Dylan Cuthbert Confirms the Existence of a FINALISED Version of the Cancelled Star Fox 2 Game

[Hope(N Forever) 36]

Nintendo Life recently conducted another exclusive interview with Dylan Cuthbert, a well-known figure among Star Fox enthusiasts. They were discussing the cancelled Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Star Fox 2. Cuthbert, a former employee at the now-defunct Argonaut Software (co-developers of Star Fox and Star Fox 2), and founder of Q-Games (developers of Star Fox Command and co-developers of Star Fox 64 3D), stated in the interview that despite Nintendo's decision to cancel the release of Star Fox 2, they continued the remaining work on the game and even sent it to be tested at Mario Club - Nintendo's debugging division. Although, it was not until during the development of Star Fox Command that Cuthbert got back a copy of the game's final, mastered ROM image from Nintendo.

Additionally, Cuthbert said that all the ROM images floating about the internet that we know about are all unfinished prototypes, and are "a long way off" from the actual final version as they are missing many elements which made the game feel "complete". Even the multiple patches from the Star Fox community does not do these prototype ROM images any justice!

Cuthbert added a commercial distribution of the game may still be possible, but very unlikely due to sustaining legal reasons between Nintendo and Argonaut Software, despite the fact the latter company is defunct.

The full interview has not been yet posted for public viewing as of writing of this thread, but will be posted a little later. Source of this specific information can be found here.

Update: Full interview is now available - click here.

[The VGM Lover 194]

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[Dr. Orange 1554]

I wouldn't mind playing a fully Japanese game of it ever comes out. Probs won't as the article said but imma be dreaming.

[DZComposer 2310]

Don't get your hopes up. It's probably never going to be ROM Dumped, and due to the legal issues and the fact that the VC emulator does not support Super FX I wouldn't expect it to pop-up on VC either.

[WolfOD64 20]

What I really hate is that Cuthbert says in the same interview that "the series was never meant to be JUST 3-D roaming and flying stages"...

...which baffles me, because that's exactly what Star Fox Command was, and he worked on that game.

[Who Knows 24]

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I am curious as to what features were not included in the version that was leaked since it seems kinda complete to me

Oh well guess now i am going to be haunted by this version we will never get to play

It seems Dracula 3d will have a friend

[psy_commando 221]

What I really hate is that Cuthbert says in the same interview that "the series was never meant to be JUST 3-D roaming and flying stages"...

...which baffles me, because that's exactly what Star Fox Command was, and he worked on that game.

​He's referring to what Miyamoto said himself about the series you know...

[Hope(N Forever) 36]

Oh, I was supposed to come back here much earlier with a link to the full interview, but it seems some of you already found it. In any case, for any reason the rest of you cannot find the full interview for yourselves, just click this link here. By the way, I highly recommend checking out the article's comments section, as Cuthbert himself apparently decided to pay a visit and talk directly.

[Patch93 232]

Wow. Looks like that information I posted a while back was really true.

But yeah DZ's right, we shouldn't expect it to be released anytime soon, or even ever for that matter.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Patch93