Every Super Nintendo Super FX Chip Game - SNESdrunk

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[1:04] Star Fox
[1:57] Star Fox 2 (unreleased)
[2:49] Stunt Race FX
[3:44] Vortex
[4:34] Dirt Racer (PAL)
[5:03] Dirt Trax FX
[5:42] Doom
[6:22] Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
[7:00] Winter Gold (PAL)
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[@c88rrado]

When I saw Star Fox the first time as a child, it completely blew my mind! It looked so incredible good back then, you just can’t reproduce that feeling

[@taylorprocker]

It was so incredible to me, I didn’t know that the consol had limitations. I thought that it would eventually have VR haha

[@truepatriot6657]

Looks like you've never played pc games in 90s

[@ArturoEscorza]

I had the same feeling with Mario 64!

[@waynecuff3140]

@@truepatriot6657no pc in the 90s had anything like starfox. Just slow flight simulators, running on a 486DX. I'm a snes fan so each to there own i guess.

[@curriculummechanics1147]

Me and my mates used to go to Currys and watch it and play the demo over and over.

[@davidcn748]

As bad as Doom looked on snes. We must also recognize that the snes version of it's music was amazing!

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

Absolutely no doubt!

[@jupeymupey4963]

It was also probably fine if you were playing it back in the day with no other options. My dad loved playing DOOM on the SNES when it first released.

[@Zombie1Boy]

Nah, best part about Doom on the SNES is its blood red cartridge!

[@IngoPagels]

Atari Jaguar got it better. Even the PS1 renderd it with a frame. But who could afford an expensive thing like that. Toy for kids with the price of a solid adult income range.

[@Qrama]

@@Zombie1Boy Mine is gray.

[@TheGunmanChannel]

I'm really glad I found this channel, thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos.

[@Komeuppance]

@TheGunmanChannel fancy seeing you here mate!

[@drvobradi]

The reason why Winter Gold almost looks like full motion video is that it actually is, in a way. Game backgrounds, intro and menu backgrounds were rotoscoped from video, so it's not 3D polygons but rather 2D vector graphics. Looks cool regardless.

[@gjtrue]

That last game looked AMAZING for a SNES title!!

[@daithiocinnsealach3173]

Agreed. We were in such a rush to make better and better hardware, but I see the wisdom in Nintendo's approach of making better and better games on the same hardware. Now we've got the ridiculous situation of PS5 having nothing of real value to offer in terms of innovation.

[@aelechko]

@@daithiocinnsealach3173 last couple generations of consoles have been trending this way. Hurry and buy our expensive machine that right now doesn’t do more than the current but will one day when the price is reasonable! But buy now.

[@mrwess1927]

Fatnsassy 84 we should make new games for all old consoles.

[@Palendrome]

@@aelechko Publishers hold back good design that's new and innovative, because they know people will buy the same old shit, They will hold the medium back forever for as long as they're allowed to get away with it

[@tammid8423]

Yeah! It even has shadows!

[@TheTrueBro]

I still play Stunt Race FX in my SNES Mini. Solid and fun game.

[@vittosphonecollection4134]

Same but I have the original SNES

[@arostwocents]

Wow. I never had it as a kid and have never been able to get into it or find it fun at all. 😢

[@avagueblur]

God, Yoshi's Island was so fucking good. Even if that game came out next week it would be good.

[@Simon0]

It's hard to choose between smw and Yoshi's Island. Yoshi's Island in general is better but then smw has the cool secret world

[@neilroby4063]

I wish it didn't have baby mario at all. Damn he's annoying.

[@steelman774]

StarFox2 was finally released in the US on the SNES Classic (all-in-one) a few years ago. Great buy!

[@Kevin01SH]

Stunt Race FX was my game when it came out, I played it over and over to try and beat my best times. Once you get used to the controls its a very addicting racing game.

[@allanmhanson]

It was super easy driving with L and R. Well, that last coup was almost impossible tho.

[@DaveFallows]

Addictive.

[@rars0n]

It's a great game. I bought it when it was new. Recently I bought a Super NT and was excited to play it again, and going back to it after two full decades of not playing it AT ALL, I was shocked by how well it holds up. The framerate isn't that bad, the controls aren't bad either, and I was instantly remembering every single track. Someone else in the comments mentioned a lack of replayability, but I found the same as you, once I started getting better I just wanted to beat my own times over and over and over. I had forgotten how much time I put into the cart until I saw my initials in every single slot of every track! The controls work remarkably well considering it didn't even take me an entire race to get used to them after such a long time. I can't say the same about a lot of older games (the original Tomb Raider on Sega Saturn is probably the worst example I can think of).

