Red Arc is considered top in japan at least right now. Glasses Shiki owns Nanaya for free but Nanaya still gets played alot.
Can’t wiat for the PS2 release!
anyone know where I can pick up the soundtrack?
cheers 
So there is a newer version of Act Cadenza with new characters?
No. There are two versions of AC, but the second one is just a bugfix and the one currently in use in japan. The only additional playable characters are Aoko, Kouma, and Neko Arc. (I probably forgot someone but whatever.) The rest of the cast is identical to Final Tuned with some very minor changes here or there. (Warc was renamed to Red Arc, as an example.)
Ok I don’t know where to post, this thread or the AC thread? I’ll go with this one considering that it’s been posted in more recently than the AC thread (last post was in Dec. of last year).
So I’ve been wondering about this question for a while, what is it exactly that makes Shiki (glasses) soooo much better than Nanaya? From a lot of the matches I’ve seen, Nanaya is just as fast (if not faster) and can deal just as much damage. His normals and pokes are just as good as well. Only difference is their stamina ratings. I’ve seen plenty of matches in which the Nanaya players can hold their own against any other character.
Shiki has the super cancel off 236A/236B which gives him way more hella hard to shield hit confirm options.
He also has one of the best bara cancels in the game, and his dumb fast 2C.
Nanaya has shitty stamina and some bnbs that are average compared to everyone else. He has a nice jump C and a crappy game off his rushing stab that only works once.
You could play the two of them nearly identically and probably be somewhat successful with Nanaya since alot of his tricks are the same. But Shiki really shines in his ability to bait and punish whiffs from hella far with his 2C and his ability to turn your offense into your own undoing with his Bara.
Would you mind explaining bara cancels?
I can play both of them, I just find Nanaya to be more fun. The people that I have played (some more experienced than I) say that I play a really solid Nanaya so I’m not really inclined to just drop him altogether.
http://www.shoryuken.com/wiki/index.php/Melty_Blood:_Act_Cadenza
Look at the section “bunker cancels.”
Shiki’s bunker cancel is his 214C.
MAN…
if AC gets pushed back again, im stealing a gun and shooting myself. 
I just got into melty blood a few days ago and I really like it, I’ve already put a preorder on act cadenza(august 10th, not much longer). One thing I’d like to know, though, are what are the options in the options menu?
Also, does anyone know a good site for melty blood, preferably in english? I know the american MB community is microscopic since it’s never been here and all.
As far as act cadenza goes, what are the changes made to Ciel(my best char.)?
First it was June…
then July…
…Now August!!!
Well I had the sudden urge to look for MBR combo videos today and while searching i came upon these two combo videos:
Xmas Combo Movie Vol.2
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and this
KoFUnion Melty Blood : Re:ACT Combos
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Does anyone know the artist or the song for the first video Xmas Combo Movie Vol.2 ?
Second video is an outdated version (lol otgs picking people up off the floor, and everyone doing bullshit damage.)
The first vid is pretty good though.
Damn, I hope AC doesn’t get pushed back anymore. August 10th is slowly approaching.
uh, it’d be pretty shitty if the release date gets pushed again. i don’t think it would happen, though… i more so hope it won’t, since i have pre-ordered this off play-asia more than two weeks ago.
i’m pretty pumped for this, although i barely played mbr and was pretty shitty at it.
and i guess i was wrong about there being barely any aoko players. i rummaged around the net in recent weeks and found shitloads of match vids featuring her, and actually winning. if anything she seems to be fairly popular. so i guess c tier can compete pretty well. from what i’ve observed from the vids and japanese aoko strat sites, she seems to play somewhat similar to dizzy in gg so i plan to pick her up as main. and i think she’s a fine biotch. yea fanboyism.
I’m having a hard time getting the shield counters to work. You do 236D right after a successful shield, right? I keep trying to do it but nothing happens, am I doing something wrong?
Shield counters are gone in final tuned, so if you’re playing this (or AC), no wonder you can’t get it to work.
Maybe you’re thinking of 214D after a successfull block?
NEWS: apparently, version b featured in the console version will be reverse-ported to the arcades as well. this is a very cool idea, i think. there won’t be a big debate about console kof xi if snk just decided to do the same.
Does that mean there is an arcade and arraged mode in the ps2 version, or it is only arranged mode? And then arraged mode is being released in arcades too?