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Overclocking your Gameboy Advance

Posted by Hemos on from the we-can-rebuild-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The guys over at Ahead Games are working on an overclock mod for the GBA. They've been able to run it at up to 2x the regular operating speed without any major heat or battery life problems. Now, you're probably asking yourself "Why the hell would anyone want to overclock their Gameboy?" Answer: Super Nintendo emulation. There's already a working beta of a SNES emulator out for the GBA called SNES Advance. The big problem is there's just not enough horsepower under the GBA's hood to emulate the SNES sound chip. This mod will hopefully remedy that."

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  1. Let's have it done by draxredd · · Score: 1, Redundant

    [] Does it run linux ?
    [] Imagine a beowulf cluster of these
    [] In soviet Russia, GBA overclocks YOU


    Pick one and move over.

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    --- Back to the trees, back to the trees !
  2. POCKET SNES = SNES ADVANCE by Lewis+Daggart · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Seriously, look at the guy the site credits. Loopy.

    This site the result of Loopy not getting the domain before releasing pocketsnes. So someone else did, and built a site using his pocketsnes release and barely claming cred it so people like you, naturally, assume that its a different emulator and its an official site.

    Shortly after, Loopy renaimed the emulator to snesadvance. From what I understand, tehy're STILl trying to get the pocketsnes.com people to redit them better or shut down. All pocketsnes is is an old version of snesadvance.

  3. my next question by Quill_28 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why the hell would anyone want to emulate SNES on a Gameboy?

  4. MOD PARENT DOWN by Blublu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    link is a goatse thing

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    meh