Overall, a very nice effort by Capcom back in '92... Most of the SNES owners that I knew were NOT complaining at all about the differences back then; they were all way too happy and excited just to own a faithful port of SF2 on their home consoles. Everybody would either race home or head straight to the arcades to play this game after school everyday; rain OR shine. I will never forget those golden days if my youth!
That home version along with arcade sticks with the SNES allows us to go to colleges and defeat those college boys at SF2. SNES allowed me and my friends to save money and defeat those arrogant college boys. We got so good at playing SF2 we were giving them second round and teaching them different combos that they can do with all the characters. After that, it was law to give second round to loser to make the game last longer so we can learn more combo fight moves.
SO TRUE, in 92 we all loved SF2, it was always packed with kids, and when the SNES port came out it was like a dream, i remember seeing a kiosk on a electronics shop near my home and everyday was full packed, with long lines to play it.
@@feiwong3634 Sounds like when I was a kid, except I wasn't that outgoing. But, I do have memories of when I would go to my granny's house and visit my cousins; one of them had Street Fighter II for his SNES, and he'd invite his boys over to play. I'd get in my few rounds too until I eventually got my own cartridge, which I've kept since 1993
92 was such a great year that will always hold a special place in my heart. Watching Jordan hit those 3's and watching the Original Dream Team was unforgettable to me. But as far as video games and the SNES goes..... for me...... summer of 92......was the summer of Street Fighter 2! I will never forget getting out of school that summer. I would be spending a couple of weeks with grandma down in NC. My mom had a cool idea why don't you take your SNES down there with you to help keep you company. I thought it was a great idea. So I packed my SNES and my little VHF/UHF tube TV with me. On the way we stopped at Toys R Us and lucky me I got to pick out a game to take with me. I had been following Street Fighter 2 since I had seen it for the first time in arcades the previous fall of 91. I also picked up that GamePro mag with Ryu on the cover earlier in the year in 92 and I still have it today. So when I went inside Toys R Us I had no idea what I was going to get......and there it was....I had no idea it was even out! What!!! I can't believe it! Street Fighter 2! Man I picked up the last one in the store!! When I got the game and got into the car I had no idea the journey I was about to go on and how that day would change my life forever. When I got to grandmas house I got unpacked, hooked my little TV up in her den and my SNES up to it. It was some kids in my grandma's neighborhood that I knew that were around my age and a little bit older that I use to hang with and when they found out I had Street Fighter 2 on the SNES..... .my grandma's house was flooded with kids in the neighborhood. Everyday it was new kids in the city who would come down and knock on my door just because they heard I got Street Fighter 2 on Super Nintendo. I mean my grandma's house had become the neighborhood house for real that summer. Dudes that were younger then me, dudes that was older then me, dudes who was in high school at the time and even a few college kids would come over and play Street Fighter 2 with me. I'm serious all the thugs and dudes who had slapped the teacher they all were welcome to come through and get some of grandma's cooking and play Street Fighter 2 with me! Straight up! Summer of 92! Street Fighter 2! I had both systems back in 92. Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. The games I picked up in 92 were Legend of the Mystical Ninja earlier in the year, Street Fighter 2 that summer, I got Sonic 2 that fall, and since I'm a December baby so I got Turtles in Time on my birthday and Streets of Rage 2 for Christmas. I was blessed!!!!!!!!
That shit was realy. I can remember the world becoming as one with SNES SF2. But it wasn't like that for the Genesis. Genesis version sucked asshole and didn't ave surround sound like SNES SF2.
You did way better than me. I knew about Street Fighter II back in the Summer of 1992 as well (courtesy of one of my cousins who got the game during that time), but I didn't get my own copy until late 1993. You were most definitely blessed 😊
Yeah!!! When we find out about the games going to the stores, no pre order, no internet to tell us the exact date of release. I still remember arriving to the mall and seeing the intro of super street fighter 2 for the snes for the first time. Me and my brothers were shocked, did not know it was out already. We came back home and joined each part of our savings to go next day to buy it. It is still a great memory.