[@NintendoComplete]

Me too, my sister and I played it almost as much as we did Super Mario Kart. It was amazing, and like you said, it played really well once you got used to it.

[@Nick_Nightingale]

Very fun game. Got it at my local TRU at a deep discount. Fun times.

[@redenginner]

As someone who owns doom snes, the technical feat of getting a bleeding edge game from 93'to run on hardware from 90' is pretty hard.

[@miahthorpatrick1013]

I think people crap on the SNES port a little too much as one has to put it into perspective. The fact that Doom is as playable as it is gives it SOME leeway. Still though i would never seek this port out in 2019 even if I wanted my OG Doom fix. Still love the music though :)

[@schwarzerritter5724]

@@miahthorpatrick1013 Totally. Doom does not look too good, but it is completely playable.

[@bigalejoshileno]

@@schwarzerritter5724 younger people think that people played doom in a 1993 pentium at high definition settings... while the actual situation was that most people only can afford a crappy 386 with standard vga and pray for getting doom beyond 15 fps !

[@early90smf90]

@@bigalejoshileno very true

[@daithiocinnsealach3173]

I wasn't aware the SFX chip was used on SMW2. That was clearly the direction for such technology on a 16 bit device. If there hadn't been such a rush to keep impressing with more and more powerful machines I imagine the SNES could have kept creating some incredible games for at least another decade.

[@somerandofromoregon]

Neither did I! I mean it’s not like it said it was compatible with the FX chip on the box or cartridge or anything.

[@rollanddev]

@@somerandofromoregon Hmm... but why would it? I get some games advertised the Super FX as a selling point but it's not like it's a peripheral the user could own and potentially use with the game. :P But yeah. I always wondered how some effects were done in that game. There's little the hardware can do to transform graphics natively - the infamous video mode 7, color-blending operations, clipping windows, and weird HDMA stuff done during v-blank, and... not much else, lol. It's like the rotating gears in Castlevania 3's clock tower - visual effects that we took for granted as kids but that were an impressive tour-de-force on the devs' part!

[@invalid_user_handle]

As I Recall, The GSU-2-SP1 (The Final Model Released Of The Super FX Chip) Had The Following Features: Efficient Floating Point Arithmetic Acceleration, 2 Extra Parallax Layers, Advanced Sprite And Background Warping, Rotation, And Scaling, Along With Extended Sprite Memory, Much Higher Maximum Colors On Screen, And Lastly, Unlike The GSU-1, It Has The Full 21.4 MHz Of Power.

[@bertinernie31]

Oh yeah? Well the genesis has blast processing..

[@legrandgougoulilumine6940]

@@bertinernie31 LOL.. The Genesis had midi sounds. I suspect you were being sarcastic but Genesis had a couple of great exclusive games. But if the title was also on SNES, SNES version was most of the time better.

[@windowsxpnt2347]

@@bertinernie31 the megadrive has the svp and the 32x. The blast processing claim is just because the cpu in the megadrive was clocked higher than the snes

[@AngusBeer]

Winter Gold looks amazing

[@WR3ND]

Kind of a shame that it apparently didn't come out for North America.

[@__1201]

I agree. I honestly think it looks more impressive than Starfox, partly because the framerate is tolerable.

[@dealt]

Stunt Race was my shit. I rented that a few times. Once you get a feel for the timing of the controls, it's a blast. If you weren't around or were too young at the time, then it's hard to really understand what a novelty these types of games were, especially for a 16-bit console.

[@SonicTheJackrabbit]

My biggest beef with Stunt Race FX is lack of incentive for replay value and lack of content after beating the game. Once you beat the Master cup, there isn't a whole lot to do aside from the Stunt Trax courses and doing time trials.

[@rars0n]

I bought Stunt Race FX when it was new, I still have it. In fact, I fired it up recently on my new Super NT, and I was a little blown away by how well the game holds up. I was expecting to hate the controls and see a framerate that was unplayable, but that wasn't the case at all. The game is actually really playable, and it doesn't hurt that the sound is great. I'm so glad I managed to hold onto this cart, because it might be my favorite Super FX game. It's got a lot of charm to it, in addition to being a really novel early 3D racing game that doesn't exactly suck. People seem to like to hate on it, and I'm biased because I played it SO MUCH (I had forgotten how much time I spent with this game until I saw my initials taking up all of the slots on every track), but there's a lot to like about the game even today. It's one of those carts that I'll keep firing up on a regular basis now that I have a machine that plays actual carts over HDMI.

