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#### Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1989)

The Super Nintendo features true stereo sound, multiple scrolling backgrounds and almost twice the internal memory as its competition. The SNES was home to the biggest, baddest games of its day. With player's choice games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country and Super Metroid, the Super NES has sold more than 20 million systems in the U.S. and 46 million systems worldwide. (note taken from www.nintendo.com)

Features:
CPU: Custom 16-bit - 65C816 at 3.58 MHz (Machine adjustable to 3.58, 2.68, and 1.79 Mhz)
Co-processor: None (DSP and SuperFX were inside the cartridge of selected games )
RAM: (?)
Video RAM: (?)
Color Palette: 32,768; 256 max on screen
Maximum Screen Resolution: 512 x 448 pixels
Max # of sprites: 128, 32 per scanline
Max and Min Sprite Size: 64 x 64 pixels; 8 x 8 pixels
Scrolling: Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal
Sound channels: 8 ADPCM with 64 Kb Ram
Sound Processor: Sony SPC700 ("wavetable-like" music, near 16-bit sound quality playback(CD) & Q-Sound surround sound.)
Cart Size: 4Mbit - 128 Megabit Max. (Tengay Maikio at 70+ Megabits is the largest game)
Controller: 8-way direction pad with Select, Start, A, B, X, Y and 2 Flipper buttons labeled R and L
Controller Response: 16ms

Links:
Nintendo - www.nintendo.com

MESS Emulation State:
This driver is preliminary and most images will not work. Super Mario World (US version) is playable.

created on Mon Dec 09 08:16:57 2002