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A '''frame''' is a length of time in which a consecutive image is displayed on a screen. The term can also refer to the image being rendered in this time. The normal '''framerate''' of ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' is 30 FPS, meaning that 30 frames are rendered on-screen in a single second, but lag can decrease this frequency. Later games have largely adopted a 60 FPS framerate.

==Phenomena==
Normally, having a button down for two or more consecutive frames will be identified as a [[button hold]], even if the button was [[Button press|pressed]] separately on each frame. This is unlikely to cause issues in real-time gameplay, but it can prove problematic in tool-assisted speedrunning. Pausing the game will separate these frames without changing any in-game states.

A variable called the [[global timer]] increases by 1 on every frame. Some events occur depending on the parity of the global timer, or depending on other functions such as trigonometric calculations, so [[pause buffering]] can be used to alter the state of the game.
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