[@rars0n]

The stunt tracks were so hard, I never managed to finish any as a kid. In fact, I just beat my first one yesterday. Heh. I still enjoy racing the tracks themselves though, that's where I find my replay value.

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

The soundtrack in Vortex is SOOOO good, it should've been bundled with a CD.

[@andrewcruz1931]

I rented stunt race fx a few times as a kid. I enjoyed it :) . I remember waking up a little earlier in the morning so I could play it before school. Those were the days .

[@JesusSaves86AB]

Had Stunt Race FX briefly. The chip showed that even the SNES could get down, but at 5fps it was reminiscent of playing Quake on "old" hardware when it was released. Good times.

[@Doomsray]

you got chrono trigger, we got terranigma ;)

[@phantomdragonv2x]

Fair

[@somerandofromoregon]

Ramon Are you Japanese?

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhh...]

@@somerandofromoregon lmao what?

[@somerandofromoregon]

@@hhhhhhhhhhhhh... Terranigma was a Japan and PAL exclusive game. It's never made it to the US. You didn't know that?

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhh...]

@@somerandofromoregon no, i know that it was japan and pal exclusive, i just dont know what you meant by "are you japanese" lol

[@Harp00nX]

The intro for Winter Gold is an effect from the Amiga demo called 9 Fingers by the Norwegian demo scene group Spaceballs. The game was developed by former members of said demo group... here is a link to the demo in question so you can compare it kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoHSiq2tnsdqgLM

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

WOW! That was incredible! Thank you for the link 🙏 Hopefully more people will see this 👍

[@leonreynolds77]

I love StarFox and still play it every now and then.

[@MURMENLIFE]

"Super Mario World 2" looks beautiful.

[@JoshLightWork]

god that "SNES Drunk" intro never gets old ... and different every time. I love it. this one especially!

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Whoa, It's that cute Stunt Race FX game! I always loved those little googly-eyed cars. XD

[@realdealcodysteele7952]

One of the best kept secretes of the snes! Best part was unlocking the motorcycle!

[@j.r.huffnstuff3549]

Years later, but if you look for "Stunt Race Overclocked" you'll seem some magic. That game running at a smooth frame rate is fantastic. A fast and goofy racing game like that was ahead of it's time.

[@tygrus3495]

With Star Fox and the chip, I was actually more impressed with the sound and voices than the polygons itself.

[@pheenmachine]

FX Fighter was developed by Argonaut, who apparently made the FX chip

[@matth5680]

Starfox blew me away the first time I saw pics of it in a magazine. Then I got to play it and man was it amazing. I doubt I could go back and play it now, but back then in the good old 16-bit days, it was bloody impressive!

[@craigadderley5313]

I recommend Star Fox on an overclocked emulator , plays smooth

[@allanmhanson]

Stunt Race FX is far the best looking FX game. Way superior that the rest of the games. In today standard it may look slow, but playing the in in the SNES era was the best experience hands down.

[@louiemalvessi]

Yeah.. I rented when I was 8 or 9... And initially thought 'what a cool game, it looks like the arcade Virtua Racer', next thing I spent hours and hours playing for what it is and for the unike physics that it has. It was deeper racing game from the car control perspective than any other game I had played at the time.

[@chuyuen441]

even when it was out it was still poop

[@SBandy]

Stunt Race FX was amazing bud.

[@random_gamer_guy82]

One thing the pc master race doesn't have....super FX chip

[@mikicerise6250]

Not only do we have it, we have it emulated in VR with virtual CRT televisions from the 90s to play it on. ;)

[@pgr3290]

@the hevy Welllllllll on PC in DOS you had games like Test Drive 3 in 1990, a full three years before Star Fox. That had 3D polygonal open environments. The FX chip closed the gap to PC which lacked proper 3D acceleration. Playstation took a brief lead as the most complete 3D accelerated machine (aside from the obvious monstrous Sega arcade cabinets) and then the consumer GPU revolution happened. From Quake in 1995 onwards you had Arcade > PC > Consoles in 3D performance. Now it's all PC.

