Security consultant and TASBot (Tool-Assisted Speedrun robot) administrator Alan Cecil discovered that Super Nintendo consoles have grown slightly faster because of one of their chips. According to a 404 Media report, the classic gaming console uses a Sony SPC700 APU (audio processing unit) with a digital signal processing (DSP) rate of 32,000 Hz. However, SNES emulator programmers noticed in 2007 that the chips ran marginally faster at 32,040 Hz, so they had to use that value instead to prevent some games from breaking.
The SPC700 coprocessor uses a ceramic resonator running at 24,576 Hz to set its frequency. However, this component is a sensitive piece of electronics, and heat and other environmental factors could affect its behavior. I
