Platform: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
Kirby's Dream Land 3
Virtual Bart
Kirby's Dream Course
The Smurfs
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Ghouls'n Ghosts
F-Zero
Vegas Stakes
Super Castlevania IV
Rampart
Super Bomberman 3
Champions World Class Soccer
Obitus
Sunset Riders
Yoshi's Safari
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Demon's Crest
Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Video Game
Pac-In-Time
Joe & Mac
Kirby Super Star
Mario Is Missing!
Wayne's World
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam!
NBA Jam
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run
Sailor Moon
Killer Instinct
Inspector Gadget
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Secret of Mana
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World
Mario's Mystery Meat
Chrono Trigger
Sid Meier's Civilization
Populous
Shadowrun
HyperZone
Rayman
Fatal Fury
Super Donkey
Dino City
Pocky & Rocky
Mortal Kombat 3
WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game
PGA Tour 96
SimCity 2000
The Lion King
Bubsy 2
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The DSP-1, DSP-2, DSP-3, and DSP-4 enhancement chips were the same kinds of 8MHz NEC µPD77C25 math co-processors used by English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer, which was developed in 1986 after complications of ALS forced him to undergo a tracheotomy, rendering him mute. Because of this shared technology, when the hardware for Hawking's synthesizer started failing in 2017, the original developers were able to create a software version of it by borrowing code from the SNES emulator higan.
Technical specs about DSP chips:
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=66603
Articles that cover the use of higan to emulate Hawking's speech synthesizer:
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php
• http://pawozniak.com
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/how-snes-emulators-got-a-few-pixels-from-complete-perfection/
https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=66603
Articles that cover the use of higan to emulate Hawking's speech synthesizer:
• https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php
• http://pawozniak.com
• https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/06/how-snes-emulators-got-a-few-pixels-from-complete-perfection/
subdirectory_arrow_right Frogger (Game), Frogger (Game), Frogger (Game), Frogger (Franchise), Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (Platform)
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In the US, the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System's final official releases in the 1990's were the same game: a port of the original arcade Frogger made to coincide with the PlayStation and PC reboot.
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Famicom (Platform)
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When the Super Famicom first launched in Japan, it was so hard to get that Nintendo had to hold a lottery for which employees would get a Super Famicom. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the Mario series, and Yuji Horii, creator of the Dragon Quest series, claimed that they were each only able to get one.
subdirectory_arrow_right Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Game)
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subdirectory_arrow_right Sega Game Gear (Platform), PlayStation (Platform), Game Boy Advance (Platform), Sega Mega Drive/Genesis (Platform), Sega Master System/Mark III (Platform), Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform), Game Boy Color (Platform), Arcade (Platform), Neo Geo AES (Platform), Game Boy (Platform)
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In 2018, rapper Soulja Boy attempted to sell his own line of video game consoles, collectively called the SouljaGame line, sold for $149.99 for a console and $99.99 for a handheld. Advertising claimed that the consoles would be compatible with a variety of consoles' games, including modern platforms like the PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch. These, quite obviously, did not have such compatibility, but rather were a generic retro emulator console one could find on small business-oriented retail websites such as Wish and AliExpress loaded with pirated and modified games from the Neo Geo; NES; Game Boy Advance; Game Boy Color; Game Boy; Sega Genesis; SNES; Master System; Game Gear; and PlayStation libraries sold at a markup. The only difference from these pre-existing consoles being a photograph of Soulja printed onto the box. Soulja Boy would eventually stop selling SouljaGame consoles, with the website for the console redirecting to Nintendo's 3DS website.
Soulja Boy selling SouljaGame line article:
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/soulja-boy-selling-cheap-consoles-1203084022/
Soulja Boy ends sales of SouljaGame line article:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01/02/soulja-boy-stops-selling-souljagame-game-consoles
SouljaGame unboxing and teardown showing the packaging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo-qNU7Qu3k
Rerez video reviewing the console SouljaGame was based on, showing the console list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXuAuTFXpA#t=595
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/soulja-boy-selling-cheap-consoles-1203084022/
Soulja Boy ends sales of SouljaGame line article:
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01/02/soulja-boy-stops-selling-souljagame-game-consoles
SouljaGame unboxing and teardown showing the packaging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo-qNU7Qu3k
Rerez video reviewing the console SouljaGame was based on, showing the console list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXuAuTFXpA#t=595
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Nintendo planned to create the CD Add-on for the SNES. Nintendo partnered with Sony and Philips to create the CD Add-on, but it was ultimately cancelled. This agreement allowed Philips to use Nintendo's IP on their own Gaming Console, the "Phillips CD-i.
Sony's own gaming ventures appear to have been influenced by this as the canceled reader was dubbed "The Play Station", akin to the PlayStation.
Sony's own gaming ventures appear to have been influenced by this as the canceled reader was dubbed "The Play Station", akin to the PlayStation.
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The character which would eventually become Captain Falcon for the game F-Zero was originally conceived as a potential mascot for the SNES. F-Zero's designer, Takaya Imamura, revealed in an interview that "So I started thinking about a character who would match the colors of the Super Famicom controller, with some red and blue and yellow."
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The SNES, like many electronic devices of its time, had its outer casing made from a type of plastic called acrylonitrite butadiene styrene, or ABS for short. To make the console more fire-resistant, a large amount of bromine (a naturally brown liquid) was added to the ABS mixture. When exposed to ultraviolet light and/or heat, the bromine breaks free to oxidize, causing the normally grey plastic to turn yellow over time.
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In 1998, TranDirect Holding was planning to release a cartridge for the SNES to be used for online banking at home. The reason was because many households lacked a PC to do it from. The service was backed by Nintendo of America, and even would've come with a special SNES keyboard controller, however, it was never released.
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A North American Super Nintendo isn't software region-locked. By carefully removing two stubs of plastic inside of the cartridge slot, a Super Famicom game can be inserted and played without issue.
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In Japan, Nintendo decided to ship the Super Famicom at night to avoid being robbed by the Yazuka.
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British actor and comedian Rik Mayall appeared in several advertisements in the UK for the SNES, including "Super Mario All-Stars" and "Link's Awakening". He used the money he earned to buy a house in London which he nicknamed "Nintendo Towers". He also starred in the cartoon "King Arthur's Disasters" which included a familiar looking merchant, selling the main character a donkey named "Kong".
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Early in its development, Nintendo planned on making the SNES backward compatible by having a second cartridge slot for NES games. Nintendo ultimately decided against it, as it would have made the SNES around $75 more expensive.