The Strange Case Of FATAL FURY 1 On SNES
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- #FATALFURY was the first SNK fighting game I have ever played. But i never had the chance to play the Super Nintento Version until very recently. After finding a near mint edition of theport I decided to play it for few hours, And to say I was surprised, is an understatement! Let us dive into the curious case of the first FATAL FURY Game and discover why this title is a special one among #retrogames !
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when i played this game as a kid on snes it was shortly after i had been playing at the arcade and taking computer programming classes. What i thought at the time was that code and sprites were removed from the game. It was depressing. 'Cause i could "see" the code that was missing.
Lemme give you guys the scoop on what happened with this game. See, Takara at the time was basically the Japanese equivalent to like a LJN here in the US. They were a toy company that jumped into gaming to use their name to promote their likeness and toys by publishing video games and as far as I know didn't code or produce anything. They would contract other smaller game companies to make games for them often without giving them any credit. This was actually done by Nova who were like coding mercenaries and took on work from others like Namco, Taito, NEC Avenue, Tomy, Banpresto, Takara etc. I won't completely throw them under the bus or disparage them because some of their other ports like Burning Force on Megadrive or Thunder Blade for PC Engine were respectable ports. I just think in the case of this game that at the time they didn't have experience with fighting games and it shows by how the game feels and how much went into it. If anyone else knows more by all means jump in because I love video game history.
The most off-kilter thing is how they contracted the Norwegian dev Funcom to do the Sega CD ports of Fatal Fury Special and Samurai Shodown.
@@savagedregime8176aren't both pretty good ports too? i remember that being the case
What I always loved about the fatal fury games, even though it’s a fighting game i felt like i was going on an adventure.
SNK was trying to stand out by doing some things differently from Capcom, so it seems they were aiming for a much more engaging arcade mode than SF, a style that burrowed a vibe from the standard (single player) arcade experiences of that period.
Like the story direction, as even the smaller scale of the plot (as opposed to traveling over the whole world) helps to make the story easier to grasp and feel more palpable. That progression over the map of a single city feels closer to the transition between areas of beat em ups like Final Fight.
a painful memory is seeing this on the genesis at a mom's and pop store for $20 and deciding not to get it, then got regret after a couple days, went back and it was gone....i kept saying to myself when i first saw it that it was only a butchered port of the arcade and not worth my time and money, but man, did i regret not getting it.
Makes sense since the Genesis was closer to arcade architecture, so early ports from the arcade were better there before they figured out how to get more from the SNES.
By the time Art of Fighting for SNES came around Takara had a much better grasp of the hardware. I remember how impressive the saling was. I thought the controls were fine too.
I also really dug the soundtrack. In particular Stage 4 (the restaurant) fighting King. That track is still impressive to this day. It really felt like the arcade came home for a young me.
I played the Super Nintendo version off Fatal Fury back in 1993 and GENESIS version in 1994. I didn't play the NEO-GEO AES or own this version until 2017!
Fatal Fury Special on Snes is actually very good. And AOF 2.
Both not from Takara developed.
I had the snes version as a child and I loved it to death. Many years later I tried the genesis port and came to the same conclusion: better music, better controls and snappier gameplay. Now I own and love both😂
You should check fatal fury ONE v1.5 (the homebrew game) on the genesis, it's really good.
Interesting, I had no idea it was so messed up on SNES. Especially pre internet as a kid
And a lot of magazines didn't help because they tended to be quite generous with their reviews.
Early ports of arcade games were kinda rough sometimes. This FF1 port is a bit above average in roughness, maybe because the company was inexperienced.
Boy am I glad the only experience I have of playing this game is on my AES. These ports are rough to say the least.
I only played them in the arcade (until recently when I got my NeoGeo Arcade Stick Pro) but despite the shortcomings of the 16bit ports I'm still glad this game was ported to both Genesis and SNES as they were the two most popular home consoles at the time and thus helped widen SNK's fanbase by porting it to those consoles.
I have no idea of the story of that Takara company, but it just seems like the devs were inexperienced either with the Snes, or with the Neogeo, or both. At least they got better with time... though it just was a rockier evolution than other companies making ports on the Snes.
