Looks like Shogatsu from his playstyle… time to study this religiously… 
Is there anyone in Japan who plays O.Honda anywhere close to Shogatsu’s level? I haven’t seen anyone notable, if any.
I’d love to know if there are, but nothing that I’ve found. 99 times out of 100 it’s Shogatsu playing, and when its not, they don’t look nearly as strong.
According to Aniken, the issue of eating a full super or blocking the remaining 4 hits of a shinkuu hadou might be related to the number of hadoukens thrown in a round. I’m willing to test that, when I get the time. I was always wondering if it wasn’t related to some weird scroll-related effect, like Cammy’s cross-ups and reversal teleports.
I’m pretty sure it has solely to do with which part of your hurtbox the super connects with, alone with the stage scroll effect. In the case of Sagat, it’s both. As long as the stage doesn’t scroll, the super will connect. Otherwise, if super hits a low tiger shot, it will only hit once. If it’s a high tiger shot, all the hits will connect. This is the sole reason why Ryu’s super is only ever a threat against Sagat if he’s in the corner, or on the far edge of the screen, and why all smart Ryu’s will try to jump back or juice kick backwards after the super connects to help stop the stage from scrolling.
Not sure how it works against shotos, but it seems similar.
There’s still some weirdness: sometimes, both characters are relatively close to each other, and all hits connect. Sometimes, they just don’t. This often makes Ryu vs Ken/Ryu random, since full super vs 1 hit + either reversal shoryu or 4 blocked hits is a huge difference.
My guess is a mixture of two components, perhaps only one:[list]
[]Since the super does not move pixel by pixel, there might be precise distances where the super hits the extended arms with just a single pixel overlapping the hurtboxes. This gives slightly more room for the shoto to recover from the attack and either block or reversal jab shoryu;
[]Some weird scrolling effect such that if the screen does or does not scroll, then the full super will connect on a mid-screen shoto target with extended arms.
As for Sagat, I feel the super being blocked is pretty fair, and very unfair against O.Sagat. The latter can really just spam low tigers and not really give a shit about the super, unless he couldn’t get a big life lead by the time Ryu gets bar. Even the full super doesn’t do that much damage, since he has more damage reduction.
Hmm, I didn’t think about it not moving pixel-by-pixel. That makes sense, especially in conjunction with screen scroll, which would adjust the way it connects on hurt boxes.
I don’t think any super that connects should be able to be blocked. That’s just poor game design. It’s like the one advantage N.Ryu has over O.Sagat, and it’s basically useless as long as O.Sagat keeps track of his on-screen positioning and where the stage corner is.
A few of the differences between playable Akuma and Shin Akuma.
So that’s the hitbox HDR akuma inherited (shin akuma)?
Also I thought the regular akuma can already send the opponent flying with his regular fireball (like ken’s command round house). What’s special about shin akuma’s red fireball?
The damage. Both of those screenshots show the opponent after fully eating one fierce red fireball at full health, top one is regular Akuma, bottom one is Shin. Notice how the bottom one took over twice as much damage.
How were you able to play shin akuma if it’s not the DC version?
A combination of a patch made by someone on 2ch and my own messing around with the code.
One of the lesser-known details of SF2’s system is that there’s a sort of auto-handicap function that kicks in when a player is behind in rounds. It factors into all the damage they do (and maybe how much damage they take, can’t recall offhand). I had noticed before messing around in MAME that the adjustment to this handicap value wasn’t always the same, and figured it might be determined by how badly the player lost the round that put them behind, or something along those lines. Turns out it’s just entirely random, like so many other things in SF2. If you’re behind in rounds, it gets randomly boosted by anywhere from 0 to 8.
That’s random??? I always thought it was fixed. While getting the damage listings for the several attacks, I bothered to get the difference for all throws (other attacks vary, too, but it would be too much of a mess to gather all that data) and never bothered to test several times and maybe try to win a round by a small margin.
Every single attack damage value has its own table of numbers to choose from according to the handicap level, so it could very well be that throws’ tables are all set up to where any handicap value over the default results in the same damage. I haven’t really investigated it thoroughly yet.
Here’s the complete list of differences between Normal Akuma and Shin Akuma (as far as I’ve been able to figure out, at any rate):
- Close s.HK has smaller head hurtbox on first active part. (Regular Akuma’s head hurtbox is clearly glitched here, it’s way back behind him. I’m guessing it was probably supposed to be the same as Ryu’s.)
- Far s.HP has a fatter/taller hitbox.
- c.HP has smaller head hurtbox on first active part.
- All jumping punches, as well as neutral j.LK and j.MK have no leg hurtboxes for the entire duration of the moves, including recovery time spent falling.
- Neutral j.HK, and diagonal j.MK and j.HK only have a leg hurtbox during the active phase. It’s missing during startup and recovery.
- Hadoukens have shorter startup (7 frames VS 10), 2 frames of startup invincibility, and hurtboxes don’t move forward during startup (they stay the same as the idle pose)
- Shakunetsu Hadoukens have 4 frames of startup invincibility, hurtboxes don’t move forward during startup, and the medium and hard versions do much more damage (over double that of normal Akuma’s).
- Air Hadouken hurtbox is extended for a shorter time, it’s only extended on the animation frames where his arms are actually extended. He throws two projectiles at once rather than just one, and the medium and hard versions do more damage.
- Medium and hard Tatsumakis have more spins (4 and 5 respectively, same as N. Ryu). They also do more damage than normal Akuma’s, albeit only the spin part (startup knee does the same).
- Air Tatsumakis do less damage. Go figure.
- Medium and hard Shoryukens do more damage.
- Ashura Senku is invincible for the entire duration, no vulnerability on recovery.
Streaming RIGHT NOW!!!
Starcup Gaiden Carnival Eve
Where exactly is space shuttle shiogama?
Apparently it’s not in Shiogama city (Miyagi Prefecture)
According to
it should be in Chubu
Haven’t seen ARG for a long while.
Shogatsu is crazy good. Is he from tokyo area or chubu?
I’ve seen him on GSV but he has been playing in the last few starcup events in chubu.
I believe ARG is not from Tokyo or Osaka, which is why he rarely shows up in streamings. He was around at some majors recently, such as Thunderbeast Cup and X-Mania.
Shogatsu is from the Kanto area: he devastated the foreign team in the last team battle against Kansai + Chubu.