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		xcv123 on April 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges The SNES has a 65C816. That's a 16 bit CPU, not a 6502. It can process more data per clock cycle than the 8-bit 65C02 in the TurboGrafx.

nicole_express on April 22, 2024 [–]

This is irrelevant for external memory, however, because it only has an 8-bit data bus.

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