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Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Capcom, Sega (EU)
Developer:
Original system(s): Capcom CPS-2
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
JP
¥10,90010,900 T-12043
Sega Mega Drive
US
T-12056
Sega Mega Drive
EU
5449-50
Sega Mega Drive
UK
5449-05
Sega Mega Drive
AU
Sega Mega Drive
BR
049010
Sega Mega Drive
KR
GM94014JT
Sega Mega Drive
AS
1098
Wii Virtual Console
JP
600pts600[3]
Wii Virtual Console
US
800pts800[5]
Wii Virtual Console
EU
800pts800[4]
CERO
Missing Parameter!

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Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (スーパーストリートファイターII ザ ニューチャレンジャーズ) is an update to Street Fighter II, and was originally released in arcades in 1993. It is the fourth arcade release of Street Fighter II, following the original Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Street Fighter II′: Champion Edition, and Street Fighter II′ Turbo: Hyper Fighting. It was brought to the Sega Mega Drive in 1994.

Gameplay

Unlike previous entries in the series the arcade Super Street Fighter II runs on the more powerful Capcom CPS-2 hardware (as opposed to the CPS-1 which previous entries in the series used), which means that although the core gameplay is the same, many refinements to the graphics and audio were made. As such, while many versions of Street Fighter II exist (and continue to be made), Super Street Fighter II is generally seen as the most significant, as previous outings merely adjusted the speed of gameplay and available moves, alongside the occasional palette change.

On the Mega Drive the two previous updates, Street Fighter II′: Champion Edition, and Street Fighter II′ Turbo: Hyper Fighting, were rolled into one product; Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition. The Mega Drive Super Street Fighter II retains all of the content from this earlier release, but the vast majority of graphics and audio were re-made, both to take advantage of the larger ROM capacity of the cartridge, but to better reflect the arcade release of Super Street Fighter II.

Characters

Super Street Fighter II's most significant feature is the addition of four characters; T. Hawk, Cammy, Fei-Long and Dee Jay. This brings the total number to sixteen.

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Japan Ryu
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Japan E.Honda
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Brazil Blanka
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United States of America Guile
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United States of America Ken
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China Chun-Li
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Soviet Union Zangief
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India Dhalsim
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United States of America Balrog (M. Bison)
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Spain Vega (Balrog)
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Thailand Sagat
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Thailand M. Bison (Vega)
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Mexico T. Hawk
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HK 1959 Fei Long
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Jamaica Dee Jay
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United Kingdom Cammy

History

Development

Super Street Fighter II was the second Street Fighter II game to be released for the Sega Mega Drive, following from the Mega Drive-only release of Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition (essentially a compilation of the arcade's Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting revisions with alterations suited to the Mega Drive's hardware). Unlike the arcade lineage, however, Super Street Fighter II was rebuilt almost completely from scratch, so although derives from the same base as Special Champion Edition, borrows very few assets from that earlier release.

Super Street Fighter II uses a different sound driver than Special Champion Edition, and the majority of graphics have been re-drawn and improved. It also re-introduces missing elements from the older release such as the announcer's voice.

However, this comes at a cost — the game ROM is 5MB (40 Megabits) in size, while the Mega Drive console can only safely access 4MB. Capcom created a special bank switching mapper unit to get around this problem, with Super Street Fighter II being the only officially licensed game on the Mega Drive to use such technology (others opt for an SRAM mapper). The custom hardware and larger ROM, however, drove the game's price to ¥10,900 in Japan, with similar inflated prices across the world. The only other licensed Mega Drive games originally priced at more than ¥10,000 were Koei's various titles, but those were deliberately sold at those prices.

Capcom also released a Super NES version of Super Street Fighter II at around the same period, which shares assets with this Mega Drive version. The SNES code (and by extension, likely this Mega Drive version's code) derives from two older SNES releases; a port of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1992) and Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (1993, officially spelled without the prime mark in this version).

Legacy

In the arcades, Super Street Fighter II would be followed up by yet another update, Super Street Fighter II Turbo (known as Super Street Fighter II X in Japan). This would avoid the Mega Drive (and SNES) in favour of the 3DO, Amiga, Amiga CD32 and IBM PC, however a would eventually make its way to the Sega Dreamcast in a tweaked form, Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service.

Arcade ports of both Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo would be included in the Sega Saturn release of Street Fighter Collection. This Mega Drive version of Super Street Fighter II has also since been brought over to the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan (and listed on Sega's main site for some reason).

