the official nintendo blurb for star fox on the nintendo online snes thingy claims it has "smooth" gameplay

star fox runs at like twelve fps, the only thing with lower framerate is virtual hydlide

don't get me wrong, star fox is massively impressive for its time and is definitely a classic but

no one can say it has smooth visuals at *all*

we're one of those people who can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps and even we can tell that the framerate of star fox is abysmal

the super FX was an impressive chip but it was only just barely up to the task star fox set for it

@Felthry interestingly enough, I recently saw an overclock hack that lets you emulate Star Fox at an even 30FPS! It looks so so so brisk and nice

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@connie yeah i can see that existing! probably pretty easy to do too since i bet there's a clock divider somewhere in the rom you can just change

don't need to worry about breaking the superfx chip when it's emulated

@connie we've seen things about changing the clock divider on ocarina of time and it does some wonky stuff to physics

at 60 fps your side hops and jumps and rolls go basically nowhere

dividing it down further to 10 fps and you get like double distance on everything

and all you need to do to play with that is change one specific byte!

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