Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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Original North American Model 1 (1991–1997)
Original Japanese version (1990–1998)

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (also known as the Super NES, SNES or Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit video game console that was released in 1990 by Nintendo in Japan, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe & Australasia (Oceania), and South America in 1993. In Japan, the system is called the Super Famicom (スーパーファミコン?, officially adopting the abbreviated name of its predecessor, the Family Computer), or SFC for short. In South Korea, it is known as the Super Comboy (슈퍼 컴보이) and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics.

Hardware

CPU

Processor: Ricoh 5A22, based on a 16-bit 65C816 core

Clock rates (NTSC):

  • Input: 21.47727 MHz
  • Bus: 3.58 MHz, 2.68 MHz, or 1.79 MHz

Clock rates (PAL):

  • Input: 21.28137 MHz
  • Bus: 3.55 MHz, 2.66 MHz, or 1.77 MHz

Buses: 24-bit and 8-bit address buses, 8-bit data bus

Additional features:

  • DMA and HDMA
  • Timed IRQ
  • Parallel I/O processing
  • Hardware multiplication and division

Video

Audio

RAM

Add-ons