Let'z play Super FX 2 games: Dirt Racer

tried to play dirt racer, the controls suck ass! ^^

The Super FX is a coprocessor chip used in select Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game cartridges. This custom-made RISC processor was typically programmed to act like a graphics accelerator chip that would draw polygons to a frame buffer in the RAM that sat adjacent to it. For those games, the data in this frame buffer was periodically transferred to the main video memory inside of the console using DMA in order to show up on the television display.

The first version of the chip, GSU-1, commonly called the Super FX, is clocked with a 21 MHz signal, but an internal clock speed divider halved it to 10.5 MHz. Some early cartridges of StarFox shipped with a version of this chip that was marked "MARIO Chip 1." Later on, the design was revised to become the GSU-2, known as the Super FX 2. Unlike earlier chips, this version was able to reach 21 MHz.

All versions of the Super FX chip are functionally compatible in terms of their instruction set. The differences arise in how they are packaged, their pinout, and their internal clock speed. As a result of changing the package when creating the GSU-2, more external pins were available and assigned for addressing -- as a result a larger amount of external ROM or RAM can be accessed.

The technology behind the SuperFX chip would later become the ARC (Argonaut RISC Core) embedded microprocessor.

Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX

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[bonggzilla]

yeah the super fx 2 games all suck ass

saddly only starfox or (starwing)is good!

[THE7thHAND]

Dirt Racer is pretty bad. Starfox 2 is decent but it's beta. But Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is also a Super FX 2 game and it is pretty good, I'm going to make a video about that one. The doom port isn't the best and I haven't played Winter Gold yet.

[bonggzilla]

winter gold is ok but not good i think

most of the super fx games

like vortex dirt racer dirt trax are really bad :-(

but i like this oldschool 3d graphics

stunt race fx starwing 1+2 and smw yoshi island i looooooove them so much

also what about virtua racing on the sega genesis?! that chip is very similary to the super fx chip

doom got the fx chip in the catridge? i don`t know that?!?!

cool vid make more

nice greez bongzilla

[THE7thHAND]

Wikipedia says that doom has got the super fx 2 chip. I'll try to make a vid about every super fx 2 game, but I don't think that I can find all those. I guess games like "Comanche" on the SNES are impossible to find. Their worked on a Mario game with the Super FX 2 chip, which later became Mario 64.

[johneymute]

i tryed to get used with the horrible controls but that requires alot of patience and you have to slow down speed contstantly to minimize chances of hitting obstacles or getting out of bend,since the low response control is still to sensitive, you got to stay hit on the d pad to bent correctly.

even you opponent is slow & sometimes waits for you.

but even then it,s still hard & slippery.

i finaly dit had win 1 race,those nice nice artificial textures hardly can help you orientating where to go.

[nooblet911]

so all sfx2 games suck ass yet you love yoshi's island?

k.

[vyse19861]

@neogeon The reason it doesn't run at 50 Hz on an emulator is that it doesn't run at 50 Hz on the actual hardware, either. The choppy framerate seen in this video is what you get on an actual SNES.

Anyway, this game is truly horrible and seriously has the worst controls in any racing game I've ever played, even beating Penny Racers on PSX. But a british magazine called "Super Gamer" gave the game 95% and said it's the best racing game on the SNES. I was laughing to tears when I saw that.

[neogeon]

is this from an emulator or captured from real hardware? anyone know where I can see video of it from real hardware? BSNES sputters and gags on this game and I'm not getting 50 FPS (code probably isn't optimized yet) and other emulators aren't accurate enough to properly recreate real hardware.

[johneymute]

it has the worst control i,ve ever seen,yeah even worse then stuntrace fx,and that will those games are running on a sf2 chip,that,s insane,i bet that even harddriven on snes wich is polygon based and had even no sfx chip inside,just play's better!!!

this game has atleast some impressive dance music.

[kritiker14]

@bonggzilla I have Winter Gold and it's terrific on the SNES!

[kritiker14]

I have Winter Gold and it's terrific on the SNES!

[eman56447]

@THE7thHAND This Was A Beta I Think Like Star Fox 2 Which Was Awesome Was Never Polished Out And Made Like Stunt Race FX Which Was The Best Real Time Rendered 3-D (F-Zero Does Not Count Because Of No Polygons Just Mode 7) But Still Dirt Racer Is Good For Curiosity Like Star Fox 2 English Translated Finished Version.

[waddlerobloxxxx]

@bonggzilla: What about Yoshis Island???

[bobbystar101]

@bonggzilla Whats wrong with you? Vortex was awesome.