A demonstration of the hacked, 60 fps version of Star Fox released this week (though this demo doesn’t get much above 30 fps, as noted in the bottom-left corner).
If you were a Nintendo kid in the ’90s, you were probably blown away by how Star Fox and its SuperFX chip could render full 3D worlds on 1993-era SNES hardware. If you go back to play the game today, though, you’ll probably be let down by the game’s choppy frame rate, which maxes out at a halting 20 fps.
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Enter longtime Star Fox ROM hacker kandowontu, who’s responsible for the feature-packed Star Fox Exploration Showcase hack. This week, kando released a patch that unlocks 30 or even 60 fps modes in an emulated Star Fox (or Star Fox 2