Not trying to start something here but what is stopping you from going to evo? Costs? Japanese players pay a helluva lot more than us Europeans would have to, and they make the effort.
The only reason why I’m not going yet is because I have no tournament experience so it would be like me going head on with a lorry. So first I’m going to get some local experience, and if I can hang with them ok or better, than I’ll consider Evo.
Actually I’m considering going to evo once just for a laugh, but I need to sort some priorities out first. Like I dunno, getting a job!
I understand what you mean and I can say that you have a good point, in my case I have a job but I have to much f… bills to pay, some examples: House, Car, Net, House bills (elec, phone, gas, water, etc…) and a lot of other bills, but if I manage to save a decent amount of money some day then I will go to Evo (Imo: I enjoy a lot more the setup system of Evo than the SBO system, but its just imo)
Im realistic and I know that if I go to Evo I will have my ass kicked in any game that I enter, I would go as well more for fun and to learn something, Im weak in CvS2 and ST and it would take a medium player at Evo to beat my ass with perfects :wasted:
btw: we already have the DVD of EFT 2005 from last year ready, heres some screenshots of some menus:
(it was just around 60 players in 8 games for 2 days)
I know that if you see some of the fights you will find lost of errors but like I said we do what we can with the few that we have… and as you may know it takes a lot of work to setup a full tournament (tournament place, tvs, tables, chairs, trophies, games, places to sleep, places to eat, etc…) but we are doing it every year since 2004.
Now back to the topic:
This is getting into my nervs and is getting me REALLY confused: one of our friends from our portuguese community (PTfighters) already has Hyper Alpha and by selecting the CHARACTER AKUMA he posted that some characters can select up to more than 30 possible GROOVES, this is the example after he selected the charater Akuma:
the colour grooves refer to the SF3, CE, Darkstalkers, and EXTRA/marvel’ grooves.
Why is it that if I choose boxer while holding start, I can’t choose his CE groove? could there be further variations of characters if you hold start while selecting them. Not just whilst selecting grooves?
The only char I can think of like that is A3 [Shin] Akuma, which was the example that MA brought up. Only him and Boxer have alternate A3 versions. Evil Ryu doesn’t count since he got his own box. Dunno why Arcade Boxer doesn’t get a CE-ism, even if it was the same as regular Boxer. Does he get the other Isms?
Green-ISM
-has an A-ISM moveset
-Advancing Guard (t+ppp when blocking)
-Guard Cancel (Dragon Punch command + punch or kick when blocking)
-Chain Combo, possible in the air and on the ground
-Air recoveries are not possible in this mode
Blue-ISM
-has an X-ISM moveset including its CPS1 chain
-Parrying
-Super Cancel
-Delayed Standing (hold 2 kick buttons when knocked down)
Red-ISM
-has an A-ISM moveset
-Chain Combo, possible in the air and on the ground
-All cancel (?)
CE-ISM
-only available for the 12 characters that appeared in SF2 CE
-cancelling rapid fire attacks is easier than the original SF2 CE game
-also has the CPS1, and the Strong and Forward buttons can be used with this as well
-one-button throws with no whiff animation
I’m not sure why there should be a CE-ISM version of alternate Balrog when the only difference between arcade Balrog and alternate (console) Balrog - apart from the V-ISM exclusive Buffalo Headbutt - was his normals, which for the most part (there are exceptions - namely his standing Forward and Roundhouse) did not exist in CE; arcade A3 Balrog’s normal moves were closer to CE Balrog’s more than console Balrog’s, so I think that might go some way to explaining it.
My game came in Saturday and just picked up at the PO Box today, well I was out of the house for most of the weekend and I didn’t do any of the driving, and Play Asia did deliver it by the end of the week.
The order was shipped on Monday and it arived on Saturday. The game works with my swap setup but I plan to use my JPN PS2 more often.
Good news, it works with the BB Adapter since it said so in the box and I plan to get the JPN HDD solution soon.
To help out Capcom USA, I did set a preorder for the North American version since I don’t think I can change the language to English in my Japanese version.
Red-ISM
-Z-ISM moveset
-no chain combo
-no cancels
-can air recover
-can air block
-Red-ISM turns M.Bison/Vega into Shin M.Bison/Vega.
Red-ISM isn’t the Marvel-ISM, per se. It’s just the ISM that Shin M.Bison/Vega uses when you fight him in Alpha 3. When other characters use it, it gives them super human powers like how Shin M.Bison/Vega gains the full screen Psycho Crusher. The gameplay is 100% Z-ISM with the popular VS series characters getting some additional moves.
If there are chain combos, then akuma doesn’t inherit the trait because I wasn’t able to chain LP>MP>FP or LK>MK>RK.
Green-ISM
-Can Air recover (3P after getting knocked out in the air)
-Alpha Counter (DP + punch or kick when blocking. No super bar, guard bar needed. Abusable.)
Blue-ISM
-Quick Standing (press 3K when you hit the ground. Does not work when you are swept, only worked when knocked into the air aka by SRK)
-No delay standing.
CE-ISM
-Couldn’t do Doujioshi SP with characters (Pretty sure Doujioshi SP was in CE)
-Damage wise is exactly the same as X-ISM. (DP does 21 points of damage to Z-Blanka on X-ISM and Blue-ISM while only 18 on Z-ISM.
