The Sufami Turbo is, essencially, an Aladdin Deck Enhancer for the Super Famicom, with a few twists. This device, made by Bandai, inserts into the SFC deck, and has two (!) smaller ports on top to accept special small Sufami Turbo cartridges. These games are very similar to those NES Aladdin games; they are similar sized, and similarly shaped. Two games used simultaneously with the Sufami Turbo can share game resources. The games cost less than normal SFC games, because they are cheaper to manufacture, I guess. I assume Bandai still had to pay Nintendo the licensee fee for each ST cart though. I don't think the device "upgrades" the SFC, like the Aladdin does the NES (provide extra RAM, etc.). 



This device is quite rare, I believe. This device was going for $60 (with 2 ST carts) within one day of being put up for auction at eBay! All ST games are based on popular animes, both in Japan and the US, which is another reason this device and its carts go for so much. 
		
		

	

	
	

		
		

			Car Ranger



Crayon Shin Chan



Ge Ge Ge Kitarou



Poi Poi Ninja World



SD Gundam Generations 



SD Gundam Generations B



SD Gundam Generations C



SD Gundam Generations D



SD Gundam Generations E



SD Gundam Generations F



SD Ultra Battle: Seven Densetsu



SD Ultra Battle: Ultraman Densetsu



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			Originally posted by CrazyGoon@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 01:07 PM



I'd say they both look and sound unique - both look and sound good, and it's just a preference of what looks/ sounds good for you. Unless the graphics/ sounds were done with the same hardware, I see no reasonable comparison with the graphics and sound.



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			Originally posted by RolfWrenWalsh@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 01:11 PM



Stars Fuwa Fuwa Panic completely owns. I love that game.




		
		

	

	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by RolfWrenWalsh@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 12:52 AM



She's basically pointing out the techincal superority of the SFC to the MegaDrive.



How about a 32x vs SFC comparison?  



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			Originally posted by RolfWrenWalsh@Sun, 2004-10-31 @ 11:52 PM



She's basically pointing out the techincal superority of the SFC to the MegaDrive.



How about a 32x vs SFC comparison?  



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			Originally posted by ExCyber@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 10:04 AM



That's okay, the SNES CPU is 8-bit also. 



I think this may be the single most important difference between SNES and Genesis. It is possible to do good art with 9-bit color, but apparently it's not easy.



That's a pretty trivial difference in the grand scheme of things. For this kind of hardware the really important thing is sprite pixels per scanline...



This is mostly a convenience issue. Nothing (except sprite pixels per scanline...) stops a programmer from assembling 4 32x32 sprites to create a 64x64 sprite.



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			Originally posted by ExCyber@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 09:04 AM



That's okay, the SNES CPU is 8-bit also. 



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			Originally posted by ExCyber@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 08:04 AM



That's okay, the SNES CPU is 8-bit also. 



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			Originally posted by Alexvrb@Tue, 2004-11-02 @ 07:37 AM



Anyway, Des is only going to point out the raw numbers that weigh in her favor, obviously. We wouldn't want to compare the 65c816 to the Motorola 68000. Of course it was technically superior overall, but it is built with much newer hardware. It's sad enough that it has the problems that it does, and indeed that many of the more graphically impressive games use extra chips to help them along.




		
		

	

	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by ExCyber@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 03:05 PM



Really, processors like the 8088, 65816, and 68000 just illustrate the futility of trying to categorize a CPU's overall "width", because they mix and match a bunch of stuff. 65816 is "16-bit" in the sense that it has a 16-bit ALU (i.e. it can do 16-bit math), but if you want to go by ALU and register width then the Genesis and Neo-Geo are 32-bit. 



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			I have always compared/ categorised consoles though their graphics 'bit'. Ie, all next gen (this gen) consoles have 128-bit graphics.