I worked at GS for like 3 years and randomly sometimes thing would come in on the shipping date. Usually games the masses didn’t care about. With that and the excitement of waiting for a game i really wanted, even knowing how the system worked i couldn’t help but be like “maybe it’ll be in today”
Tuesday release’s would be so much better than wednesday
True. That way, I could be playing today instead of tomorrow :wgrin:
Since I work 12 hrs Wed/Thurs, and head home Friday to see my gf (but no AV cable on my TV back home)- today would be nice…
Not expecting much in the armpit of the South though.
My local Gamestop is getting the shipment today at 5:30pm. My EB Games is getting the shipment at 3:00pm. But both won’t sell until tomorrow.
The EB games across the street from work sez they should have it today. Gonna check it out during my break…
The EB by me doesn’t have it yet, they said they’d get it later on today. They don’t know about the strat guide though, they said they usually get the strat guide a week in advance. But since the strat guide is supposed to come out today hopefully both will be in at the same time. I’m in NY city by the way.
Going too call my job EB and my past place GS im hoping and praying that arrived actually if the release day is today we sell today ofocourse if we have the product.
I preodered mines online 2 weeks ago, if it shipped today, would that mean that they would ship my copy out today?
I’d just like to mention the BGM for the specific Isms in HSFZ which I noticed. Of course these are character dependent, and will depend on whether or not said character appeared in said game.
Zero - Zero (CPS2)
Zero 2 - Zero 2 (CPS2)
Zero 2 Alpha - Zero 2 (PSX/Saturn Arrange)
Zero 3 Normal/Mazi/Saikyo X-Ism - Super/Super X (CPS2)
Zero 3 Normal/Mazi/Saikyo Z/V-Ism - Zero 3 (CPS2)
Zero 3 Classic - Normal/Dash/Turbo (CPS1)
Zero 3 Green S-Ism / Red S-Ism - Zero 3 (CPS2)
Zero 3 Blue S-Ism - Super X (3DO Arrange)
Zero 3 Pink S-Ism - Normal/Dash/Turbo (CPS1)
Also in the sound test for some reason, not only does it include the aforementioned music above, but it also includes BGM from the Super Famicom port of Zero 2, the CPS1 version of Zero 1, the PSX/Saturn arranged tracks of Zero 1, and for some reason the CPS2 and PlayStation Arranged music (complete with the Sakura image song: “I want you to know”) of Puzzle Fighter. Makes you think they were thinking about putting in Puzzle Fighter but changed their minds in the last minute. lol
CPS1 version of Zero 1?! Say what?!?
And YAY Sakura’s image song. They should have put Puzzle Fighter in the collection, dammit.
There’s a special mode that you can unlock as well that lets you play as any Alpha character with any ISM mode, and, not only that, but entirely new ISMs as well brought in from games like Darkstalkers, which opens the field for all new strategies and play styles. This secret mode also lets you tweak Offset and Ratio values, as well as Sharpness and filtering options, in case you want to adjust your display for even more arcadelike settings. While the U.S. release differs slightly from the Japanese release (we lose a couple of arrange modes), most players will never notice, instead focusing on the riches this package as a whole has to offer.
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Alpha 1 was one of the few CPS2 games that could be downgraded/converted using the CPS changer or something along those lines (don’t quote me on that), and thus the music was downsampled to CPS1 quality as opposed to the CPS2 standard.
The Alpha 1 in the collection lets you choose between CPS1 and CPS2 BGM in the sound options.
EDIT: From the 1up review:
Spoiler alert: There’s a special mode that you can unlock as well that lets you play as any Alpha character with any ISM mode, and, not only that, but entirely new ISMs as well brought in from games like Darkstalkers, which opens the field for all new strategies and play styles. This secret mode also lets you tweak Offset and Ratio values, as well as Sharpness and filtering options, in case you want to adjust your display for even more arcadelike settings. While the U.S. release differs slightly from the Japanese release (we lose a couple of arrange modes), most players will never notice, instead focusing on the riches this package as a whole has to offer.
This is odd because what they say about the tweaking about offset and ratio values and screen crap is just the regular screen settings that’s in all the options modes and that is NOT a secret option.
Anyway this is weird that they say that the US version isn’t like the Japanese version, since Kamui and them said otherwise in that thread about the US guide for SFAA.
http://ps2.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3151459
So HSFZ is in but I wonder what modes have we missed out?
We probably lost one of the Alpha 2 games. The US gets Alpha 2 and Alpha 2 Gold. Japan has Zero 2, Zero 2 Dash, and Zero 2 Alpha.
Actually Japan has Zero 2, Alpha 2 (US Alpha 2 is the arranged game for Zero 2), Zero 2 Alpha and Zero 2 Dash.
Who the fuck knows. Someone as Gamefaqs says they have a copy of the US version and that it is the same as the Jap version.
We’ll all find out tomorrow.
Don’t put too much faith in 1UP.com, since according to that review Dan wasn’t in Alpha 1 and Dhalsim & Zangief didn’t appear till Alpha 2 Gold.
Don’t forget that Sodom and Guy didn’t appear till SFA2 as well.:wgrin:
I didn’t feel like reading all 33 pages of this thread so I’m sorry if this keeps getting asked constantly. Worth the buy? How close to arcade perfect? Thanks.