Back in November of last year, we told you about a new ROM hack that introduced almost all of the stages from the GBA game F-Zero Maximum Velocity into the SNES original. Well, now it appears that a new group has also done the exact opposite, implementing all 15 tracks from the SNES game in Maximum Velocity’s engine.
F-Zero Vintage Velocity is the work of two individuals — the project coordinator PowerPanda and the programmer Guy Perfect — and was released earlier today on Romhacking.net.
It is essentially a full remake of the SNES original on the GBA, together the ROM hackers extracting the data in exchange for 10 of these courses from F-Zero: GP Legend and F-Zero: Climax’s Platinum Cups — a collection of cups that featured GBA recreations of the SNES stages — while the rest of the tracks (Death Wind I, Mute City II, White Land I, Mute City III, Death Wind III) had to be recreated from scratch in the GBA format.
The hackers have apparently included a mysterious fourth series as well in support of players to race through, called the Rook series, which is unlockable by beating the 3 regular series on Expert, and have also claimed that hack is playable either solo or alongside up to 4 players using multi-pak multiplayer via link cable
If you want to give it a try, you can download it here.
Original case and manuals in new condition.
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Wow, this F-Zero ROM hack sounds sick! Bringing SNES tracks to Maximum Velocity is gonna be so nostalgic. Cannot wait to give it a try and catch how it feels racing on those classic tracks with updated graphics. Definitely gonna add some new life to the game. Props to the modders for putting in the work to make this occur. Time to dust off my SNES and get racing!