Fighting Game Collections 

Some info about most of the SNK PS2 collections: - The reason most of them share the same UI was because they were released under the "NeoGeo Online Collection" series of compilations in Japan. The American releases dropped the line and released them as if they were standalone games. - As the japanese name implies, they were collections of the games with online features, but they were removed in the overseas versions. - ALL of the games featured in these collections are ports, not emulation. This allowed SNK to add online as well as some extra content, like the Neo Geo CD arranged soundtracks, and other minor features. Sadly the sound effects were downgraded for some reason. - The input delay isn't a thing in these collections, so the problem is probably your TV setup.

Never give up hope on a Marvel vs Capcom collection, it has to happen.

I liked that you mentioned KI Gold in rare replay, the KI games included with the definition edition. People didn't knew about that honestly. I do wish for tekken, sega and either 3d capcom fighters to be a collection but those itself are dream requests. Awesome work on this video!

I was game reviewer during the PS2/GameCube era. I was lucky enough to have SNK as one of the studios who always sent me their titles. So I got to have all those awesome Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters Orochi Saga, World Heroes, Samurai Showdown, and Arcade Classics compilations, on top of the standalone KOFs, NGBC, and the Metal Slug Anthology. PS2 also had Capcom Classics, Street Fighter Alpha Anthology and Anniversary Collection, the last of which was my introduction to 3rd Strike. And that's aside from the other compilations, like Tekken 5, Activision and Atari Anthologies, Intellivison Lives, Mega Man Anniversary/X Collection, Sega Classics/Genesis Collection, Sonic Mega/Gems, Namco, Midway, Taito... God, I miss those days... Edit: I've played an ungodly amount of hours on SF 30th Anniversary on PC, but only because it's the only current platform I have access to. They are indeed straight rips of the arcade versions, complete with all the glitches, but otherwise pathetically barebones. I was so disappointed when I found out it didn't have any of the cool additional game modes like in the previous collections. I'm one of the few left on there that still plays 3rd Strike ranked. The definite version of 3rd Strike is still Online Edition, just for the sheer variety of color palettes, system options, and superior netcode and lobby designs. I'm really happy with Capcom Fighting Collection, mainly because I missed out on Darkstalkers and Red Earth back in the day. The new Samurai Shodown Collection is excellent as well. I also picked up the TMNT Collection for the sake of nostalgia when it was on sale, but those fighting games are _way_ more janky than I remember.

Interesting fact: Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is the ONLY release that has the CPS2 version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper, which is considered the most "pristine" version of this game. The PS1 version is the most butchered one (if you exclude the GBA version), with fewer animation frames, worse visual effects and poor audio quality. The Naomi/Dreamcast version has pixel scalling problems, some characters' animation frames are missing (eg. T.Hawk's backwards walk animation) and has the worst input lag. The Sega Saturn version is almost arcade perfect. The PSP version is based on the Dreamcast version, which carries the same problems. It is unclear why Capcom decided to port the game to the Naomi arcade boards instead of releasing to their proprietary CPS2 boards.

One thing to notice about the 15th anniversary verion of 3rd Strike is that due to complaints about balancing changes in the dreamcast version, Capcom reverted the balance back to the arcade version making it the closest arcade home port until Online Edition

I personally love those Street Fighter collections for the ps1. First time we got an accurate arcade ports.

Really enjoying your videos! Keep it up!

Thanks for the mention when you use our footage, feel free to get in contact as we are always happy to let other channels use our footage. Dee is a really interesting character to play as, he was meant to be the main character in the next Darkstalkers game, sadly we are still waiting on that one. Also should mention as a bit of trivia, but the Japanese version of the Alpha Anthology, Zero Fighter's Generation has a few extra versions not found on the western one like the original Japanese release of Alpha 2. It's not widely mentioned but that collection has some interesting dipswitch extras and also give Cody an extra punch move not seen in any other version. That collection is far superior to the 15th Anni one which unfortunately had a number of emulation issues.

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I'd love to hear that dude spill the tea on Itagaki. As long as it's a kind of tea that pairs well with an oatmeal cookie.

Yes, that MVC Origins trailer was sick as hell. I would rewatch it all the time as a kid to hype me up. Great video as always.

I agree, the Sam Sho collection is the best so far. I do hope that these types of collections keep getting made as it's the best option outside of having a large WiiWare type of online store. I think collections can do far better than just placing the game on a digital store for the many quality of life changes that can help the game be modernized, either training mode and replay options for learning optimization or just fun extras and unseen content.

