, rather than include an expensive CPU that would still become obsolete in a few years, the hardware designers made it easy to interface special
chips to the console. Rather than require a complicated upgrade procedure found in the IBM PC Compatible world of computers, these certain enhancement chips were included inside the plug-in game cartridges themselves if needed for a specific game. This is most often characterized by 16 additional pins on the cartridge card edge.
that was included in certain game cartridges to perform functions that the main CPU could not feasibly do. It was typically programmed to act as a graphics accelerator chip that would draw polygons to a frame buffer in the
In addition to rendering polygons, the chip was also used to assist the SNES in rendering advanced 2D effects.
used it for advanced graphics effects like sprite scaling and stretching, huge sprites that allowed for
characters to take up the whole screen, and multiple foreground and background parallax layers to give a greater illusion of depth.
This chip went through three revisions, first starting out as a chip-on-board epoxy glob-top in the earliest Star Fox cartridges, labeled as Mario Chip-1 (Mathematical, Argonaut, Rotation & I/O). Within a year, the chip was given a more conventional surface-mount package with the designation GSU-1, commonly called the Super FX. Both versions are clocked with a 21 MHz signal, but an internal clock speed divider halved it to 10.5 MHz. Later on, the design was revised to become the GSU-2, known as the Super FX 2. Unlike the earlier Super FX chips, this version was able to reach 21 MHz. All versions of the Super FX chip are functionally compatible in terms of their instruction set. The differences arise in how they are packaged, their pinout, and their internal clock speed.
The CX4 chip, often incorrectly called the C4, is a math coprocessor that was used by
effects, sprite positioning and rotation. It is known for its role in mapping and transforming wireframes in the final scenes of
A CX4 self-test screen can be accessed by holding the 'B' button on the second controller upon system start-up in both
. In both the
(although differently accessed due to the remapped controller configuration), but not in
The CX4 chip has been accurately emulated in several popular SNES emulators, such as
, allowing both games to be fully compatible with those emulators given that the user has their
chips allowed for fast vector-based calculations, bitmap conversions, both 2D and 3D coordinate transformations, and other functions. Four revisions of the chip exist, each physically identical but with different
. The DSP-1 version, including the later 1A and 1B bug fix revisions, was most often used; the DSP-2, DSP-3, and DSP-4 were used in only one title each.
The DSP-1 is the most varied and widely-used of the SNES DSPs, appearing in over 15 separate titles. It is used as a
scaling and rotation. It also provides fast support for the
calculations needed by 3D math algorithms. The later DSP-1A and DSP-1B serve the same purpose as the DSP-1, however, several bugs were corrected in these later chips.
. Its primary purpose is to convert
image data into the SNES bitplane format. It also provides dynamic scaling capability and transparency effects.
An assistant chip used only in one turn-based strategy game for the Super Famicom in Japan titled
. The chip assisted with tasks like calculating the next AI move, Shannon-Fano bitstream decompression, and bitplane conversion of graphics.
. It primarily helped out with drawing the race track, especially during the times that the track branched into multiple paths, which was a unique feature of this type of game at the time.
. Because the Super NES was not powerful enough for software emulation of the Game Boy, circuitry equivalent to an entire handheld console had to sit inside of the cartridge.
cartridges. The cartridges were equipped with
s, and were designed to hold games downloaded from specialized kiosks for a fee. The chip managed communication with the kiosks to download ROM images, and provided an initial menu to select which of the downloaded games would be played. Some titles were available both in cartridge and download form, while others were download only. The service was closed on February 8, 2007.
s. Designed to handle data compressed by ABS Lossless Entropy Algorithm, a form of
, its use was necessary in games where massive amounts of sprite data had to be compressed with a 32 or 48
data limit in mind. This data is decompressed on-the-fly by the S-DD1 and given directly to the picture processing unit.
