as cool as this is i can't get past that after 20 years the game is available behind an $80 paywall. i'll bite the bullet if supply issues are ironed out this time but thats a stretch
The shift from space opera to B-rated scifi flick never sat well with a lot of old SF fans.How do you hate SF64?
What is wrong with you?
It was an issue with the Super FX Chip emulation. But it seems to be resolved now.
I was under the belief that it had to do with patents or rights or something regarding the Super FX chip/code and not actually problems emulating, but I don't remember fully.But how? Every amateur-hour SNES emulator out there has Super FX working flawlessly. How could Nintendo have problems with this?
If Star Fox 2 van happen, so can Mother 3!
Im 100% sure this is happening now. Nintendo has been on one latelyGiven the Metroid announcements, then this, I'm expecting an F-Zero announcement within 12 months.
Other SNES games of interest are of course the BS titles. Games like F-Zero 2 and Wrecking Crew '98 are pretty much complete games,
Boy I can't wait for the proper introduction of two new female characters for the internet to draw never ending amounts of furry porn for. Krystal's got her work cut out for her now.
I want Star Fox 2 but I could do without the above
But how? Every amateur-hour SNES emulator out there has Super FX working flawlessly. How could Nintendo have problems with this?
I was under the belief that it had to do with patents or rights or something regarding the Super FX chip/code and not actually problems emulating, but I don't remember fully.
So what can we expect in this official/finalized release that weren't in the leaked rom?
$80 might be worth it for this game alone.
I just want Dino Crisis to come back
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Also condolences to the OPs loss. Even if it's something he's coped with now.
It will be at least somewhat. The rom was actually unfinished and unplayable until hackers fixed it.
Dylan Cuthbert (OG developer of StarFox) said that the completed rom existed in Nintendo, and I think he said the rom that was out there wasn't the full thing.
I don't expect a lot of different content at all. But just having the real thing, not needing to be hacked to play, will be worth it.
#1: every amateur hour snes emulator is literally just using Snes9x source code, and the superfx emulation took a good couple years to get that good... So don't just knock it randomly.But how? Every amateur-hour SNES emulator out there has Super FX working flawlessly. How could Nintendo have problems with this?
I hope there's an Iwata Asks-style interview for this game when the SNES Classic is closer to release. There's definitely a lot to the story of the game's cancellation that we don't know about. I don't buy Miyamoto's reasoning that they wanted to differentiate the SNES from the N64. There has to be more to it than that.
Great.
I hope there'll be enough interest for Star Fox 2 and then Nintendo decides to make a proper Star Fox game for Switch and they give a proper treatment after how badly they handled the franchise with busts like Adventures, Assault, Command and Zero.
I do. Maybe that wasn't the best way of phrasing it but the idea that Star Fox 2 wouldn't sell next to N64 3D graphics makes sense to me, the visuals were a huge part of the appeal for the first game back in the day, and Nintendo probably wanted to put as much marketing focus on the N64 as possible at the time.
? Pretty sure Nintendo already paid them and own the rights for the game.Sooo... will Nintendo be paying some royalties to the former developers of the game? Or will they be a dick to them ... just like always.
Here's a task for you cool game journalists out there - find out who the hell is the person that cares about old shit at Nintendo.
Because Starfox 2 isn't just some normal thing. Earthbound 0 isn't some normal thing. This is not something Nintendo would normally do.
Miyamoto's not running around going "You know what? Find that old data tape with a copy of Starfox 2 on it & put it on the SNES Mini". Reggie's not going "You know what would be cool? Let's find that 25 year old ROM of Mother 1 and release it for shits and giggles"
One of us, one of us dumb idiots who knows too much about secret Nintendo history, got themselves inside and came to power. And they've somehow used that power to crawl through data tapes & somehow convince old executives to release them. Madness!
In the same way Sonic Mania is made from crazy people who've cared way too much about this stuff, Nintendo has a secret idiot too. Let us find them and worship their madness. Praise be them for all eternity.
I hate to be a debbie downer, but Starfox 2 is not a good game. Miyamoto knew, that's why they didnt release it.
I can't believe Star Fox 2 never released. The excuse given is absolutely ridiculous.
Now that we know Star Fox 2 was fully mastered, QA'd, and ready to be shipped, the excuse is even weaker. It truely is a shame what Nintendo did to this game, because myself and millions of others would have had a blast with it back in 1995.
It has nothing to do with the quality. They didn't release it because it was a SNES 3D game releasing near N64 and a year after PSX.
It's also quite good, based on the not complete prototype available online.
There are very few games (that we know of) that got that close to completion/release but were withheld for some weird reason. Most of the huge omissions are unlocalized stuff, like mother 3 or Seiken 3.
I'm having a hard time thinking of any more 'impossible' games releasing. like - maybe what was cobbled together at the beginnings of half-life 3? I dunno.
Argonaut's relationship with Nintendo wasn't the best after Nintendo cancelled this and refused to let them make a Yoshi game for N64 that ended up becoming Croc.Could someone explain why the FX chip stuff would have prevented StarFox 2 from being released. I know the chip we designed by Argonaught or something.