Power Stone Collection let you do WHAT? Holy shit, I didn't know that, that's rad

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13:56 because they are not ports (just the arcade versions with online) 19:02 There are people who would count Tekken Hydrid as a """""collection""""" 33:13 because all these collections are from the NeoGeo Online Collection that only came out in Japan (that's why they have these same menus), apart from the Last Blade one and the Sunsoft fighting games too 36:52 are the ps2 ports in the collection 37:46 only 6 was missing, to be the definitive collection of the SamSho mainline Excellent video btw

Zack Note on KOF The Orochi Saga: the US/EU Collection uses the even worse emulator from the SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 Collection (which ALSO has KOF'94)

A good run down of all the different fighting game collections here and how they match with each other. Having the anime movie on the Street Fighter collection was a big selling point for me back when I first got it and was a lot of fun all round.

The PS2 era was a super frustrating time to get these collections. Some, like Alpha Anthology went above and beyond, like putting in Alpha 3 upper, and Gem fighter. Then you have Midway collection, which I played endlessly, and for no apparent reason, they used MK3 over UMK3. It never appeared in other collections at the time, so it was maddening that the game which in my opinion fixed every issue of the prior game was left out. And while I get that the SNK collections had bad UI & emulation issues, at least you guys got to play them! At least where I am in Europe, I could never find them, and my only exposure to KOF was Neowave, which I would say was 2004's only glorified mugen compilation sold in stores, but Capcom Fighting Jam came out later.

Great look back at these collections. I have some of them, but am kicking myself about missing some back in the day. Adding to the list off the top of my head. The KoF and Samsho collections were on the PSP as well, and the loading times were so frequent and long that it made them extremely frustrating. The Breakers collection came out as well if you like obscure but solid fighters from the 90s.

That Samurai Shodown collection looks great

It's nice to listen to somebody just nerd out about this sorta stuff. But I was surprised you didn't include Tekken Hybrid, even if I'm not sure it counts as a collective. It has Tekken Tag HD, the movie Tekken Blood Vengeance, and a demo of Tag 2 with exclusive costumes based on the movie Sidenote: wasn't the imperfect emulation of Primal Rage due to some weird copy protection that cut out features? Then again i wouldn't doubt the collection had subpar emulation in general

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Great video as always! As someone who love collection titles, I hope more companies do these and do them well. Persevering titles and making them convenient to play is a win-win in my book.

Dude this reminded me that dead or alive even existed I had completely forgot about it 😂 great vid man. ❤

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I didn't know what to expect going into this but, that was great. Gotta preserve the history.

Great job. I liked the idea of samsho collection at the end i remember the online having issues trying it and I never went back to it. Keep it up!

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Thank you for the new video! Happy Thanksgiving!!!

This video was great! I honestly can't wait to see what else you'll talk about

Honestly a great video all throughout, even taught me a lot of things that my FGC brain didnt know at all

Great video! I used to buy these game collections for PS1 & PS2 before I got into MAME. Having everything now digital means you don't get collections but have to buy games separately. For that I'm glad Digital Eclipse still does compilations, yes they've stumbled in the past but got their stride back with Atari 50.

I own a bunch of Ps2 compilations. Recently, I have finished collecting all the Snk Online Collection related titles. No one talks about them, thanks for sharing this content!

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You know it would be pretty neat if in the next Persona game they had an arcade like they do in Yakuza/Like a Dragon, but instead of SEGA games they would add the Power Instinct/Goketsuji Ichizoku games and maybe Heaven's Gate to add a 3D fighting game. Because we all know that they won't sell by themselves in their own collection.

I miss this collections fighting game and I like the content of your videos I'm feel old but Gold to fighting :p but keep up the good work I like the lore stages vids especially the stories itself ^_^

Thank you for this video @Baberuthless, I really enjoyed it. I keep meaning to buy that Capcom collection with Darkstalkers in it, as I think tthe Darkstalker series is so slept on. I had one of the early street fighter collections, the best thing about it was the Christmas/jewellery shop music in the gallery mode. The news is that the new Killer instinct update which I think is called anniversary addition will have the first and second Killer instincts included. I would love a collection of Mortal Kombat 1 through 4, but at this point think it's very unlikely. Even the 3D era would be fun. Finally I agree with you, if a series has 2 games then you can call it a pack but a collection has to be 3 or more games.

