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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Congress will move swiftly to ban old consoles from competing with young consoles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't be the weirdest thing, binning consoles and diskdrives is a common strat.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

I guess "SNES operating within spec after 30 years" doesn't grab attention the same way.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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! 🤣

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe in time consoles will be aged like fine wine or cheese.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You don't keep your Sega Genesis in an oaken cask?

[–] QuantumSparkles 11 points 2 days ago

My NES has notes of citrus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

That's an oaky afterbirth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Give it a swirl, a sniff, and check the legs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

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