heres a quick question, if i were to do a completely normal mario odyssey any% run on 1.0 but with an overclocked switch, would that be allowed, because its not on emulator and the rules dont say you cant over clock your switch, so i was just curious
I would imagine you cannot modify your console in a way that gains an advantage in a run over an unmodded switch, even though you are right it actualy doesn't say anything about it in the rules lol
What exactly would overclocking do anyways
overclocking lets a device run faster by getting the CPU to run faster than intended.
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so i could do a 1.0 run with 1.3 load times cause smo 1.0 is redundant in any% anyway