My brother and I were grade school kids when this came out, and we LOVED Fatal Fury in the arcades, but were SO disappointed with the SNES port. TBH, we were pretty disappointed with most of the Takara home ports, except for the GB games which were shockingly well done. (Samurai Shodown GB is still one of my favorite games on the Super Game Boy, along with Mega Man V and Donkey Kong '94)
I used to credit Takara with making great ports of fighting games for other, less powerful systems too, eventually I came to learn that they just dished out money to companies like Be Bop, Gaibrain and AI.
That doesn't diminish Takara's involvement though, there's some influence they have with management that causes these disparate companies to really nail the ports even on the least likely of hardware. There must be some unifying thread there.
I think it's a good detail that they kept the different animations of the characters when moving forward and backward...
In most games that was the first thing they did not include, I imagine that in this game it was possible because there were only 3 selectable characters,The conversion of this game for Sharp X68000 is incredible, it even preserves the 2 player Vs CPU.
"...a third button which was used for the lane shift in the other versions"
Uhm...no? The third button was throw in the Neo Geo and the Mega drive too. In fact you can't choose yourself to lane shift in FF1, which was always considered a flaw
This. Very hard yes. Wonder how the Neo version would have faired if the control had been further tweaked before release at the arcade.
Have you ever played the Takara GB port of Battle Arena Toshinden? It's definitely got the Takara Game Boy touch.
It's good conversion it's just the lag that is annoying especially after doing a power wave and trying to jump straight after it but you only walks forward instead of jumping. There's also region background differences between the Japanese and US version version like Duck King stage with the poster of the beer bottle on the right hand of his stage is replaced with 3 singing ladies.
Some of the things that you are pointing out in this video are more arcade accurate. I think I’m the super Nintendo version. They tried to get the game as close to the arcade as they possibly could as opposed to the genesis version.
I had this game on snes as a kid, I couldn't stand the loading times between rounds!! And it always felt floaty when playing, almost like the characters were underwater lol.
I had street fighter 2 at the same time I had this game and the gameplay and sharp controls were night/day different between the two!!
Better visuals on the snes port, better gameplay on the Genesis version. I prefer the Sega game
Sharp X68000 have both,the quality and the gameplay,sadly that system was eXpen$ive.
And that was a kind of common disparity between 16 bit ports of arcade games of many different companies, with the Genesis usually showing better gameplay performance than the Snes.
I can't rememebr playing this version back then....which is weird because my father onwned a Rental Video Game shop and always got Snes and Mega Drive games (Happy times for the10 years old me) and I remember playing the Mega Drive version.
I played the hell out of the second game...maybe that's why because it was way better.
I have the sega genesis fatal fury and love that version way better then SNES
If you think the SNES port of the original Fatal Fury is bad then you should play the awful Genesis port of the original World Heroes...
That port is a crime against humanity 😥
Oh, I thought you were saying "Taka" and I was really confused.
Subscribed. It is hard to find people with good ears and notice the sound on Megadrive is better than the SNES. I mean SNES has a good quality sound for many games, but many arcade adaptations sounds very muffled. Only the AVGN loves DOOM music on SNES.
I used to play FF1 on the Neo Geo console. It was really good with awesome music. Fatal Fury 1 on Megadrive and Snes was terrible. Fatal Fury 2, on the other hand, was really good.
I owned a [pirated] Fatal Fury Super Famicom cart back in the day. Legit carts were expensive in my country so most people owned clones/knockoffs instead.
Like you I also played the Genesis version 1st, but I owned an SNES mainly because Street FIghter II came 1st for that console.
when I was a kid, I rented the Genesis version and it was awesome, but we ended up buying the SNES version and that was a bad choice. What stuck out to me the most were the voices. They sounded hilariously bad. I still even even joke about the voices with my bro to this day lol
The ko sounded arkward and funny. It sounded like a dog barking
Yes I have played the SNES version of Fatal Fury and also own it. I actually prefer the genesis port over the snes port here. Which is unusual as I normally liked the SNES version over genesis versions of games. This game however is my least favorite in the series, i actually prefer Fatal Fury Mark of the Wolves now when playing a fatal fury game, I did however put a lot of time in Fatal Fury Special when i was a kid.
