SNES FX chip OCing

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Well some people, like me, will remember there old SNES system and those games with that FX label on the front.


Quick Selection of most of the games created with the SuperFX chip.

The SuperFX chip was actually an offloading 3d renderer for the Super Nintendo, kindof a cool thing. However today we are talking about overclocking this bad boy. :)

As the link in the digg post states the speed of the clock for the SuperFX chip was 21.4 MHz, the plan is to remove it and replace it with a slightly faster 24MHz ossilator. The funny thing about this is that the FX chip is an addon internal to the cartridges which are labeled , so each game can be clocked differently and will require it's own new ossilator.

You may be thinking this won't work, how can you be sure the other components have data in the pipe wating to be worked on when the clock changes. You don't this is just trial and error fun. However the poster did manage his feet and the game performed "better" whether this is a placebo affect or not it is still cool that the game functioned with the even minimal overclocking.