Starfox (SNES)

I just picked up a copy of Starfox for the SNES

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[Standard420247]

Which chip do you think is "better" per say? With the speed of the game in virtua racing compared to how slow and clunky star fox feels, I wonder how a game like start fox would have ran on say the genesis with the SVP chip

[MN12BIRD]

@Standard420247 Yep Virtua Racing was much more impressive and faster than anything using the first gen SuperFX chip. The Super FX2 was impressive for pulling off Doom though.

[Standard420247]

@MN12BIRD This is a bit late response, apologies for that, but I don't think the snes version of doom considering the chip was impressive at all. I guess there can be no controversy or comparison though since sega never released a version 2 of their "fx chip" unless you consider the 32x version as it. In which case it was far more impressive. I say that because you said yourself in the VR vid that the chip was pretty much what they used in the 32X. That would mean the VR chip was better than fx2

[MN12BIRD]

@Standard420247 Well actually it was a rumor for a long time that the SVP chip and the processor in the 32X was similar but they actually are different plus remember there's not just one but two of the 32-bit processors in the 32X plus extra RAM and other things so it's really not a fair comparison. Plus most of the FX and SVP games have little to no textures at all. They're just plain polygons while Doom on the SNES has a lot of textures compared to Star Fox or Virtua Racing.

[Enfeeblement]

Nice! The only SNES game I have with 3D graphics is Pilotwings. Does that has the Super FX chip too?

[MN12BIRD]

No Pilotwings uses the Mode7 scaling and rotation features the SNES can do to a background layer. Its not really true 3D at least not like the polygon graphics of Starfox.

[Cerberus413]

This is classic my friend! 5/5

[Enfeeblement]

Oh, I see. Thanks for answering!

[themeter3000]

The best part it is in 3 D



[crazyfooInc]

Starfox will always be one of my favorite games of all time.

[MrJoeMontano]

Great game!

[Jamezskates]

the boss at 5:19 is also in the n64 versiion

[TUDfilms]

i used to have this game for n64 and i remember andros!! he was awesome!

[gunhappy23]

I remember first playing this game at a friends house i was like wow this is the future........Still play it now have you got hold of the star fox 2 complete rom it only works with ZSNES shame it never got released its a good game!!