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Why Super Nintendo consoles are getting faster as they get older

Rob Beschizza
Mar 17, 2025
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The engineers squeezed as much performance as they could from the 16-bit processors of yore and then turned the job of optimization over to coders. Such was the hunger for power they provided co-processors in the game cartridges themselves. It's astonishing, then, to find that Super Nintendo consoles are getting faster decades l…

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