SNES consoles appear to run faster with age — APU frequency increased by up to 182 Hz after 35 years
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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 ...
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Super Nintendo Consoles Seem to Be Getting Faster
Recent data collected by players suggests that the legendary Super Nintendo Entertainment System is getting faster over the ...
Super Nintendo consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years, but it took until 2025 for the SNES fandom to notice
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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 ...
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Ancient Nintendo SNES Console Appears To Be Running Faster As It Ages, Baffling Experts
"SNES consoles seem to be getting faster as they age," the TASBot team wrote on BlueSky. "Help us collect data. Do you have ...
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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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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 ...
A strange phenomenon is detected in these SNES and the investigation of the “rejuvenated consoles” enigma is on
In a phenomenon that has baffled the gaming community, users around the world have reported that the so-called Super Nintendo ...
The Final SNES Game Ever Released Is Being Remade
The final SNES game that was ever released for the nostalgic Nintendo console is getting a remake on modern platforms.
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Super Nintendo Consoles Seem to Be Getting Faster
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 ...
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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 ...