Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes

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Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
System(s): Sega NAOMI, Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Capcom,
Sega Dreamcast
Virgin Interactive (EU)
Developer:
Peripherals supported:
Sega Dreamcast
Dreamcast VGA Box, Jump Pack, Dreamcast Arcade Stick, Dreamcast Keyboard, Dreamcast Modem, Visual Memory Unit
Genre: Fighting

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Arcade (NAOMI)
JP
¥? 841-0007C-01
Arcade (NAOMI)
US
$? 841-0007C-02
Arcade (NAOMI)
KR
₩? 841-0007C-03






















Sega Dreamcast
JP
¥5,8005,800 T-1215M
Sega Dreamcast
US
$49.9949.99[4] T-1212N
Sega Dreamcast
EU
T-7010D-50
Sega Dreamcast
AU
$89.9589.95[5]

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Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (マーヴル vs. カプコン2 ニューエイジオブヒーローズ) is a Sega NAOMI and Sega Dreamcast fighting game and a sequel to Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.

Gameplay

On the Dreamcast, content is unlocked in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 through an in-game shop. While Western versions use a single in-game currency generated from playing the game normally, the Japanese version uses three currencies, with rewards generated from networked matches and by taking a VMU to a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 arcade machine and playing the game there.

As no forms of online play are supported outside of Japan, and the arcade cabinet significantly rarer, this feature was dropped in the overseas editions of the game (and indeed all future ports to other platforms).

Characters

Marvel

Blackheart
Cable
Captain America
Colossus
Cyclops
Doctor Doom
Gambit
Hulk
Iceman
Iron Man
Juggernaut
Magneto
Marrow
Omega Red
Psylocke
Rogue
Sabretooth
Sentinel
Shuma-Gorath
Silver Samurai
Spider-Man
Spiral
Storm
Thanos
Venom
War Machine
Wolverine

Capcom

Akuma
Amingo
Anakaris
B.B. Hood
Captain Commando
Cammy
Charlie
Chun-Li
Dan
Dhalsim
Felicia
Guile
Hayato
Jill
Jin
Ken
M. Bison
Mega Man
Morrigan
Roll
Ruby Heart
Ryu
Sakura
Servbot
SonSon III
Strider Hiryu
Tron Bonne
Zangief

Production credits

Arcade version

  • Planner: Tatsuya Nakae, Spp Iorya, Buruma, Oni-Suzuki (M・P), Shinichiro Obata, Neo-G (Ishizawa)
  • Programmer: Motsu, Teruaki Hirokado, Kaw・Tld, Silver Kadontz, You!, Minomiya, Yuko Kawamura, Akihiro Yokoyama, Hyper -Shinchan-, Nishi, Reiko Toh, Ittetsu, Dice-K, Soji Seta, Cham, Hisashi Kuramoto, Komuu, Shin, Mikky
  • Title Design: Shoei
  • Illustrations: MF
  • Instruction Card Design: Sakomizu
  • Object Design: Makoto Ishii, Akemi Kurihara, F, Mizupyon, Mizuho, Igarashi, Masaru Nishimura, Hideya Takada, Rin Boku, Tagirin, Masatsugu Sato, Daichi Hirano, Imamura, Hiroki Shibaki, Tomohiko Ohsumi, Yano, Akizuki Michiru, Izumi Noda, Hiroaki Minobe, Kimo Kimo, Ball Boy, A Iwasaki, Miwa Sakaguchi, Y Yamamoto, Kaeru, Hiro, Yoshihiko Akita
  • Effect Design: Sagata, Takep, R
  • Scroll Design: Sawatch, Takashi Fujiwara, Yuki Kyotani, Yoko Fukumoto, Yusuke Saiwai, Makoto Tanaka, Chika Iwai, Kenji Kushiro
  • Music Compose: Tetsuya Shibata, Mitsuhiko Takano
  • Sound Design: Satoshi Ise, Masayuki Endo
  • Voice Actor: Secret
  • Recording Engineer: Kazuya Takimoto
  • Voice Director: Erik (ESX) Suzuki
  • Special Thanks: Takuya Shiraiwa, Miki Takano, Steve Lee, Ten Little Kobun, Bas (M・P), Daisuke Amemiya, H・Miyashita, Ozzy, Tomoya Maekawa
  • Producer: Yoshihiro Sudo
  • General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu
  • Executive Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto
All Capcom Staff
And You

Dreamcast version

  • Planner: Tatsuya Nakae, Spp Iorya, Buruma, Oni-Suzuki (M・P), Shinichiro Obata, Neo-G (Ishizawa)
  • Programmer: Motsu, Teruaki Hirokado, Kaw・Tld, Silver Kadontz, You!, Minomiya, Yuko Kawamura, Akihiro Yokoyama, Hyper -Shinchan-, Nishi, Reiko Toh, Ittetsu, Dice-K, Soji Seta, Cham, Hisashi Kuramoto, Komuu, Mikky
  • Title Design: Shoei
  • Illustrations: MF
  • Instruction Card Design: Sakomizu, Y・Uchida
  • Object Design: Makoto Ishii, Akemi Kurihara, F, Mizupyon, Mizuho, Igarashi, Masaru Nishimura, Hideya Takada, Rin Boku, Tagirin, Masatsugu Sato, Daichi Hirano, Imamura, Hiroki Shibaki, Tomohiko Ohsumi, Yano, Akizuki Michiru, Izumi Noda, Hiroaki Minobe, Kimo Kimo, Ball Boy, A Iwasaki, Miwa Sakaguchi, Y Yamamoto, Kaeru, Hiro, Yoshihiko Akita
  • Effect Design: Sagata, Takep, R
  • Scroll Design: Sawatch, Takashi Fujiwara, Yuki Kyotani, Yoko Fukumoto, Yusuke Saiwai, Makoto Tanaka, Chika Iwai, Kenji Kushiro
  • Music Compose: Tetsuya Shibata, Mitsuhiko Takano
  • Sound Design: Satoshi Ise, Masayuki Endo
  • Voice Actor: Secret
  • Recording Engineer: Kazuya Takimoto
  • Voice Director: Erik (ESX) Suzuki
  • Network: Shin, Net Man, Ichiro Yunde, Mineyuki Noda, Hideaki Itsuno
  • Special Thanks: Takuya Shiraiwa, Miki Takano, Steve Lee, Ten Little Kobun, Bas (M・P), Daisuke Amemiya, H・Miyashita, Ozzy, Tomoya Maekawa
  • Producer: Yoshihiro Sudo
  • General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu
  • Executive Producer: Yoshiki Okamoto
All Capcom Staff
And You