@@KanoKnife Yeah man! Those were some great times! To follow up with what you said I remember going into my local Elections Boutique in Summer of 93 asking when would Street Fighter 2 Turbo would come out for the SNES. The guy working there was like we got it right now!!! I said what!!!!! He said I'm going to get it for you right now and he said you could have it for free!! I said whaaaaaaaat! He was lying but he went to the back and came back with a VHS tape with a preview of Street Fighter 2 Turbo on it before it came out on the SNES. It was the same tape that was playing in the display TV that you would see when you would walk by the store. He let me hold it for a few days. I looked at that tape religiously everyday until I gave it back. I was playing football at the time trying to get ready for the start of the season. I had stretched the ligaments in my MCL playing intramural basketball at school right before school let out. I was in leg brace and doing rehab most of that summer so that I could be ready for when football practice would start back up in August. That VHS tape gave me a lot of joy during that time of my injury. When I went back up to Electronics Boutique and gave the tape back they gave me an exact date of when Street Fighter 2 Turbo would come out on the SNES. I was able to go up there and purchase it day one!!! As far as the contents of what was on that VHS Tape I was able to find it years ago surprisingly on RU-vid!!!! I am about to look for it again and if I find it I will post a link!
if I'm not mistaken the SF2 for Snes is the only version where special moves have a different tone/speed according to its strength. and yes, I have a soft spot for the snes version. ken's theme feels a bit more pumped.
@@hambone1138 Yes played arcade , we used to have a local shop with the arcade in. I like the snes because I can remember when I was a kid and saved money to buy a snes with street fighter. Think the snes did a great job of the arcade. When I see street fighter 2 on snes just makes me feel good, takes me back to been a kid. Must be that reason
@@neilsaxton109 I just mentioned this to Tim, but you might enjoy the remixes I did for the SNES versions. I made a few minor tweaks (like correcting the pitch or balancing the instrument levels) to make them sound more accurate to the arcade, while still keeping the unique feel of the SNES. Check 'em out on my channel!
I was there when the SNES port of SF II was launched. The magazines at the time regarded it as being "the best conversion of an arcade to a home system", at the time. I was just AMAZING to be able to play this at home, specially cause tge gameplay is virtually identical. To the ppl saying that "the arcade wins in all aspects", well, ty mr. Obvious... now go and buy the arcade machine for... w/e it was the price back then, while I keep humbly playing my 70 dollars cartridge... XD
If a game like SF2 that was regarded as the absolute number 1 arcade smash hit all over the whole world, then you could expect the arcade cabinets going for at least 10 or 20 grand back then...
@@naegleriafowleri2230 Dude, believe me... The SNES gameplay on ALL versions is virtually exactly the SAME as the arcade... Meaning, if u have the SNES cartridge and u see an arcade and decide to pay to play it, if u get to the ending with any characters at home, u'll also be able to do it in the arcade version... And yeah, BOTH versions cheat a LOT, specially in the highest difficulty. I have some videos on my channel, finishing some versions, if u wanna check it out!
@@naegleriafowleri2230 Street Fighter on the arcade did what it did best with the cheating: eat your quarters. That's why the game was steady making cash money back in the day (and probably still earns Capcom a few millions today)
The creation of SF2 for the SNES was, to me, the beginning of the end of arcades and arcade games as we know it. The port was almost identical, and nothing was lost. We paid $60 for it, and that was a BARGAIN compared to the amount of quarters we put in the arcade machines. With that type of transition, why would anyone want to spend the money at an arcade, if they were only after one or two games anyway? I do miss arcades in general, but won't forget the fun times my friends and I had on the SNES.
SF2 snes was mind blowing when it was released. Differences aside, it was close enough to not have to drop quarters at the arcade anymore. I’ve spent more at the coin op than the cost of the SNES cart.
Thank you for the content! Only thing I could suggest is having the comparisons being more exact. Example, Ryu's standing animation was in Dhalsims stage on the arcade, and Ken's on the Snes. I mean... other than mirroring things, great job! I never noticed any of these differences
I always enjoyed the SNES ports. I played competitive in the arcades, so learning some of the other characters without having to dump quarters was helpful, along with broken stick/button training. Used to play a lot of choose the other players characters, so I really dialed in Zangief and Dhalsim, then Balrog, then finally T Hawk since no one really understood them. Funny thing is, I put the least time in Bison just because he was pure cheese. My mains were Ken, Chun Li and Vega.
This got release in July of 92 for the SNES, I was at a Software Etc and an employee sold me some kid's reserve copy because he couldn't find mine! Best summer of my life!
