marshallh from the benheck.com forums has managed to overclock a Super FX chip. The Super FX was an extra graphics processor included in some Super Nintendo games. Using this chip, games like Star Fox were able to handle polygons and intensive sprite scaling. marshallh removed the 21.4Mhz ceramic resonator from a Vortex cartridge and replaced it with a 24Mhz oscillator and a couple caps. The result is a smoother frame rate and minimal slow down with multiple enemies.
[thanks vb_master]
This is neat, just wish someone figured this out a decade or so ago!
Extra cool points for solving a 8 year old problem!!!
wow, thats slick. i guess thats doable on the first fx chip in star fox? it would awesome to have a better framerate on that game…hmmm….
in other news…
look at what got dugg: http://digg.com/mods/SNES_Super_FX_overclocking
notice the stuff in quotes…
hackaday needs a copyright or something so you can take action against digg and such.
Hmm… Better install liquid cooling before they try for 30mhz.
Hi all,
I am the one who submitted this story to digg, sometimes i cant directly link to hack-a-day for the reason that diggers do not like undirect links but i always mention in the comment that the story was from hack-a-day and posting a back link to hack-a-day.
But still most of the stories i submit from hack-a-day i link them directly to you, you may ask why? well cuz i know hack-a-day founder/admin are diggers them selfs and they them self post links on hack-a-day poniting out clearly that they were from digg, but most importantly is giving credit back to you guys.
i will show you some hack-a-day diggs of mine.
http://digg.com/technology/Hacking_an_LCD
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http://digg.com/science/Hack_A_Day_On_Hacking_sleep
There are much more but its hard to get them all since i have more then 2000 stories.
I am much of a fan of hack-a-day then maybe hack-a-day itself.
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2 more here, and there are many more in my digg profile…
http://digg.com/technology/All-weather_WiFi_enclosure
http://digg.com/technology/PIC_based_iPod_remote_control
Someone was selling one of these on ebay about 3 weeks ago
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“i have a huge burden on my shoulders”
then just stop it…
You sound like a person on th Dr. Phil show.
Seriously – post an indirect link, don’t just copy the content from Hackaday. So DIGGers don’t like indirect links, so what? Their outrage at an indirect link doesn’t excuse you for violating the Hackaday submitter’s copyright. If you want to give the DIGGers a direct link to the article, then write your own summary.
If posting to DIGG is such a big part of your life, learn to do it correctly.
As for the SuperFX chip overclock – that seriously rocks. I can’t wait to dig my snes out of storage and see if this can be duplicated on a Starfox cartridge.
As the site says, it can’t be done on starfox because it uses a different chip with the clock integrated rather than on-board.
Crystaldark wrote “Someone was selling one of these on ebay about 3 weeks ago
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Um, that was probably a overclock NES. This is an overclocked cartridge for SNES.
Interesting concept, however, I have since one upped that! I have overclocked the FX chip in “Dirt Trax FX” from the traditional 21.4 MHz to 40 MHz… Imagine that! Works great too. For pics e-mail me at (djblackbox@yahoo.com) By the way, Super NES rox!