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Late Gen SNES cartridges with custom chip enhancements >>> Sega 32x. Discuss.

No real difference. And the 32x even had extra processors a...
Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting
  06/30/25
what's a custom chip enhancement?
rusted galvanic parlor hunting ground
  06/30/25
SNES cartridges can indeed have custom chips to enhance game...
Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting
  06/30/25
sign of the times
rusted galvanic parlor hunting ground
  06/30/25
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Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting
  06/30/25
total dogshit. let's see the SuperFX chip do Space Harrier o...
irradiated foreskin immigrant
  11/02/25
This is false imo. SNES could not handle Darxide
Insane Fluffy Mental Disorder
  12/01/25
I was the OP of this thread IIRC
Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting
  12/01/25
https://www.sega-16.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Darxide-3...
Insane Fluffy Mental Disorder
  12/01/25
the games were better because they had more effort and polis...
irradiated foreskin immigrant
  12/08/25
32x was hard to develop for for some of the same reasons Sat...
Insane Fluffy Mental Disorder
  12/17/25


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Date: June 30th, 2025 1:43 AM
Author: Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting

No real difference. And the 32x even had extra processors and stuff. Simply embarrassing for Sega at the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49059650)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 1:43 AM
Author: rusted galvanic parlor hunting ground

what's a custom chip enhancement?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49059651)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 1:45 AM
Author: Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting

SNES cartridges can indeed have custom chips to enhance game capabilities. These enhancement chips, like the Super FX chip, were used to provide features like improved 3D graphics that the SNES's main processor couldn't handle on its own.

Here's a breakdown of custom chips in SNES cartridges:

Enhancement Chips:

These are custom processors designed to add specific features to games, such as the Super FX chip for 3D graphics.

Super FX Chip:

This chip was particularly popular for games like Star Fox, which featured 3D polygonal graphics.

Other Enhancement Chips:

The DSP series (DSP-1, DSP-2, etc.) and SA-1 chip were also used in various games for different enhancements.

Coprocessors:

The CX4 chip, for example, was used by Capcom for specific graphics effects.

Reproduction Cartridges:

Modern reproduction cartridges allow users to create their own SNES cartridges with custom ROMs, potentially including enhancement chips if they can source them.

Flash Carts:

Flash cartridges like the SD2SNES (now FXPAK Pro) allow users to load ROMs onto a cartridge, sometimes with support for games using enhancement chips

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49059655)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 1:57 AM
Author: rusted galvanic parlor hunting ground

sign of the times

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49059656)



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Date: June 30th, 2025 12:29 PM
Author: Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49060446)



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Date: November 2nd, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: irradiated foreskin immigrant

total dogshit. let's see the SuperFX chip do Space Harrier or Virtua Racing, let alone VF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEcZlIcWvb4

on the other hand, it easily could've done this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CLfQJUlUq8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49396502)



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Date: December 1st, 2025 10:45 PM
Author: Insane Fluffy Mental Disorder

This is false imo. SNES could not handle Darxide

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49476114)



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Date: December 1st, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Zippy Vengeful Orchestra Pit Famous Landscape Painting

I was the OP of this thread IIRC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49476155)



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Date: December 1st, 2025 11:00 PM
Author: Insane Fluffy Mental Disorder

https://www.sega-16.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Darxide-3.gif

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zFY_-cnGEuY/hqdefault.jpg

https://www.lukiegames.com/assets/images/Genesis/gen32_primal_rage_p_ch2bal.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49476169)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 4:38 AM
Author: irradiated foreskin immigrant

the games were better because they had more effort and polish put into them, not because the hardware was better (it was in fact CONSIDERABLY worse). 32X is more like GBA level but with full resolution and full RAM, which is pretty beastly for anything short of 5th gen standards with textured models everywhere. and even then someone did a pretty good port of tomb raider on it (both 32X and GBA actually).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49493075)



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Date: December 17th, 2025 10:33 PM
Author: Insane Fluffy Mental Disorder

32x was hard to develop for for some of the same reasons Saturn was imo. It was really perfect for 2D fighting games like you had on Saturn. But westerners don’t care about those and 32x was fundamentally a western console, Engineered by Joe Miller.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5744528&forum_id=2id.#49518338)