Of course the arcade is going to look better…but, wow, in addition to the Genesis’ Ghouls n’ Ghosts, this was one of first near perfect arcade ports. I may be hearing things wrong, but sometimes the snes version’s sound seems better.
Hi, really enjoyed your video! My and my younger brother were lucky enough to have a SNES and it came packaged with Street Fighter 2 and he still has it to this day. I only played it on arcade games a few times because it was so expensive, so I was thrilled to have it on SNES, even though it was so difficult. I just wondered, how did you get the arcade version? Is it a PC game? I'm only asking because I recently started a playlist where I'm uploading SF2 gameplay and I'm playing on the PS4 on Capcom Arcade. It looks like the arcade version, but your version looks a lot better quality, higher detailed, thanks
It’s not really a fair comparison really since the arcade version was run on cp system board which was far superior to the hardware of the snes, capcom actually released a console back in the day using this hardware called the CPS changer which was supposed to rival the neo geo but it wasn’t anywhere near as home user friendly or cost effective as the Nintendo
i agree with the conclusion! i played this on arcade in 93 - 94, and then i also played the SF2 in halls of games, afterwards i had the chance to rent the SF2 Turbo what a rush!
SNES SF2 is close enough for 16-bit and nails the gameplay. Arcade combos work on it really well. The AI gets to be a good challenge at 6 stars or higher.
The PC engine and SNES/SFC version are actually incredibly beautiful and more nervous in the gameplay than the arcade version despite the smaller sprites and loss of certain background details
Year of my life it was the first arcade game 🕹️ I remember being drawed to at my barber 💈 shop at 6 yrs old and that Christmas 🎄 was the greatest my God mother got us a SuperNitendo with The Street Fighter game and her Nephew bought the SNES StreetFighter 6 button arcade droystick I can remember the characters on the box for a whole 2 years until they released HYPERFIGHTING we went none stop for hours after school and especially on weekends back & forth until the match count was like 75-50 even in arcades in memphis Tn the StreetFighter2 hype was real nation wide from the east to the west and even in the south
I never knew there was a difference between arcade and console until maybe a few years ago and I grew up in the 90s. I literally thought the only difference growing up about the arcade street fighter and the console versions were the joysticks. I was always confused by “arcade versions” of anything because it was all the same. Arcade just meant joysticks.. I can say I did think the street fighther at the arcade felt sharper and crisper but I could never figure out why or how.
One thing I didn't see mentioned was the occasional slow-down the SNES version experienced during gameplay. But alas, that was the one overall significant drawback of the SNES.
The Sound Effecs was actually the thing I was most dissapointed about the SNES port. Everything sounded muffled with too much Bass as opposed to the Arcade version wich sounded clear and crispy.
While the Arcade version had superior graphics, the SNES version was not a terrible home port at the time and was quite faithful in terms of home port quality to the arcade. The SNES uses a different graphics hardware and a different processor so that made up for the differences. But all in all, I remember playing both versions growing up and I enjoyed them both.
I was EXTREME Street Fighter 2 / Champion Edition Fan. Other than slight differences in voice, the SNES versions were really close to the arcade. The Genesis version was terrible.
The intro music isn’t even at debate crosses the super Nintendo version here because.Capcom only put the game on a 16 Mb cartridge for the super Nintendo version. With that said overall the super Nintendo version wasn’t the amazing port at the time and how they managed to make it fit all on a 16 Mb cartridge is mind-boggling.
Street Fighter II The World Warrior Arcade wins Snes good Ports, in guile stage snes missing 2 persons assistance suppose to be 6 persons assistance snes got 4 only 4 persons, in the Arcade version all the 6 there. Snes missing intro cutscene 2 Fighters presentation, Sega Genesis have intro presentations cutscene just like Arcade. Snes version Still look great for 31 years old
So washed up colors on the Snes part, if you connect your console to a CRT via RGB cable isn't nothing like that, with vibrant clear colors and sharp scanlines that can face the arcade minus the sprite size and frame. I had my SNES and SF2 back in 1994 and it was a blast to play the machine in your own home, i playhed it non stop, i don't know how that cartridge didn't catch fire lol.
Capcom really did screw up badly with music on this first port. The main them sounds horrendous. Some others like Ken's theme sound too different and weaker. At least they got it right with Super later.
Tim, I also thought the music could've been a lot better, so I remixed the SNES tracks to be closer to the originals, and even recreated each character's "near-KO" theme that was lost from the arcade. You should check them out on my channel and let me know what you think!
@@hambone1138 have a question about the home ports why do the characters feel smaller? Also there missing the heavy damage theme on snes and Genesis as well
@@mcdelloboy the sprites had to be redrawn from scratch to accommodate the SNES resolution. They couldn't simply be scaled down, because the aspect ratio was different.
@@mcdelloboy dsc gave a good explanation for the character size. as for the heavy damage themes, I think they were just running out of space on the cartridge. I made my own heavy damage themes for SNES because I missed them too. Check them out on my channel and see what you think. They come at the end of each retuned track.
@@dsc-nr5zy Nintendo went for such an unorthodox resolution of 256×224... I can't imagine just how PERFECT everything could've turned out to be, if they had just took a small gamble and gone for 640x480 instead! 🤔
I prefer the SNES' colors and some music tracks, just like the hard attack impact SFX. Some SFX are generally better on SNES imo, they're meaty and bone crunching. When it comes to SF2 Turbo and Super SF2, I even prefer the 16bit ports to the arcade, they're faster and more fluid to play. The SF2 games are definitely the most iconic fighting games of the 16bit home console generation.
Watch the full intros and outros for each character. Also the control was perfect with the genesis. Plus the game backgrounds were fully correct. Better in every way.
@@JordetheArtist haha megadrive we called it. Was no way better then snes. Can't believe you said that. And the backgrounds on the megadrive are horrible compared to snes, what are you talking about . More detail in snes . Sound is so much better on snes. You can hear what the saying on snes . Crackling noise on megadrive it was horrible
music sounds better on snes, less metallic noise, after i always think doing arcade vs console comparaison is always stupid, its same as comparing the legend of zelda vs breath of the wild ....
Snes sounds like junk in that music department. Looks like even Capcom agrees too given there were two official revisions they made not long after with no changes w the soundtrack.
Dell audio della versione snes mi infastidiva molto il fatto Che in prossimità del K. O il tema non variava ma Accellerava soltanto i bpm..se eri abituato a giocare alla versione arcade era davvero insopportabile !!!
The sound and music from the arcade are awesome! I love the drums from the arcade. I don’t understand why the SNES version doesn’t have those heavy drums.
I love the SNES version better cuz it has better music & graphics than the arcade one does. The SNES version sound like it's on a modern console compared to the Arcade. The SNES does have a unique sound chip. And it's also easy to play with the controller with the control pad better than the stick
Sagat would like a word. I always thought his theme sounded a little more intense with those two extra riffs added to the music, as opposed to the arcade version
The arcade was okay. The super Nintendo was like: You were seeing a smooth jazz band playing. The super Nintendo just had better quality in their music.
The SNES version has terrible music and no one can change my mind. Listen to Zangief's bad ass theme on the arcade version versus the cheesy, rushed sounding version on SNES.
The sprite work on SNES was clearly inferior to the arcade, but I always felt the colours looked more vibrant on the SNES. I also preferred the more crunching hit impact sound effects and the custom music on the SNES also.
The snes shows 128/256 colors and the arcade a lot more...... Something like 1200 colors. And the display in arcade is much better. You cant compare arcade hardware cost 8000 dollars with a 200 dollars snes console, lol😂😂
@@dlfrsilver I already know and said the arcade version is visually superior overall, there's no doubt about that, I'm just saying the SNES colour to the naked eye just off initial glance looks punchier. I'm not saying cleaner or more accurate, I'm just saying punchier, it's really vibrant through the choices that they used, even if more limited.
@@Longlostpuss the snes graphics are made of fat pixels..... Very toyish... It was OK back in the day, but today we have access to the megadrive version, the arcade version and the sharp x68000 version.....
@@dlfrsilver What on earth are "fat pixels"??? That's not a technical term, is it?? First time I've ever heard of SNES graphics referred to as that, you're going to have to explain the difference between that and Genesis graphics and why you make it sound like it's such a bad thing in comparison.
@@Longlostpuss the SNES has fat pixels, the megadrive thin pixels. This is due to the very low resolution used by the SNES (256x224). The Arcade is 384x224 and the Megadrive 320x240. The smaller the resolution, the bigger the pixels are. The SNES is a toy, the Genesis a console that is a downgrade of the arcade system 16 hardware.
