Would the SuperFX 3 benefit the game that much over just using the FX chip though? From my understanding the reason Star Fox ran so poorly was that it used some sort of older/beta variant of the SuperFX called the Mario Chip that ran at half the speed, and all the SuperFX2 did was support ROMs up to 16Mbit while the FX1 topped out at 8Mbit, but otherwise performed the same.
I remember running into all this when looking up how to make a custom Star Fox 2 cart and finding out you didn't need a doner cart with a FX2 chip (which are a lot rarer and more expensive to get than FX1 carets, especially in the US). I think the initial reason people thought you needed a FX2 was because the early attempts used a Star Fox cart as the doner... which of course ran at a much slower speed (And I think SF2 was originally advertised as using the FX2, likely just due to it being more cost-effective not to produce FX1 chips anymore).
Star Fox 1 runs pretty well already when put on a cart/flashcart that's running it off a normal FX chip.
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Re: Star Fox Will Take Advantage Of The New Super FX 3 Chip, Will Feature Rumble Support
Would the SuperFX 3 benefit the game that much over just using the FX chip though? From my understanding the reason Star Fox ran so poorly was that it used some sort of older/beta variant of the SuperFX called the Mario Chip that ran at half the speed, and all the SuperFX2 did was support ROMs up to 16Mbit while the FX1 topped out at 8Mbit, but otherwise performed the same.
I remember running into all this when looking up how to make a custom Star Fox 2 cart and finding out you didn't need a doner cart with a FX2 chip (which are a lot rarer and more expensive to get than FX1 carets, especially in the US). I think the initial reason people thought you needed a FX2 was because the early attempts used a Star Fox cart as the doner... which of course ran at a much slower speed (And I think SF2 was originally advertised as using the FX2, likely just due to it being more cost-effective not to produce FX1 chips anymore).
Star Fox 1 runs pretty well already when put on a cart/flashcart that's running it off a normal FX chip.