Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2

Street Fighter Alpha 2

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Capcom's CPS2 arcade hardware should have been far beyond the Super Nintendo's reach, and in 1996 Capcom brought Street Fighter Alpha 2 home to the console anyway. To pull it off, the cartridge carries the S-DD1, a custom decompression chip that let the aging 16-bit machine unpack far more graphics data than a standard cart could hold. It is one of the most ambitious conversions in the SNES library, and playing it feels like watching the console flex one last time.

The Alpha series rewound the Street Fighter story to the years before Street Fighter II, and Alpha 2 fills that era with a deep roster: Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li alongside Final Fight veterans Guy, Sodom and Rolento, the mysterious Rose, the hopelessly cocky Dan and the debut of Sakura, the schoolgirl fighter who idolizes Ryu. The fighting system is a big step beyond the SNES's earlier Street Fighter games. A three-level Super Combo gauge powers the flashiest specials, Alpha Counters let you break an opponent's pressure straight out of a block, and Custom Combos, introduced in this entry, let you burn meter on a freeform string of attacks limited only by your timing and imagination.

There are compromises, and they are part of the story. Animation and audio were pared back to fit the hardware, and brief pauses load sound data before each match. The hidden characters differ from the PlayStation and Saturn releases too: on Super Nintendo the secrets are a classic-style Chun-Li in her Street Fighter II look and the fearsome Shin Akuma. Yet the heart of Alpha 2, its speed, its counters and its combo system, comes through on the SNES pad, whose four face buttons and two shoulder buttons map the series' three punches and three kicks naturally.

For SNES collectors it is a fascinating late-era cartridge: the final Street Fighter released for the console and a showcase for what a special chip could squeeze out of 1990 hardware. For fighting game fans, it is the chance to play an Alpha game on the same machine that made Street Fighter II a household name.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1996
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Capcom
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

The SNES port of Street Fighter Alpha 2 had to lower the quality of graphics and audio because of the power of the machine. This version also have loading times when entering matches while sounds are loaded onto the sound chip. Unlike the PlayStation and Saturn versions, the only secret characters available to the player are the classic-style Chun-Li and Shin Akuma.

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