Tonbi? I like his style too, it’s very interesting.
What outfit is that Felicia’s wearing? >D It’s cute.
I have no idea… 
Random Anime outfit #34, the futuristic warrior, female version.
I thought it might have been a reference to something in particular. Anyway, I like the “mechanization” work on the ears and paws.
Finished up Harvey Birdman, lots of fun! On top of Chun-Li’s cameo that happens in the beginning of Chapter 5, there’s a Street Fighter III New Generation arcade machine at the Birdcage, the bar Harvey Birdman frequents. When you examine the machine the music that plays during the SF3NG intro can be heard! Harvey says something like, “Another Street Fighter III reference? You’d think Capcom had something to do with this video game.”
Haha, that’s great! DO you know if there are any SF references in Dead Rising?
Not that I know of. In Dead Rising there are references to Mega Man Legends, there are Servebot hats in the mall if I remember right. Don’t own the game or an Xbox 360 though.
Yeah, there alot of MegaMan References in the game, but no Street Fighter. The Cameos and references are:
Servebot heads – You can put them on Zombies or Yourself.
Mega man movie posters and Mega Man movie Standees in the theatre.
Fake Mega Buster – Tennis Ball Launcher
Mega Man Helmet – You can wear as a costume.
Mega Man Body Outfit – You can wear as a costume.
Real Mega Buster – You unlock this powerful weapon after unlocking the achievement entitled “Zombie Genocider”, which means to unlock it you have to kill 53,594 zombies(the exact population of the city it takes place in).
The only little Street Fighter reference(if you can even call it a reference) is a special move you can pull off that resembles Guiles Flash Kick.
Ah I only knew about the Servebot heads, thanks!
Devil May Cry 4 drops tomorrow in the US. DMC3 has a slew of Street Fighter-esque moves from Hadoukens, Shoryukens, lightning kicks, parrying, aerial raves(named exactly that, from the Marvel games) Kikosho, and Vergil gets Chun-Li’s SF3 super art the Tensei Ranka in DMC3 SE. Hopefully DMC4 is like that too.
Oh and Ryu and Chun-Li’s seiyuus in the video games, Toshiyuki Morikawa (most of the games Ryu is in) and Atsuko Tanaka (Chun-Li in SF3, CFE and Namco x Capcom, more famously known for being Motoko Kusanagi in every Ghost in the Shell anime) did both Dante and Trish’s voices in the Devil May Cry anime. A little tidbit I like repeating way too much.
I think the Mega Man X series pays the most SF homages. Not only are Hadoukens and Shoryukens pretty common (Magma Dragoon actually calls out their names when he does them) in one of the games, I think 6 - a lot of the robots you save have SF names like Ryu, Alex, etc. 
Woot! Zangief, Blanka, Dhalsim, and Guile have been confirmed for SF4!
http://ruliweb.empas.com/ruliboard/read.htm?table=game_ps04&page=1&num=38274&main=ps&find=&ftext=
Along with Honda. Here’s some tidbits from the could-be-clearer scans of Video Game Tsushin:
Crimson Viper is confirmed to have been the inspiration of an older, previously used character. Ono doesn’t get anymore specific than that, so my money’s still on Kolin; it’d be the fewest cosmetic changes IMO.
Blanka’s fighting again to make mama proud of him, Honda and Zangief are back for their old reasons as much as I could gather, Chun Li and Guile are now investigating numerous incidents as a team, Dhalsim’s back for the sake of his whole village this time not just his son, and it’s been leaked that Chun Li joined the ICPO at age 18, one year before SF1. Hopefully much more to come when CJ’s SF4 page is updated Friday.
In other news, some plot guide credit goes to TAS since I recently uncovered from Gamest World #7 that Sakura was indeed an inspiration from Ojou-san, however it was not Edayan who designed Sakura; he takes no such credit for her in an interview from Gamest World #10. It was most likely Akiman initially (the rough sketches) and then Bengus the finalizer since he was responsible for Zero 2’s 5 new faces while Edayan did the returning 13.
Here’s Dan’s Zero 2 account from AASFZ2 and Gamest SFZ2 mooks:
Dan from SFZ2
Hisshou Buraiken
As an incandescent lamp would shine, 2 men would rise to the surface.
A giant man of more than 2 meters, over such a suffering rough breath.
There he would spring upon the lone man.
"Is that…my, dad? That’s right, that’s, the form of my dad challenging the Muay Thai champion. And, this happening…!? No…stop, stop it!!"