Versions

Super Street Fighter II was originally designed with Capcom's CPS-2 arcade hardware in mind, as opposed to previous iterations which ran on the original CPS board. While Capcom's development teams would have been more accustomed to the Mega Drive hardware at this point, the gap in technology is wider than in Street Fighter II′: Special Champion Edition, meaning more intricate details are missing from the Sega version. Virtually no assets from Special Champion Edition were recycled, being instead re-converted from the arcade.

In addition to expected losses in colour and smaller sprites across the board, backgrounds are simplified on the Mega Drive, either with layers of parallax scrolling removed (T.Hawk's stage) or missing animations (DeeJay's stage). Many of the missing elements in Special Champion Edition are still missing in the Mega Drive port of Super, such as the overflowing water of E.Honda's stage and a missing parallax layer for clouds in Blanka's stage. More complex effects, such as the Northern lights in Cammy's stage are dialed back considerably.

Bonus stages appear in a different order in the Mega Drive version for unknown reasons - rather than fight barrels in the third bonus stage, the player has to fight a wall in the second. The credits sequence where matches take place in the background was removed in the Mega Drive conversion.

While the larger ROM size means Super Street Fighter II is able to offer more voice samples than Special Champion Edition, the quality of the samples in many cases have been noticeably reduced, in addition to simplified music tracks. ROM hacking communities have since released fan-made patches to improve the quality of this audio, as well as to bring the colour palettes more in-line with the arcade version (addressing situations such as the water in Ken's stage, which is unnaturally green in the standard version).

Magazine articles

Main article: Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Main article: Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers/Promotional material.

Merchandise

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
75 №1994-08, p18[6]
82 №, p83[7]
92 №34, p116/117[8]
88 №153, p58-60[9]
80 №12, p62-64[10]
90 №61, p40/41[11]
94 №20, p44-46
85 №5, p15
80 №33, p122-125[12]
92 №23, p60-65[13]
94 №23, p50-53
98 №44, p78-81[14]
96 №57, p26/27
90 №35, p44/45
92 №36, p10/11
91 №8/94, p96-99[15]
Sega Mega Drive
89
Based on
16 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
60
[16]
Alaab Alcomputtar (SA)
90
[17]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
75
[18]
Consoles + (FR)
92
[8]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
88
[9]
Edge (UK)
80
[10]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
68
[19]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
96
[20]
Game Players (US)
96
[21]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
90
[11]
GamePro (DE)
87
[22]
Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL
85
[23]
Hacker (HR)
79
[24]
Joker (SI)
86
[25]
Joypad (FR) PAL
80
[12]
LeveL (CZ)
85
[26]
Mega (UK) NTSC-J
94
[27]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
89
[28]
Mega Fun (DE) NTSC-J
89
[29]
Mega Play (US) NTSC-U
84
[30]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-J
96
[31]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) NTSC
92
[13]
Player One (FR)
98
[32]
Play Time (DE)
91
[33]
Score (CZ)
90
[34]
Sega Magazine (UK) PAL
96
[35]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC
96
[36]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
90
[37]
Sega Force (SE)
80
[38]
Sega Mega Drive Review (RU)
82
[39]
Sega Opisaniy i sekretov (RU)
89
[40]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
82
[41]
Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL
92
[42]
Todo Sega (ES)
96
[43]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
92
[44]
Video Games (DE) PAL
91
[45]
Sega Mega Drive
87
Based on
36 reviews

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
SSF2 md us manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, EU
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Cover
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Cart
Mega Drive, JP
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Cover
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Cart
Mega Drive, BR
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Cover
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SuperStreetFighterII MD BR Cart.jpg
Cart
Super Street Fighter II The New Challengers MD BR Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, UK
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Cover
SuperStreetFighterII MD UK Cart.jpg
Cart
Mega Drive, KR

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Cart
Mega Drive, Asia
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Cover
SuperStreetFighterII MD Asia Cart.jpg
Cart
Super Street Fighter II MD AS Manual.pdf
Manual

