![]() When I originally wrote this article, it was a dark winter in 2010, and I felt that SNES Central was not complete without a thorough article of this game. ![]() Maybe they thought there would come a time that they could put it out, and over 20 years later that is now a reality. Nintendo did not cancel the game until it was almost finished, and they decided to allow it to go through the full evaluation process anyways. The 1996 copyright on the title screen is a testament to this (the "final beta" dates to June 1995). ![]() By all accounts, it has a lot of polish, from what was likely several months of extra development and bug testing. In 2017, we will finally be able to play this gem of a game in its final form. I asked Dylan Cuthbert on Twitter several years ago, and he said many of the strategic elements were absent from version that leaked out. Even after the leak of the so called "final beta" version, it was clear that there was still more to be seen. Prior to the leak of a relatively complete prototype of the game, people always wondered what it could have been like. Star Fox 2 is arguably the most infamous unreleased video game. Thanks to TheRedEye and Retromags for the magazine scans, Psy_Commando for tipping off on the Super Game Power build, and Luigiblood for assembling the source code for an additional binary! On September 29th, Nintendo will finally release the final version on the Super NES Classic Mini. In 2002, a nearly complete prototype of the game was leaked on the Internet by an anonymous former employee, and has become the most well known unreleased game for the Super NES. ![]() Star Fox 2 (or StarFox 2), one of the most anticipated games late in the life cycle of the SNES, was quietly cancelled by Nintendo in late 1995 with the impending release of the Nintendo 64. ![]()
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