Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

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Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
System(s): Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Capcom Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe)
Developer: Capcom
Original system(s): Capcom CPS-2
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (2 tracks)
Peripherals supported: Dreamcast Arcade Stick, Jump Pack, Dreamcast Keyboard, Dreamcast Modem, Dreamcast VGA Box, Visual Memory Unit
Genre: Puzzle
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1996-12-06 ¥5,800 (5,974)5,800e T-1213G US 1997-01-24 T-1215H EU 1997-04 T-7030H-50 DE 1997-04 T-7030H-50 PT 199x UK 1997-07-11 £29.9929.99 T-7030H-50 PL 1997 AU 199x JP 2001-07-05 ¥3,800 (3,990)3,800e T-1250M
Non-Sega versions Arcade Game Boy Advance PlayStation Windows PC

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, known as Super Puzzle Fighter II X (スーパーパズルファイターⅡＸ) in Japan, is a puzzle game developed and published by Capcom. It was brought to the Sega Saturn in 1996.

Despite its name, there were never any prior Puzzle Fighter games. The name is a play on Capcom's earlier game, Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

Gameplay

Character select

Gameplay

The game is a falling piece puzzle game, similar to Puyo Puyo, Baku Baku Animal, or the prior Capcom arcade game Pnickies. The player controls pairs of gems as they drop into a well-like playfield (measuring twelve blocks tall by six blocks wide, with the fourth column from the left being thirteen blocks high). The game continues until one player's field reaches the top of its fourth column (which is where all new gems first appear). That player is the loser.

Gems can only be eliminated by coming into contact with a Crash Gem of the same color, which eliminates all adjacent gems of that color, setting up the potential for huge chain reactions. When gems are eliminated, "garbage blocks" called Counter Gems drop into the opponent's playfield. Counter Gems have a visible countdown usually starting at 5 that is reduced by one each time a new pair of gems is dropped in that well. They become normal gems when the countdown reaches zero. The only way to eliminate Counter Gems before they become normal gems is to place a Crash Gem of that color nearby so that it eliminates at least one normal gem. If this is done, all Counter Gems immediately adjacent to the Crash Gem are taken out as well. When gems are eliminated, surrounding gems fall under the effect of gravity.

Gems of the same color form squares or rectangles (of at least two blocks tall and wide) in the well when placed adjacent to each other, called Power Gems. Eliminating Power Gems as part of a combo increases the number of Counter Gems that would otherwise appear in the opponent's well. The only other type of piece to appear is the diamond-shaped Rainbow Gem, which eliminates all gems (normal, Power, Counter, and Crash alike) of whichever color gem it lands on. The Rainbow Gem appears every 25 pieces.

A warning indicator appears at the top of the screen for the player that is about to receive Counter Gems after placing the next piece, depending on the number of Counter Gems that are about to drop: "Caution" means 1-10 gems, "Warning" means 11-30 gems, and "Danger" means 31 or more gems. When this indicator is shown, the player is in defense mode, meaning that every two Counter Gems that the player sends to the opponent are used to negate a single Counter Gem that is being sent by the opponent. Any additional Counter Gems in excess of this are sent to the opponent in a one-to-one ratio, as usual.

During the game, super deformed versions of various characters from Capcom's two main fighting game series (Street Fighter and Darkstalkers) act out a battle based on how the game is going. Every time a player sends Counter Gems to their opponent, their character performs a fighting game action: a taunt for 1-11 gems, a special move for 18-23 gems, and a Super Combo for 30 or more gems. These animations, however, are purely cosmetic and have no bearing on the gameplay other than to indicate the magnitude of the counters. Counter Gems fall on opponents in a predetermined pattern depending on the character that sent them.

Pieces are moved with and . They are rotated clockwise with and counterclockwise with . If pieces do not have enough room to rotate, the positions of the gems can still be swapped. Pieces can be dropped more quickly with . The character can taunt once per round with in the Saturn version or in the Dreamcast version.

Modes

Both the Saturn and the Dreamcast versions of the game have an Arcade Mode and a Versus Mode. The Arcade Mode is a single-player mode where the player chooses any character and plays against computer-controlled opponents of increasing difficulty. On Easy difficulty, the player only faces three opponents; on Normal or Hard difficulty, the player faces eight opponents, ending with a fight against the final boss Akuma. The Versus Mode is a two-player mode where each player chooses a character and a power level (from 1 to 5) and compete against each other. By default, matches are a single round in the Arcade Mode and the best of three rounds in the Versus Mode (but either mode can be changed to 1, 3, or 5 rounds in the options).

The Saturn version additionally has a Street Puzzle Mode. This is a single-player mode where the player can compete in matches to win prizes. After selecting a character, the player chooses one of six prizes to play for. Prizes are defended by different characters, in increasing difficulty, and can be attempted in any order. Prizes include alternative colors for each character, music and sound effects for the sound test, codes for secret characters, and the Master Arcade Mode (which is the same as the Arcade Mode except the player can no longer negate Counter Gems). After winning a prize, a Goodies item appears on the main menu. The game saves all earned prizes to the Saturn's internal memory. Most of these prizes are unlocked by default in the Dreamcast version.