. However, the controlling 5A22 processor may still request normal, uncompressed data from the game's ROM even if the S-DD1 is already busy with a decompression operation. This form of
allows sprite data to be decompressed while other types of data are quickly passed to the main CPU.
were the only games that used this chip. It also served as a de facto copy protection that made these titles extremely difficult to emulate.
The Super Accelerator 1 (SA-1) chip was used in a number of SNES games, including the popular
with several programmable timers. The SA-1 does not function as a slave CPU for the 5A22; both can interrupt each other independently.
.
. Likely based on the same microcontroller core as the ST010.
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Mega Man X2Mega Man X2 was released in 1994 by Capcom and is the second game in the Mega Man X sub-franchise. It used the same graphics engine from the first installment of the series, but Capcom included an in-cartridge enhancement known as the Cx4 chip to improve semitransparencies and allow for some 3D...
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CX4 |
| Capcomis a leading international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines...
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Capcomis a leading international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines...
(NA) (JP) (EU) |
| Mega Man X3 Mega Man X3 is a video game released in by Capcom. It was the third game in the Mega Man X sub-franchise and the last to appear on the Super Nintendo....
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CX4 |
| Capcomis a leading international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines...
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Capcomis a leading international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines...
(NA) (JP) |
| Armored Trooper Votoms: The Battling Road |
DSP-1 |
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Takara Takara Co., Ltd. was a Japanese toy company founded in 1955, that merged with another prominent Japanese toy company, Tomy Co., Ltd., on March 1, 2006.The company motto was 「遊びは文化」 which means "playing is culture."-Toys:...
(JP) |
| Bike Daisuki! - Rider's Spirits |
DSP-1 |
| GenkiGenki is a Japanese developer of computer and video games. It was founded in October 1990 by Hiroshi Hamagaki and Tomo Kimura, who left Sega to form the company. Genki is best-known for their racing game titles.-History:...
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NCS (JP) |
| Final Stretch |
DSP-1 |
| GenkiGenki is a Japanese developer of computer and video games. It was founded in October 1990 by Hiroshi Hamagaki and Tomo Kimura, who left Sega to form the company. Genki is best-known for their racing game titles.-History:...
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LOZC (JP) |
| Lock-On Lock-On is a 1986 rail shooter game with a futuristic theme. It is developed by Tatsumi and licensed to Data East for US distribution. Features scaling sprites, a one-point perspective ground and a full-screen rotation effect....
/ Super Air Diver |
DSP-1 |
| Vic Tokaiis a leading telecommunications force in Japan providing cable and DSL services as well as network solutions. The "Vic" in Vic Tokai's name stands for Valuable Information & Communication while the "Tokai" is simply the name of its parent company TOKAI, a Japanese natural gas utility founded in...
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Vic Tokaiis a leading telecommunications force in Japan providing cable and DSL services as well as network solutions. The "Vic" in Vic Tokai's name stands for Valuable Information & Communication while the "Tokai" is simply the name of its parent company TOKAI, a Japanese natural gas utility founded in...
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| Michael Andretti's Indy Car Challenge is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game sponsored by Michael Andretti. The game features Champ Car action. There are many modes of play including single race, season mode, and the option to disable the sound and/or music. One or two players can join in on the action...
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DSP-1 |
| GenkiGenki is a Japanese developer of computer and video games. It was founded in October 1990 by Hiroshi Hamagaki and Tomo Kimura, who left Sega to form the company. Genki is best-known for their racing game titles.-History:...
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Bullet Proof Software (NA) (JP) |
Pilotwingsis a Nintendo video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, originally released in 1990, and included with the system in some early packages. A flight simulator game, Pilotwings features lessons and goals in light plane flight, rocketbelt, hang glider, and skydiving...
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DSP-1 |
| Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(NA) (JP) (EU) |
| Shutokō Battle '94: Keichii Tsuchiya Drift King , is a Japan-only racing game for the Super Famicom where the player controls a stock car across various circuits in either scenario or practice mode. It was published by Bullet-Proof Software...