Magazine articles

Main article: Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Dreamcast FR print advert
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Print advert in GamePro (US) #143: "August 2000" (2000-0x-xx)
also published in:
  • GamePro (US) #145: "October 2000" (2000-xx-xx)[6]
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Print advert in Official Dreamcast Magazine (US) #7: "September/October 2000" (2000-08-01)
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Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2000-11: "2000-11 (2000-03-31)" (2000-03-17)
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Physical scans

NAOMI version

NAOMI, JP

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Cart

Dreamcast version

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
60 [7]
90 [8]
100 [9]
80 №12
87 [10]
87 [11]
85 №590, p35
90 2000-06-29
Sega Dreamcast
85
Based on
8 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Arcade (UK) PAL
50
[7]
Consoles + (FR) NTSC-J
90
[12]
Consoles + (FR) PAL
90
[13]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
100
[2]
Dreamcast Monthly (UK) NTSC-J
90
[14]
Dreamcast Monthly (UK) PAL
80
[15]
DC-UK (UK) PAL
80
[16]
Digitiser (UK)
90
[17]
Dreamcast Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
87
[10]
Dreamcast Magazine (UK) NTSC-J
92
[18]
Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL
89
[19]
Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J
87
[11]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
88
[20]
Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)
79
[21]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
85
[22]
Fun Generation (DE) NTSC-J
81
[23]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
92
[24]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
93
[25]
Gamers' Republic (US) NTSC-U
91
[26]
Hyper (AU) PAL
91
[5]
MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J
84
[27]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
84
[28]
Neo Plus (PL)
90
[29]
Next Generation (US) NTSC-J
75
[30]
Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL
70
[31]
PSX Extreme (PL)
83
[32]
Sega Magazin (DE) PAL
63
[3]
Strana Igr (RU)
80
[33]
Strana Igr (RU)
80
[34]
Techno (UK)
70
[35]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-J
80
[36]
Video Games (DE) PAL
84
[37]
Sega Dreamcast
83
Based on
32 reviews

Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes

Dreamcast, US
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Cover
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Disc
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Inlay
Dreamcast, EU
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Cover
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Disc
Dreamcast, JP
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc

External links

  • Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

  1. File:DCM_JP_20000526_2000-18.pdf, page 151
  2. 2.0 2.1 Computer & Video Games, "July 2000" (UK; 2000-06-14), page 106
  3. 3.0 3.1 Sega Magazin, "August 2000" (DE; 2000-07-03), page 16
  4. Official Dreamcast Magazine, "September/October 2000" (US; 2000-08-01), page 101
  5. 5.0 5.1 Hyper, "September 2000" (AU; 2000-xx-xx), page 62
  6. GamePro, "October 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 72
  7. 7.0 7.1 Arcade, "August 2000" (UK; 2000-07-17), page 69
  8. Consoles +, "Juillet/Août 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 116-118 (116)
  9. Computer & Video Games, "July 2000" (UK; 2000-06-14), page 106-107 (106)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-12 (2000-04-07)" (JP; 2000-03-24), page 24
  11. 11.0 11.1 Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33
  12. Consoles +, "Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 108
  13. Consoles +, "Juillet/Août 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 116
  14. Dreamcast Monthly, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-11), page 98
  15. Dreamcast Monthly, "July 2000" (UK; 2000-06-08), page 82
  16. DC-UK, "August 2000" (UK; 2000-07-06), page 56
  17. Digitiser (UK) (2000-07-24)
  18. Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 8" (UK; 2000-04-20), page 74
  19. Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 11" (UK; 2000-07-13), page 70
  20. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "August 2000" (US; 2000-07-04), page 145
  21. Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 122
  22. Famitsu, "2000-04-07" (JP; 2000-03-24), page 35
  23. Fun Generation, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-17), page 92
  24. GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 6: June 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 15
  25. GamePro, "August 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 100
  26. Gamers' Republic, "August 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 51
  27. MAN!AC, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-03), page 54
  28. MAN!AC, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 71
  29. Neo Plus, "Wrzesień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 36
  30. Next Generation, "July 2000" (US; 2000-06-20), page 93
  31. Official Dreamcast Magazine, "August 2000" (UK; 2000-07-06), page 76
  32. PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 41
  33. Strana Igr, "Iyul 2000 1/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 62
  34. Strana Igr, "Sentyabr 2000 2/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 20
  35. Techno (UK) (+0:00)
  36. Video Games, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-04), page 116
  37. Video Games, "08/2000" (DE; 2000-07-05), page 105


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Books: Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes Koushiki Guide Book (2000)

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Prototypes: 2000-04-10



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