Wouldn't this be fun to find out is true of every computer? Dust off that old Eniac! That shits probably the fastest thing on earth now! 🤣
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It is awesome to see how the environment affects electronics, and this is a prime example of such.
It’s also funny that this is impacting speed runners lol, imagine having an advantage/disadvantage based on the age of your console.
Congress will move swiftly to ban old consoles from competing with young consoles.
Wouldn't be the weirdest thing, binning consoles and diskdrives is a common strat.
At the moment, the highest frequency submitted is 32,182 Hz. This increase is less than 1% of the original value of 32,000 Hz
What was the original tolerance for these chips?
Ceramic resonators have a typical accuracy of +/-0.5%. An error of +182Hz is a +0.57% error rate.
Here is a datasheet cited by the Wikipedia article. It says 0.5% initial error, another 0.3% over its full temperature range, and another 0.3% over 10 years of aging.
I guess "SNES operating within spec after 30 years" doesn't grab attention the same way.
Maybe in time consoles will be aged like fine wine or cheese.
You don't keep your Sega Genesis in an oaken cask?
That's an oaky afterbirth
My NES has notes of citrus
How do you check?
Give it a swirl, a sniff, and check the legs.
if you've got a snes and a flashcart, iirc the rom is available in the tasbot discord at discord.tas.bot. discussion is happening in #tasbot-dev