[AMSTRAD CPC] Street Fighter II (HMC's #3)

Street Fighter 2 arrives on the Amstrad!!

Third in the series of my HMC's videos - ie "Home Made Conversions" for the Amstrad CPC - ie games that never got an official release or port on the Amstrad, but later someone made a homebrew version!

Here we have a version of the classic and legendary Street Fighter II arcade game, curteosy of Hermol from Spain I believe (or maybe France ... not sure!).

I talk through the fuss that surrounded the Amstrad version at the time, it was probably the most talked about game to never be released!!!! Who were the guilty party that strung us along for so long? US Gold? Amstrad Action magazine? Who knows? Who cares! At least it's here now...

I forgot to mention that the game detects whether you're using a normal CPC or Plus machine, although I can't spot any difference apart from the colours looking slightly lighter when running on the Plus.

For more info and where to download this version -
http://cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3309

Information about the arcade original -
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9814

Amstrad Action Tribute magazine mentioned in the video with a big piece on SFII here -
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/amstrad-action-tribute-magazine/312...

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[shinobiung]

have you seen dadmancez version?

[Xyphoe]

@shinobiung Yes its a complete fake - but nice to look at none the less!

[realTFM]

Pleasure to watch it! Proffessional work!!!

[Xyphoe]

@realTFM Thanks mate! Glad you liked :)

[bobinator1992]

To be honest, I'd imagine that any real CPC conversion would have been more of less horrendous. US Gold pretty much made a living off of ruining Capcom's arcade stuff (see Strider), and the C64 port of SF2 was no exception. Besides that. I'm pretty sure that Super Street Fighter was out long by the final projected release date for this.

Still, excellent video, and even if the game's not great, the trickery involved is pretty interesting to see.

[yalnif11]

they kept screwing kids over saying that it will come next month it never came until it finally comes on Xmas but all we got was a turd on a floppy

I mean come on .The CPC could do better

[shinobiung]

you seem to have the only cpc sf2 review on youtube, the fact is people were so crazy about SF2 then, that if they had released even this version it would have sold tons. I think its sad that the multiface2 and the digiblaster were such hidden gems that improved the CPC by miles, I dont think Alan SaltyBalls cared anything about the CPC, imagine hardware upgrades to the ram and cpu. it would have put the cpc longer in the running.

[Hindleyak]

The Amstrad scene will never die as long as there are fools like you and me making videos about it on YouTube.

No music in the fights? I would have liked to hear Ken's theme in all its Amstrad quality! And no special moves? It isn't Street Fighter without the Dragon Punch.

Chun Li's stage looks crap compared to the SNES version :P

[averagegilo]

Hey does anybody remember that dreadful Street Fighter conversion for the Amiga 500+ ?(not Street Fighter 2 - Personally when I was younger, I loved it) This has exactly the same move sets and similar animation. Well, the amstrad version has more frames of animation

[rainxxxx]

@supahdupahguy81 the speccy version kicked all the 8 bit asses, even gave the st and amiga a run for their money!

[boombasticboombox]

were can you download the unoficial version of sf 2 for amstrad emulator

[boombasticboombox]

it looks pretty cool oldschool is the greatesd