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[SOR5]

It just gives a look that you don't find anywhere else

What other games recapture this aesthetic and feel?

 

[tkscz]

You should honestly look up videos of Star Fox 2. While not released it was finished and it really uses the FX chip in a way I'd like to have seen more of on the SNES.

 

[Leleu]

Game name please?

 

[sixteen-bit]

 

[Giolon]

Game name please?

Stunt Race FX

 

[JB2448]

Game name please?

Stunt Race FX
Edit: Beaten, but linked to a Classic Game Room review.

 

[SOR5]

Game name please?

Stunt Race FX!

You should honestly look up videos of Star Fox 2. While not released it was finished and it really uses the FX chip in a way I'd like to have seen more of on the SNES.

I've most definitely seen it and I love the look and sound

 

[DJ_Lae]

I played a ton of Stunt Race FX when I was younger - loved the hell out of it, even with the tiny viewing area and horrendous framerate.

I can't really go back to it now, unfortunately, although the RC and stunt levels are still kind of fun.

 

[Monado Blade]

What other games recapture this aesthetic and feel?

Virtua Racing Genesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ow3w2DIRc

 

[Renekton]

SNES Super FX2 chip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRAU7QKWQWE

Megadrive SVP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ow3w2DIRc

 

[Freezasaurus]

Stunt Race FX

Man, I loved that game.

 

[dukie85]

Wasn't there a game with a unicycle or something that used SuperFX?

 

[CrazyHorse]

SNES Super FX2 chip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRAU7QKWQWE

Thanks! Prior to this, I had only ever seen the game in magazines and forgot about it.

 

[Monado Blade]

Man, I loved that short period where Nintendo and Sega were introducing 3D chips on to their carts. The games were expensive as hell where I lived but boy were they cool. I used to remember going to my local game shop and getting so wowed at the AMAZING 3D GRAPHICS. THIS WAS THE FUTURE!!! Little did I know the Saturn, Playstation, and the N64 were just around the corner.

 

[Kickz]

It just gives a look that you don't find anywhere else

Right in the fucking childhood nostalgia feels.

 

[dallow_bg]

Right in the fucking childhood nostalgia feels.

Slow it down by 20x to make it more accurate.

 

[SOR5]

Virtua Racing Genesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ow3w2DIRc

SNES Super FX2 chip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRAU7QKWQWE

Megadrive SVP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ow3w2DIRc

Ah yep thats beautiful

Winter Gold reminds me of an MTV video

 

[Monado Blade]

Wasn't there a game with a unicycle or something that used SuperFX?

Yep, Uniracers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CCmt8Q_ASI

Doesn't have the 3D aesthetic OP is going for though. Interesting fact: It was made by the devs that would go on to make GTA.

EDIT: actually googling a bit more, now i'm not sure if it actually used the SFX chip. Funny, growing up I really thought it did.

 

[NinjamicWZ]

Edit: Beaten, but linked to a Classic Game Room review.

That means you weren't actually beaten.

 

[Leleu]

Stunt Race FX

Stunt Race FX

Stunt Race FX!

Thx! Gonna try it!

 

[120v]

Seeing star fox in motion for the first time made me completely wig out

Amazing what the snes was capable of. Sort of wish it had a few more years left in it

 

[Noobcraft]

Stunt Race FX and its glorious 15 fps. I loved that game as a kid but the controls are horrendous lol.

 

[I'm new be nice]

Stunt race FX was unbelievable to me at the time, and invoked the same spectacle that Mario 64 did a few years later. It felt like a prototype N64 game. It's hard to go back to, but man was it impressive.

 

[Wonko_C]

Even back then I was bummed at the super choppy framerate, but still put up with it because the sense of scale was just impossible to replicate on a sprite based game. The sequence where the arwing enters and flies through the twisting tunnels of Andross' hideout felt epic and otherworldly. No other game ever since has given me those vibes and I directly attribute it to the flat-shaded, low poly count of the game.

Edit: I recently saw StarFox 2's opening cinematic, the dragon chomping and spitting one of the spaceships and roaring and then going back straight to the camera gave me goosebumps!

https://youtu.be/kxXvSho9yt0

I wish we could get a StarFox that looked like that but ran at 60fps though. Not just the arwing like in StarFox Zero.

 

[RedToad64]

Stunt Race FX alone does not get enough love. That game deserves better. Like a Virtual Console release.

Spoiler

That won't happen.

 

[Hilarion]

Stunt Race FX alone does not get enough love. That game deserves better. Like a Virtual Console release.

Spoiler

That won't happen.

Isn't there some sort of copyright issue with the rights to the SuperFX chip that prevents Nintendo from doing that?

I thought that was the reason why Yoshi's Island on the GBA is on the VC but not Yoshi's Island SNES etc.

 

[rjc571]

You don't see that look anywhere else because every single 3D accelerated graphics chip in the history of the industry can do better.

 

[Zekes!]

Stunt Race FX was dope as a kid but I'm afraid to play it now

 

[CO_Andy]

Stunt Race FX is unplayable. Unplayable in the sense the game moves at like 10 fps with severe input lag.

