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So it was like a primitive graphics card?


Kind of? SuperFX was essentially a second CPU paired with RAM that served as a framebuffer. You would set a pointer that contained code in its ISA format and it would asynchronously calculate graphics (almost like a second thread) and dump it into the RAM, which the SNES would then DMA right into its tile-based VRAM.




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