Hiku said:
Especially considering how they are thorough with quality, and this one never passed their quality control standards before. |
Actually it was in quality control according to Wikipedia, that base it on statements of developer Dylan Cuthbert:
"In an interview with Nintendo Life in 2015, Cuthbert reveals he has a copy of the game's finalized ROM image, completely reviewed and debugged by Mario Club, which he acquired during the development of Star Fox Command, and states that the mastered ROM image sustains many elements that remain missing from the leaked prototype ROM images."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_2
Hmm, we might not have seen this earlier, because:
"In a 2015 interview, programmer Dylan Cuthbert revealed that releasing the game on the newer Nintendo eShop is also very unlikely due to major legal disputes between Nintendo and Argonaut Software, despite the fact the latter is defunct."