I’ve contributed to Hardcore Gaming 101!

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1. I wanted to add a litte technical profile for my article. Is there any source for this?

   I thought about something like this, but have no idea, what I should and CAN add into a list like that:

   “Processor Ricoh 5A22, based on a 16-bit 65c816 core
   Clock rates (NTSC) Input: 21.47727 MHz
   Additional features
   DMA and HDMA
   Timed IRQ
   Parallel I/O processing
   Hardware multiplication and division
   Resolutions Progressive: 256 × 224, 512 × 224, 256 × 239, 512 × 239
   Interlaced: 512 × 448, 512 × 478
   Pixel depth 2, 4, 7, or 8 bpp indexed; 8 or 11 bpp direct
   Total colors 32768 (15-bit)
   Sprites 128, 32 max per line; up to 64 × 64 pixels
   Backgrounds Up to 4 planes; each up to 1024 × 1024 pixels
   Effects
   Pixelization (mosaic) per background
   Color addition and subtraction
   Clipping windows (per background, affecting color, math, or both)
   Scrolling per 8 × 8 tile
   Mode 7 matrix operations
   Audio Processors Sony SPC700, Sony DSP
   Clock rates Input: 24.576 MHz
   SPC700: 1.024 MHz
   Format 16-bit ADPCM, 8 channels
   Output 32 kHz 16-bit stereo
   Effects
   ADSR envelope control
   Frequency scaling and modulation using Gaussian interpolation
   Echo: 8-tap FIR filter, with up to .24s delay
   Noise generation
   Main RAM 128 kB[f]
   Video RAM 64 kB main RAM
   512 + 32 bytes sprite RAM
   256 × 15 bits palette RAM
   Audio RAM 64 kB
   Cartridges: up to 48 Mbit ROM data and 8mbit battery RAM”

   (Technical profile of the snes xD)

   I wasnt able to find something which is even close to a technicsal profile in the net.