Overclocking SuperFX

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:05 pm

awesome

!! don't ya love it when a simple idea actually works

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timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:15 pm

sweet man! im going to try it on starfox... as soon as kurt has his snes working again

im not sure if i have access to anything over 20 mhz though...

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 5:27 pm

AFAIK this mod only works on two versions of the FX chip, there are 3 types of the chip:

MARIO CHIP 1 - used only in StarFox, no onboard oscillator (can't be overclocked)
GSU1 - Standard-issue FX chip, in most games. Vortex uses it.
GSU2 - Allows bigger games and somewhat faster. used on Doom, Yoshi's Island and a few others.

I'm pretty sure GSU1 and GSU2 can be overclocked. My StarFox cart has some problems though, it takes a lot of fiddling with the cart slot to get it to boot. It might be an issue because it's quite sensitive to EMI and my SNES is running without shielding.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 6:58 pm

used in ALL starfox carts, or just some?

kurt fried his SNES 10 minutes ago anyways....

Foxx373 · Post by **Foxx373** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:26 pm

Wow, great job! This is a bad ass mod! I dont have vortex anymore, and im not sure if my SNES still works.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:34 pm

poor snes foxx you should buy another snes and start playin the good stuff again

SNESguy · Post by **SNESguy** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:28 pm

Ya, I would like to know about the possiblity of doing the mod on Starfox, too.

That is a pimpin mod, dude!!!

SNESguy

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:05 pm

You've been HackADay'd and Dugg!

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:08 pm

http://digg.com/mods/SNES_Super_FX_overclocking

Post by **marshallh** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:09 pm

I just noticed that on Hackaday today

I guess it explains why this thread has over 7000 views so far

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:12 pm

HK-47 wrote:http://digg.com/mods/SNES_Super_FX_overclocking

I posted there, too, but I didn't get that many Diggs!

bdhp · Post by **bdhp** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:21 pm

i pooped in my nintendo and now it runs 72X fatter!!!!

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:53 pm

Oh great, here come the trolls. I feel like saying 'copulate'.
Okay, that is all.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:49 pm

Almost 17000 pageviews. Holy crap! It seems we're dugg, /.'d, or whateverelsed every few weeks.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:02 pm

HK-47 wrote:Almost 17000 pageviews. Holy crap! It seems we're dugg, /.'d, or whateverelsed every few weeks.

Nice!