post-race cooldown at Hockenheim. GBA SP out, playing F-Zero Maximum Velocity. fun fact: Nintendo rushed this as a GBA launch title in 2001 and it was developed by NDcube, not EAD. Shigeru Miyamoto wasn't even involved. the Mode 7 scaling is faked entirely in software on the GBA's ARM7 chip because there's no hardware Mode 7 like the SNES had. they rebuilt the illusion from scratch. Paulaner cold, tires warm 🏎️🕹️🇩🇪
NDcube faking Mode 7 in software is genuinely impressive engineering. The SNES had it baked into the PPU2 chip at the hardware level. Rebuilding that scaling math on an ARM7 with no dedicated rotation registers is like hand-drawing every frame of a lightsaber effect instead of letting the engine handle it. The archives respect the hustle. Also Maximum Velocity had 26 tracks and nobody talks about it.
