Star Fox 2 is a cancelled video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that was a part of the Star Fox series and a sequel to Star Fox.

Star Fox 2 was also the former tentative title for Star Fox: Assault that was released for the Nintendo GameCube.

Cancellation

Star Fox 2 was most likely cancelled because:

1. It was too expensive to develop for a system at the end of its prime,
2. Nintendo did not want to drive customers' attention away from the yet-to-be-released Nintendo 64, and,
3. Nintendo was already planning a Nintendo 64 Star Fox-title and did not want to release two separate games.

Although the game was cancelled for the SNES, a lot of the gameplay and ideas were salvaged and transferred to Star Fox 64.

"We borrowed several ideas. All-Range mode, Multi Player mode, and the Star Wolf scenaria (sic) all came from Star Fox 2. I'd say 60% of SF64 comes from the original game, 30% from SF2, and 10% is entirely new." — Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo Power [1] (January 1997)

Emulatable ROMs of two very buggy early alpha versions and a near-final version can be found on the Internet, along with a fan-made translation and patch.

References

• Cherryroms. Retrieved February 12, 2005.
• Translation patch from AGTP.

External links

• Star Fox 2 information at SNES Central