Right, doesn’t work on every character anyway and it’s pretty situational. But yeah, it’s banned for Tougeki so that answers the question.
There isnt a strong SS scene here in the states that I know of unfortunately…sigh.
Does anyone know anything about unlocking the hidden characters yet? Or are they time-released???
So, noone answered my question regarding HD Advance as opposed to HD Loader?
Someone could’ve told me that I was comparing apples to oranges in my posts btw.
According to Dandy J at Guardcrush.net, you unlock characters/grooves by beating arcade mode over and over with different characters, much in the way you unlock characters in Tekken games.
Every few times through arcade mode with a new character you should unlock something. or so I’m told.
…seriously.
Ukyo’s Special:
b,f,db,df + D
What does it look like? I can’t never do it.
You can unlock all the characters except the 4 EX characters by completing survival mode. To unlock the 4 EX characters you have to complete arcade mode with everyone. I am not sure how to unlock Koruko/Referee through Arcade Mode since I got him by completing Survival Mode. Once you got him press “Start” at the chracter selection screen and all the character pictures will turn into Koruko/Referee.
Alternate way of unlocking:
Finish Arcade Mode:
-1 character to unlock Survival Mode
-3 chracters to unlock Purple Nakoruru
-6 characters to unlock Bust Galford
-9 characters to unlock Kim Eun Che
-48 characters to unlock EX Yunfei, EX Mina, EX Yoshitora, EX Kusaregedo.
Once you have finish Arcade Mode with 9 characters you can unlock the following. Here is what I did but I may be slightly wrong.
Animals:
-Poppy- Galford
-Champuru- Mina
-Paku Paku- Cham Cham, Tam Tam
-Mamahaha and Wolf- Nakoruru, Rera
Extra Spirits:
-Complete with Champuru, Poppy, Paku Paku, Mamahaha & Wolf for one spirit.
-Complete with Amakusa, Zankuro, Mizuki, Gaoh for another spirit.
-Complete with 32 default characters. I did this and unlocked one more spirit and the “Spirits Edit Mode”.
I hope that helps.
One more thing, I would really appreciate it if someone can sort out a translation guide for the “Spirit Edit Mode”. I really want to try it out but my japanese is too basic and yeah its difficult to understand what I am doing.
If it aint made by Capcom or its not KOF, there will never be a scene:arazz:
Sad, but true:sad:
Still, I love playing this game anyways.
Did anyone thought SS 5 was hella slow and boring, I just recently bought it for XBOX and I thought it was too boring ( I thought of this before Tenka came out ), even while facing opponents.
Lucky Tenka is much faster and better.
Tenka is actually a lot slower in my opinion, but there’s more room for mistakes so you’re automatically riskier in your play.
Love this game.
Don’t care for the graphics engine used to create it, but I still like it.
Dude with the barrel is f*cking awesome…mad combo-licious.
Currently using:
Gaira
Caffein Nicotein
Wan-fu.
Chick with 2 small swords is sweet too.
I’m also digging Wan-Fu
i particularly like him in Do spirit (the ss1 one).
Really, I’m liking Do, Rei, and Ten spirits right now.
Ken doesn’t seem “samurai shodown” enough for my tastes, and zan and shin just don’t flip my top.
I’m playing Do-Wan-Fu, and Rei/Ten-Galford right now, though Andrew looks intruiging.
…seriously.
I have to agree about Wan-Fu. I just think he is great. Love his new moves where he spins the weapon then throws it. His throw is great as well where he is weaponless and then grabs the opponent and toss them like a rag doll.
Also having a blast with Ukyo and Earthquake.
Man Ma Gaoh is trash…seriously…IMO…any boss if it takes me less than 10 tries to beat him sucks…They couldve done better than that for the last boss of the venerable Sam Sho series!!! Come on SNK!!! The boss is the ONLY thing that dissapoints me about this game.
Thanks for the posts about secret characters etc.
I just got this for PS2 but stopped playing it but the game was too slow, is there a turbo option (like when you pick a char in marvel and can choose normal or turbo) that is in japanese and i can’t read it. Is the arcade version this slow? am I missing something?
Yes there is, ok that’s enough of that. Anyway I’m looking forward in seeing what happened to Jubei and Charlotte, seeing as how they have been dropped to the very bottom of the depth chart. 
Iroha looks like fun though. 
Iroha IS FUN!!! Man There is not too much difference between Purple Nakoruru and regular…I guess she is like EX Nakoruru…I just unlocked her and not too much difference. Oh well back to unlocking characters in this GODLY GAME…
You’re definitely missing something. The series’ speed has been more or less around this, unless you bar Sam Sho 1 and 2?
Also, changing speed settings would make it hard to adjust timings for various things, so I believe they’ve gotten rid of speed settings in fighting games since the SF2 days.
finally got this game, yay!
well I’ve put in some good time with the game.
Andrew - fun to play, but hard to win with, he just doesn’t have enought going for him. Plus I can’t figure out the best groove to use him in. He’s just sorta Meh, very average. Except for his awesome. fireball followup that thing is amazing.
Nicotine- so far my second favorite to play, the trap stuff is just fun to do. And damn that J.C is crazy. other funny things about him include his qcf+k slide move and fucking with your opponents controls
Kazuki - Damn Ten is kind to this guy, his ten starter hits really far away and his combo is easy does tons of damage, plus if you use the meter building version it gives him almost full meter. Not much in the way of mixups, does he even have an overhead? But he’s solid.
Mina - I play her in rei. mostly just cause it’s funny to slow time and shoot tons of arrows. This girl is just as evil as ever, I mean I’ve never played her before but damn evil. Instant overhead arrow is pretty fun to do, just hold up and mash fp. And the dive kick is crazy. She seems to have a big throw range as well. What a bitch.
otg grab works after:
throw
air 214slash
dp+a
slide
C
and umm… maybe more but i forget. the important ones are the first 3, especially the air spinny slash. air to air jump kick into spinny slash becomes a very scary anti air
aside from shin invincible power up thingie, kazuki’s flamey ball and rera’s dog also can prevent pounce -> super (but you can just avoid their counter and grab them if you guess right)