohga ...