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this interests me greatly, especially after seeing the slowdown while playing Zelda.

Also, I'd like to suggest a hardware group for posts like this one. case mods, anything related to the hardware of the NES.

I wonder if this would help the flicker problem that is apparent on most games? I'd like to get a different NES and try this stuff!

I'm VERY interested in trying this out. I have a couple spare NES consoles laying around, ready for modification, and if I can pull this off, the "clock switch" feature will definitely be making it into the next Necrofamicom.

Well, I've successfully overclocked my spare NES, it's now running at 2.34Mhz

it does help slowdown quite noticably, I've tested the SMB3 level 2 slowdown spot so far, and it's great. although there is some faint "wiggling" on the screen, I'm going to blame that on the fact that this is just a random oscilator that I found (yes, I did check and compare the clock)

now I need to find an ON/ON2 switch and rig it up for the standard clock rate as well, then I'll be set. I'm slowly getting this NES up to what I want.

That's cool! Could you maybe post how you did it, or a pic or something? A tutorial would be awesome!

I second that.
We want photos!
A tutorial would be nice. There are lots on the net, but one good here on the site would be cool.

I just got myself a system that I am going to try the NES overclock on. Before I do this though, I want to know: How do the Megaman games fare after the operation. I thought these games were notoriously the worst for the lag. But if anyone has played through a Megaman at an overclock please let me know about your experience. Thanks.

-jack

Well, on request, I loaded up Megaman 2 and flipped the overclock switch, I'm not seeing any problems at all. so I assume you should fare well, my NES is only overclocked to 2.3Mhz, but it resolves all but the most extreme slowdowns, so there really it's much reason to go beyond that.

Thanks for checking it out for me.
I picked up a few different speeds to play around (24, 30, 35, 48) with.
I can hardly wait.

I'd suspect that the 30 will give the best results, the 24 should work, but 0.2Mhz isn't much of an improvement.

What you might want to do, is pick up an oscillator socket, then you can just pop 'em out and try others without having to desolder and resolder each time.

Im curios on this NES overclocking and I was wondering if there is a tutorial or something. I dont know whats on that link b/c it wont work for me. If someone could get instructions that would be greatly appreciated.

The link works now. the guy was having some problems with his host, so the URL was changed.