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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there were more powerful chips on the fucking cartridges than in the base system

The SA-1chip is an insane thing to exist.

Some engineer(presumably on a coke binge): What if we just took the whole SNES CPU and put a second one in the cartridge.

Mad scientist: Make the one in the cartridge run 4 times faster.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn’t know Xzibit worked for Nintendo.

All I remember was that there were zero Game Genie codes for Super Mario RPG because that cart used so much custom hardware the Game Genie didn’t know how to interface with it.