so uh
yoshi's island is... pretty rad as fuck
@Nine ooh is this your first time playing it? It's really good!
@Felthry
Yeah!! It's so pretty and good and fun! It handles nicely, and looks great, and really pushes the SNES hardware! Absolutely perfect! *Quickly shushes the game as it attempts to prove this false with the screaming baby noise when you get hurt* not a single bad point at all :D
@Nine it more than pushes the SNES hardware, it actually has a graphics coprocessor on the cartridge. The SuperFX 2; you might be familiar with the SuperFX 1 which was what made Star Fox possible
@Felthry
Yep yep! Apparently that chip was made by Argonaut software who I think also made starglider on the spectrum and suchlike? Either way it's a genius little chip. They used it in Mario kart as well didn't they?
@Nine no, I think mario kart is all vanilla SNES hardware with neat tricks for the two views. That black bar in the middle of the screen is more than just a divider; the game actually skips a few scanlines to give the processor time to completely redraw a new frame
@Felthry
Oh crap that reminds me I should get Mario kart for the snes