STREET FIGHTER II SPECIAL CHAMPION EDITION MEGADRIVE BOOTLEG
STREET FIGHTER II SPECIAL CHAMPION EDITION MEGADRIVE BOOTLEG
The Mega Drive/Genesis version titled Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition,[b] was released on September 28, 1993 in Japan, September 27, 1993 in North America, and October 29, 1993 in Europe. It was first of two Street Fighter II ports for the console and came in a 24 Megabit cartridge.
The Genesis version was originally intended to be a standalone port of Champion Edition, similar to the PC Engine version. However, following the announcement of Street Fighter II Turbo for the SNES, Sega ordered their version to be delayed so that Capcom could add all of the extra content from the SNES Turbo version as well, resulting in the title change.
A six-button control pad for the Genesis, the MK-1653 (or SJ-6000 in Japan), was made primarily for the game, adding three action buttons labelled XYZ in addition to the standard ABC buttons. The game can also be played with the original three-button controller, in which the ABC buttons are used for attacks (light, medium, and heavy), while the Start button is used to toggle between punches and kicks (the pause function cannot be used with a three-button controller as a result).
Special Champion Edition consists of a "Champ" ("Dash" in Japan) mode with Champion Edition rules and a "Hyper" ("Excite" in Japan) mode with Hyper Fighting rules,[c] similar to the "Normal" and "Turbo" modes in the SNES Turbo version. This was the first console version of a Street Fighter II game to feature the original opening sequence which depicted two generic martial artists fighting in front of a cheering public (the Japanese version features a white fighter hitting a black opponent, while the overseas versions replaced the black opponent with another white fighter). The ten-stars speed settings in "Hyper" mode, which were only accessible in the SNES version through a cheat code, is available by default in the Genesis version, and a cheat code that allows players to adjust the speed in "Champion" mode was added in its place. Special Champion Edition was the only home version at the time to allow players to cancel simultaneous button inputs.
This version was a bestseller in Japan the UK and US. In November 1993, Famitsu magazine's Reader Cross Review gave the II' Plus version of the game a 10 out of 10.
Special Champion Edition was released as a plug and play system in 2005 as part of the "Play TV Legends" series by Radica. It also includes the Genesis version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts.
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