Super Street Fighter II X (for Matching Service)

Bought this for use on a Euro DC with a DC-X converter and, when using an RGB scart cable it only displays the top left quarter of the picture, as if it\'s very zoomed in. V annoying, should have a warning about this, the game\'s hardly cheap - did a lengthy search on internet and found it\'s a recognised problem - be warned! Works fine with an RF cable but obviously the picture\'s pretty fuzzy n poor.

This translation of Super Streetfighter 2 Turbo is 100% arcade perfect! All the frames of animation, intro screens, speech sample, and music in Q Sound glory.
The only other comparable versions are inferior, either because of loading times or ommissions/deviations from the original game, and even the recent anniversary edition was more of a remake rather than the real thing. There is some Japanese text in the menus so get a guide to get going.
This game not only turns your home into a veritable 1995 arcade, it makes it sound like an arcade too.
The character control is great, all 16 fighters feel the way they did in the arcade, but it is best enjoyed with a joystick or 6 button pad.
I won\'t get into the plot, because its obvious (World fighting tournament with only one victor to emerge).
It is quite amazing how this game holds up over the years, the Character balance is perfect, and even slower, weaker characters have particular strengths. Zangief may not have fireballs but he sure is tough, and in the right hands he can overcome the faster players with timing and some smart counter attacks. The fighting genre may have evolved considerably but gameplay wise, the sixteen characters in this game fight in a beautifully balanced game where any character could be mastered and can be used effectively.
I f you are smart enough to know that it is more important for a game to play well rather than if its 2D or 3D, you will not be surprised that in this PS3/Xbox 360/Wii age, this game still ecclipses most of the new consoles\' lineup of puny mass market fluff. True Street Fighter was mass market in 1993, but only because people wanted to play IT, the machine on which it was mattered little. Today you may own a PS3, and then hope for the good games, but when Streetfighter ruled it was software that shifted units, so put this in your Dreamcast, get a decent bunch of friends around and have some fun, and let all those rich console snobs sit with a load of identikit 3D games to dazzle them.

As Halo says, this is the best version of the classic game. With a decent joystick, it plays superbly, and there are no loading times at all. I just wanted to answer some queries I had about the game, as a UK player (with a PAL machine).

As the only available version of the game is Japanese, PAL machine owners need a import enabler. When I got my copy, I bought DC-X with it, and it works a treat. Just pop DC-X in your DC, switch it on, and when prompted put the Japanese game in.

The text is Japanese in the option menus. If you don\'t read Japanese there are guides to what they all mean freely available on the net. I wouldn\'t have had much of a clue what was going on in the menus without a guide. Almost all other text is english, except for the text displayed after your fighter wins a fight (\"You must defeat my Dragon Punch to stand a chance\", etc.).

I\'ve read somewhere that the game won\'t display properly for PAL machines on your TV unless you\'re running an RGB cable to your TV. I\'m using a normal SCART lead, and it works fine. The display isn\'t 100% sharp, but I\'m not sure if that\'s the fault of the game, or the cable.

This is without a doubt the definitive version of SSF2X. The gameplay is spot on and even includes the original Super Street Fighter II. What more can I say. It\'s still considered by many to be the best fighting game ever made. It would be a five star game if the Dreamcast by default had controllers that are suitable for fighting games. If you have the means to use a Sega Saturn controller or a good joystick on your DC, please consider this to be a five star title.