Star Fox 64/Gameplay

Lasers
Your primary weapon is your laser. Collecting a Laser Upgrade will give you Double Lasers, which fire two shots at once. An additional upgrade will give you Hyper Lasers, which deal twice as much damage per shot. If you lose a wing or die, your ship will revert to Single Lasers. It is not possible to upgrade your lasers while driving the Landmaster.

Charge Shots
If you hold your fire button down, you will stop firing and a ball of light will appear on the nose of your ship. Your aiming cursors will then turn red and yellow (and appear if you hid them). When a close enough foe passes through them, the red cursor will lock onto them. Tap your fire button again to shoot a charged shot at that target. The laser will follow it until it hits something. If your foes are flying in a group and you lock onto one of them, the charged shot will destroy all of the foes within its blast radius. You will get one point for the first enemy and two points for each additional enemy hit.

Bombs
Bombs are powerful projectiles that create a large explosion when detonated, dealing a lot of damage to anything in the vicinity. You'll start each life with three bombs, regardless of the number you had when you died. You can usually collect more. Bombs are best used on large groups of enemies (try locking on to one of them first) or on bosses.

Items
You can collect items by touching them with your vehicle. Enemies often drop items when defeated, usually silver rings.
 * Silver Ring: It refills your shield meter by a few units. It is the most common item.
 * Gold Ring: Collecting three of them increases the size of your shield meter. If you have taken too much damage, it will refill your shield meter partially without increasing its size.
 * Special Ring: It refills about half of a normal shield meter.
 * Bomb: This increases your bomb supply by one. It looks like a small red gem with a flat face and a "B" printed on it. It is fairly rare.
 * Laser Upgrade: This increases the power of your laser. It cannot be found in Landmaster levels.
 * Wing Repair: This repairs structural damage, like missing wings.
 * Supply Box: When you receive an incoming message from ROB64, he might send you one of these. Shoot it to release its contents. If you have Single Lasers, it probably contains a Laser Upgrade. If you have Double or Hyper Lasers, it probably contains a bomb. It can also contain a Special Ring.

Modes
These Modes are available from the main menu. For the differences between Corridor Mode and All-Range Mode, see here.

Main Game
Start on Corneria and play through five more levels on your way to Venom. See the Walkthrough for more details.

Training
Practice flying the Arwing here. You will receive messages informing you of the moves you can do and how to do them. If you reach 100 points in the All-Range Mode section, a Wolfen, or similar fighter, will appear. It will try to shoot you down, but you can use it to practice taking down Star Wolf.

Vs.
Play against your friends in All-Range Mode. The Handicap feature lets you change the strength of your shield. Setting 1 gives you a full shield meter and setting 3 gives you about half of a shield meter. If you reach the edge of the play field, you will warp to the other side, but your lasers and bombs will not. One Laser Upgrade and one Bomb will appear after a few seconds. The bomb will return after it is used. If a player is killed, their power-ups will be left behind for anyone to pick up.
 * Point Match: Choose between Corneria and Sector Z. Shoot down the number of you opponents that you select to win.
 * Battle Royal: Choose between Corneria and Sector Z. The last player standing wins.
 * Time Trial: Choose between Katina and Sector Z. Select the time of play and then shoot the most enemy craft in that time to win.

Ranking
View the top ten scores from the Main Game. You can see the scores for each level, which wingmen survived each level, and any medals received by each player.

Sound
Toggle between Mono, Stereo, and Headphone output. You can also change the proportions of Music, Voice, and Sound Effects.

Data
Erase all save data. You will be asked if you're serious upon entering.