Star Fox
Also known as: Starwing (EU) Developers:Nintendo EAD[1],Argonaut Software[2] Publishers:Nintendo[3],Playtronic[4][5] (BR) Platforms:SNES,Super Famicom Box Released internationally: September 5, 2019[6] (NSO) Released in JP: February 21, 1993[3] Released in US: March 22, 1993[7] Released in EU: June 3, 1993[8] Released in UK: May 31, 1993[9] Released in AU: June 1993[10] Released in BR: August 30, 1993[4] This game hasunused code. This game hasunused graphics. This game hasunused text. This game hasdebugging material. This game hasregional differences. This game hasrevisional differences. This game has a prototype article This game has a data page This game has a Data Crystal page

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude torescue this article?

To do: Multiple prototypes and source files leaked on July, 24th, 2020.

Star Fox is a game where you control an anthropomorphic fox realizing his dream of traveling into unknown space to shoot paper airplanes and fight a giant slot machine.

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Prototype Info

Data

Unused Graphics

Hidden inside the game at0x1099(US) is a 2BPP font that does not get used by the game, but was used for the debug menus, such asthe one seen in the debug build prototypes that were leaked in the 2020 Nintendo Gigaleak.

Unused Text

To do: Verify that "I can't tell which is real" doesn't occur in the game, as opposed to accidentally being left out of Matheson's script.

Dialogue

All of these are in-game dialogue. The lines were identified as unused by their absence (or dummied out status) inWilliam Matheson's game script.

Debugging Text

A couple texts for debug menus can be seen inside the US ROM at the following addresses. This notably mentions several features and weapons not in the final game.

0x1849:

HOVER 1TANKWALKER 1REL AXIS 1REL AXIS 2DEMOGAME PAUSEDREL AXIS

0x1FF1:

LOADINGBAY EMPTYNULLMISSILE1MISSILE2TLASERHMISSILETM GUNMACH GUNLASERTRILASERSHOT GUN

Debug Code

At the beginning of the ROM is some unused code likely used early in development. This code loops through what appears to be debugging code and loads some otherwise unused models, graphics, and color tables. However, the code itself is effectively non-functioning. This is likely a leftover from when the game was a tech demo from Argonaut calledX.

Regional Differences

To do: There's a few more differences that can be found from this webpage:http://www.anthrofox.org/starfox/versions/Apparently, at least the earlier North American version has a scoring bug on one or two stages.

Title Screen

Japan	US	US Rev. 1	Europe

For whatever reason, nearly every version of the game has a different color on the title screen logo — the original Japanese release has grayish blue, the first North American release instead has bright red, and the North American revision changed it to a more dull red. In both instances, the North American versions also have a more subtle gradient. Also note that the Japanese logo has larger letters than the North American versions. Effectively, the US logo is styled as "Star Fox" or "StarFox", while the Japanese logo is styled as "Starfox".

The European version features the uniqueStarwing title with relatively bright coloring. Jez San, one of the game's developers, sheds some light on the name change:

[Nintendo] said there was a German company called StarVox and that in a thick German accent, Star Fox sounded too much like StarVox. So to avoid a court case that might risk delaying the launch of the game, they changed the name.
Personally, I think both companies overreacted and there was no chance that Star Fox and StarVox would have created confusion between the two brands.

Controls Screen

Japan	US	Europe

The SNES controller seen on the controls screen was changed between regions in order to match each region's respective controllers. The Japanese & European controller has colored buttons, while the US controller had purple buttons. The controller itself was also recolored to be more purple in the US version. The blue font in the Japanese version is also a slightly different, "shinier" kind.

Competition Cart Leftover

All versions besides the Japanese and the initial US version of the game contain text from the score screen of theSuper Star Fox Weekend/StarWing Competition cartridge.

scoreSHIELD BONUSBOMB BONUS

References

• Games developed by Nintendo EAD
• Games developed by Argonaut Software
• Games published by Nintendo
• Games published by Playtronic
• SNES games
• Super Famicom Box games
• Games released in 1993
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