Really well done video! Also, hilarious remarks :-). This is like a breath of fresh air. Great work and thank you 🤝 V/R.

I love collection compilations and fighters are my favorite genre, so the only thing that makes me happier than compilations are compilations of fighters.

Gotta say i an enjoy this video the most, i remembered playing a lot of compilation games on the ps2 when i was a kid, which is the reason why i got into fighting games, not only that but my favorite of all time for the compilation games is the gallery mode where it shows it's history with it's game with cool fanart, cover arts, and the cream of the crop is the videos which was so much to see :)

Great vid! Crazy to think I have all the Street Fighter and Capcom collections.... 30th Anniversary being my personal fav!

Great video! Praying every day for a MvC collection lol

Great video, as always ! I would just say that the SamSho collection missed the episode VI... I know it was supposed to be a Neo Geo collection, but at this point, missing the best of all the previous iterations before the 2019 version was a missing opportunity! But anyway, that's cool! Thanks for your super work!

I'm so glad I found your channel! Love your video style , and now you've become one of my favourite FGC creators ❤️❤️ Excited to see you grow Hope we get proper Tekken and 3D Capcom collections someday. I'd love a chance to play Rival schools

I've enjoyed the couple of your videos that popped up in my recommendations recently, I've subscribed and i would love to see this channel grow

great job! Your video was fun to watch. I wonder if I can find some more videos on this topic.

Hyper Street fighter alpha will probably be my favorite SF game until the end of time it's nice to see someone else knows it exists and that they like it as well

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This video is great. Def gonna give that Samurai Shodown trophy list a shot. The Capcom Fighters collection one looks fun too.

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Another great vid!

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Game compilations have been some of my absolute favorite releases, and are responsible for introducing me to some of my favorite games, especially when it comes to fighters. Moving forward, I hope console versions of some of these games can start to be included, too. Games like the PSone Marvel vs Capcom 1 or the 16-bit SamSho or Fatal Fury games are really fun to revisit, and would just add more value (and more nostalgia) to a lot of these

Grt vid, it's amazing that SNK had the time to make collections fo4 their games. I would like see a video covering the best fighting game ports. Donno about the title, but this would be a vid where you talk about fighting that got extra care whe being ported to the home consoles. Thanks.

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Coming back to watch again after Mvc fighting game collection (arcade classics) got announced lol. Amazing world we live in!

Nice video! I would love a Tekken collection or a Powerstone Collection!

They're always aporeciated. In general not just fighting. Will check out that samsho one

I'd imagine if Street Fighter was around in the 1920s, they'd have some kind of a board game or card game version

Can't wait for the 75th anni tho 👏💀 arthritis and dementia be damned 😂❤

This video is great! Only tidbit to add is that SF Collection 2 is not exclusive to PS1, it was also released on the Saturn, but under Capcom Generation Vol.5 as well in Japan only.

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This video was BRILLIANT :D exactly the type of content I love and talk about on my podcast. And I appreciate you love and concern for Street Fighter 1, which yeah...Capcom loves to pretend doesn't exist. Adding Eagle in CvS2 doesn't really make it up. I also kinda wondered why SNK decided to make its two Battle Archives collections on the PS2 uneven. Since the first Archives had four Fatal Fury games, they could have added Dominated Mind, Wild Ambition, or Mark of the Wolves to the second Archives, thus giving that four games as well. Or they could have just put all seven games together on one disc since that's basically what they did with the SamSho and Metal Slug anthologies, each having 7 titles (I think). Anyways :D Love to see this!

Very comprehensive video! If I'm not being too honest, at first I was thinking "Why does this guy use a girl voice-over, it's kinda weird." A few clicks further, I found to my surprise that's it actually a girl (/woman) talking this in depth about these (mostly) older fighting game collections. No negativity in any way intended though, I think it's great!

You offhandedly mentioned it because Killer Instinct Gold is in it, which justifies me in talking about it; Rare Replay is literally PEAK game collection 30 games, most of which are either integral to gaming history or are classics, including even the company’s relative low points. A bevy of dev interviews, behind the scenes looks, looks at unreleased projects and unused music. Rewind and save state systems for the older, less polished games so they aren’t stupid hard. Highly detailed menus that celebrate the games they represent. An entire list of milestones/achievements that actually encourages you to try out and complete each and every one of the games to reward you with said bonus content. I 100%ed Rare Replay, and I don’t regret a second of it. That should be what companies strive for. Something that doesn’t just make me feel like “oh cool I’m playing some old games”, but something that makes me feel like I’m walking through history as it happens.

