Original ST had 10. The new ST default color, the CE color, the Turbo color, the 3 Kick colors from Super, the Start color from Super, the Press & Hold color from Super, the original WW color (used for Old mode characters), and an alternate, slightly tweaked version of the original WW color (used for Old mode mirror matches, although it can be selected on its own by some method I can’t remember).
Actually my custom stick used to have an octagon gate before I had to get it fixed and the guy just put a regular square gate in. I don’t really have a preference for either or. The square gate actually helps me to find the diagonals on the stick easier any ways. Not that I really needed that help but it’s there. Used to use American sticks for a while and I can use both but its clear that Japanese sticks are the way to go. Much easier to play on your lap and still have good control.
As far as learning to use a square gate…I dunno. All I’ve really been told is the idea to using a Japanese stick is to try to learn to do your motions without touching the corners. Sanwa/Seimetsu sticks are ultra sensitive and you really don’t even need to touch the corners much to do the motions. Even when I used the octagon gate I tried not to touch the diagonals much as I was doing circular motions.
Your biggest problem is more than likely the stick you’re using in itself. If you’re using an out of the box Hori EX 2 you’re just not going to get as accurate as a response as you would with a real arcade grade Japanese stick. Playing in 3rd Strike tournaments for a couple years with Sanwa stick and buttons gets you to notice the difference. The EX2 has trouble registering diagonals I’ve noticed while playing VF5. Making it difficult to do moves that require cancelling a crouch dash or 360 throws. VF5 is the only real game that I’ve practiced playing it with though. You’ll see an obvious difference if you mod it with real arcade parts. With a bit of practice of course.
Damn, you’re right. My EX2 is fresh and I have been touching the corners except for when I do 360, which is one of the motions with which I have no problem.
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Looking at the Guile pic… it almost looks like the sprites have 8 shades of color again, like originally. Probably not, due to the fuzzy confusion of the pic, but it would be a pleasant surprise.
Guile looks cool. I was worried he’d be either silly looking or too Alpha-ish. But I could be wrong, as you barely make out anything in the pic anyway.
haha, is it possible it might cost more than 20 bucks? I have over 1600 pts. but will probably
wait till they announce the price…which is probably the day before it comes out. >_>
they seirously gotta reveal some real goodies sometime this week. October is up ahead.
There’s absolutely no way at all that any of the sprites will have the complex shading style. Vega, T-Hawk, Ryu, Ken, Deejay and Akuma have all been very publicly playable and 100% done with their artwork. Watch a good video from that build to see the final style in action.
I don’t think you can go over $20 for an XBL title, can you? Either way I fully expect that game to come out at $15. Makes the most sense to me. Look for goodies tomorrow (if there’s no press embargo) as the final build of the game is going to be playable to the public in San Francisco.
TOMMORROW???!!o_o lots of people better bring their hidden cameras just in case,
and flood Youtube with tons of videos showcasing all of the characters in action (except Ryu and Ken, of course. lol.)
wohoo! Im going to the tourney tomorrow.
Report on dictators beastliness as well as sagats crossup mk cr mk X2 tk combo!
I play Sagat and BLanka, so I’ll do what I can with them.
hey that’s GOOD. we haven’t seen Sagat and Blanka in action yet.
but The crocodiles are STILL HUNGRY!!!
lol fuck deejay im mainin sagat now
People that are going please play around with Deejays MGU, I’m particularly interested in hearing how effective it is against shotos when Deejay he is corner trapped -see if you can charge another special whilst doing it, how useful is it to nulify fireballs, does it work against low tiger shots. Can the MGU juggle, eg up kick, mgu. Find out the hitbox range if the function is available. Check if Touch of Death still works, can you TOD with MGU alone and lastly find out all of DeeJays colours.
Also mess around with fei long’s chicken wing, chun li’s super and throw damage, any E.honda Dictator players figure out those changes too.
Loadza pics of all the characters plz :lovin:
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You neeeeed to have a custom “stick” built for you out of a keyboard. It would be a very iconic and unforgettable calling card. 
So the game is publicly playable in San Fran today? Somebody from here had better be there!
If no media comes out from today I might explode.
can you MGU a yoga flame is my biggest concern, surprisingly.
Why are Guile’s American flag tatoos backwards in all the pics I’ve seen of the new art? Like right here: http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.media/guile.jpg
They’ll be backwards 50% of the time.
but in that picture both of them are backwards