Regarding the Legal Issues: I have looked into this. A/N Inc. was formed as a joint-venture company between Argonaut Games and Nintendo for the purposes of commercializing the Super FX Chip. It was the original assignee of the Patents associated with the Super FX Chip. Argonaut Games had a 49% stake in it. When Argonauts sold off their assets and closed, they apparently sold their stake A/N to Nintendo, because Nintendo became the assignee of those patents in 2006.
Now, that doesn't cover the copyright of the SuperFX Instruction Set and the architecture. Although, if A/N was in charge of licensing the chip to third-party developers, I would have to imagine they would have held the copyrights to those.
Also, copyright on the star fox games are not an issue. The original Star Fox has Nintendo as the sole copyright claimant.
To sum up, I don't see what the "legal issues" he's talking about are.
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Regarding the Legal Issues:
I have looked into this. A/N Inc. was formed as a joint-venture company between Argonaut Games and Nintendo for the purposes of commercializing the Super FX Chip. It was the original assignee of the Patents associated with the Super FX Chip. Argonaut Games had a 49% stake in it. When Argonauts sold off their assets and closed, they apparently sold their stake A/N to Nintendo, because Nintendo became the assignee of those patents in 2006.
Now, that doesn't cover the copyright of the SuperFX Instruction Set and the architecture. Although, if A/N was in charge of licensing the chip to third-party developers, I would have to imagine they would have held the copyrights to those.
Also, copyright on the star fox games are not an issue. The original Star Fox has Nintendo as the sole copyright claimant.
To sum up, I don't see what the "legal issues" he's talking about are.