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Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected—and why it’s a problem

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The TASBot community relies on solid-state predictability when creating tool-assisted speedruns.

But on the SNES in particular, the team has largely struggled to get emulated speedruns to sync up with demonstrated results on real consoles.

A ceramic resonator used in the system's Audio Processing Unit (APU) is to blame for much of this inconsistency.

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