So grateful I snagged the MK collection, MvC 2, and Jojo HFTF on PS3. MvC 2 was the very first thing I got for my PS3 12 years ago alongside BlazBlue Continuum Shift. Sadly couldn't snag Origins in time.

I bought the Atari 50 collection as well mainly because I was attracted at the idea of having so many Atari games in one collection but I'll be honest I haven't played it as much as I thought

We definitely need more collection titles. Gaming archival is important!

Awesome video you earned a new subscriber… I have almost every fighting game collection on ps4 an their mainly what I play and my roommates think I’m weird and it’s a shame because I have 2 fight sticks… Just bought samuria shodown collection and it’s amazing so far… I just hate how some come with ps2 versions and graphics rather than original arcade graphics… you better marry someone who appreciates you!

What I loved about the snk Japanese ps2 collections/ports is that most of em have the arranged soundtracks by default

12:23 You're right! Maybe you could argue that Slam Masters is a wrestling game and not a fighting game, but Ring Of Destruction: Slam Masters 2, it's totally a fighting game with a wrestling theme on top of it.

Sweet vid - it is kindve a shame we didnt get all of SNK online collections, especially since vol.11 was the two sunsoft neogeo fighting games -galaxy fight and waku waku 7, that volume was only exclusive to japan and has the same bells and whistles as the others. Expensive as hell these days too, if you dont feel like paying that much theres always emulation or the ports on saturn and arcade archives

Great video! Regarding why they chose the Saturn version of DoA1 in DoA Ultimate, IIRC Itagaki considers the Saturn version as the best version in regards to balance and gameplay and that's why he picked that for the combo pack. Also really hope we see a 3D capcom fighting game collection one of these days. Would love to be able to play Power Stone and Project Justice without needing to hook up my Dreamcast or use an emulator.

0:47 i could tell straight away this was the sf collection on ps1 running on Duckstation or retroarch. The health bar issue 😢 For anyone out there who it might help, drop the resolution to native to fix it, this game doesn't like upscaling. I picked up that collection because it had been a while since i played any sf (my megadrive was sold so i lost access to super sf2), not only was i getting super sf2 again, but now i get to play the follow up super turbo, and finally trying out sf alpha2, which i absolutely loved. Was the collection a bit lazy? Yeah. But i got my moneys worth. Great video ❤😊

If I could have anything I'd love to see a new collection for the Street Fighter spinoffs. Ex1 -Ex3 would be nice Rival schools and Project Justice. I'm glad SNK never forgets their legacy content

Love Your Content I still waiting you to cover All Sonic Classic Games Compilations

Super cool video! I also dream with a collection of the Capcom Versus SNK series on Steam!

This is the first time I hear about Hyper Street Fighter Alpha and I've owned this Anthology game since it came out

By the sheer number of SFII versions and ports alone on various lines of collections, the last remnants of video games will probably be some iteration of Street Fighter on some busted CD-ROM in 30XX

I just discover your chanel yesterday love your fighting video !!! My dream fighting collection are a Virtua Fighter collection and like you a Marvel vs Capcom collection if arcade 1up can release it why console cant !!!

Arrange soundtracks is what made Neo geo ps2 ports worth it. They're excellent, especially Last blade, Samsho and Galaxy fight arrange music. Also, 240p on a crt (scanlines baby) for the fatal fury/real bout collections and Kizuna encounter doesn't hurt

Few things The ps1 version of Tekken 1 was included in a japan only namco collection namcollection. A lot of the current arcade1up line-un are actually kinda like game collections. We got an mortal kombat arcade (even one branded by supreme), a killer instinct arcade and a lot of capcom arcade1up arcades including a marvel vs capcom one that’s have marvel vs capcom 2 in it with all the 2d fighting games in this series. Also there are a lot of neo geo mini arcades along with a kinda like arcade1up that’s including almost all of neo geo fighting games.

There was a PAL PS3 compilation called Fighting Edition it had Tekken 6,Tekken Tag Turnomemt 2 and Soulcalibur V on a single disc.

