It puts the lotion on its skin.
Man it’s been awhile since I played a fighter without a dash…now I have to learn footsies again!
:nunchuck:
True Dat.
so a3 is arcade perfect? cause some people say its not.
Finally picked up my copy yesterday. I went to EB first and they only had the gutted copy left so I passed, went to Best Buy and the asshole in the department ignored me for a while before he supposedly checked in the backa nd said they didn’t have it. So finalyl I go to GameStop and they say they don’t have it either btu I asked the manager if he could look in the back and sure enough there it was. I beat Alpha 1, 2 and 2G (Ryu was kicking my Ken’s ass for many rounds too before I just compeltely owned him), then I got to the last boss on A3 aand lsot once and accidently mashed my way to the begining… I still unlocked something but I don’t think it was HSFA, I am probably going to play A3 again tonight and finish what I started. We don’t have to beat Pocket Fighter to unlock anythign do we?
As far as I know, it is (or can be made so through dipswitches), aside from a few minor changes, such as Rolento’s and Guy’s Kattobi cancels actually stopping after the round ends, rather then floating permanently in the corner. So you can use them, but they don’t freeze the game.
That’s what I’ve gotten from reading the thread, anyway. Feel free to correect me if I’m wrong.
Umm…you have to activate the CC before the attack. So you should do the following:
Activate CC (HP+HK), c.HK, qcb+HK, dp+HP
you have to to unlock hyper alpha
Got my copy yesterday, unlocked everything, game is awesome. Small personal impressions:
From playing Hyper and arranged Alpha 3, I don’t think the “new” characters (Guile, T.Hawk, Dee Jay, Fei Long) have full animation in this port, which kinda sucks but I can easily live with it. I didn’t even notice my first time through arranged Alpha 3 with T.Hawk.
DS-Ism chain combos have HARSH timing. Like, harsher - than - Darkstalkers! Will definitely require some practice, but the fact that you can cancel a chain into a special / super (which you can’t do in DS) will definitely make this a strong ism.
Looking back, Alpha 1 has not aged well at all. Thankfully 2 and 3 have though, haha.
Hm, pitting Alpha 1 versions of characters against the other verisons is interesting, regardless of the game itself “aging well” or not. They’ve got better Alpha counters than Alpha 3 characters and specific chain combos (which can be chained into specials and supers), however, they have no form of CC/VC to speak of.
Should be some interesting matches.
You want an interesting match, try Blue-ism Charlie vs. Pink-ism Guile.
I love this game.
any match vids yet? lol
Ok just beat Pocket Fighter and I have say it sucks a whole lot more then I remembered. I’m never going to play that POS again. Still haven’t unlocked HSFA, it also sucks that you only get one chance to fight Bison in A3, fucking hate having to fight all those matches again. I guess I’ll give it another try today…
You don’t have to beat Bison to unlock HSFA, you just have to reach him.
So, it just so happens that we stopped to eat lunch at a place right next to a GameStop… I went in and managed to snag their very last copy! 
Arranged music and FULL animation…I love this game.
I’ve now been able to see Dan and Blanka’s special intro for the first time.
…Although it still seems a little bit lonely without the console extras like World Tour Mode and Tessa’s Quiz game in Pocket Fighter.
Random question, how does one unlock the arranged modes for Alpha 2 and Alpha 2 Gold?
It seems that there aren’t any on the non-Japanese releases… but you don’t really lose much. Japan’s Zero 2 arrange was -our- regular Alpha 2 (original JPN release of Zero 2 didn’t have Evil Ryu and Old-Style characters), and the only thing different about Zero 2 Gold Arrange was Cammy, who is in the regular version of Alpha 2 Gold for the western release of the Anthology.
If those are the only real differences, then that’s a releif.
Maybe we should all go post there, seeing as how it doesn’t look like SRK is going to be getting an Alpha Forum.