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It’s been interesting reading the comments that have been posted ever since I put up the series of videos showing various Game Boys and Nintendo DS’s being overclocked with a GBAccelerator DS chip. Most of them fall into the category of “this is totally fake because…”. I’m posting this article as a one-stop source addressing the most common overclocked DS conspiracy theories.

Fake Theory #1: When you overclock something you get better frame rates but the game doesn’t change speeds.

Response: This is true of PCs but not of most handheld game consoles. PCs all run at different speeds, so the games that run on them have to get their timing from something that is independent of the CPU clock. In the olden days PCs had a turbo button to address just this issue. Games would use the system speed to derive their timing, and when faster machines started coming out they would run too fast. Turn off the turbo button and the system would run at the old “slow” speed and the game would run right. After a while they started making the games so that they would run the same on any speed system.

Game Boys, etc. are different. Each and every one runs at the exact same speed, so there is no problem tying the speed the games run at to the clock speed. Speed up the clock and the game runs faster. Slow it down and the game runs slower.

Fake Theory #2: You can see the LED blinking differently for each speed, so the video is just being sped up / slowed down.

Response: The LED is connected to the GBAccelerator DS chip so that it blinks different patterns to let you know what speed mode you are in. Single-blink = fast, double-blink = ultra-fast, fade in/out = slow, and no blinking = normal speed. If there were no mod the LED wouldn’t be blinking at all no matter how fast the video was going.

Fake Theory #3: The hands move faster in the overclocked modes, proving that the video was sped up.

Response: My hands move faster because the game is moving faster and I don’t want to run off the track.

Fake Theory #4: This isn’t a hardware mod. It was done in software or with an R4 card.

Response: I wrote a pretty extensive article explaining how to overclock a game system with hardware. Go have a look and judge for yourself.

Fake Theory #5: Wow, this guy really sucks at Mario Kart!

Response: Umm… There’s a good chance that this one is true.

If you want more details on how to do these mods yourself and find out whether or not they’re real, check these out:
Overclock your DS Lite
Overclock your Nintendo DS
Overclock your Game Boy Advance
Overclock your Game Boy SP
Overclock your Game Boy Micro

Click here to see the videos that started all this.

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