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DSP-1 |
| GenkiGenki is a Japanese developer of computer and video games. It was founded in October 1990 by Hiroshi Hamagaki and Tomo Kimura, who left Sega to form the company. Genki is best-known for their racing game titles.-History:...
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Bullet-Proof Software (JP) |
| Shutokō Battle 2: Drift King Keichii Tsuchiya & Masaaki Bandoh |
DSP-1 |
| GenkiGenki is a Japanese developer of computer and video games. It was founded in October 1990 by Hiroshi Hamagaki and Tomo Kimura, who left Sega to form the company. Genki is best-known for their racing game titles.-History:...
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Bullet-Proof Software (JP) |
Suzuka 8 HoursSuzuka 8 Hours is an arcade game released by Namco in 1992 . It is similar in play to Final Lap, but with motorcycles instead of race cars.A sequel to this game, Suzuka 8 Hours 2, was released by Namco in 1993.-SNES version:...
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DSP-1 |
| Namco, is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history...
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Namco, is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history...
(JP) |
Suzuka 8 Hours 2Suzuka 8 Hours is an arcade game released by Namco in 1992 . It is similar in play to Final Lap, but with motorcycles instead of race cars.A sequel to this game, Suzuka 8 Hours 2, was released by Namco in 1993.-SNES version:...
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DSP-1 |
| Namco, is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history...
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Namco, is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history...
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| Super 3D Baseball |
DSP-1 |
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JalecoPizza Pop redirects here, for the frozen pizza snack, see Pizza Pops. is a video game publisher and developer established in 2006.The original Jaleco Ltd was founded in 1974...
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| Super Air Diver 2 |
DSP-1 |
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Asmik (JP) |
| Super Bases Loaded 2 Super Bases Loaded 2 is a Super NES baseball game. Unlike its predecessor, Super Bases Loaded, this game is easier to play.The game is the sixth overall installment of the Bases Loaded series, and second installment of the secondary series for the Super Nintendo. The series spanned three...
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DSP-1 |
| JalecoPizza Pop redirects here, for the frozen pizza snack, see Pizza Pops. is a video game publisher and developer established in 2006.The original Jaleco Ltd was founded in 1974...
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JalecoPizza Pop redirects here, for the frozen pizza snack, see Pizza Pops. is a video game publisher and developer established in 2006.The original Jaleco Ltd was founded in 1974...
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| Super F1 Circus Gaiden |
DSP-1 |
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Nichibutsu (JP) |
Super Mario Kartis a go-kart racing game developed by Nintendo EAD for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . The first game of the Mario Kart series, it was launched in Japan on 27 August 1992, in North America on 1 September 1992 and in Europe on 21 January 1993. Selling eight million copies worldwide, the...
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DSP-1/1B |
| Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(NA) (JP) (EU) |
| Touge Densetsu: Saisoku Battle |
DSP-1 |
| GenkiGenki is a Japanese developer of computer and video games. It was founded in October 1990 by Hiroshi Hamagaki and Tomo Kimura, who left Sega to form the company. Genki is best-known for their racing game titles.-History:...
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Bullet-Proof Software (JP) |
| Ace o Nerae! 3D Tennis |
DSP-1A |
| Telenet Japan was a Japanese video game and software developer founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. The company was also known as Nippon Telenet . The company was best known for the Valis series as well as its Wolfteam & RiOT divisions...
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Telenet Japan was a Japanese video game and software developer founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. The company was also known as Nippon Telenet . The company was best known for the Valis series as well as its Wolfteam & RiOT divisions...
(JP) |
| Ballz 3D |
DSP-1B |
| PF Magic PF Magic was a video game developer founded in 1991 and located in San Francisco, California. Though it developed other types of video games, it was best known for its virtual pet games, such as Dogz and Catz. The company was able to make extra revenue by selling plush toys under the Petz trademark...
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AccoladeAccolade was an American video game developer and publisher of the 1980s and 1990s. It was founded in 1984 by game industry veterans Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead...
