Fucking Quebec Laws.I hate waiting for a stupid french booklet which I’m going to throw out anyways. God knows when it will come in -_-
US version of Alpha Anthology defaults to the “Arranged” versions of Alpha 2 and Gold.
So… when you beat alpha 3, you get secret game 1… and when you beat all 4 games, you get secret game 2.
I’m kind of disappointed. Will the dipswitch stuff let me access the original JP version of Alpha 2?
Thanks for the heads up.
Quick question, I remember reading the early testing earlier in this thread, but is Alpha Anthology still proving to be arcade perfect?
Did you get that via free offer or something? Or did you just buy that by itself?
Went to eb to pick up my order and they tell me it was just shipped today and it will be out tomorrow. Wtf? Why the hell do they tell you it’ll be out on the 13th then? They had the guide right on the counter tho.
Oh nah got it off of Ebay. It has like 60 tracks on it plus my favorite DMC3 song “Now You’ve Really Crossed the Line!” - that gets immediate PSP download.
Just bought SFAA and the Guide from EB! The guide looks great, I’m loving the Pocket Fighter section and how for Morrigan (I think, just breezed it) it says “Rush it down!” 
The artwork in there is looking good too.
Well, later for the internet, be SFAA gaming and listening to DMC3 music all night. Man the Civil War comic that came out today was really great regarding Spider-Man, I’m having a hell of a good day, no wonder it looks like rain here in NYC, figures. :wgrin:
Good question. I too would like to know this.
Progress Scan and HDD support. Wow, Capcom went all out on this one.
so those who have the US version, is it the same as the jp version?
Everything is the same except we are missing some of the arranged versions and there is no ingame move list.
I think we’re only missing the two original versions of Alpha 2 and 3 that were released in Japan. The arranged ones are all there, right?
HSFA would be perfect if we could pick stages across all 3 games. They let us choose any version of every character from all three, why not the stages? Couldn’t have been too hard to give us the option…
Wait, what? We don’t have a perfect port of A2 and A3? I’m confused with SaiST’s post.
There are some arranged versions of A2 and A3 that are missing. We have the perfect ports of A2 and A3.
And a very noob question… how do you change the dipswitch settings? Do I need to beat the game first? I don’t know what to do… 
I’m testing out Dash/CE-ism with Ryu and Ken. I’ve noticed they could now do the following combos, which wasn’t possible on original SF2: CE and HSF2:
Ryu:
Cross Up J.Roundhouse - C.Short x 3 - S.Short + Fierce - Fierce Hadouken
Ken:
Cross Up J.Roundhouse - C.Short x 2 - S.Short + Fierce - Jab or Fierce Shouryuken
Note: Done on Zangief. Will test on smaller characters later. But yeah, I know Bison and Balrog didn’t have infinites back in the CE days.
Is there a way to get more than one chance to beat Shin Bison in A3/Arrange? I need a continue option.
Question, how can you tell if you have gotten the Arranged modes unlocked? Nothing on either of the title screens changes so color me confused.
Also, Do you have to hold down SELECT of CIRCLE when selecting the game to get the new versions?
Thanks
so basically get the jp version?
from the way things sound, it seems like that would be the “best” way to go…
access to Arrange Zero 2, Arrange Zero 2 Alpha, and Arrange Zero 3. At the game select menu hold select on either game while you choose them by pressing “O” to access the arrange mode.
in a few words its like this:
If you have the Japanese DVD version (SF Zero Anthology) and when you enter the code (hold select and press “O”) it will turn into this:
-The arrange version of Zero 2 is: Alpha 2 (it will show the logo Alpha 2 in sted of Zero 2)
-The arrange version of Zero 2 Alpha is: the dash --> " (you will see this " on top of the number (2) at the logo and on this arrange version you will be able to slect cammy if you press start on Bison (dictator)
-The arrange version of Zero 3 is Zero 3 Upper (on this arrange version you will be able to select Fei Long, Guile, etc…) and these characters are not available in the normal Zero 3 games.
but the best piece of all this is of course Hyper Alpha :pleased:
more info here: http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114226
I just beat Alpha 3 and when I hold select and press start, it lets me play SFA3Upper as HSFA. I have the options to choose the all the isms and whatnot. I only thought that when I beat every game is when I get to unlock HSFA…
I dunno, maybe I am an idiot and getting this all wrong. But this is what I am getting. Cause I can pick any ism I want and play choose to play the arcade mode. I am not just limited to VS and training. I can also do dramatic battle as well.