[@BARONXAVIER]

STAR FOX 2 was release finally in 2017

[@danm2084]

Man my friend growing up had that stunt racer fx game. So much nostalgia. Havent thought of that game in many years.

[@onewaytriggames8832]

My cousin and I played Stunt Race FX for days and days and days....we loved that game It was simple but there was something so fun about it

[@sonicmario64]

I was told that the reason for "Star Fox 2" not being released was because of how expensive it was to produce multiple copies of the game despite it being already completed.

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

Star fox snes is a great classic, and still playable today, stardom 2 is on the snes app on switch

[@JediLennon]

"Yoshi getting stoned" LOL

[@Ottophil]

Jedi Lennon ! Ive done a lot of drugs, thats defintely acid or shrooms. Yoshi trippin’

[@somerandofromoregon]

🎵I was gonna clean my room until I got high🎵

[@SQGReviewShow]

Good video. I honestly love the first two Star Fox games so much. Yeah, the frame rate is not good (especially if you're playing the PAL version), but I really like the graphics. They may be untextured polygons, but there's something so charming about them at the same time. Like how the enemy weakpoints are flashing blue or orange areas. It's a shame that I only know two people around my age who can appreciate what Star Fox has to offer. I honestly think it's almost if not as good as the 64 bit sequel.

[@SQGReviewShow]

Fascinating

[@SNESdrunk]

Thank you for watching. I've been a Star Fox fanboy from day one as well

[@dizzydee4889]

came here to recall the name of Dirt Race! I rented it as. kid and had a great time just driving the truck around in 3D space, enthralled by the truck graphics and physics. I'm sure it's quite a shallow game but it definitely left an impression on me.

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

Wow! Stunt racer is damn impressive for a snes!

[@Skullsinthecrowd]

Played Doom to heck on the SNES back in the day, definitely one of my favourite SNES games.

[@IngoPagels]

Star Fox 2 can be played on the mini SNES. The soundtrack from DOOM was very good on the SNES. You tube got some videos were they compare them and it got lots of ports.

[@rars0n]

