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The Super 8 was an unlicensed peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES, known in Asia as the Super Famicom) video game console designed to allow the system to run games developed for the Nintendo Entertainment System (known in as Asia as the Famicom). It was also occasionally sold as either the Tristar or Tri-star.

The Super 8 utilized an NES-on-a-chip (NOAC) integrated circuit to duplicate the functionality of the original NES hardware, and connected to the SNES's own cartridge port. The device itself featured three cartridge ports. Two of these ports connected to the onboard NOAC, and were designed to fit NES and Famicom cartridges, respectively: despite otherwise featuring the exact same hardware, North American and European NES game cartridges used a 72-pin design, resulting in slightly larger cartridges than the Famicom, which used a 60-pin design. The third port was designed to fit standard SNES cartridges, and merely connected with the SNES's native hardware, so that the user would not have to remove the Super 8 in order to play SNES games.

A similar idea was later employed for the Tristar 64, an accessory for the Nintendo 64 console with the ability to play both NES and SNES cartridges.

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