Gradius Origins

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Originally Posted by heyadol

I heard ROM hackers fixed the horrendous slow down and flicker in Gradius III (and Super R-Type) for SNES, it’s almost too bad M2 didn’t get to take a stab at fixing it as well.

The FAST Rom hacks in the SNES scene are awesome. Most assume incorrectly that slowdown and flicker is always caused by the "slow" SNES cpu which isn't the case. A lot of times it's because companies opted for cheaper and slower ROM in the carts. This causes the cpu to run at 2.68mhz rather than the flatout 3.58mhz to match the ROM speed which really hampers games with a lot of sprites on screen.