External links

References

  1. File:VideoGames US 66.pdf, page 61
  2. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/software/14.html (Wayback Machine: 2018-03-21 22:05)
  3. http://vc.sega.jp/vc_ssf2/ (Wayback Machine: 2012-01-20 09:25)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 http://www.nintendolife.com/games/megadrive/super_street_fighter_ii (Wayback Machine: 2017-07-04 12:16)
  5. http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/wiDX_oRftkYWoLJNe54F4JOiFcecWHFO (Wayback Machine: 2012-04-27 15:54)
  6. File:BeepMD_JP_1994-08.pdf, page 20
  7. File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 85
  8. 8.0 8.1 File:ConsolesPlus FR 034.pdf, page 116 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:ConsolesPlus FR 034.pdf_p116" defined multiple times with different content
  9. 9.0 9.1 File:CVG UK 153.pdf, page 58 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 153.pdf_p58" defined multiple times with different content
  10. 10.0 10.1 File:Edge UK 012.pdf, page 62 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Edge UK 012.pdf_p62" defined multiple times with different content
  11. 11.0 11.1 File:GamePro US 061.pdf, page 42 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 061.pdf_p42" defined multiple times with different content
  12. 12.0 12.1 File:Joypad FR 033.pdf, page 122 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joypad FR 033.pdf_p122" defined multiple times with different content
  13. 13.0 13.1 File:MeanMachinesSega23UK.pdf, page 60 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega23UK.pdf_p60" defined multiple times with different content
  14. File:PlayerOne FR 044.pdf, page 74
  15. File:VideoGames DE 1994-08.pdf, page 92
  16. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 225
  17. Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 1995-08-xx), page 23
  18. Beep! MegaDrive, "August 1994" (JP; 1994-07-08), page 20
  19. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "September 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 36
  20. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 7 July 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 38
  21. Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 12 December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 54
  22. GamePro, "September 1994" (DE; 1994-08-26), page 50
  23. Games World: The Magazine, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-09-29), page 15
  24. Hacker, "07/1995" (HR; 1995-xx-xx), page 40
  25. Joker, "Oktober 1994" (SI; 1994-xx-xx), page 28
  26. LeveL, "Červen 1995" (CZ; 1995-06-01), page 41
  27. Mega, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-21), page 50
  28. Mega Force, "Juillet/Août 1994" (FR; 1994-07-04), page 72
  29. Mega Fun, "09/94" (DE; 1994-08-24), page 82
  30. Mega Play, "August 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 62
  31. MegaTech, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-21), page 6
  32. Player One, "Juillet/Août 1994" (FR; 1994-0x-xx), page 78
  33. Play Time, "10/94" (DE; 1994-09-07), page 102
  34. Score, "Říjen 1994" (CZ; 1994-10-01), page 54
  35. Sega Magazine, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-15), page 78
  36. Sega Power, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-07), page 25
  37. Sega Pro, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-14), page 44
  38. Sega Force, "7-8/94" (SE; 1994-10-19), page 20
  39. Sega Mega Drive Review, "2" (RU; 1996-01-03), page 144
  40. Sega Opisaniy i sekretov, "14000 Opisaniy i sekretov" (RU; 2003-03-11), page 179
  41. Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
  42. Sonic the Comic, "October 14th 1994" (UK; 1994-10-01), page 10
  43. Todo Sega, "Septiembre 1994" (ES; 1994-0x-xx), page 30
  44. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 255
  45. Video Games, "8/94" (DE; 1994-07-27), page 96



Street Fighter games for Sega systems
Sega Mega Drive
Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (unreleased) | Street Fighter II': Special Champion Edition (1993) | Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (1994)
Sega Saturn
Street Fighter: The Movie (1995) | Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (1996) | Street Fighter II Movie (1996) | Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Dash) (1996) | Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (1996) | Street Fighter Collection (1997) | X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1997) | Pocket Fighter (1998) | Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (1998) | Capcom Generation: Dai 5 Shuu Kakutouka-tachi (1998) | Street Fighter Zero 3 (1999)
Sega Master System
Street Fighter II' (1997)
Sega Dreamcast
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1999) | Street Fighter III: Double Impact (1999) | Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (2000) | Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service (2000) | Street Fighter Zero 3 for Matching Service (2001) | Super Puzzle Fighter II X for Matching Service (2001)
Arcade
Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper (2001)
Sampler discs
Sega Saturn
Street Fighter Zero 2 Taikenban (199x) | Street Fighter Collection Taikenban (1997)
Sega Dreamcast
Street Fighter Zero 3 Tentou Taikenban (199x)
Unlicensed Street Fighter games for Sega systems
Sega Master System
Sega Game Gear
Jang Pung II (1993)
Sega Mega Drive
X-Men vs. Street Fighter (Mega Drive) (1998)