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| Dungeon Master |
DSP-2 |
| FTL GamesFTL Games was the video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the company's small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers and received the highest critical acclaim and industry awards.FTL was...
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JVC Victor, usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927...
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| SD Gundam GX |
DSP-3 |
| BECBandai Entertainment, Inc. is an anime distribution company, owned by the Japanese enterprise Namco Bandai Holdings. It is involved in the distribution of numerous anime in North America, as well as manga and other merchandising ventures related to anime....
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Bandaiis a Japanese toy making company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third largest producer of toys. Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs....
(JP) |
Top Gear 3000Top Gear 3000 was a sequel to the 1992 video game Top Gear for the Super NES. It is a racing game similar to the original in gameplay, but set in the distant future with 48 different tracks on alien planets, and a variety of environments.-Comparison to series:As the name implies, the game is set...
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DSP-4 |
| Gremlin InteractiveGremlin Interactive was a British software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the home computer market. The company was established in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd. and renamed in 1994. Gremlin's early success was based on games like Wanted: Monty Mole and Thing on a Spring...
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Kemco , sometimes referred to as Kotobuki System Co., Ltd., is a Japanese video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as a subsidiary of Kotobuki Engineering & Manufacturing Co., Ltd....
(NA) (JP) (EU) |
Metal Combat: Falcon's RevengeMetal Combat: Falcon's Revenge is a mecha-themed light gun shooting game released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in produced by Nintendo and Intelligent System...
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OBC-1 |
| Intelligent Systemsis a Japanese First-Party video game developer and internal team of Nintendo Co., Ltd.Intelligent Systems came into being when members of Nintendo's Nintendo Research & Development 1 division headed by Gunpei Yokoi splintered off into its own development team...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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| Daisenryaku Expert WWII: War in Europe |
SA-1 |
| SystemSoft Alpha SystemSoft Alpha Corporation is a Japanese software development company.Formerly just "System Soft", they have a long series of mainly military strategic simulation games popular in the Japan market...
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ASCII Corporationwas a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication.-Early ASCII :ASCII was...
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| Derby Jockey 2 |
SA-1 |
| Muse Soft |
Asmik |
| Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension |
SA-1 |
| TOSE is a video game development company based in Kyoto, Japan. It is most known for developing Nintendo's Game & Watch Gallery series, as well as other Nintendo products...
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Bandaiis a Japanese toy making company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third largest producer of toys. Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs....
(JP) (EU) |
| Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. 1 |
SA-1 |
| HAL Laboratory is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the Super Smash Bros. series...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(JP) |
| J. League '96 Dream Stadium |
SA-1 |
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Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
(JP) |
Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodiusis the fourth game in a series of parody shooters produced by Konami. The gameplay is stylistically very similar to the Gradius series, but the graphics and music are intentionally absurd. The game, as its name would suggest, contains a large amount of Japanese voice samples shouted out in a style...
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SA-1 |
| Konamiis a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
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Konamiis a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
(JP) |
| Jumpin' Derby |
SA-1 |
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Naxat Soft Kaga Create Co.,Ltd. is a Japan-based video game developing and publishing division of Kaga Electronics.The company initially released games for the PC Engine...
(JP) |
| Kakinoki Shogi |
SA-1 |
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ASCII Corporationwas a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication.-Early ASCII :ASCII was...
(JP) |
Kirby Super StarKirby Super Star, known in Europe as Kirby's Fun Pak and in Japan as is a 1995 platforming video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. It was first released in Japan on July 31, 1995, in North America on...
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SA-1 |
| HAL Laboratory is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the Super Smash Bros. series...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(NA) (JP) (EU) |
Kirby's Dream Land 3Kirby's Dream Land 3, known in Japan as , is the fifth platformer video game starring Kirby. Specifically, it is the third game under the Kirby's Dream Land name. Although the first two games were largely unrelated, Dream Land 3 features many similar characters to Dream Land 2...
