About Street Fighter Ports

I was looking on this site last night and if you click on the Arcade Version Street Fighters, it tells you what the best home version is. Do most of you guys agree with their decisions? If so, I have some games to pick up

http://www.chikapu.com/streetfighterlegends/reviews.html

 

if you like the SNES SF2 and 2 turbo is not bad on SNES.

 

Just recently I played a Street Fighter game on the Megadrive and I was totally appalled by the jerkiness, unresponsive control, and bad collision detection... better play the CPS1 Street Fighters on PS2, PS1 or Saturn. In fact, the Saturn is the de facto machine for SF due to its pad

 

Seems like they have it down pretty well. 2D fighters are always best on DC and Saturn over Playstation. Everybody knows that though. They're both 2D powerhouses.

 

Yeah, but the DC's d-pad is pain city... and the button layout is nothing to write home about either, methinks. Now if the Arcade Stick wasn't so extortionately expensive, I would get one rather fast.
By the way, did the first Street Fighter III game ever appear on DC or only the last two?

 

I love using the Street Fighter Arcade Stick on my Xbox running CPS 2 emulators. Everything just feels so perfect since you're running the actual arcade ROM at home.
I would suggest tracking down one of these sticks (or a similar one) and just run the emulator using a simple Xbox soft mod... provided you own the arcade board, of course.

 

well here's the fun part, I actually DO own a Street Fighter arcade board (SF Alpha blue) but no Xbox... and I'm no fan of emulation, real hardware or nothing is my credo (not willing to spawn a discussion, that's just how I feel)

 

I think it was included with Double Impact.

I love DC's pad for fighting games, youjust have to position your hand right. I'll post a picture up of how I do it later tonight. And I hate arcade sticks. They cost too much and do little to improve gameplay, and I don't play fighters enough to even get good use out of one.

And could a mod please fix my spelling error in the title

 

Anti, both the first and second installments of Street Fighter III were included on the Double Impact/W Impact Dreamcast release.

And the title is fixed, VGM. :-D

 

When it comes to Street Fighter II, I have to throw my hat behind Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold on the Saturn.

Best Street Fighter of the bunch, plus Cammy.

-hl718

 

Alpha 2 Gold? Was that included on Street Fighter Collection?

 

Yep. The Street Fighter Collection was 2 discs.

Disc 1 -- Super Street Fighter 2, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Disc 2 -- Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold

 

It's called Street Fighter Zero II DASH on the Street Fighter Collection for Saturn beacuse it's Japanese. I've never heard of the GOLD name before. Is that what it went under outside of japan ?

Yakumo

 

I also have to recommend, for the sheer novelty of it all, Street Fighter Alpha 2 on the SNES, as well as the best Street Fighter of the 16-bit generation, Super Street Fighter II on the Genesis.

Also, if you have a PC-Engine and can get your hands on an Avenue or other 6-button pad, the Street Fighter II CE is pretty impressive for such a limited machine.

 

Yep. That's what the NTSC US version is called.

-hl718

 

Got it and I have Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition on Genesis.

 

Novelty is certainly the word to use for SFA2 on the SNES.

HOLY ANIMATION CHOPPAGE BATMAN!

It might look like SFA2. It might be called SFA2. But it sure doesn't play with the finesse of SFA2.

That said, I have to agree about SFII on the PCE. I bought a Duo-RX just so I could play that game properly. Very sweet little port and proof that a "weak" system could do a decent job of the game. Yes, the SNES was better, but damn, after hearing Capcom USA blather on about how difficult it was to get the game up and running on the SNES you'd think some developer or three had to sell his soul to get it ported to the PCE.

If SFII and Dracula-X had been released in the US for the TG16, the system would likely have lived a WHOLE lot longer stateside.

-hl718

 

No PC Engine version makes Baseley09 a sad boy.

In retrospect it of course has been killed by modern superior ports, but at the time it was amazing (considering) and at the end of the day it's still SF2:CE, still great to play today.

 

any and all Street Fighter 2 games on SNES/SFC, Genesis/MD, PCEngine and 3DO (and Amiga) are not ports. they are conversions or translations.

in my opinion, a *port* would be something that shares pretty much the exact same graphics and audio as the original. so that would mean Playstation SF Collection1, Collection2, Capcom Generation 5, Saturn's SF Collection1, Capcom Generation 5, X68000's SF2 CE, Dreamcast's SSF2T are all ports.

 

wow never knew street fighter 2 was difficult to port to snes