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What did the Super FX co-processor do?
The Super FX co-processor was built into games cartridges such as Star Fox, Yoshi's Island and Doom. It was used for sprite transformations in Yoshi's Island and 3D effects in Star Fox and Doom, as well as for rendering polygons.
This was a RISC…
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What limited the performance of the SuperFX chip?
The SuperFX chip was an additional RISC processor includes in some Super Famicom cartridges to generate 3D graphics, the most famous example being the game Starfox.
However it's performance wasn't particularly impressive, with games on other 16 bit…
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Is my "SNSP-001A (FRG)" SNES a one-chip or two-chip SNES?
The SNES I bought from Toys "R" Us in Sweden in ~1993 has this model number: SNSP-001A (FRG)
I find very conflicting and confusing info online on this. It seems to be from France... or Spain... or Italy?!
What I primarily want to know is whether it…
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Can input lag be modeled as a function of controller cable length for SNES?
While playing on my SNES, I almost yanked my controller out of my console due to the cable being so short. I went on Amazon to buy a cable extender, and then started reading on different forums that increasing the length of your controller's cable…
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