Samurai Shodown Anthology

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the rage fill after the 8 hit dial-a-combo is character specific, some characters get more rage than others.

there’s still 2in1s etc etc, usual combo from like charlotte would be jump-in/cross-up hard slash>close medium slash> qcf+kick or qcf+light slash. then there’s enja with his staple punish which is either close OR far medium slash into his rekka of death. most of these combos is just canceling from medium slashes and sometimes kicks, light slashes don’t provide enough hit stun to successfully cancel into any special. fyi there aren’t any super cancels also…

also about SS5sp, if i recall wasn’t enja like broken tier due to his speed glitch which resulted in 100% combos??

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I’m wondering if anyone in here can answer this for me. I found this along the way searching for some SS info. http://www.mobygames.com/game/samurai-shodown-v-special

It says that the PS2 PAL port of SSV is actually a port of SSVSpecial, but is that true in any way? I was trying to look at the release dates of arcade SSVSpecial and PS2 SSV release just to check, but I can’t find a definite release date for when the game released.

If it’s true that is SSVSpecial and it’s uncensored I’d like to look into importing it.

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That backturned infinite will almost never happen in SS6 regular or tournament play and you know it.

Stop spreading your biased bullshit.
You’re perfectly within your rights to not like Tenka, and even express your dislike in here. But trying to convince people backturned infinites “ruined” the game when I’ve never seen ONE actual match video with it is where you cross the line.
Tenka is just as liked and played as SS2, SS4, and SS5Sp.
It’s funny you even mention that infinite/bug and not the one that ACTUALLY affected tournament level play–the pounce/commandthrow glitch (which was banned at SBO, and Final Round XI).
It has by far the best graphics, controls and roster in the series and while balance is somewhat of a problem is it is still WAAAY less broken than 90% of the games in the series.

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^ I like Tenka as well.

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I’ve been getting into the SamSho games again due to this Anthology and I was wondering if anyone knew where to find good resources/character write ups for the games (mainly SS2, and Tenka…and even though it isn’t on the Anthology, 5 Special since I do have access to it). I tried using the search feature and found a couple threads with a bit of info. but not that much. Thanks in advance.

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Guardcrush.net had a lot of great Tenka info before it got taken over by pedophiles.

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Not sure why the PSP version has fullscreen support on all the games except for Sho 6.

Someone dropped the ball on that shit.

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@ Ping Pong

Enja didnt had speed glitch, he had command for one of testing moves from early versions of game during its development, which they forgot or didnt bothered to remove from game by thinking that no one will find such ridiculously long and complex command anyway, but koreans found it, tried to use and it got softbanned on spot. There are similar things with Charlotte (she has 14-hitter from SS4), Galford (Plasma Slash) etc. The point is: Those moves werent made for actual gameplay, they arent included in any movelists, they arent supposed to be used, and you cannot have an excuse that you pulled their commands by accident (its impossible). They are softbanned everywhere. If you really tried that Enja’s skill, you would see that its not an actual “move”, its a change in his speed parameters that doesnt corresponds/works with rest of the game, like Enja will fall from opponent’s moves before opponent finishes them, State of Nothingness wont work etc.

@ Nona

SSV special never was ported, it was only on Neo-Geo and arcade cabinets, and it undergone so silly censorships that most carts were ruined by it anyway, and will need unibios.
Its way too easier to waste 5-10 minutes and set SS5sp up at own PC. Me and alot of other players play it online on 2dfighter.com and before we did it on kaillera servers, I play it like 6 recent years and its great.

@ Return of Shiki (prev. page post)

I still remember your super unbiased opinions so I wont even bother responding to your super unbiased posts. Have a good day.

@ Dingo

I have everything that you need because I manage most of stuff in community. Go to http://forum.int13.ru ; If you dont find what you need just write a request in appropriate thread and I will post/upload it because I most likely will have it if its related with samsho.

@ Everyone:

Yesterday I got SSA, so I did a comparative analyzis of those 25 SS6 revoices, but I decided not to post in until I write something about voices of rest of characters (so that will be SS6/SSA voices review). English translation essentially makes SS6 more understandable, but has lots of silly stuff as always from SNK (the same bad translations are over all movelists, SNK never learn proper english, lol). Well, I will retranslate japanese lines someday, and SNK’s english ones will just be a help to get into meaning of each quote faster. SS1-SS5 almost seem to be “emulated”, just by SNK’s software; the only difference is inclusion of practice mode, and movelists in pause menu. Since they took “arcade perfect” i.e. worst version of SS5, it doesnt have dialogues and proper endlings like for example XBOX version

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V Special is not in the game, it is irrelevant to the topic. If you wanna dig though, discussing what is bug/glitch and what is secret is irrelevant. “Spirit Bomb Enja”/Turbo Enja is banned because it’s broken, not because it is secret intended move. Galford’s and Charlotte’s secret tech(14 slash) for examples are not banned in Korean scene. Depending on teams participating, Shizumaru’s charge store bug may be discouraged in Korean competitive ss.