33:36 The first three World Heroes game in the collection are missing their line scrolling effect on their floors, an effect made famous by Street Fighter II. Since no other fighting games on the Neo Geo have line scrolling floors, the emulation of this hardware effect was either omitted as an oversight or the developers didn't bother since it was only just those three games and the first Art of Fighting logo that used it.

open off the video with CvS1 music, got my full attention 😌👌

I enjoyed listening to you talk about old school Street Fighter PLEASE MARRY ME! 😂

The PS2 era certainly was a time for lots re releases of classic 2D fighters whether if was one game of a certain entry a double pack or a full collection. I had the Capcom Classic collection Vol1 that came with SF2 Ghost n Goblins Ghouls n Ghosts a shootem up etc. I also had the KOF 2000&2001 double pack which those were my first 2 KOF games they can be counted as "enhanced" versions especially for 2001 which they redid the stages into 3D plus making the, more colorful and vibrant as well as the time of day changing in whatever stage you're about to go to next or even changing weather most notably Zero's stage. It at least it added more variety to the game and I find the striker system to be the most satisfying which I'd so want tb revisited in the series again. As for Tekken its weird how they've never done an actual collection outside of playing them in an extras mode. With the way Bamco are these days they would've not even bother with a collection since in their POV it wont sell. Believe me it can with the inclusion of online w/rollback with bonus content hardcore fans and ppl like myself who hadn't played Tekken in years it would definitely sell. These stuff need tb pushed more for the sake of preservation. NRS can do the same thing if they choose to release a MK 3D collection or a MK Midway collection that includes Shaolin Monks cuz MK1 atm is not looking so hot. Companies need to get serious about preserving their old/classic games as its an alternative that can be successful when a current title is underperforming and the demand from hardcore fans and the FGC is up there to make that a reality but to the devs its too much to ask for since we made them who they are in the first place.

Expected a fighting game collection video by the title, but I'm happy with this anyways! Lol.

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You could argue that the PS3 has the Fighting Collection with Tekken6, TTT2 and SoulCaliburV... But it just was one of those PS3 collections that had the 3 games blunded into the disc. Better that the Hybrid one with TTT1 and the movie tho.

nice video! i tend to be a bit forgiving of more modern collections not having things present in the console versions- they usually run on emulation rather than porting the game from scratch, making it a lot more difficult to add stuff that wasn't in the original arcade versions beyond quality-of-life things (although full props to capcom fighting collection for including colour-blindness options for puzzle fighter). some games definitely suffer more for it- cyberbots in particular has a bunch of extras in the ps1 and saturn ports like playable boss pilots (including devilotte) and zero-gouki as a playable mech that aren't in the capcom fighting collection version- but i apreciate that those assets aren't necessarily easy to plug into an emulated version of the game, if they even still have those assets they can still use. also, i didn't realise the japanese version of the kof orochi collection was missing '94- my guess is that it was cut because snk had released a remake of the game, '94 re-bout, and i guess they wanted people to buy that instead, especially since it also included the neo geo version. i must admit i was really disappointed with the modern samurai shodown collection- the extras are very nice for sure but there's no training mode for any of the games, navigating the move lists takes way too long to scroll for some reason and the rollback netcode must be in name only because playing with a friend of mine who live in the same part of the country (the uk, so not even a state away in us terms) was just impossible, it was running in slow motion. we generally stick with the code mystics ports for snk games as the netcode is top quality. oh well!

I wish more of these fighting game collection comes to modern day consoles and PCs

I recently got the PS4 Street Fighter 30th anniversary collection. 😀

It should be noted when Street Fighter Collection was released on Saturn and PlayStation, this was the first time Super Turbo was released on comsoles outside of the 3DO I bought it purely because of this, cos how many people had a 3DO at the time? I certainly couldn't afford one

There is definitely a lot to talk about when it comes to these kinds of rereleases, what versions are going to be included? how many are gonna be in? is it going to be a grab bag of random games or one single series? as for me, I am 100% going to get the Capcom Fighting Collection because all the effort that looks put into it, the selection of games, and all the new features, (Like I'm pretty sure they added a color blindness mode for Puzzle Fighter in an update) it really looks like something I'd actually want to get even if I am the definition of a scrub who can't stop dropping combo's, as for which collection I'm hoping gets made? Capcom 3D Fighting Collection, I love both Hayato and Batsu from MVC2 and TVC respectively, and I really want to check out their games. One thing I'm surprised you didn't mention was that there's also a PSP Darkstalkers collection, it's a port of the Japan only Dreamcast Collection that's basically like the Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition game for Darkstalkers, and it also has a new mode that's only in the PSP version.