Where’s the XI option?
hi I’m back 
KoF 98 SBO '07 Qualifier matches from GameChariot
http://gamechariot.com/06movie_KOF98.html
congrats to the O.Yash/Daimon/Ralf player for taking it, I was rooting for the Saisyu/Joe/N.Yashiro player to take it, as I’m not a big fan of those other characters.
What I wanted to see is the first video though -
070503_KOF98_01.wmv
some dude tried to whore out EX kyo and didn’t win, despite him landing the infinite
goro keeps that area covered with stand a, jump back d to prevent kyo from starting the infinite
i agree its dumb but doesnt run the game or make it unbalanced by any means, not to mention its hard to do.
and as for the rest of the matches, seriously, this game is dope
ppl playing foot games and working for those setups which do a “fair” amount of damage of sorts, nothling like BC combos sometimes which turn me off
you shouldnt have to play trainingmode to master bc combos before you can play the game at a high level and that is my main gripe with 02 really.
it took kof98 remake/SBO to remind ppl how good this game actually is
and besides all that there are some rockin tunes in 98, far far more memorable than any kof game in recent memory except for the OG ones!
(i still chuckle when ppl consider 98 old school now lol)
what about 99 music! thats one of best fighting game soundtracks ever i say shrug.
1998 thats like 20 years!!!
Although I don’t really like either (1v1 turns me off), I’m going with 98 cause it’s got my main man Shingo in there tearin’ shit up.
Always thought the EX infinite stuff was banned. At least it won’t be in UM.
Nah its legal!!!
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damn that was so awesome
clark/ralf have massive trouble against f+a in actual gameplay too
lol f+a for the fucking lose 
to in the video u should comboed meaty fwd a insto stand c fwd a or something just to get niggaz hype
and that looks like version 1 of xsf to me lol
edit: Hyperhal yah shingo is a monster in 98. I hope someone qualifies with Shingo…I really do. lol
i dont know what you talkin bout im just mashin
actually the string BAS used a LOT at SBO 2k2 with Billy was cr.B f+A, cr.C f+A, but always something into f+A, so woof isnt too far off 
Too bad woof didn’t illustrate that f+A combos into c.C xx f+A for really dirty f+A bullshit.
oh,
that combo is a 1 frame combo
i’m sure that everybody here can pull it off 100% of the times
(and that everyone knows that after a fwdA that hit really close you can do only 1 cC into fwdA)
btw that vid don’t prove anything
again if you lose to a scrubby tactic like that you aren’t a good player
billy is strong but is far from fwdA all day
dude youre grasping at straws man
that vid was meants to be a joke we know ppl dont just die to fwd+a, im sure hardcore players know you can only do 1 rep of c. c into fwd+a
noone is saying the game doesnt take skill or that it sucks or is trying to prove anything
woof was obviously being sarcastic, chill out! you act as if there are ppl that dont know whats up and are completely oblivious to competetitive play for this game, alot of what you have been stating is painfully obvious.
sabin,
you seem to be one of the few here that turn on the brain before hitting ‘post reply’ but this time it’s no no
for who knows how kof works/is played those stuffs are obvious
but i’m still reading about ppl that tell athena’s fireball completely screw the game
or that BC combos arent useful and many other craps
so, i prefer to post obvious things that experts know for sure than reading ppl discussing about things they don’t know
And thus, Rengoku’s position was cemented forever into the KOF Hall of Fan Idiots.
dude, its no worse than you claiming st to be fireball spam in the kof vs sf thread.
and i think you took arstals post completely out of context. here let me requote.
This is completely different from what u claimed the guy said, that athena fireball completely screws the game.
noone is claiming spamming fireballs with athena will get u anywhere or even guarantee you a victory…however throwing fireballs a lot with athena is a good staple tactic since her fireball is very good, i doubt anyone will disagree with this.
similar to o. sagat “spamming” fireballs in st
but any good player knows u cant abuse a move over and over or use athena fireball without a plan beacuse a good player will fuck u up for it easily. nonetheless, her fireball in 2k2 is a important part of her game.
honestly i think a lot of things are lost beacuse of english communication and i dont think its your fault, but again noone is trying to make up anything or make kof look bad or anything like that.
i’m not here to struggle in kof favour…
this is shoryuken.com not fightinggames.com
so it’s obvious that if ppl is here is due to st/capcom fanboysm/interest
i’m only going for the information purpose so ppl won’t judge on fractionary knowledge
and again fireball usage in kof is COMPLETELY different from st one
the comparison ppl do isn’t right
at certain levels (somewhat high)
st’s fireball are damage dealer (even chip) and bait
in kof are only bait
everything due to the nature of fireball itself in both games and the game engine
obviously in a ‘slow’ game like st where there are no means to escape fb pressing
they play a huge role (yes, i know that there are startup invincible special/dm before a dumb quote arrive)
in kof you have lotsa means to deal with (startup invincible, reflectors, crouch under with lows, hyper jump hyper hop and so on)
so when i say
st is a fireball game compared to kof
i’m not that far from the truth
i hope even those stuffs are obvious…i explained again just to clarify some old discussions
billy isn’t that combomachine
he can only
crB crB crB (dpB jump C) / (fwdA) / (DM)
cC (hcf A qcfA) / (fwdA) / (dpD into DM in corner)
he didnt do it as a combo, note that i said “string”, as in poking string.