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The Super FX chip was designed by Argonaut Games, who also co-developed (with Nintendo) the 3D space scrolling shooter video game Star Fox to demonstrate the additional polygon rendering capabilities the chip brought to the SNES.
The first version of the chip, commonly called the Super FX (no number), is clocked with a 21 MHz signal, but an internal clock speed divider halved it to 10.5 MHz.
Game cartridges that contain a Super FX chip have additional contacts at the bottom of the cartridge that connect to the extra slots in the cartridge port that were not normally used.
The Super FX chip was placed in only a few games, and the only one which made any significant impact with the gaming public was Star Fox.
The game would certainly not have been possible without the Super FX chip, but there is some question as to how much role the then new "3D polygon" graphics had to do with it.
According to EGM, costs of games with the DSP and FX chips from Nintendo do not cost more; however, third part developers had to pay about $10 for the chips, and that cost was passed onto us, the consumers.
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