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Star Fox 2

Star Fox 2 is an action shooter video game developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Games. Its original planned release for the Super NES in 1995 was cancelled, and the game was eventually released for the Super NES Classic Edition in 2017.

Screenshots and images

Company and staff credits

Publisher
Nintendo logo 1975 / Image credit: Nintendo
Developer
This is a fallback image. No image is available. Argonaut Games plc
Director
This is a fallback image. No image is available. Katsuya Eguchi
Producer
Miyamoto Hints At Pikmin 4 / Shigeru Miyamoto on stage wearing a dark jacket and white T-shirt and holding a red Pikmin plushie. / Image credit: BagoGames / This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Shigeru Miyamoto
Programmer
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Platform comparison

Platform Released Interfaces Target FPS Video Sound
SNES Canceled - 20 - -
SNES Mini
Australia and New Zealand
- 20 - -

Game details

Release dates
  • 30 September 2017:
    • Super NES Classic Edition (Australia and New Zealand)
  • 5 October 2017:
    • Super NES Classic Edition (Japan)
Genres

Publishing

Was originally produced for the Super NES, but was canceled by developer/publisher Nintendo shortly before its scheduled release in 1995 despite being complete and ready to ship. One reason given for the cancelation was the imminent release of the Nintendo 64 console; many elements of Star Fox 2 were re-used in Star Fox 64. Another reason speculated was that Nintendo felt Star Fox 2's 3D graphics would compare poorly with PlayStation games.

Graphics and art design

Star Fox 2 features a locked frame rate of 20 frames per second, after programmer Dylan Cuthbert's efforts to achieve 30fps resulted in inconsistent performance. Cuthbert told IGN in an interview: "20fps was par for the course back then (it took 3 "v-blank" interrupts to transfer the graphics "safely" to the screen's VRAM). My rewrite of the engine subsequently allowed it to run at 30fps by using some tricks to speed up that transfer, but we locked to 20 for a consistent frame-rate." 1

Game technologies

Was intended to feature a Super FX GSU-2 chip built into the cartridge, which was an advanced version of the original Super FX chip used in the first Star Fox and which enabled the Super NES console to render 3D graphics.

References

  1. Robson, D. (2017, July 5). Star Fox 2's Programmer Was as Surprised as You Are About its Inclusion on the SNES Classic. IGN. https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/27/star-fox-2s-programmer-was-as-surprised-as-you-are-about-its-inclusion-on-the-snes-classic.

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