The Dreamcast version has a Training Mode where the player can practice playing against a passive opponent and a Network Mode that allowed for online multiplayer matches over Capcom's Matching Service network. The Dreamcast version also has three separate gameplay styles, which can be selected in any game mode: X-Mode, Y-Mode, and Z-Mode. X-mode is the original version of the game, but Y-Mode and Z-Mode make drastic gameplay changes. Y-Mode makes the gems break as soon as three or more are aligned in a row, column, or diagonally, like in Columns. Z-mode makes lines of gems rise up from the bottom of the screen; the player controls a 2x2 square cursor, with which they rotate already-placed pieces, similar to Tetris Attack.

Characters

Characters are mostly taken from the Street Fighter Alpha and the Darkstalkers games, with most Street Fighter II characters missing. Though characters from both series appear in the game, they are not controllable by the player, acting solely as avatars.

	Ryu
	Originally appeared in: Street Fighter
	A martial arts expert who searches the world for stronger opponents. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Sakura Special color 2 of Sakura Ken Music collection of Ken Donovan Special color 1 of Donovan Akuma Code for the hidden character Akuma Chun-Li Special color 1 of Chun-Li Ryu Master Arcade Mode
	Chun-Li
	Originally appeared in: Street Fighter II
	An Interpol officer who is investigating the disappearance of her father. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Felicia Voice collection of Felicia Donovan Music collection of Donovon Ken Special color 2 of Ken Hsien-Ko Special win icon of Hsien-Ko Sakura Special color 1 of Sakura Chun-Li Illustration Collection
	Sakura
	Originally appeared in: Street Fighter Alpha 2
	An athletic high school student who idolizes Ryu. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Chun-Li Special color 2 of Chun-Li Felicia Special win icon of Felicia Sakura Sakura's song, "I Want You to Know" Morrigan Special color 1 of Morrigan Ryu Voice collection of Ryu Hsien-Ko Music collection of Hsien-Ko
	Ken
	Originally appeared in: Street Fighter
	Ryu's training partner and rival who wants to prove that he is the world's strongest warrior. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Ryu Special win icon of Ryu Hsien-Ko Special color 1 of Hsien-Ko Morrigan Special win icon of Morrigan Donovan Voice collection of Donovan Felicia Special color 1 of Felicia Sakura Voice collection of Sakura
	Morrigan
	Originally appeared in: Darkstalkers
	A beautiful succubus who is enamored with the human world. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Ken Special win icon of Ken Devilot Code for the hidden character Devilot Ryu Music collection of Ryu Felicia Special color 2 of Felicia Chun-Li Voice collection of Chun-Li Morrigan Voice collection of Morrigan
	Hsien-Ko (Lei-Lei)
	Originally appeared in: Night Warriors
	A Chinese ghost who, along with her sister Mei-Ling (Lin-Lin), is trying to free the spirit of her mother. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Hsien-Ko S.E. Collection Chun-Li Special win icon of Chun-Li Sakura Music collection of Sakura Donovan Special win icon of Donovan Morrigan Special color 2 of Morrigan Felicia Music collection of Felicia
	Donovan
	Originally appeared in: Night Warriors
	A Dark Hunter who watches over the young orphan Anita. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Donovan Special color 2 of Donovan Sakura Special win icon of Sakura Hsien-Ko Voice collection of Hsien-Ko Ken Special color 1 of Ken Dan Code for the hidden character Dan Ryu Special color 2 of Ryu
	Felicia
	Originally appeared in: Darkstalkers
	A friendly catwoman who wants to be a musical star. Street Puzzle Mode Goodies Opponent Unlock Felicia Intermission Demo Collection Morrigan Music collection of Morrigan Hsien-Ko Special color 2 of Hsien-Ko Chun-Li Music collection of Chun-Li Ryu Special color 1 of Ryu Ken Voice collection of Ken

Hidden

Main article: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo/Hidden content.

	Dan
	Originally appeared in: Street Fighter Alpha
	The game's instructor, tournament host, and "sensei."
	Akuma (Gouki)
	Originally appeared in: Super Street Fighter II Turbo
	The arch-enemy of both Ryu and Ken, as well as the final boss.
	Devilot
	Originally appeared in: Cyberbots
	A hidden boss and playable character who is a tyrannical princess assisted by two lackies named Xavier and Jigokuu Daishi.
	Anita
	Originally appeared in: Night Warriors
	A young girl who accompanies Donovan wherever he goes.
	Mei-Ling (Lin-Lin)
	Originally appeared in: Night Warriors
	Hsien-Ko's twin sister who is actually the talisman on her hat.

History

Legacy

A fighting game spin-off, called Pocket Fighter, was released in 1997 and ported to the Saturn and the PlayStation the following year.

A high-definition remake called Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2007. It was made backwards compatible on the Xbox One in 2019.

A successor, Puzzle Fighter, was released for mobile devices in 2017.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo was included as a part of the Capcom Fighting Collection compilation on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC in 2022.

