Aging Consoles Alter Speedruns

Modern game speedrunners have discovered that Super Nintendo consoles run slightly faster today than they did at release in the early 1990s. The difference stems from an aging ceramic resonator inside the sound processing chip, which alters the system's timing ever so slightly. While the change is imperceptible to normal players, it has created complications in tool-assisted speedruns where precise timing is essential.

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