I enjoyed the video but I will say as a long time F-Zero fan, relegating FZ99 to a 10 seconds felt like a disservice to the community considering its the first game in almost 20 years. The game is genuinely fun as GX diehard(barely played snes) and while not for everyone, it does a good job of bringing people into the series and innovates on the F-Zero formula through 99 people and skyway. We all want a GX/X 2 but for what it is, FZ99 deserved to have more talking time.
1:25 Mode 7 =/= SuperFX Mode 7 is a mode for how the Snes should handle the background layers in a game. Mode 7 provides two background layers. A simple layer that can only be translated, which most games (including F-Zero) used for hud elements. While the second layer could also be scaled, rotated, and skewed. And when combined with HDMA, could also change the scale of the background on each row of pixels. Which is used to create the perspective view in F-Zero. Saying "they used mode 7" does not give nearly enough credit to the developers, nor the HDMA functions found on consoles like the Snes. And SuperFX, is a *completely* different thing! It is an addon chip that can be found in the cartridges of some Snes games. Like SMW2 and StarFox. It's main function is to process graphics that the Snes on its, could not handle. Like sprite rotation, scaling, or even full on polygonal graphics. And it is *not* required to utilise mode 7 or HDMA.
I very liked the video. Unlike many others you look at the series objectively, without fanboys screams that it was something unreal and the best racing game. It was fun, but that’s it. Me too just played all 3 major games 3 days ago lol (and going to upload my point of view), and i liked only GX out of those 3 because of track design. That’s it.
If GX could just be ported to Switch giving the ability to play the SNES game, X, 99 and GX all on one console it would be a dream come true. There is no doubt on my mind that if GX got ported to Switch with this massive mythical status the internet has built GX into it would be an easy million plus seller just like Metroid Prime Remastered.
Good video. I'm thinking the reason beyond Nintendo not having ideas to freshen up the franchise, also lies in it's difficulty. F-Zero 99 having problems that it's not playable offline and requires Nintendo's never flawed online service to run, it leaves a bad taste. Even if F-Zero 99 can introduce new fans to the series with a battle royale format, are those new fans going to be interested if a full fledged release comes out with less pilots from hardware limitations and a more difficult experience as the previous games were? GX could be ported to the Switch or the next Nintendo console, and the fans would be happy. It's an insult that it's not able to be played and discouraged from being acquired without spending hundreds on a second hand sale.
![[F-Zero 99] Winning the FIRST EVER World Tour](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8Jw9doQloKc/mqdefault.jpg)
I enjoyed the video but I will say as a long time F-Zero fan, relegating FZ99 to a 10 seconds felt like a disservice to the community considering its the first game in almost 20 years. The game is genuinely fun as GX diehard(barely played snes) and while not for everyone, it does a good job of bringing people into the series and innovates on the F-Zero formula through 99 people and skyway. We all want a GX/X 2 but for what it is, FZ99 deserved to have more talking time.
1:25 Mode 7 =/= SuperFX
Mode 7 is a mode for how the Snes should handle the background layers in a game. Mode 7 provides two background layers. A simple layer that can only be translated, which most games (including F-Zero) used for hud elements. While the second layer could also be scaled, rotated, and skewed. And when combined with HDMA, could also change the scale of the background on each row of pixels. Which is used to create the perspective view in F-Zero. Saying "they used mode 7" does not give nearly enough credit to the developers, nor the HDMA functions found on consoles like the Snes.
And SuperFX, is a *completely* different thing! It is an addon chip that can be found in the cartridges of some Snes games. Like SMW2 and StarFox. It's main function is to process graphics that the Snes on its, could not handle. Like sprite rotation, scaling, or even full on polygonal graphics. And it is *not* required to utilise mode 7 or HDMA.
I very liked the video. Unlike many others you look at the series objectively, without fanboys screams that it was something unreal and the best racing game. It was fun, but that’s it. Me too just played all 3 major games 3 days ago lol (and going to upload my point of view), and i liked only GX out of those 3 because of track design. That’s it.
If GX could just be ported to Switch giving the ability to play the SNES game, X, 99 and GX all on one console it would be a dream come true. There is no doubt on my mind that if GX got ported to Switch with this massive mythical status the internet has built GX into it would be an easy million plus seller just like Metroid Prime Remastered.
Good video. I'm thinking the reason beyond Nintendo not having ideas to freshen up the franchise, also lies in it's difficulty. F-Zero 99 having problems that it's not playable offline and requires Nintendo's never flawed online service to run, it leaves a bad taste. Even if F-Zero 99 can introduce new fans to the series with a battle royale format, are those new fans going to be interested if a full fledged release comes out with less pilots from hardware limitations and a more difficult experience as the previous games were? GX could be ported to the Switch or the next Nintendo console, and the fans would be happy. It's an insult that it's not able to be played and discouraged from being acquired without spending hundreds on a second hand sale.