Originally posted by: sean wookie

Originally posted by: ricarleite
I've been playing a "finished" version of the infamous beta 3 version of Star Fox 2 (unreleased game for SNES), I must say it's a pity they didn't release it...

is it a rom

It is a rom, dumped from a prototype cart that was "smudgled" out from the computer software company that programed the game for nintendo (I can't remember the name right now). It is a final beta, although I think the game was not complete. The game feels choppy, "normal" and "hard" modes are too easy and "expert" mode is too hard, it feels like there's something missing from the final boss sequence, and the ending sequence is missing something, it's too simple... And the music sounds like a filler version, not 100% final.

Anyway, they got this prototype and dumped the rom. It was filled with debug infomations and some major bugs, and it was in japanese. A group translataed the game and made a patch to fix some of the bugs. Still, the game crashes in some emulator, so a special version of snes9x was made so that Star Fox 2 could be fully playable.

I've palyed both "normal" and "hard" mode, and the games feels awesome, although I'm sure it was not fully completed. They didn't release it because they feared it would hurt N64 sales and they wanted to use some ideas from Star Fox 2 into Star Fox 64 (such as free range mode and the Star Wolf gang). I say it's nonsense, it would have been the best SNES game ever... It would probably be Nintendo's last...