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SA-1 |
| HAL Laboratory is a Japanese video game developer that was founded on February 21, 1980. Its name comes from the HAL 9000 computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The company is most famous for its character Kirby, the protagonist of the eponymous game series, as well as the Super Smash Bros. series...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(NA) (JP) |
| Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajima |
SA-1 |
| Nintendo R&D2 Nintendo Research and Development 2 was a team within Nintendo that developed software and peripherals. R&D2 did not develop any software titles for the first decade at Nintendo...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(JP) |
| Masters New: Haruka Naru Augusta 3 |
SA-1 |
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T&E Soft Technology and Entertainment Software is a Japanese based video game developer founded in 1982. Although they have made games with a wide variety of genres, they are primarily known in the U.S...
(JP) |
| PGA Tour '96 PGA Tour is the collective name of a series of golf video games published by Electronic Arts and later their EA Sports sub-label from 1990 to 1998, when EA began publishing their golf games with the endorsement of Tiger Woods...
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SA-1 |
| Black Pearl Software |
Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts is an international developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible...
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| Super Robot Taisen Gaiden: Masō Kishin - The Lord Of Elemental |
SA-1 |
| Winkysoft Winkysoft is a Japanese video game developing company. They have made several video games for the Famicom, the Sega Dreamcast and the Sony PlayStation console systems...
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Banprestois a Japanese game development firm. It was founded April 1977 as Hoei Sangyo, Co. Ltd. The company was renamed Coreland in 1982, and during the 1980s it worked mainly as a subcontractor for Sega and its arcade division. It has been partially owned by Bandai since 1989, when it gained its current...
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| Mini 4WD Shining Scorpion Let's & Go!! |
SA-1 |
| KIDKID, whose name is an acronym of Kindle Imagine Develop, was a Japan-based company specializing in porting and developing bishōjo games....
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ASCII Corporationwas a publishing company based in Tokyo, Japan. It became a subsidiary of Kadokawa Group Holdings in 2004, and merged with another Kadokawa subsidiary MediaWorks on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. The company published Monthly ASCII as the main publication.-Early ASCII :ASCII was...
(JP) |
| Pebble Beach no Hotou: New Tournament Edition is a Super Famicom golf-related video game that takes place in Pebble Beach. The golfing engine is very complex and it takes many button pushes on the game pad in order to deliver a single stroke. There is match play, stroke play, and even tournament mode. Anywhere from 1 to 4 players can play this...
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SA-1 |
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T&E Soft Technology and Entertainment Software is a Japanese based video game developer founded in 1982. Although they have made games with a wide variety of genres, they are primarily known in the U.S...
(JP) |
| PGA European Tour |
SA-1 |
| Halestorm |
THQTHQ Inc. is a worldwide international American developer and publisher of video games. Founded in 1989, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices.The company publishes internally created and externally...
/ Black Pearl Software |
| Power Rangers Zeo: Battle Racers Power Rangers Zeo: Battle Racers was a SNES game released in September 1996 by Bandai. The game was based on the Zeo generation of Power Rangers. It featured Mode 7 graphics much like many of the SNES 'Kart' style games in the period. The game allowed for single play or 2 player split screen...
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SA-1 |
| Natsume |
Bandaiis a Japanese toy making company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third largest producer of toys. Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs....
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| SD F-1 Grand Prix is a Japan-only Super Famicom game where the player gets to control cute and cuddly cartoon animals in cutesy race tracks inspired by real life Formula One race tracks in a cutesy alternate universe. An exception to this rule would be the U.S. oval track...
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SA-1 |
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Video System was a software company that was founded in Japan in December 1984. It was best known for making video game titles for different platforms, including the Super Nintendo, Neo-Geo and Nintendo 64...
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| SD Gundam G NEXT SD Gundam G Generation is a series of strategy-RPG video games that focus on the Gundam anime franchise.-History:The G Generation series technically began in 1996, when Bandai released a series of six games for Nintendo's Super Famicon console's Sufami Turbo add-on, each focusing on a particular...
