Back at the turn of the century, shoving MiniITX motherboards into just about everything was all the rage with the technologist crowd. [waterbury] had the idea of making a computer out of an SNES, … ...

Despite its Nintendo-like appearance, the SupaBoy is unlicensed, and you may be wondering how its developer, Hyperkin, is allowed to sell what amounts to an SNES hardware clone.

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA. [leonllr] has been developing just such a t… ...

The SNES contains two oscillators: a crystal clock that runs at ~21MHz, which controls the CPU and PPUs; and a ceramic resonator that runs at ~24MHz, which controls the SMP and DSP.

The Good The SNES Classic Edition provides a pixel-perfect Super Nintendo experience by packing in 21 games and two authentic SNES gamepads with longer cords. Games can be paused, rewound and saved.

This year’s model, the SNES Classic Edition, offers an even stronger nostalgia hit than the NES Classic, thanks to its meticulously crafted design and well-curated list of games from the 16-bit era.