Wow. A good strategy guide from BRADY? That’s a first.
I guess I’ll pick one up, then.
[quote=The Dark Evil]
I picked up the last copy today,I love it.Its a little scratched on the front and the cover is pretty fucked up,but the inside is fine.The dumbass Eb guys also kept trying to make me preorder it,I clearly said no and they still asked me like 5 times.On top of that,the guy took like a minute just to ring it up cause they were talking to each other about how preordering games save so much(like I care).
Heh, how fucked up is ur cover? o_O Mines has some sratches at the corner and thats it and how does the soundtrack suck like everybody is talking about? I think its ok >_> By the way, i love the cover 
i got mine today, i m very satisfied with my purchase.
isn t selling more SF shit good?
Mine is scratched on the lower left quarter of the front.And there are parts that are ripped a bit and bent(but just a little).But its ok,since all the inside pages are perfectly fine.And the soundtrack isn’t horrible,but you can definitely tell that the sound quality isn’t as good as it should be.
mine has a cum stain on it.
Ran out to EB on my lunch hour yesterday and picked up a copy of the guide. The CD is packed in a little cardstock sleeve (attached to the spine of the book, just before the back cover) with a little clear-vinyl window exposing the printed side of the CD. They’ve attempted to make the printed side of the CD look as similar as possible to the Japanese original, right down to the Japanese serial number (CPCA-1028). Minor differences are:
> the monochrome illustration of the game’s cast is printed in a lighter selection of greys than on the Japanese CD, which produces some differences in the amount of detail which can be seen on certain characters
> the Japanese CD is silver right up to the spindle-hole, with the cast illustration (and the logo graphic) being printed right up to the spindle-hole as well. the U.S. version is more like a standard CD, with a 1cm border of clear plastic around the spindle-hole. because of this, less of the cast illustration is visible on the U.S. CD (since the image is not printed on the central clear plastic area, there’s “a bigger bit taken out of the pic” than with that incurred by the spindle-hole alone on the Japanese original)
> because of the smaller printing area (again, due to the clear plastic border around the spindle-hole), the game’s logo graphic had to be reduced in size before being printed on the U.S. CD
> the copyright date on the Japanese original was 1999 – on the U.S. CD it’s 1999-2004
> the Japanese CD was marked “made in Japan” – the U.S. CD naturally says “made in USA”
As far as content goes, the U.S. CD does not appear to contain the bonus CD-Single tracks (the bonus CD-Single was included only in first pressings of the original Japanese release of the OST). The U.S. CD has the same track count and running time as the Japanese CD. I was only able to listen to half the U.S. CD before leaving for work this morning, but I imagine that the above statement will hold up when I get home and have the chance to finish listening to the disc. Gonna have to cut back & forth between both discs to compare the sound quality of each.
–Chris
This sounds awesome. Kudos, i’m picking up the guide tommorrow, definitely.
I do have a question though, by frame info, do you mean how many ticks each frame of animation lasts? Or do you mean collision boxes? If this info is accurate, it will be very useful for me as I am converting a SF3 character to MUGEN.
By any chance, does this guide have the name of the normal attacks of every character like the SFA2 Vs. guide does? I doubt it, but I’m hoping…
i bought one, its tight!! support!!
got my guide yesterday and its really good,
im getting the xbox game and its killin me cus i wanna play really bad now!
I got the Guide yesterday, and I must say that this 20 dollars was definetly well spent. This guide has so much great stuff in it, amazing. Great great guide.
The Brady guide’s ok. I just wish it had more character vs character talk. How many of you cats have the Streetfighter Alpha 2 guide by versusbooks? That guide is crazy(at least 7 pages for each character). It’s the reason why I play A2 very well. It has a Japanese feel to it.
For the most part, no. 99% of the normal punches and kicks are referred to as “standing HK,” etc. Once in a great while, the guide may refer to one particular normal punch or kick by its specific name, but this is very rare. The guide does try to give the names for throws in the SFIII section, but usually refers to them as “throw” and “air throw” in the SFII section. In general, those who put together the SFIII section at least attempted to utilize most of the original move names for throws, specials, and supers (although errors do crop up here and there, and I think their romanization system leaves much to be desired). The authors of the SFII section, however, only really attempt to utilize original names for specials and supers when the names are in English to begin with (Sonic Boom, Rolling Crystal Flash, etc.). Characters with names in Japanese were far less fortunate. While widely-known names (like Hadouken, Shouryuuken, and Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku) are listed by their original names, characters like Chun-Li and E. Honda had most of their move names abandoned in favor of made-up English names (Foot Stomp, Sumo Smash, etc.). And, while the guide does abandon the unofficial names “Flash Kick” and “Scissor Kick” in favor of the official “Somersault Kick” and “Knee Press,” other long-used unofficial names managed to make their way into the guide – “Max Out,” “Double Dread Kick,” and “Storm Hammer” (instead of “Air Slasher,” “Double Rolling Sobat,” and “Mexican Typhoon”), for example.
–Chris
All of the special normals in the guide have names. The key term there being “special”. Standing HK doesnt have a name because it’s a fucking standing HK. But every special normal attack has their name listed.
any good SFA3 strat books?
So the guide is out even though the game isn’t? Heh, cool. I may pick it up. I’ve never played SF3S so I’ll need all the help I can get.
Brady Games put out a SFA3 strat book, but it sucks ass. Not even close to the SFA2 “Bible”. Any of the Versus strat guides are very good though. I’ve got the Night Warriors, Jedah’s Damnation, and SF3: New Generation guides, and they’re very well put together and offer some genuinely useful strategies and combos.
This’ll be my first real chance to play SF3 seriously. Thanks to Rock Bogart i got mine recently.
Please post the results of that sound quality test when you get a chance. I had the Japanese OST and got rid of it. But I wanna say that disc had much better sound quality. I’m not 100% sure about that, though.
A few years ago, a similar 3rd Strike soundtrack was released in the USA by Mars Colony. I wonder if the disc included with the guide is a direct copy of that one (with all of the sound effects put together as one track)? CPCA-1028 is printed on the disc, and that’s the same number as the Japanese OST. So, it doesn’t make sense for Capcom/Suleputer to use that catalog number again if it’s a somewhat different soundtrack. Or maybe it does make sense?
Unfortunately, not all the listed names of the “special normals” are correct (for example, Blanka’s “Rock Crush” got renamed “Headbutt” by the Brady guidebook). With all due respect, Standing HK doesn’t have a name in the Brady guidebook because the authors couldn’t be bothered to translate the names of all the normal punches and kicks. Speaking as an owner of pretty much every Japanese guidebook ever published for the SFII, SFZ, and SFIII series, I can assure you that every single normal punch and kick has its own name.
–Chris