I think Stunt Race FX is a criminally underappreciated game. Now I have to preface this by stating that I'm extremely biased. I love racing games and early-to-mid 90's 3D graphics (think "Lawnmower Man" in terms of what I deem the pinnacle of that era of 3D visuals). I absolutely loved the Star Fox graphics when it first came out and I was super hyped to buy pretty much anything that did 3D on the SNES and/or contained that ass-kicking Super FX chip. So naturally I bought Stunt Race FX as soon as I could, and wow, I hadn't fired this game up in probably 2 decades, but I wanted to play it on my new Super NT, and holy crap did I forget how much time I put into this game! I took all of the top scores on every race, and my vehicle of choice was (eventually) the coupe, because the race car was just too damn hard for me to control, while the 4WD was too slow. Seeing those high scores instantly reminded me that I used to play this game ALL THE TIME. So I started playing it, and sure enough, I felt intimately familiar with every new track. A lot of times, when I go back to play a game I haven't played in forever, I recognize the first bunch of tracks and levels but not the later ones because I realize that I would stop playing the game at that point for whatever reason and I never spent any time exploring them. Not the case with this game, not at all. One of the things I love about Stunt Race FX is the little subtle animations that are thrown in, like the truck crossing after the first lap on the first level, or the eyeballs on the cars, or the animations you get when crashing into things. These little details help give the game a lot more character and to me, help make it stand out (along with the 3D graphics, of course) from the tons of other racing games on the SNES. Is it the best racing game on the SNES? Of course not. Is it without flaws? Obviously not. The framerate is low, yes, but to me, the game does actually convey a sense of speed in spite of it, just due to the nature of how the vehicles handle at speed. In my opinion it's quite remarkable by _how good_ it actually is at doing this. Again, this might be because I'm biased and I spent a ton of time playing this game, but when you're tearing around a track at full speed with nothing slowing you down, to me it feels like you're going pretty darn fast. Coming back to this game after so many years, I was prepped for supreme disappointment. I was expecting to hate the controls that were way more terrible than I remembered and bummed by the terrible framerate that I ignored in my youth not only because it was the best available at the time but also because I wanted to justify my purchase of the game. I was extremely surprised to find none of this was the case. The controls took a minute or two to get back into (again, I'm pretty sure it took me a bit to learn when I first got it, so I'm assuming that somehow even after all these years my intimate familiarity helped in this regard), but I was shocked by how good the framerate is. It's not bad at all! I mean, yeah, it's low, but it's eminently playable and doesn't impact my enjoyment of the game at all. IMO, it's at least as high as Star Fox, which I also think is much more playable than it gets credit for. I also forgot how absolutely awesome the sound is in this game. The effects don't even seem that complex or varied, but they do a great job. I love the sound of the 4WD engine, and all the little sound cues like the truck beeping as it crosses the track, the sounds of the birds flying over, and all of the other little visual nuggets which help make themselves known with the audio cues. The music, in my opinion, is catchy and well-done. I found myself enjoying the audio the most when playing it recently. Seriously, maybe I'm turning into an old fart who likes his crappy old games because nostalgia and all these young kids just don't understand these old games, but I heard people complaining about the framerate of Star Fox 2 on the SNES classic, as if the game was pure garbage. I get it that modern gamers may be used to silky smooth, high-res graphics and don't want to put time into games like this. Fine, that just means more for me (and you). I really think when people pass over games like these because of superficial qualities they're really missing out on something special. It makes me sad to know that so many people think that Stunt Race FX is a garbage game and worthy of sacrifice to create reproduction carts of other games. It's not as bad as most people make it out, and certainly worth giving a shot if you're a SNES owner, especially if you're interested in the Super FX games. As for other SNES racing games, while I haven't yet played them all, one game I played at least as much as Stunt Race FX, and the racing game which is probably my absolute favorite on the SNES, is Top Gear. What a fantastic game. Like Stunt Race FX, it's got great audio, but I must admit that it's even better. Top Gear would be a great game without its music, but it would be missing one of the defining traits of the game, the music is _absolutely_ infectious. This is another game I played extensively recently, and again I was feeling intimately familiar with every single track. Top Gear has perfect handling for a game of its type, great tracks, and awesome 2D graphics. I miss driving games like this. I get a chill down my spine when I hear that opening arpeggio as the game starts up and the Top Gear logo appears. Almost as good as Top Gear is Top Gear 2, which is structured a little differently but plays largely the same. I have a few gripes with it, like the lack of the headlight beams that the first game had on night tracks (yeah, I know it doesn't really add anything to the game but it looks cool) and how, for whatever reason, I can't seem to see as well into the distance at night. The part buying feels agonizingly slow at first, as well, since the car you start with is fairly anemic. It's also a bummer that all of the cars are now the same, and basically generic (versus the wanna-be real cars which were easily identifiable). But once again, the sound, especially the music, stands out and the game looks great while also handling very well. It's a sequel that largely doesn't break anything that really made the first game so good. SNESdrunk, if you've bothered to read this far or read this at all, could you do a video about best sound or best music in SNES games? Perhaps you've already done one, I'm still going through your SNES playlist (I wish KZbin would allow you to play playlists backwards, in the order the videos were created). I only found your channel recently and I've been binging it ever since. Great content, thanks for the videos!

[@SNESdrunk]

Great comment, thanks for taking the time to watch

[@fourdee4d]

Legend.

[@EvilStevilTheKenevilPEN15]

"I love racing games and early-to-mid 90's 3D graphics (think "Lawnmower Man" in terms of what I deem the pinnacle of that era of 3D visuals" Tell me, have you ever heard of a little show called "ReBoot"? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJyxiXiInc6LhNk

[@rars0n]

@@EvilStevilTheKenevilPEN15 I remember seeing that aired once or twice, but apparently it got cancelled after the first year in the US thanks to Disney. I never really got into it, but I should go back and watch it. The visuals are definitely a nice trip back in time!

[@EvilStevilTheKenevilPEN15]

@@rars0n It went for 4 seasons, and aired in Canada from the mid 90's until 2001. If primitive CGI is your thing, ReBoot's got it in droves. Best part is, the story is actually pretty good!

[@atranimecs]

it's too bad efficiency isn't as prioritized in game development as it used to be......I mean we are talking FX adding its own 21mhz input + the consoles's own 3Mhz processor and 128kb of ram...it's absolutely insane what they squeezed out of it.

[@warrenlondon2426]

I still remember being so fascinated with these graphics at the time as a kid! 🤩🔥😍 So many great memories 😢

[@john2001plus]

This was one of my favorite games that I ever worked on. I spent months of my life in this game. John Morgan was the lead programmer.

[@YaowBucketHEAD]

Which game?

