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Super Smash Bros target tests heavily rely on pause buffers

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To perfectly execute intensely demanding inputs, players rapidly mash the pause button to advance the screen one visual update at a time. It completely turns a fast-paced platforming challenge into an excruciatingly slow slide show of absolute frame precision.

Super Smash Bros target tests heavily rely on pause buffers
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