 

[Mental Atrophy]

You should check out TIE Fighter, one of the best spaceship games ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFQfTHZT2pw

It's on GOG too.

 

[Camjo-Z]

I love the look of Super FX games... the framerates, not so much. Still, Stunt Race FX is my favorite SNES racing game.

 

[entremet]

Stunt Race needs an 60FPS version.

Game was seriously charming and had fun music.

 

[goldenpp72]

I love the look of Super FX games... the framerates, not so much. Still, Stunt Race FX is my favorite SNES racing game.

This can't be true, when is the last time you played it? I mean, I guess it COULD be true but, it's not so hot these days.

 

[entremet]

This can't be true, when is the last time you played it? I mean, I guess it COULD be true but, it's not so hot these days.

It's pretty fun!

 

[MrCunningham]

Wasn't there a game with a unicycle or something that used SuperFX?

You're thinking of Uniracers, and no it didn't use the Super FX chip.

Super FX games:
Star Fox (1993)

Stunt Race FX (1994)

Vortex (1994)

Dirt Trax FX (1995)

Dirt Racer (1995, released in the EU only)

Super FX2 games:
Doom (1995)

Yoshi's Island (1995)

Winter Gold (1996, Released in the UK only)

Cancelled SuperFX games:

FX Fighter (Super FX2 chip)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzpdYbiJ3AQ

Comanche (SuperFX2 chip)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uZeF4AvxM0 (this one is interesting as it used the FX2 chip for voxels instead of polygons)

Star Fox 2 (Super FX2 chip)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZQlqXyp3U

Power Slide FX (Super FX1)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAp978pDFeo

Transformers Generation 2 (Super FX 1)
Not much is really known about this game, though some people speculated that it may have turned into Vortex. But this might not be the case.

 

[PaulloDEC]

It wasn't a console exclusive, but the visuals always remind me of a game I played a bunch as a kid, LHX Attack Chopper.

Intro

Gameplay

 

[Hilarion]

So...how the hell are you supposed to tell your character apart from the other character other than the color?

 

[MrCunningham]

It wasn't a console exclusive, but the visuals always remind me of a game I played a bunch as a kid, LHX Attack Chopper.

Intro

Gameplay

This game was also on the Sega Genesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6hNeidtXvc but it was very slow.

There is also a port of F22 Interceptor as well, which was also slow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHGjQMMsvk

The Sega 32x had some neat flat shaded poly games:

Shadow Squadron:

Virtua Racing Deluxe:

Virtua Fighter 1:

 

[Effigenius]

So...how the hell are you supposed to tell your character apart from the other character other than the color?

Your character is the one responding to the commands you input.

 

[Krappadizzle]

For it's time it was awesome. Starfox looked amazing at release. Having only a Genesis at the time, I'll admit I was a bit jealous.

 

[Camjo-Z]

This can't be true, when is the last time you played it? I mean, I guess it COULD be true but, it's not so hot these days.

It's a little hard to control, but I like the atmosphere and the graphics still look really cool. That underwater section in Aqua Tunnel is great.

 

[MrCunningham]

I always loved the look of Silpheed on the Sega CD:

Granted this game doesn't use real time polygons for the environments as they are all streaming video. But it does have that flat shaded polygon look. The game only uses polygons for the player ship and enemies.

But I still highly enjoy the game itself: https://youtu.be/Crjgu2aE1QE?t=790

 

[RedSwirl]

Shitty early 90's flat-shaded 3D graphics are just the best. Not enough indie developers are trying to ape that particular style.

 

[I'm new be nice]

Stunt Race needs an 60FPS version.

Here is the game overclocked for what it's worth.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Looking at the GIFs posted so far, it makes me wonder if the Super FX's rendered polygons are more stable than the PS1's - don't seem to be significant z-ordering issues or texture warping from what I can see.

I really like that look, too. Though I think going back to actually playing them at their original frame rate would feel bad.

 

[Spladam]

It wasn't a console exclusive, but the visuals always remind me of a game I played a bunch as a kid, LHX Attack Chopper.

Intro

Gameplay

Man I played a shitload of that game on PC, it was amazing. You could guide the tow missiles using the mouse after you fired them. With all the damn commands that game had, I don't know HOW they ported it to console.

Here is the game overclocked for what it's worth.

You can tell there is still a crazy amount of input lag.

 

[mrmickfran]

I hate it because it won't allow me to play Yoshi's Island on my Wii U.

And no, the GBA version doesn't count.

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

I fucking love me some flat-shaded polygons. I hope indies start using it someday.

 

[Item_Screen]

I actually just played some Star Fox today, and it's still awesome. I played Stunt Race FX a week or so ago and yes, the frame rate is not great and there is input lag, but it's still totally playable. Another game that I have fond memories of but haven't played in a very long time is Dirt Trax FX. There was a tag mode that my friends and I would play for hours.

I really need to get my hands on a Star Fox 2 cart.

 

[KojiKnight]

I fucking love me some flat-shaded polygons. I hope indies start using it someday.

Super Hot does for one.