Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

SA-1 Speed Test v5.1 shows some major differences #350

Open
birdybro opened this issue Sep 18, 2022 · 0 comments
Open

SA-1 Speed Test v5.1 shows some major differences #350

birdybro opened this issue Sep 18, 2022 · 0 comments

Comments

@birdybro
Copy link
Member

birdybro commented Sep 18, 2022

The SNES SA-1 Speed Test v5.1 rom from @VitorVilela7 shows some interesting results. This is all tested with the 20220909 release build. These are minor observations, I am not sure if they actually impact gameplay that much at all, but figured it was worth it to document and put here in case it's useful.

MiSTer Results:

Screenshot 2022-09-18 11-44-32

Screenshot 2022-09-18 11-44-38

Screenshot 2022-09-18 11-44-43

Screenshot 2022-09-18 11-44-47

Compare these results to the real hardware tests from QcRetro:

https://github.com/VitorVilela7/SnesSpeedTest/tree/master/img/hardware#1l8b-10-v51

Most results are going quite a bit faster than the original hardware (there may be some hardware variation to account for some of this). The ones that stand out are:

  • Page 3/4 - WRAM - ROM (JMP) is 3 MHz faster on MiSTer.
  • Page 3/4 - ROM - ROM (JMP) is 1.34MHz faster on MiSTer.
  • Page 3/4 - WRAM - ROM (JML) is 1.8MHz faster on MiSTer.
  • Page 3/4 - ROM - ROM (RTL) is 1.5MHz slower on MiSTer.
  • Page 3/4 - ROM - ROM (RTI) is 2.7MHz faster on MiSTer.
  • Page 4/4 ROM - I --> BW-RAM P - Core Speed is 9.2MHz slower on MiSTer. (huge difference for some reason, 0.14MHz instead of 10.34MHz)
  • Page 4/4 ROM - BW --> I-RAM P - Core Speed is 9.26MHz slower on MiSTer. (another huge difference, 0.14MHz instead of 10.40MHz)

I'm not sure if any gameplay is affected by these, just reporting them as @wwark brought it to my attention. There are some other minor differences, but I chose not to include ones that were less than 1MHz difference in the results, since it's possible hardware variance could account for this.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant