Although today it is common for games to receive improvements through internet updates / patches, there was a time when this did not exist, or not at least as we know it today. Therefore the only way to improve the games back then was through special upgrade chips that went inside game cartridges to improve performance or make certain new techniques possible.
Well, today we will talk about one of them. Its about chip SA1 the SNES, which offered improvements in areas such as clock speed, faster RAM and much more, which has been found in perfect condition Recently.
We leave you all the details below:
- During the past weekend, the retro community has echoed the details and images of a demonstration program of SA1, which is powered by an extremely rare cartridge demo board including the chip.
- Perhaps the most famous example of a game that used this chip was Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, although the upgrades skipped PAL territory (Europe / Australia and New Zealand) at the time.
- Basically the chip made the games will work better.
- One of the plates appeared in eBay and thanks to that, the demos of the board have been successfully dumped, allowing us to take a look at how Nintendo created a couple of primitive technology samples to show what the chip could do.
You can see it below:
What do you think?
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