All SNES enhancement chips and what they did | White_Pointer Gaming

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The Super Nintendo was designed so that enhancement chips could be built into cartridges to boost functionality. The Super FX is the most famous of these, but what were all of the others, what exactly did they do and what games used them?

0:00 Intro and background
1:00 Super FX and Super FX2
4:41 SA-1
5:21 DSP series
6:08 SDD-1
7:33 CX-4
8:17 ST series, OBC-1, SPC7110, S-RTC
9:37 Conclusion

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