[@john2001plus]

@@YaowBucketHEAD Dirt Trax FX.

[@excrubulent]

I had no idea the SNES Super FX chip was even a thing. I remember my friend showing me all the cool 3D polygon games he could play with it, and I clearly remember Starfox and Stunt Race FX, but I was so young at the time the details flew over my head, so in my memory I thought these were N64 games. I played Stunt Race FX for like one afternoon when it first came out, and now here I am looking for it on youtube so I can figure out how to emulate it to see what it was actually like.

[@ArmaBiologica35]

Honestly I think the Mode 7 in games like F-Zero and the prerendered sprites in games like Donkey Kong Country or Killer Instinct are much more impresive than anything done with the Super FX chip.

[@davidaitken8503]

They look prettier but you couldn't do a game like Stunt Race FX, Dirt Trax FX, or Star Fox with just Mode 7 and sprites alone.

[@ewthmatth]

7:25 "looks like it could be mistaken for an early Saturn game" or maybe Sega 32X?

[@theSato]

You've truly outdone yourself with today's intro

[@emfs9522]

The Doom cart for the snes is so sexy though. I also have it CIB so I always liked the snes port.

[@nubworthycigars6682]

Another solid video!.. the frame rates are tough these days and so is the draw distance.. but at least they couldn’t render “fog” yet lol.

[@ilikenes2]

Nice vid. I just subbed.

[@FullSemiAuto357]

Man, I definitely don't miss the days before I found out you can overclock the FX chip on the SNES emulator I use and actually run these games at a playable framerate. Also, Doom is indeed painful to play on SNES. Sadly though, that was my first exposure to Doom back when I was a kid so I have a weird soft spot for it and have to go back and play it every now and then. At least the overclock helps a little with it.

[@JMFSpike]

Awesome video. I wish they would have done more with the Super FX chip. It would have been super cool to see an action/adventure or RPG made with those chips. Imagine what Enix, Squaresoft, Konami, or Capcom could have done with it.

[@TheDramolcan]

Capcom had their own chip call the CX4. It was only used in MMX2 and MMX3 and did nothing but make stupid wireframe minibosses.

[@SonofTiamat]

I still like fighting Sigma's wireframe head in X2

[@darkestlost]

I must to say I really do love your intro

[@Deckardpr]

Love your intro!

[@theleestevens]

starfox blow my tiny mind when it came out

[@CalebMichaelRiley]

I'm so glad I found this channel!

[@jeffreyposs751]

I had no idea Yoshi's Island utilized the FX chip. I just got learned today! :D

[@renakunisaki]

Mainly it's used to scale, rotate, and skew the graphics.

[@vittosphonecollection4134]

I love these effects, they are inpressive and at the same time funny nowdays

[@kraziel]

When I was a kid and saw Stunt Race FX for the first time, my mind was blown out of existence.

[@jasonblalock4429]

The SNES version of Comanche is one of the unreleased beta ROMs I most wish someone would find. Just for the sheer novelty of seeing a *voxel* engine running on a SNES. Particularly considering that at the time, Comanche was cutting edge even on PC.

[@DrewberTravels]

Winter Gold really looks amazing. I totally would have played it if it went to the US region.

[@summerlaverdure]

winter gold used super FX to actually process 2D in the same way Yoshi's Island did - everything in that game is 2d video www.superrune.com/gallery/wintergold.php

[@sandroconrado7417]

This is the best intro so far

[@DarkTapes]

I have stunt race fx. Despite being a bit slow, It's a pretty charming game, plays well, and the music is awesome. Also lots of mario themes and stuff in there.

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

Winter Gold is probably a whole big full motion video. Super Turrican had FMV and there was an entire racing game on the SNES that was just FMV, Kyle Petty's No Fear Racing. There are even GBC games that do both of these things.

[@windowsxpnt2347]

It wasn’t fmv, it was rotoscoped video that the snes was displaying as 2d vectors. It was the exact same thing that spaceballs did on the Amiga with their “state of the art” and “9-fingers” demo (funnily enough winter gold was developed by some of the people who were a part of spaceballs)

[@deviantknight7009]

loved stunt race fx growing up

[@TheGagafan666]

kirbys superstar / kirbys dreamland 3 ? seems like i remembered seeing somewhere that they used it

[@davidaitken8503]

Those two games use special enhancement chips, but not the FX Chip.

