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  • Superhuman Hack Brings Real-Time 3D Ray Tracing to the SNES

    Superhuman Hack Brings Real-Time 3D Ray Tracing to the SNES

    Andrew Liszewski

    With the help of an extra graphics processing chip inside the cartridge, Star Fox did the impossible by bringing 3D graphics to the 16-bit Super Nintendo. The decision to engineer the SNES’ hardware to allow for this upgrade was a clever one on Nintendo’s part, and 29 years after its debut, Ben Carter has used…

  • Sweet, One Less Reason To Buy An SNES Classic

    Sweet, One Less Reason To Buy An SNES Classic

    Rhett Jones

    Last year, people went nuts trying to find Nintendo’s NES and SNES Classic consoles, but it looks like the games those nostalgia-machines offered will soon be available right on your Switch. Data miners claim to have discovered a list of 22 SNES titles and possibly two mystery emulators in the code for Nintendo Switch Online.

  • This Kit Lets You Make Your Old SNES Controllers Completely Wireless

    This Kit Lets You Make Your Old SNES Controllers Completely Wireless

    Andrew Liszewski

    For five years, 8Bitdo has been creating near-perfect wireless clones of your favourite classic gamepads, improving the experience of emulating retro games on modern devices. But if near-perfect isn’t perfect enough for your discerning gaming tastes, the company is now selling kits that should make it dead easy to upgrade your original Nintendo and Sega…