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SA-1 |
| BECBandai Entertainment, Inc. is an anime distribution company, owned by the Japanese enterprise Namco Bandai Holdings. It is involved in the distribution of numerous anime in North America, as well as manga and other merchandising ventures related to anime....
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Bandaiis a Japanese toy making company, as well as the producer of a large number of plastic model kits. It is the world's third largest producer of toys. Some ex-Bandai group companies produce anime and tokusatsu programs....
(JP) |
| Shin Shogi Club |
SA-1 |
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Hect , was a Japanese video game developer which published a number of Famicom games both in Japan and abroad, among others Great Deal, Moon Crystal and Golf Grand Slam....
(JP) |
| Shogi Saikyou |
SA-1 |
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Magical Company (JP) |
| Shogi Saikyou 2 |
SA-1 |
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Magical Company (JP) |
| Super Bomberman Panic Bomber World |
SA-1 |
| Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
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Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
(JP) |
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven StarsSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, often shortened and officially known in Japan as , is a hybrid adventure/console role-playing game developed by Square and published by Nintendo. Nintendo first released the game on March 9, 1996 in Japan and on May 13, 1996 in North America...
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SA-1 |
| Squarewas a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became part of Square Enix.Squaresoft was also a brand name used by Square between 1992 and 2003. As such, the name is often used to refer to the entire organization, but the Japanese...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
(NA) (JP) |
Star Oceanis the first of the Star Ocean video game series developed by tri-Ace and published by Enix, made for the Super Famicom. It is also the first game that was developed by tri-Ace. It was never released outside of Japan due to the closing of Enix's American division, Enix America Corporation...
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S-DD1 |
| tri-Aceis a Japanese video game development company formed in 1995 by former Telenet Japan employees Yoshiharu Gotanda , Masaki Norimoto and Joe Asanuma . The name is a play on words regarding the "three aces" who formed the company...
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EnixThe was a Japanese company that produced video games, Anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as and renamed Enix in 1982...
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Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia, South America and Spain, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is a sequel to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter II...
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S-DD1 |
| Capcomis a leading international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines...
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Capcomis a leading international developer and publisher of video games headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It was founded in 1979 as Japan Capsule Computers, a company devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines...
(NA) (JP) |
| Dai Kaiju Monogatari 2 |
S-RTC |
| Birthday |
Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
(JP) |
| Far East of Eden Zero is a widely popular series of traditional console RPGs that are available in Japan and Taiwan.Though originally intended to be only three games, it has grown to encompass a number of remakes, gaidens and genre spin-offs across a variety of platforms...
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Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
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| Momotaro Dentetsu Happy is a long-running board game-style video game series in Japan; in which players travel by rail, ship, and airplane; attempting to acquire wealth through business transactions buying properties; and dealing with rival entrepreneurs and nemeses such as the...
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Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
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Hudson Soft is a electronic entertainment publisher headquartered in Japan. It was founded on May 18 1973. Initially, Hudson dealt with personal computer products, but has expanded to the development and publishing of video games, mobile content, and video game peripherals. As of 2003, the company employs...
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F1 ROC II: Race of ChampionsF1 ROC II: Race of Champions is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game that takes place in the not-so-distant future. The game is known in Japan as...
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ST010 |
| SETA Corporation |
SETA Corporation (NA) (JP) |
| Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shogi |
ST011 |
| Random HouseRandom House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing...
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| Hayazashi Nidan Morita Shogi 2 |
ST018 |
| Random HouseRandom House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing...
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SETA Corporation (JP) |
| Dirt Trax FX Dirt Trax FX is a racing video game developed by Sculptured Software and released by Acclaim Entertainment for the Super Nintendo in 1995. The 3D graphics of the game were made possible by the Super FX GSU-1 processor which was built into the cartridge....
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| Sculptured Software Sculptured Software Inc. was a late twentieth century video game developer in the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area. They specialized in porting games to different platforms, especially from arcade games to home console games.-History:...
