@Gelugon_baat: Why are you riffing on Argonaut throughout this entire thread? I think the first Star Fox is pretty damn good. Sure, I prefer SF64, but both SF1 and the Super FX chip were pretty impressive. Dylan Cuthbert always struck me as an engineer worth his salt.

@wolfpup7: Nintendo's emulators have NOT been excellent. On the Wii U for example, the GBA and SNES emu's are actually pretty solid, but all the others are pretty bad and not worth paying a cent for in my opinion. The NES Classic had good emulation, not idea about the SNES Classsic.

@kritvichu: That's a remarkable strange use of the word "giveaway".

@Gelugon_baat: Well yes, it would have been kind of impossible for them to have developed a GBA game in 1995, as the GBA came out in 2001.

Also, I feel the need to point out that Argonaut did actually make a GBA game in 2002.

@CyberEarth:

"You can't obtain Star Fox 2 via emulation (yet)"

That's incorrect. For starters, a near-complete beta of Star Fox 2 with an unofficial translation has been available for years. Second, the ROM from the SNES Classic has already been dumped and is available if you do a a little searching. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems to work just fine on popular emulators in their current state. If you look on eBay, you can already find plenty of people selling bootlegged copies, so flashing it onto existing carts seems like a non-issue as well.

So no, the game is widely available for both emulation and for the original hardware if you put in a little work.