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		wk_end on April 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges Unlike modern chips with cache hierarchies and the like, the 65816 is designed to run in lock step with the memory it’s accessing. A faster CPU would have necessitated faster RAM in the system and faster ROMs on the carts too. Games were expensive enough as it was, then.

Dwedit on April 22, 2024 [–]

N64 would be the first Nintendo home console to use a cache.

Then Nintendo DS was the first Nintendo handheld to use a cache.

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