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Acclaim EntertainmentAcclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and Game Gear, Nintendo's NES, SNES, Nintendo...
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| Star Fox / Starwing |
Super FX GSU-1 |
| Nintendo EAD, Argonaut Argonaut Games plc was a British video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982 the company name is a play on his name and the movie title Jason and the Argonauts.-History:...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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Stunt Race FXStunt Race FX, known in Japan as , is a cartoon-style, 3D-racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD with the assistance of Argonaut Software and published by Nintendo for the Super NES. It was the second game to use the 3D-centric Super FX chip.-Gameplay:Stunt Race FX appears to be like a zany...
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| Nintendo EAD, Argonaut Argonaut Games plc was a British video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982 the company name is a play on his name and the movie title Jason and the Argonauts.-History:...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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VortexVortex is a 3D shooter game developed by Argonaut Software and released by Electro Brain for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in September 1994...
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| Argonaut Games Argonaut Games plc was a British video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982 the company name is a play on his name and the movie title Jason and the Argonauts.-History:...
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Electro Brain Electro Brain was a gaming company. They brought over Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth for the Nintendo 64, as well as developed and as well as published games like Go! Go! Tank, Super Cars for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Jim Power: Lost Dimension in 3D for the Super Nintendo Entertainment...
(NA), Pack-In-Videois a Japanese video game publisher and developer which developed a wide range of games for the Famicom platform. The games published were mostly focused on the Japanese market although a few titles have been published abroad...
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ComancheComanche is a series of simulation games published by NovaLogic. The goal of each of these games is to fly military missions in a RAH-66 Comanche helicopter gunship, which was in development and prototyping at the time of release....
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Super FX GSU-2 |
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Nova Logic |
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| Dirt Racer |
Super FX GSU-2 |
| MotiveTime |
Elite Systems Elite Systems is a UK video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as Richard Wilcox Software. They are best known for producing home computer conversions of popular arcade games...
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| Doom |
Super FX GSU-2 |
| Sculptured Software Sculptured Software Inc. was a late twentieth century video game developer in the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area. They specialized in porting games to different platforms, especially from arcade games to home console games.-History:...
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Williams (NA), Imagineer (JP), OceanOcean Software was one of the biggest European video game developers/publishers of the 1980s and 90s. The successor company is Infogrames UK.The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and was based in Manchester...
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| Powerslide |
Super FX GSU-2 |
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Elite Systems Elite Systems is a UK video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as Richard Wilcox Software. They are best known for producing home computer conversions of popular arcade games...
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Elite Systems Elite Systems is a UK video game developer and publisher established in 1984 as Richard Wilcox Software. They are best known for producing home computer conversions of popular arcade games...
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| FX Fighter FX Fighter is a video game developed by Argonaut Games and released by GTE Entertainment in 1995. It was an early realtime 3D fighting game to be developed for the PC...
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Super FX GSU-2 |
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Argonaut Games Argonaut Games plc was a British video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982 the company name is a play on his name and the movie title Jason and the Argonauts.-History:...
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GTE Entertainment (NA) (EU) |
Star Fox 2is an unreleased video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was to be the second of the Star Fox series and the direct sequel to Star Fox. Both Argonaut Games and Nintendo developed the game, with Nintendo planning to publish it. The Japanese version was completely finished except...
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Super FX GSU-2 |
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Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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| Super Mario FX |
Super FX GSU-2 |
cancelled |
Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's IslandSuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, originally released as in Japan, is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console. It was released on August 5, 1995 in Japan, October 4, 1995 in North America and October 6, 1995 in Europe. A port...
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| Nintendo EAD |
Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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| Winter Gold / FX Skiing |
Super FX GSU-2 |
| FuncomFuncom Productions A/S is a Norwegian video game developer specializing in online games. It is best known for the Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game titles Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, and its The Longest Journey series of adventure games...
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Nintendo is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
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