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We’ve all heard it: "Original hardware on a CRT has 1-2ms of lag." That’s physically impossible when you account for the 68k’s instruction cycle. The button interrupt on the 315-5313 ASIC doesn’t even sample the controller pins until V-Blank. That means worst-case delay is an entire frame (16.6ms) before the CPU acknowledges your jump.
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