I recently found and downloaded an arcade emulator that runs the actual, old-time ROM files for original arcade and console games. You're allowed, as far as I can tell, to download and play ROMs provided you own the original name. Well lucky me, I happen to own Street Fighter II for Super Nintendo (but sadly, controllers are broken). I've been reliving the addiction on my PC every few nights for a few weeks now.
Here are a few things I've learned or been reminded of from playing:
- Ryu is cheap. Cheap, cheap, cheap. His low light kick is lightning fast, takes off about 3/4 of your life, and stuns you. Cheap.
- The computer AI can charge Blanka's spin ball attack, Guile's Sonic Boom, and Guile's Flash Kick at whim, but the player requires a 2 second charge. It's good to be the computer.
- Vega is touch until you remember to out-jump him - then he's just a long-haired sissy.
- The endings for each player define a new level of cheesiness, especially Blanka's ending. His alleged mother shows up, in Thailand, to ask if Blanka is her son. Of course he is, because he's from Brazil, and her son was lost in a plane crash in Brazil. Naturally, he's the one, right? Sure, ok. She heralds as proof the "anklet" he's wearing - "I gave that to you on your birthday!" Happy joy. But, he has two matching "anklets", and I'm fairly sure those are actually the binding rings of chains - he was a caged "animal", forced to fight. Thanks, mom.
- Every move Chun Li makes is designed to showcase her underwear. Teenager geeks cry out in joy; there is a massive massacre of kittens.
- English translators were not highly available during development.
I love this game.
2 comments:
I won't actually download the ROM cause I don't legally own SF2 but I have a 'FRIEND' who does so it would be awesome if you posted links to the emulator you use and the SF2 ROM as well. You know, so that my 'FRIEND' can LEGALLY download them and play them (cough cough). :)
The emulator is called MAME, which stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation. The latest version is available at the MAME download page (see the top of the table after the jump). It runs from the command line. ROMs can be downloaded at various places online (Google is your friend), but I found mine at http://www.rom-world.com (Google is their friend, too).
Some of the games don't work, and you can't tell until you try to run them. The first Ghoul's and Ghosts ROM I found sadly didn't work; then again, I probably wouldn't be able to beat it anyway.
ROMs come as .zip files and need to be in the "roms" folder directly under the folder you install MAME to. Run the game with "mame [name of zipfile]", e.g "mame sf2" for Street Fighter 2, ROM file "sf2.zip".
Hope your friend enjoys. :)
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