[@jaymethysell5111]

I bought a SNES mini exclusively for Star Fox 2. It's fun.

[@Firguy]

6:32 I never realized that that collapsing wall was a 3D model. Wow!

[@ironinquisitor3656]

I played the SNES version of Doom last week for the first time and I really thought it wasn't that bad. I've played the original on PC too by the way.

[@guarapo66]

Super FX chip in yoshis island was there mainly to help on sprite processing scaling rotating and handling big sprites on screen,

[@lambda494]

Wait. SFX. StarFoX. Stunt Race FX. I see what you did there, Nintendo

[@deemster4249]

Ganymede, Jupiter III Woah

[@igodreamer7096]

Good thing the high seas brough to us the access to Star Fox 2

[@ExtremeWreck]

Considering that Kawasaki Superbike Challenge came out in 1995, I'm baffled Lankhor didn't decide to use the Super FX for that game in order to compete with the Genesis version which was an impressive 3D racer that had no extra chips.

[@nostalgigamer]

🤯 It still blows my mind that this was even possible on the SNES.

[@3rdalbum]

When you switched from the low framerate 3D games to the silky smooth Yoshi's Island, it took several seconds for my eyes to adjust. Incidentally, once you've had a baby of your own, you'll probably find Baby Mario's crying to be much less annoying.

[@koopakape]

I'll never forgive them for not realeasing Starfox 2. At least we finally got some of its core features in other games (the command map and Walker arwing mode.. 10 and 20 years after this game would've been released, respectively?!) but it would've been a blast and quite impressive for the time, and dammit, Miyu and Fay looked way better than any of the other new characters introduced since then. What's more, it might've just nudged Nintendo into making actual further sequels for the game rather than resetting back to the first story over and over again :/ Also, I actually have some good nostalgia for Stunt Race FX. I had it from the time it was new and the impressive graphics for the time combined with the really goofy visuals and 'bouncy' gameplay made it pretty memorable, and there were some great 2-player memories here with friends, tiny view screen be damned. Knocking each other off the stage in Aqua Tunnel never got old.

[@sunspot5]

I hope u can now it’s come out for the SNES mini

[@raiderscorpio5629]

Stunt race FX was all me and my cousin played , back then it was fun , now it looks horrible 😂😂 brought back memories

[@8492hresvelgr]

Anybody else realize that the track Aqua Tunnel in Stunt Race FX was reused in F-Zero GX as Big Blue - Drift Highway?

[@DrBeef216]

That sequel to Star Fox 2 getting released 20 years later is so surreal lol, I got to play it though. I don't like it because of it largely being on the ground. I just wanted another flying rail shooter lol

[@NostalgicRoe]

Doom for the SNES is the only version I have ever played. So without having seen the others, I don't find as bad as people say...I agree it can be slow and ugly at times, but I always felt that was part of the charm.

[@darrenspohn8376]

I had it to, and it played better than the pc version i had on the pc my father in law gave me.

[@Thundercross]

I rented the SNES version to play it on X-Band. It was fun. I played it a little bit on X-Band, but it didn't work out very well. I think I just wandered around the level until I got fragged, and that was it.

[@Yup712]

It looks dated now, but “Starfox” blew me and everyone else away when it came out in like 1992-1993. “Donkey Kong Country” did the same when it came out like a year or two later. (I know “DKC” isn’t a Super-FX chip game, but just mentioning it.)

[@scorpionwins6378]

I had the most difficult time playing StuntRaceFX as a kid. The controls were hard to adapt to, that plus the frame rate and small view screen didn't allow full enjoyment, especially in 2player mode. At one point I remember looking over at my pal and saying to him "Can we play Super MarioKart instead?"

[@jorgeegrojjorge]

Star Fox is an incredible game hace yo Say Yoshi island looks fantastic!!!😎

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

the best thing abouy starwing FX was the music

[@Marius-vw9hp]

I bought Stunt Race FX as a kid and played the heck out of it :)

[@ShniitSchneyder]

dat drive-by intro

[@johanlequellec2194]

so much good memories on starwing ! I regret they did not release it on the Wii virtual console !

[@goldenultra]

I knew nothing about this, I only have Vortex with the super chip. May try it with the cheats. 😊

[@Adam-jw3uz]

Winter Gold almost looks like it's using prerendered backgrounds for the tracks. Reminds me a lot of Toy Story Racer for the Game Boy.

