Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges
by masklinn on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:57AM
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The ROM chips were literally lower specced / worse tolerances, and thus cheaper. FastROM chips were guaranteed (by the manufacturers) to yield stable results in under 120ns, versus 200 for SlowROM.
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Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges
by sumtechguy on Monday April 22, 2024 @01:11PM
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Interesting. Having not looked at all yet. Wonder if the emulators out there take this fact into account.
SNES emulation is extremely accurate at this point - any modern/reasonably competent emulator handles this correctly. Shoutout to Near (RIP) here - they wrote an article on Ars which documents how we've reached this point.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...
Re:The Super Nintendo Cartridges
by progmetaldev on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:19PM
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On top of this, most emulators allow you to run the game at faster speeds than the original. I haven't encountered a game yet where I wanted to do this, but the fact that it's available just shows how far emulation has come (and the wizardry that is involved in emulating an entire computer system).