Opposite from the giant man’s eyes, a brutal red light emitted.
That was fresh blood spurting out… “Stooop!!“
As for the man sprung upon, his entire body bathed in blood, conversely was blown off. The world, would be dyed in red…
”!!” From the bed Dan jumped to his feet. His whole body trembling, discomforting sweat was soaking the sheets.
"Again, that dream?..!"
His father was a fighting stylist, losing his life immediately following the match with Muay Thai champion Sagat ten-odd years ago, this nightmare continued to torment Dan.
Until the result of revenge this nightmare will not go away. Believing that, Dan recklessly, his own fist lodged in murderous intent and hatred, he piled on training to destroy the demon Sagat. Dan would slowly stand up. Flame-like power swells up throughout his body.
Standing in front of a sand bag swaying before his very eyes, Dan released his power.
"Orahorahorahorahoraaahh!!"
Releasing kicks and thrusts with amazing vigor, like the sand bag wasn’t absorbing even a tenth of the openings. He would drive all the moves he has into that instant…at the time Dan’s wrath reached critical, he’d invoke the restraint-impossible transcendant technique “hisshou buraiken”.
"Koouryuukennn!!"
Not even a trace of the sand bag scattered away. Now for Dan, in his heart there’s no fear of Sagat. As for fear of wrath, he would show panic exchange for hatred…seemingly making sure it was imposed on himself, the fact was that Dan alone, would push it up.
Next time, Dhalsim double dosage. In fact double dosage for the remaining Zero 2 faces. Their super combo related accounts which you’ve seen, and with them the elusive Shadoloo files, spanning the Zero 2 Secret File and Capcom ads within 3 issues of Gamest. Look forward to them minna-san, and thanks for reading.:tup:
…nope, you’re not through licking your lips just yet. I previewed its arrival on Capcom BBS which is unfortunately down again confound it!, but just in time for Valentine’s Day hopefully , a post. A VERY LARGE POST. Possibly larger than any I’ve ever made before. It’ll probably be worth many kisses and chocolate from the girls although I’m sure I won’t get any:sad:, but I suppose it’s time for it. Long live the thread!:bgrin:
Since I mentioned it above, here’s my updated Ojou-san Summary:
Ojou-san: Gouken’s daughter —A planned and ongoing summary
Two official arts were created for her, neither one made it past the story and sketches. Both are quite different from each other, why? And why is she so elusive? After 2 years of searching the following has been brought to my attention, and is subject to change as new info becomes available. Thank you for reading this, and as always feel free to ask questions and such.
FACT:
She appeared in Capcom's own manga story for SF1 called Hadouken: Prelude to the Struggle, long before Ryu's master became known as Gouken. This manga is found in Gamest Magazine #13 from October 1987. This story's no longer official with the Zero series released, but in it she's shown with hair in a ponytail almost exactly like Yuri from Ryuko no Ken/Art of Fighting 1, as opposed to the longer hair Kasumi look from the SF2 Fanbook that's closer to her official version 1 look, with earrings and a jacket+pants uniform similar to that for kung fu practitioners.
I have found one official old source as suggested in Tiamat's SF Plot Guide that speaks of Ojou-san (text, no pictures). This book is roughly called SF2: Mysteries of the Hadouken from Shinseisha/ Gamest released in June 1994. Since she has no offical name the text refers to her as the unnecessary or useless warrior girl. Before the Zero series, before even the SF2 Movie came out which inspired the event, Ojou-san gave Ryu his trademark red headband. Ojou-san secretly admired Ryu from a distance everyday when he trained with Ken in their master's dojo. Naive Ryu never once noticed her feelings until the day he left the dojo to train on his own. The day he was to leave, Ojou-san gave Ryu her red headband, and that day he realized the feelings she truly had for him. Referring to the unofficial manga in the SF2 Fanbook, the story of course isn't official but the relationship depicted is, about the only thing still carried on from Hadouken: Prelude to the Struggle.
Presently I have found no printed evidence that Ojou-san witnessed the final battle between Gouken and Gouki other than Saiki's word from his friends at Capcom he thinks. Ken's SFZ entry in AAC is a memory recall of both the battle he and Ryu both saw when they were young and the battle he catches as his master's last: Gouken fighting Gouki, Gouken wins the former, Gouki wins the latter.
