Keep your boost to the straightaways.

Today, F-Zero DSX lives on in ROM-hacker circles. A fan group called "DSX Revival" has been rebuilding the game using the F-Zero Climax engine. It’s not perfect—the frame rate still chugs on original hardware—but on an emulator? You can feel what could have been.

F-Zero DSX is a significant community-driven fan project that serves as an ambitious overhaul of Mario Kart DS

F-Zero DSX started as a high-concept fan project aimed at bringing the high-octane, 60fps chaos of the F-Zero universe to the Nintendo DS hardware. While it was never an official Nintendo release, it gained massive traction in homebrew circles and forums like F-Zero Central.

Was it better than GX ? No. But it had soul . It had the audacity to put Captain Falcon’s speedometer on a resistive touch screen.