Also, your site is decent but it’s not like most of us are fluent in russian. You gotta make a English language based site if you want it get bigger.

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Finally got mine in the mail from Amazon today!

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Is anthology playable online ?

anyone know if they will be making a new Samurai Shodown with HD anytime soon. which can be played online.

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Nope

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Dammit, there’s no V special?!!!

That was the game I wanted to play 80% of the time :shake:

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When all seems lost, look to the interwebz young samurai. :nunchuck:

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@ Fatal Fury
Shizumaru doesnt have bugs, his charge is his special move, and it also was in SS4 and it also is present in SS6. It has 5 levels of charging accessible.
Yoshitora’s 7th sword, Enja’s Six Worlds Raging Flame, Haohmaru’s Steel Flash Slash, even Kusaregedo’s grab all do big damage, but they are not banned. As for Charlotte’s and Galford’s test moves, they are from same league as Enja, but they arent banned because they are multipart in armed/unarmed mode, and almost impossible to execute in real fight, so they arent very effective to say the least. And Koreans and their rules are weird, they forbid to attack unarmed opponent and dont recognize weapon flipping feature at all. If one person became unarmed, other korean has no right to attack him until weapon is recovered.

About everyone thinking the forum is russian, they are wrong. The site is for both english and russian users, and I am fluent in both languages and can talk/post on both. Any russian-speaking player can post in russian. Any english-speaking player can post in english. If players that take interest in forum are mostly russian, and english players post there more rarely, then I will talk with russians in russian, if to think logically. English-speaking users can request translation of any russian post if they need. Most of russians that post here also CAN speak in english, and will speak in english with english users, but until english-speaking users start to be more active, no one wants to bother.

Anyway, right now there is no more comprehensive SS forum online, you wont find another because heavenlyspirits forum had issues with its database and right now its disabled, and forum on samuraispirits.net was locked down for internal use by new admins long ago. Its everyone’s choice where to discuss gameplay strategies and stuff, so I can just recommend my forum but everyone can continue to disuss on general boards like SRK, Gamespot, Gamefaqs etc. I just dont see point because undedicated to SS forums are unsorted and any good info drowns.

@ goldengloves
Nope, but you can play:
SS1/2/3/4/5/5sp online on kaillera (simple netcode, lags)
SS1/2/3/4/5sp online on 2dfighter.com (decent netcode with lag compensation) - I play here
SS2 on ggpo.net (best netcode on planet I guess)

@ Yumi Saotome
Look at what I responded to goldengloves :smiley:

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You’re telling me that Shizumaru storing his charge by holding select button is not banned in Korean scene? Also that weapons shit is only against ss6 Amakusa. Give me link or you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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I havent been in Korea for last 20+ years so I suppose I can judge by those with who I play online, and from all people I played with for recent 6 years, including koreans at 2dfighter.com, no one mentioned it to be forbidden, banned technique in Korea or anywhere. The move could be attempted multiply in SS4 as well, and that game didnt had Select button trigger like SS5/sp, so…

But who knows maybe the high and mighty Korean Scene will decide to ban a few more moves, like Gaira’s guard cancelled Centrifugal Assault chained into High Pursuit, or Nakoruru’s Apehuchi Kamui Rimse, or Kusaregedo’s roll-cancelled grab. Everything can happen <.<

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So is Samurai Shodown Anthology out for Wii ? Amazon says the 7th but… I keep hearing rumors it got canceled ???

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No, it shouldn’t be cancelled. To those that have owned the Japanese version of this compilation on the Wii have reported that everything is intact, except for one thing…Samurai Shodown 2 (Samurai Spirits 2). That one turned out to be completely censored (It has red blood, but fatalities have been removed). Hopefully that will change for the U.S. release. Otherwise, they’ll be many pissed off Wii owners.

Proof of this.

Part 2.

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came in yesterday. damn amazon ships fast! anyways, the game doesn’t have progressive scan so it looks like ass. worst of all, you can’t turn off the soft filter for ss1-ss5. ss6 doesn’t have any filters. i used to have the jap version of ss6 and i could have sworn it had some kind of filter.

it’s funny though because when i looked through the booklet it said that in the options there is a “focus” option to turn on and off for ss1-ss5. it’s obviously not there. i read somewhere in the same book that it was written for the test version of the game, so that’s probably why i can’t find it. pretty stupid. they had an extra option and they took it out for the final version of the game? i hope it’s something i can unlock or use a cheat. if not, oh well.

and for whoever it was hating on kusaregedo, that character is bad ass. he’s one of my favorite samsho designs. he’s definitely one of the most creative designs in the game.