[@ZorMon]

Thats because the are actually prerendered footage. They render videos in cg stations and then convert to vectors, similar to corel draw or SVG and compress heavily in the rom as vectorized sequences. Then, the FX chip is used for decompressing and raster in real time. So yes, winter gold is prerendered footage, not real time polygons. You can see random triangles moving in some points, because of the inaccurancy of the vector data.

[@PaleHorseShabuShabu]

This made me want to play Star Fox 2 some more on my SNES Classic.

[@retrosoul8770]

6:37-6:55 Exactly! I'll never understand why developers tried to create these clunky, laggy, slow rigid looking 3D polygonal games, when they could have used the extra horsepower to create beautiful, timeless, creative and graphically impressive 2D games instead. How many more "one of the best Snes games" could we have had, if developers took a enhanced 2D approach instead of a flawed, primitive 3D one, I just don't get it... I'm grateful for Yoshi's Island because it showed what the FX chip should have done in the first place, boost the 2D capability of the Super Nintendo to create timelessly enjoyable games. I'm sad that consumers and developers didn't take more inspiration from Yoshi's Island, going into the mid-90's 32-bit era creating beautiful artsy 2D, sprite based games that would have aged *much better* , rather than designing games with a mediocre, crude polygonal style like in Final Fantasy VII, I mean really? I looked terrible back then and even worst today. (I thought it was inexcusably bad even when I first saw it back in like 2000, kind of late but still...)

[@fireheartis1]

3D back then was a new and exciting thing dude. Everyone wanted to try and create the next big 3D title. Rather anyone likes it or not 3D was the future and not 2D at that time. More amazing looking 2D games are coming out now because people finally realized that it can still be spectacular. It's just the way it went and to sit there and complain about it is just plain silly.

[@retrosoul8770]

That's the problem, just because something is "new", it doesn't mean that it's good or better than what we currently have (or had). Sometimes we become blinded by new things like 3D at the time. Virtually everyone agrees *today* that 32-bit 3d graphics were primitive, clunky and have aged horribly, and think the 16-bit 2D stuff have aged better. Therefore...32-bit 2D sprites should have remained the standard going into the mid-90's. Lastly, since when is retrospective speculating a bad thing? You don't ever think back to the past and imagine things in a different way?

[@summerlaverdure]

Yoshi's Island was one of the last SNES games released, there was no time really

[@VladNorris]

Experimentation, kid. Would they not tried to push the boundaries with what they had, the technology regarding the use of polygonal animation wouldn't have took off like it did. EVERYTHING has to get through that awkward phase of experimenting before it can properly take off. Non video game 3D animation is not so different(look to early 3D shows or even pre-Toy Story attempts at 3D), or even traditional animation(a lot of old school cartoons look off at points, even Steamboat Willie, because they didn't get what makes movement look right yet. And if they would just kept rotoscoping like they did with Snow White, animation as a medium would be stagnant) Would it be better if they tried to do a Rondo of Blood or Yoshi's Island instead of the clunky Full Motion Video or early 3D games? Maybe, but then they would not be as good when they reached the PS2 era and beyond. Seriously, some people N E E D to understand the importance of experimenting with new techniques, even if it doesn't always pay off.

[@noop9k]

Star Fox is still a great game. Sylpheed is still a great game. Virtua racing is still a great game.

[@josephhuffman2757]

I played through Star Fox the other day and I really enjoyed it even with the low frame rate. Need to get me a repro of Star Fox 2!

[@ulti-mantis]

I have one. It's a great game, very cool concept.

[@SQUIDWORD15]

No need, get a SNES mini or NSO

[@cerebraxis607]

They did that Doom map thing with Hexen also, on the N64. My grandpa sucked at playing games, but I got him to play hide and seek with me, using that game and the map..I was like, 7.

[@kekeke8988]

4:54 don't a ton of racing games punish you for going fast? You usually have to slow down when cornering, etc.

[@jasonxhx7854]

Holy crap i remember fx fighter I played that game so much

[@Workingplayer53]

Thanks for the video. It's good to see them all back to back and I agree with you about most games (except that I actually think Vortex is worth trying out despite the low framerate). The fact that the Super FX technology is in legal limbo which is the biggest reason why none of them will ever be re-released on VC still makes me salty about that legal IP bullshit.

[@SNESdrunk]

Thanks for watching

[@X9Z17]

We need a SNES drunk SNES music playlist on KZbin.