Versions

In addition to the Saturn port, the game was brought to the Sega Dreamcast in 2001 for Capcom's Matching Service. This version was not released outside of Japan.

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo	Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
English (US)	Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo	Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Japanese	スーパーパズルファイターⅡＸ	Super Puzzle Fighter II X

Production credits

Saturn version

Arcade Staff

• Game Design: Murasaki Umagoyasi, Spp Iorya
• Programmer: Knight Rider Giu, Cham Cho Choy, Shinchan, Eternal Sailor, Team Dirty Beret
• Scroll Design: Nissui, Iwai, Meiko.K, Saru, Akemi Hisoya, Ojiji, S.Kuwatch, Takky, Konsutantinkun, Hiro
• Character Design: Edayan, Goidanokei
• Object Design: Masarusan N, Ino, Aska
• Sound Design: Hiroaki "X68K" Kondo
• Sound Assist: Satoshi Ise
• Music Composer & Arrangement: Tatsuro- Suzuki, Isao Ave, Yuko Kadota, Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto, Anarchy "Takapon"
• Voice: Kae Araki, Tetsuya Iwanaga, Yuko Sasamoto, Yayoi Jinguji, Tomomichi Nishimura, Souichiro Hoshi, Osamu Hosoi, Yuko Miyamura
• Special Thanks: Shoei, Mucchi, Sakomizu, P2, Takuya Shiraiwa, Saki, Chiaki.S, Ohko!, Erik Suzuki, Matt Taylor
• Executive Producer: Noritaka Funamizu
• Producer: Saddy
• Theme Song of Sakura
  • Vocal & Chorus: Sakura Kasugano (Yuko Sasamoto)
  • Guitar: Hiroyuki Taneda
  • Chorus: Akari Kaida
  • Compose & Words: Tatsuro- Suzuki
  • Arrange: Masato Koda
• Engineer: Koji Tsujii
• Assistant Engineer: Takashi Shinbori
• Special Thanks: Arts Vision, Idea Sound, Sol Studio

Consumer Staff

• Game Design: Spp Iorya, Kanetaka
• Character: Ryugo
• Programmer:
  • System Main: Takayuki Umezu
  • Object Trans: Shimitan
  • Game Main: Kazuhiro Tsuchiya
  • Player & Gem: Koji Hasunuma
  • Select & Street Mode: Tsuyoshi Misawa
  • Scroll: Tsutomu Terada
• Sound Design: Hiroaki "X68K" Kondo, Moe・T
• Music: Masato Koda, Tatsuro- Suzuki
• Marketer: Hironobu Takeshita, Kunio Funahara, Mayumi Ohta
• Special Thanks: Murasaki Umagoyasi, Masarusan N, Ino, Hiroko, Mucchi, Takashi Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Yanagi, S.Okamura, Hisashi Kuramoto, Syuichiro Chiboshi, Hideki Tada, Akihiro Kashimoto, And Capcom All Staff
• General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu
• Producer: Bamboo
• Presented by: Capcom

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In-game credits

Dreamcast version

• Producer: Noritaka Funamizu, Yoshihiro Sudou
• Planner: Hideaki Itsuno, Buruma Kozy
• Programmer: Nobuaki Minomiya, Hisashi Kuramoto, Teruaki Hirokado, Kumiko Morita
• Scroll Design: Asae.N
• Sound: Hiroaki Kondo
• Music: Yuko Takehara Type-R
• Instruction Card Design: A.Iwasaki
• Network: Kaz Yunde, Kentaro Kaneko, Mineyuki Noda, Miss, Net Man, Shin., Jun Matsumoto
• Voice: Kae Araki, Tetsuya Iwanaga, Yuko Sasamoto, Yayoi Jinguji, Tomomichi Nishimura, Souichiro Hoshi, Osamu Hosoi, Yuko Miyamura
• Special Thanks: Wakana.N, Seg.Meg, Micchi.K, Takuji Mishima, and All Capcom Staff
• General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu, Yoshiki Okamoto
• Presented by: Capcom

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #91: "February 1997" (199x-xx-xx)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-21: "1996-21 (1996-12-13)" (1996-11-22)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1996-22: "1996-22 (1996-12-27)" (1996-12-13)

Physical scans

Saturn version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score Ação Games (BR) NTSC-J 80 Computer & Video Games (UK) 75 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 74 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 53 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 90 Level (TR) 75 MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J 81 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 81 Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-J 69 Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC 87 neXt Level (DE) PAL 90 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 76 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 74 Saturn+ (UK) 93 Saturn Power (UK) 81 Sega Magazin (DE) PAL 69 Sega Saturn Magazine (UK) PAL 86 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 73 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 82

	78
Based on 19 reviews

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Saturn, JP
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Dreamcast version

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Publication Version Score Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J 77 Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J 76 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 68

	74
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Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Dreamcast, JP
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Spinecard Disc File:SuperPuzzleFight2X-DC-JP-Manual.pdf Manual

Technical information

Main article: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo/Technical information.

External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast