Version 1 may have only been released in Japan and contains the most infinite combos, including the Ryu/Akuma hop kick one. There are apparently three different versions of the game. If you think the concept of Marvel characters fighting Street Fighter characters is ridiculous, why not check out X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse -a Quake total conversion which has you playing as a cyborg Magneto built, which has to fight robot clones of the X-Men.Īre there different versions of the game like there were with Children of the Atom? The company was facing bankruptcy in the mid-90's, and was well aware of it, so trying to get things with their name on it to sell was top priority. Marvel most likely approved it because they were notorious for approving everything at the time. Only Rogue, Gambit, Sabretooth and Apocalypse are truly new. Likewise, most of the X-Men characters are from X-Men Children of the Atom. It would have been relatively quick for them to make, also -all of the Street Fighter characters aside from Cammy are using their Street Fighter Alpha 2 sprites, just with a few new animations here and there. How did this idea come about? Why X-Men versus Street Fighter?įor Capcom it was something they could do with the Marvel licence, I guess. This infinite combo only works in the first version of the game, but it just shows how easy they could be. Use their hop kick (forward + medium kick) then follow it up with a low medium punch, then keep repeating this. The easiest one in the game can be done with Ryu and Akuma. Street Fighter really put these into the spotlight. Many fighting games have these, and that includes Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes. In the SEGA Saturn version there is a cheat that lets you pick the same character twice, see the secrets page for more info.Ĭombos that that never end and the opponent can not get out of no matter what. I have never been able to do this myself in the arcade version and it is possible it doesn't work in all versions of it. If you can time it correctly you can select your first character again. Hold left or right and the random select will activate. Select your first character, then move the select cursor to the far left or far right of the character select grid. In the arcade version this is possible via a glitch, although it is extremely difficult to do.
Is it possible to select the same character twice?