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Super Street Fighter II - The New Challengers (スーパーストリートファイターⅡ, Sûpâ Sutorîto Faitâ Tsû?) is a Street Fighter game originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1993.

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Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix - ROUND 1 Trailer

Super Turbo HD Remix Trailer

It is the fourth arcade version of Street Fighter II produced, following Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, and Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting.

In addition to refining and balancing the existing character roster from the previous installments, Super Street Fighter II also introduced four new characters. It was also the first game to be developed on Capcom's CP System II hardware, which permitted more sophisticated graphics and audio over the original CP System hardware used by the previous versions of Street Fighter II.

Gameplay[]

Changes and Improvements[]

Super Street Fighter II features a new scoring system which kept track of combos, first attacks, reversals and recoveries made by the player and awards the player with bonus points by performing such deeds.

Another improvement from previous games was the reversal, allowing quick recovery into an attack after landing on the ground or blocking, thus negating the opportunity in previous incarnations of "ticking" one's opponent (i.e., hitting an opponent with a light attack and immediately throwing during their block animation. This was notable against large character such as E. Honda).

The faster game speed introduced in Hyper Fighting was removed and the gameplay is tweakable by pushing the control stick left or right at the title screen, between 1 to 4 stars, with four being the fastest.

New dizzy animations were also added (such as angels and reapers). Grim Reapers signified a dizzy that would be difficult to recover from, stars or birds represented a standard recovery time dizzy, and angels represented a dizzy that could be escaped from quickly.

Other subtle changes took place with most of the characters: new moves were added and parameters of the moves were altered, generally making the game more balanced than its previous iterations.

The number of "re-dizzy" combos were greatly reduced. Such combos involve executing an unblockable combination on a dizzied character that results in the target character becoming dizzy again.

Most of the graphics from the previous Street Fighter II games were either redrawn or recolored. All of the stages, face artwork, and the HUD feature all new graphics. The original opening sequence which featured two generic martial artists fighting in front of a crowd was replaced by a new opening featuring Ryu launching a Hadoken towards the screen.

New animation frames were drawn for all the characters for their basic and special moves, as well as new victory poses. For example, all four boss characters now have new animation frames for basic attacks (Vega and Sagat did not have jumping punches in the previous games), while Chun-Li now has a new animation for her Kikoken projectile technique. The music and sound effects were also remade and new voice samples were recorded for some of the characters. (i.e.: Ryu and Ken were given different voices) However, Ryu and Dhalsim still share the same groans when KO and when throwing the opponent.

Each character had available eight color schemes, depending on which button was pushed to select the character. Players could choose between a character's original color scheme, their color schemes from Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting, or one of five new color schemes featured in the game.

Tournament Battle[]

In addition to the standard single and two-player game modes, Super Street Fighter II also feature an exclusive eight-player single-elimination tournament mode dubbed Tournament Battle. This mode is only available when four Super Street Fighter II arcade game cabinets are connected together and all of them configured to "Tournament" mode. The Tournament Mode consists of three sets of four simultaneous matches: the initial eliminations, the semifinals and the finals. After the first set is over, the players are re-arranged accordingly based on their position: the winning players sent to either of the first two cabinets, whereas losing players sent to one of the other two. In the finals, the players competing for first place are sent to the first cabinet, the third-place players to the second cabinet, and so on.

