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Title: This might be a cameo...
Post by: nensondubois on August 06, 2009, 01:25:29 PM

After putting the rom of a SNES game called Stunt Race FX, I found this when searching for the music artist in a hex editor

 at address 0x00048134 "!!! old mario chip !!!"

Isn't that fascinating!?

Title: Re: This might be a cameo...
Post by: LinkTheLefty on August 19, 2009, 10:28:45 AM

Stunt Race FX? If I recall correctly, the Super FX Chip (which was also used in Star Fox, the unreleased Star Fox 2, Yoshi's Island, and I BELIEVE Super Mario RPG) was originally called the Mario graphics chip. So it's not so much a cameo as it is the original codename of the special chip. Nice find, though! I guess the developers grew attached to the old name or something and hid this text in a line of code.

Title: Re: This might be a cameo...
Post by: Chupperson Weird on August 19, 2009, 10:34:59 AM

Star Fox 2 and Yoshi's Island actually used the Super FX 2 chip.
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LR38173_01.jpg