SF Eternal briefly and of course vaguely alludes to Ojou-san in Gouki's storyline section. One sentence says "Also, Ryu, Ken, and a fellow student, as may be expected, master the same kind of techniques." Yes I know it's not much, but Eternal barely even talks about non-playable characters in the storyline anyway.
A pre-development Makoto sketch found in two Gamest publications strongly resembles Ojou-san's official version 2 look, with short Vice-like hair and a white gi but no beads. Ojou-san was also a leading point to Sakura's design; Gamest World #7 reveals that a design of Ryu's girlfriend (?) had a hand into finalizing Sakura.
OPINION:
Why two completely different arts? My current assumption is that she tried to enter the SF universe at two different points in time, the timeframe of SF2 and the timeframe of SFZ, and she just got scrapped due to continuity problems. From the story above, I assume that the first description of Ojou-san in the Plot Guide fits for the original SF2 timeframe, and seeing her in the manga story which fits the first description nearly exactly. Why do I think this design got axed? Because she's believed to have given Ryu the red headband before he leaves Gouken's dojo. But wait! He's got a white one in SF1! Oh well, back in the early days of SF2 no SFZ yet so he could go back to Gouken after SF1 and then leave again for SF2 and she gives him the red one then, but of course now with SFZ we know that can't happen anymore. So at this point Ojou-san's only major role in the story is shot. Another possible reason for axing the first design is an indecision on whether she could fight or not. HnN calls her useless, and in the Fanbook she's not shown to be much of a fighter, being completely at the mercy of a giant bear springing out of nowhere and fainting just before Ryu blows the bear and several trees away with a hadouken. BTW all three manga stories in the Fanbook are true within the storyline of the SF2 Animated Movie only, according to disclaimer statements in the Fanbook.
Now for the second design of her, which I like to assume was made for the Zero series. Seems hopeful. She has a white gi now which can easily have a white headband to go with it, so SF1 problem seems fixed. She's also supposed to have prayer beads like the kind you see on Gouki and her father Gouken. I also think she was given her more subtle role in the story of witnessing Gouken and Gouki's last battle at this point in time. What about the beads? Are they possibly her father's? If Gouki took Goutetsu's (which currently I haven't found printed evidence for also BTW) then he wouldn't need Gouken's also. So why was this design thrown away from the public's eyes? Or was it? After having read some accounts on Gouki, I think one can assume this design might have been scrapped simply for the beads. The beads I believe are worn by one who's mastered Goutetsu's ansatsuken. That's the significance I've seen behind them after these readings. So we can say that with this design Ojou-san can fight to an extent. Since she has beads, is she as good as her father? Perhaps Capcom couldn't decide how strong she should be and/or didn't want to mess with more beads and thus trashed her second design for that reason.
Street Fighter Alpha Generations possibly shows Fuka as Gouken's daughter, my opinion anyway. At least in the feature they confirm Sayaka to be Goutetsu's daughter, again from Alpha Generations only.
UNCONFIRMED RUMOR:
A possibly non-canon comic depicted a young Ojou-san witnessing her father's final battle with Gouki: she sees lights flashing from the dojo, Gouki walks past her totally ignoring her after everything was over, then he knocks out Ken who had just arrived soon after.
Can anyone approve or disprove of this at all?
Thanks again for reading, and I look forward to appending as more info becomes available. As always questions and comments are appreciated, especially help for the rumor.
And that’s all for tonight.:wasted:
Wow they didn’t screw up Guile’s hair when going 3d, I’m surprised.
Whoa vasili10 is on it! Good stuff with the SF4 info and the update Ojou-San info!
Daigo Ikeno rules! Screw EGM / 1Up’s 10,000 questions about Chun-Li’s thighs. Keep’em big hell yeah!
Looking good but arg it’s all characters we already knew were going to be in SF4 pretty much and the same background… Man info is dropping slow on this game… Website catches an update this Friday though.
I try. Thanks sano.:china:
More pics and screen shots of the SF4 characters here. Chun-Li’s looking good! :lovin:
Cool. Bios are in there as well with no blurry worries.:wgrin:
A little more about Zangief and Honda in SF4 from the text:
Honda’s got a public notice stating his ability being below yokozuna status, even though he’s actually more than qualified for yokozuna.
Zangief might be fighting again as part of fulfilling a promise to a dear child. Aww.
Translation
Okay, here’s the tranlstion from Jigsaw:
Hi guys! Any idea where Tiamat went? I need to discuss the SGS with him 
Happy year of the Rat BTW!