Characters[]

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Art by Daichan

Returning Characters
Balrog
Blanka
Chun-Li
Dhalsim
E. Honda
Guile
Ken Masters
M. Bison
Ryu
Sagat
Vega
Zangief
New Characters
Cammy
Dee Jay
Fei Long
T. Hawk
Akuma (Super Street Fighter II Turbo, secret character)
Shin Akuma (Super Street Fighter II Turbo, secret character)

Updates[]

  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo - (1994) - Known as Super Street Fighter II X in Japan. The game featured four speed settings (hence the name "Turbo") plus new moves and animations for all the existing characters, as well as the first appearance of the series' first hidden character Akuma. The game also introduced Super Combo techniques to the series.
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival - (2001) - A port of the Turbo version for the Game Boy Advance with an all new title screen and character illustrations. Because the GBA only has four buttons installed on its hardware, the four action buttons can be easily customized. The character sprites and animations were transferred from the SNES version of the original Super Street Fighter II, the new techniques that were added from Turbo used the same sprites and animations from the arcade version.
  • Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix - (2008) (Downloadable Content) - The sprites and backgrounds in the original Super Street Fighter II Turbo were replaced by high-resolution artwork drawn by UDON Entertainment, allowing HD Remix to make the most use of high definition displays. However, the game can be changed back to the original sprites as an option. Remixed music was also developed, later revealed to be handled by video game music website OverClocked ReMix.

Compilations[]

  • Street Fighter Collection - a compilation that contained Super Street Fighter II, Turbo, and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, was released for the PlayStation and Saturn in 1997. All three games were close to their arcade counterparts.
  • Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (ハイパーストリートファイターII, Haipā Sutorīto Faitā Tsū) is an arranged version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo with the ability to choose every previously playable version of the characters from all five arcade versions of Street Fighter II (including the alternate versions of the characters in Super Turbo). It was first released as a PlayStation 2 game, but was backported to the CPS-2 hardware and distributed in arcades in Japan and Asia. The game includes an option to switch between the CPS, CPS-2 and arranged (from the FM Towns version of Super and the 3DO version of Super Turbo) renditions of the game's soundtrack. The PS2 version of the game was sold as a stand-alone game in Japan and in the PAL region, and bundled with Street Fighter III 3rd Strike retitled Street Fighter Anniversary Collection in North America. This same bundle was released worldwide for the Xbox.

Credits[]

SSFII title screen

Arcade Version [Super Street Fighter II] [Staff][]

Planner: Poo, Mucchi
Character Designer: Kurisan, Ikusan Z, Q, YORiO, Tanuki, Katuragi, Matunaga, Rikagon, Simpsons, Pei, Mikiman, Buppo, M.Okazaki, Taka, Akiko, K.Crown, Shibataro
Programmer: Shin., Kid, MiN, EGW, Aoi Mix, Tarabar
Music: Syun, Oyaji
Sound: Nobu., Toshio
Special Thanks: Nin, Akiman, CBX, Dr. Dave, Raven Jimenez, and Capcom All Staff
Presented by: Capcom

Additionally, Super Street Fighter II, like many other games during this era of gaming, credited its staff in its default Score Ranking Table, which is as follows (the same table appears in the Sharp X68000 and FM Towns versions as well as Super Street Fighter II Turbo [for the arcade, 3DO and Dreamcast versions]):

  • 1st 50000 POO
  • 2nd 45000 SIN
  • 3rd 40000 KID
  • 4th 35000 MIN
  • 5th 30000 MCH

Arcade Version [Turbo] [Staff][]

Planner: Poo, Mucchi, Hassy, Kimo Kimo
Character Designer: Akiman, Kurisan, Hayashi, Tanuki, Erichan, Ikusan.Z, Q, Yu-Suke, Youjiro, Inukichi, Fukumoyan, Buppo, Angus, SM, S.Kuwajima, Kisabon, Ohnishi.H, Takky, Matsuchan, May, Kazu, Iwai, N-Gawa, RK., Shochan
Programmer: Shin., MiN, Kid, Mitsu, Garamon, Domesan, Ouchi, Chabin, Kimoto, Inaba
Music: Syun, Oyaji
Sound: Nobu., Toshio
Special Thanks: CBX, EGW, Sado, Iizima, M.Michi, E-Bou., and Capcom All Staff
Presented by: Capcom

SNES Version [Super Street Fighter II][]

  • Though credit lists don't exist for this version (instead featuring a cast list of the game's roster), the default Ranking Display table does credit some of the game's staff:
    • 1st 50000 LEO
    • 2nd 45000 KRN
    • 3th 40000 MAY
    • 4th 35000 KAI
    • 5th 30000 JUN
  • Time Challenge Mode also notes the following:
    • - Best Record -
    • Dhalsim VS Feilong 30"000:MIZ
    • - Capcom Staff Record -
    • Ken VS Dhalsim 06"874:CHN

Additionally, the album Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero reveals that sound effects for this version were done by Ippo Yamada in his profile section.

