Group Project - Every Street Fighter II Variation/Port

[racketboy]

This is just something I thought would be fun and we'll see how it goes...
What would you guys think about trying to capture/round out screenshots of every port and/or version of Street Fighter II that we can get our hands on.
And if you have the ability to play a certain home port, share what you think was good and bad about it -- graphics, controls, music, etc.

Does this sound do-able?

[Ack]

Do you want to compare Japanese, American, and Euro versions of each release as well? And what about including all the different arcade variations?

[gradualmeltdown]

I sampled a bunch of the logo screens out of Mame a few years back. Made a little screensaver that cycled through all the official and unofficial versions of SF2 as a joke. Maybe I could fire up Mame and write some impressions of all the hacked variants.

[indecks]

Rainbow Edition > All other SF2 versions. I would love to get an actual board of that game.

[Majors]

The hack versions are great fun at parties. Gief has crazy reach on his throws, makes for some very enteraining matches until someone figures out you can put 7 fireballs on the screen at once and totally lock down their opponent. Gotta kick that sucka off!

I've got one...but it's temperamental and needs the old CPS1 kick harness.

[the7k]

I just got a Genesis lot that includes SFII: Special Championship Edition, which was a Genesis exclusive. However, I only have a three button pad at the moment, so I'll need to hold judgment until I find a proper six button pad. So far, the sprites seem smaller and less detailed/colorful than their SNES cousins; however, it did have the privilege of being the first console port to include the bosses as playable characters.

I also have Street Fighter II for the SNES and Super Street Fighter II X for the Dreamcast. Both are practically arcade perfect ports, although SFII for SNES is hard to go back to, considering how awful slow it was. I know there are some nay-sayers that put SSFIIX for DC under the same game for Saturn, but considering how hard it is to get a hold of the Saturn version, I think I'll deal with it. (Plus, X-Arcade doesn't have an adapter for the Saturn... they really should get on that.)

Edit: Don't forget the versions that were more that just a little crippled by their hardware, such as the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Game Boy and Sega Master System.

[Ack]

SFII for SNES is hard to go back to, considering how awful slow it was.

Yeah, after so many days in Turbo, it's tough to go back. Might I suggest you pick up Super Street Fighter 2 on the SNES? In my opinion, it was an excellent update to the classic.

[Japhei]

I have the rarest Street Fighter game on the Planet

Hyper Street Fighter 2 Anniversary CPS2 cart. Was the last CPS2 game ever released for the Arcade.


Pretty amazing game I must say but NEAR IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!