people talk about emulation as if capcom gives a damn. do you really think capcom is gonan waste their energy sueing a tourney using a game made however many years ago? and why cant we jsut ask if somebody has 1 board and if we can use emu’s i dont think capcoms gonna get that mad. (i may be totaly wrong)
ya i didn’t read the thread in a while sorry. :party:
Gentelemen.
I suggest a Secret A3 Xbox Tournament of the Shadows at Evolution. The record made of players who signed up will be destroyed immediately afterwards, and blankets will be thrown over the TV used and the players competing. If anyone asks, we’ll say we’re playing SVC and were just too ashamed to show it.
i like this plan, al=though id like to push for board =D
sidenote: this years texas showdown (so far around march 12)will have an extra 50$ added to first place finish cash provided be me. everyone try to make this year last year included about 20 people and had wong eddie lee maimi alex cole and others.
if for some chance i dont make it to ts this year the money will still make it.
I’ve always been a huge fan of the alpha series and it’s a sad fact that it’s nowhere to be found. It will be very hard for A3 to make a so called comeback as you see in 3S. I mean where are you going to find a machine AND at the same time find good players? You can’t. In Japan you have both all over the place which is why the game still thrives. Still, A3 was once a very popular game in the U.S. and it truly deserves some representation in the tournament scene. You just don’t see a solid game like this from Capcom anymore. The question is how can you pool together the players and raise interest in this game?
lets go people get on this! :party:
Make the game a competitive one… by putting it in Evo.
Unfortunately, to be put on Evo, you have to have a certain level of interest.
Even if this circular argument gets resolved, there’s the legal issues of it, which is closely tied to the lack of good ports.
Mr Newbie, are you seriouly suggesting that the organizers make emu roms out of existing boards? You may not have read the entire thread, but you should have at least read the rules. And, to answer your question, read FMHaguar’s post (about 14 posts up).
Well, there is a southeast major called Final Round that features Alpha3 on arcade every year. We had a pretty good turnout last time. Maybe people could show up to that to support the game.
If anyone would be interested here’s the SFA3 tourney that is held in the Atlantic South.
Tournament Thread:
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1975318#post1975318
Poll:
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77697
(Vote for SFA3 if you plan to attend)
Hilarious. 
Does anyone know how this would be done?
I’m just wondering how much Capcom USA would sue if they found out 5 guys decided to play dumped versions of a 7 yr old game, and sent lawyers and cops over there to bust them, thats assuming if they even read this board to find out something as obscure as an A3 tourney in the USA lol
I prefer to think the fine people at Capcom of America can’t read. That makes it easier to understand the fact that they’ve done absolutely nothing to support upwards of 99% of U.S. tournaments for their games over the past 15 years.
How safe is this? Is there a significant risk to the original hardware/software, or is it just like burning a CD?
1)Capcom of America could just be a bunch of stooges like Sammy’s American branch. Additionally, they just sell the boards, and don’t collect the money the machines make, so it might be hard to connect the dots for an executive to allocate the money for supporting the scene. It would be less hard to connect the dots on a DMCA violation.
2)Looks very not-safe. $400 for the equipment just to dump stuff, then you run the risk of messing up the actual ROM chips by bending/breaking pins, ESD, damaging the board itself…bad stuff. Its obviously done enough that they have a page about it, but you’d have to want something dumped pretty bad.
If you can lay hands on 3 or 4 actual A3 boards, I would figure that to be pretty solid for 3-4 platforms using the dumps at a non-sponsored event, or in a backroom tournament at a sponsored event. People running a sponsored event could maintain plausible deniability that way and be clear because its already in a legal grey area. Would be harder as a headlining event.
Between attracting a few extra players for peanuts in profit, if even that, or attracting the attention of corporate lawyers, I know which I’d choose as the person running an event.