Genesis/Mega Drive Version [Super Street Fighter II][]

  • Though credit lists don't exist for this version (instead featuring a cast list of the game's roster), the default Ranking Display table does credit some of the game's staff:
    • 1st 50000 LEO
    • 2nd 45000 KRN
    • 3th 40000 MAY
    • 4th 35000 KAI
    • 5th 30000 C.N
  • Challenge Mode also notes the following:
    • Time Challenge
      • - Best Record -
      • Sagat VS Zangief 30"000:RYO
      • - Capcom Staff Record -
      • Ken VS Dhalsim 06"875:CHN
    • Score Challenge
      • - Best Record -
      • Sagat VS Zangief 10000:OTA
      • - Capcom Staff Record -
      • Ken VS Dhalsim 64100:IJU

3DO Version [Turbo][]

Though no in-game credits exist for this version (instead featuring a "cast roll" of the game's roster), the album Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero reveals that the game's sound effects were done by Ippo Yamada in his profile section.

PC Version [Turbo][]

GameTek Inc

Producer: Pax
Quality Assurance: Ben Hendricks, Tony Puxes, Robert Caraballo
Art Director: John Tombley
Production Manager: Sherry Kross
Package and Manual Design: Moore and Price

Developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software

Producers: Mark Hetherington, Mat Sneap
Programming: Paul Bates, Ashley Finney, Mark Hetherington, Tim Rogers, Robert Watkins
Graphics: Nigel Bentley, Matt Dixon
Music and Sound Effects: Neil Baldwin, Steve Duckworth
Quality Assurance: Richard Moody, Kevin Holt

Additionally, the game's staff is credited in its default Score Ranking Table, which is as follows:

  • 1st 50000 PAB
  • 2nd 45000 ALF
  • 3rd 40000 MAH
  • 4th 35000 RAW
  • 5th 30000 PAX

PC Version [Super Street Fighter II][]

Capcom Co., Ltd.

Original Concept, Original Design, Original Score

Rozner Labs Software Group

Lead Programmer: Robert A. Butler
Assistant Programmer: Stephen J. Rozner
Lead Artist: William J. Rozner
Assistant Artists: Michael J. Bowman, Jay P. Nigbur, Erik Hanson
Sound Conversion: Stephen J. Rozner, Michael J. Bowman
Internal Producer: Michael Nugwynne

Capcom Digital Studios

Producer: Scott Smith
Manager: James Kucera
Senior Game Tester: Steven Okano
Game Testers: Derek DelaCruz, Andrew Marshall, Roman Pangilinan, Christopher Porter, David Robinson, Keil Stock, Tim Turner

Special Thanks To

Music and Sound Drivers: Miles Designs
General MIDI Timbres: Produced by The Fat Man -tm-, K. Weston Phelan, George Alistair Sanger

Dreamcast Version [for Matching Service][]

Producer: Noritaka Funamizu, Yoshihiro Sudou
Programmer: Nobuaki Minomiya, Hisashi Kuramoto
Scroll Design: Yusuke Saiwai
Sound: Kondo "X68K" Hiroaki
Music: Yuko Takehara
Planner: Buruma (Kojimax)
Title Design: Ukabin
Instruction Card Design: Yuko Uchida
Network: Kaz Yunde, Kentaro Kaneko, Mineyuki Noda, Miss, Net Man, Shin.
Special Thanks: Cham, Meijin, Kouhei Akiyama, Tomohiro Ueno, Tsutomu Ikai
Test Player: Yoshihiro Tomita, Masayasu Mukai, Yuka Matsumi, Katsunori Shinano, Nozomu Umezono
General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu, Yoshiki Okamoto
Special Thanks (continued): and All Capcom Staff
Presented by: Capcom

