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The TV might refresh the screen 60 times per second (or actually refresh half the screen 60 times per second, or actually 50 times per second in Europe), but that’s irrelevant if the game only throws 20 new frames per second at the TV. The effective refresh rate will still be 20Hz.

That’s just a possible explanation. I don’t know what the refresh rate of Majora’s Mask was.

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otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m pretty sure the 16-bit era were generally 60FPS

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- VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Framerates weren’t really a
  
  Thing.
  
  Before consoles had frame-buffers
  
  The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.
  
  Before that, you were in beam-racing town.
  
  If your processing wasn’t enough to keep up with the TV’s refresh rate (60i/30p in NTSC territories, 50i/25p in PAL) – Things didn’t get stuttery or drop frames like modern games. They’d either literally run in slow-motion, or not display sprites (often both!)
  
  You had the brief window of the HBlank and VBlank intervals of the television to calc stuff and get the next frame ready.
  
  Buuuut, as of the PSX/N64/Saturn, most games were running anywhere between 15 and 60 FPS, with most sitting at the 20s.
  
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  - otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.
    
    I cared about the 3DO…
    
    Thanks for the info though!
    
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