Star Fox

Star Fox plays on the Mac at 60 fps, with sound, tested on an M4 Pro Mac with 48 GB through the title, the prologue cinematic and the start of the tutorial flight. No iPhone or iPad app has been built yet.

How it runs

The tutorial flight runs at 60 fps on the tested Mac. The prologue cinematic runs at 30 fps, which looks like the game's own choice, though that has not been checked.

The 3D picture is drawn at 768x432, then the game's own upscaling takes it to 1536x864 for the screen. That is the lowest resolution the game's settings allow, and why it stays there is not yet known, nor whether the Switch 2 does the same.

Scripted presses reached the tutorial's first lesson and worked its options menus. Flying with a player's input has not been watched on this Mac; a contributor reports flying for 7 minutes with a controller on an M5 Max.

Memory came to about 8.5 GB through the start of the tutorial.

Bring update v131072

Tested with update v131072, packed from the game's .nup file, which holds the base game and the update. The base game on its own has not been run.

Controls

The Packed app starts in the 3D touch layout.

• The title comes up about 40 seconds after the game starts; A starts the game.
• The prologue cinematic follows, about 4 minutes each time. Skipping it has not been tried.
• At the tutorial's first question, Down on the left stick and A answers no.

Good to know

• In testing, the save held no progress yet, so the prologue cinematic played on every run.