GBA Version [Revival][]

Director: Ohko 15 Matsumaru
Programmer: Giichi Ariyama, Kenichi Nishigaki, Seiya Okamoto, Kouhei Yamaguchi, Norio Maeda, Kenichi Arita, Masatsugu Shinohara, Yoshito Ito, Nobuaki Minomiya
BG Designer: Ryutaro's Mama
Designer: Hideaki Katagiri, Katsumi Toda, Junko Ikeda, Chizuko Tamura, Kenz. Yamahashi
Character Designer: Edayan
Sound: Tosio Kajino, Chihiro Arisaka
Bug Checker: YNG. J. Matsubara, Shosuke Suzuki, Hirotsugu Domae, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Makoto Yasutomi, Junya Yosimura, Shohei Okamura, Noriyuki Iwata, Taro Suwabe
Manual: Sakomizu
Special Thanks: Erik Genazea Suzuki, Takuya Shiraiwa, Furu Tanuki
Producer: Koji Nakajima, Tatsuya Minami
Executive Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto

PS2 Version [Hyper][]

Planner: Oni-Suzuki
Programmer: Shin., Hard.Yas, Meijin, Hyper Shinchan, Yu Kawamura, Yoji Mikami, Senor
Special Programmer: Nobuaki Minomiya
Title Designer: Ukabin
Instruction Card Designer: Masako Honma, Minoru Nagaoka
Scroll Designer: Yoko Fukumoto, Kuwajima.C-Ya.R-W, Alecky.Eh
Sound Designer: Hiroaki "X68K" Kondo
Music Arranger: Mitsuhiko Takano
Producer: Kenzy Itsuno
Executive Producer: Yoshihiro Sudo
Executive Director: Noritaka Funamizu
Special Thanks: Satoshi Ise, Neo-G (H.Ishizawa), Matsukuni, Bug (Skill Smith), Ru-Pin, M.Masa, and Capcom All Staff
Presented by: Capcom

Additionally, the game's staff is credited in its default Score Ranking Table, which is as follows:

  • 1st 50000 ONI
  • 2nd 45000 POO
  • 3rd 40000 MUC
  • 4th 35000 SIN
  • 5th 30000 AKI

Arcade Version [Hyper][]

Planner: Oni-Suzuki, Mo-Z
Programmer: Shin., Hard.Yas, Meijin, Hyper Shinchan, Yu Kawamura, Yoji Mikami, Senor, .Seta
Special Programmer: Nobuaki Minomiya
Title Designer: Ukabin
Instruction Card Designer: Masako Honma, Minoru Nagaoka
Scroll Designer: Yoko Fukumoto, Kuwajima.C-Ya.R-W, Alecky.Eh
Sound Designer: Hiroaki X68K Kondo
Music Arranger: Mitsuhiko Takano
Producer: Kenzy Itsuno
Executive Producer: Yoshihiro Sudo
Executive Director: Noritaka Funamizu
Special Thanks: Satoshi Ise, Neo-G (H.Ishizawa), Matsukuni, Takashi Kubozono, Toru Kusano, Masayuki Fukumoto, Noriko Kato, Bug (Skill Smith), Ru-Pin, M.Masa, and Capcom All Staff
Presented by: Capcom

Additionally, the game's staff is credited in its default Score Ranking Table, which is as follows:

  • 1st 50000 ONI
  • 2nd 45000 SIN
  • 3rd 40000 KID
  • 4th 35000 MIN
  • 5th 30000 MCH

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