1990 - Nintendo
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Documented, not bench-verified
The source trail, toolchain, and proposed milestones are documented. No ROM build, emulator run, or physical SNES bench result is claimed.
Documented means the research path and planned work are public. It does not mean firmware compiled, a simulation ran, or physical hardware passed at the bench.
16-bit icon with a co-processor story built into the cart.
The SNES offloaded compute to the cartridge itself. SA-1, Super FX, DSP-1, and CX4 co-processors lived on the game board, not the motherboard. Fabien Sanglard's clock and cartridge teardowns plus the FullSNES register reference give the clearest modern entry. Homebrew routes through PVSnesLib (C) and WLA-DX with bsnes for cycle-accurate debug.
What the case file proposes next
- Clock discipline
- Cartridge co-processors
- Emulator archaeology
PVSnesLib (C) / WLA-DX / bsnes / Mesen2
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