Now we have terry in street fighter 6 😁
I really dug snk's fighters in the early days in the arcade, art of fightings gfx were just so amazing and world heroes character variation was so imaginative! But the multi lane gimmick of fatal fury never appealed to me.
And when the reviews came in for the snes ports almost universally they were seen as very pale imitation of the neo geo versions so definitely mostly skipped them, save a very occasional rental which did not convice me to buy.
in the end i ended up with (all on snes) sf2 which i played to death, mk2 which i did play a bit but the cpu drove me crazy, and killer instict were again the cpu was annoying to me and i also was not a fan of the crazy combo system, also picked up super sf2 with a 50% or so discount but very late in my snes ownership, i almost bought my saturn or maybe even already had it. And on the saturn i got kof95 and yes that game i loved even though that ai was also quite tough! And a zillion capcom fighers.....obviously :D
I had a few arcades within walking distance from my house that had a mvs cabinet. I bought this on sega genesis and tried to return it but they wouldnt let me.maybe that was a mistake but i remember not liking the port very much and why some generic no name dev that id never heard of like Takara was the one in charge of porting this game
I rented this once. I mainly remember liking how the moves came out more consistently than the neo geo version.
Amazing game. Snes looks better than MD!
Man they sure were cutting corners on this port
You know what else is crazy? When a Double KO occured, the CPU gets the win.
Lol! What?
@@NeoGeoNow Yeah, it was BS.
One of the most awful thing about this port is that when any character gets defeated, they screm GLU GLU GLU like a turkey, LOL!
What I like about the Genesis version is the 2P vs mode that lets both players use any character except for two that got cut out due to insufficient memory. I also like the CPU VS CPU mode. To me it sucks that Nintendo systems always got the worst versions of 3rd party games while Genesis did better there. I was a Nintendo kid, but I’m appreciating the Genesis versions now.
Try imagine my disappointment when rent this game here in Brazil (I love de Neo Geo Version) and i saw this extremely limitated conversion. Without multiplanes, so little fighters pictures, poor quality.... I undertand about the First Wave games in SNES Don't get all the 16 bits potencial, but SF 2 make a great Arcade conversion. And don't try make The Ending with Final Boss' Fall using Mode 7 it's a sin for me. Feelings by a teenager fan .
I played this its' fine.
Game was crap. We always turned it off after 20 mins and turn on sf2 .
Damn
My JVC X'Eye adapter burnt out when I was younger, this is the version I ended up getting because Fatal Fury is one of my favorites. Needless to say this port is...a... uh... an attempt.
Takara doesn't develop the games it publishes, they're actually handled by different developers
They actually developed this one internally.
@@NeoGeoNow Fatal Fury 1 and 2 on SNES were developed by Nova
The SNES version only had a cart size of 12 megs. It should have at least been 16 megs. Too much was left out in my opinion.
I bought this at Gametronix in Houston and regretted it immensely as it was nothing like the arcade and the music sounded like ants farting into a microphone. Thankfully, Art of Fighting was a good course correction for Takara.
When dude crushes that apple in his fist I'm still like "damn this game is cool"
I never seen that commercial,I seen the others after it but not that one.the ones were they beet geese because a mai in distress and the art of fighting,samurai showdown and more.
Had Fatal Fury Special on Snes ported ny Takara, great port.
Indeed
Except for that *god-awful* music. All they had to do was refine Fatal Fury 2's soundtrack, which they already had, and add in the new pieces.
But no. They decided they had to redo everything. And they massacred it.
Seriously, go listen to Axel's stage on SNES, and then on MVS/AES. Andy's as well. You'll see what I mean.
@@budgetcoinhunter with some exceptions imo. Ryo Sakazaki's theme sounds pretty good, and a few others aren't bad as well. But of course, the original sounds the best.
At least Takara improved their ability to make ports of Neogeo games. The FFS port is better than this FF1 port.
Terry is still my favorite videogame character of all time.
My son actually went to state for esports in a smash tournament and used Terry as his main because it reminds him of me. He crushed!
I was so proud and honored.
that's so good!
I only had the genesis version of this and samurai shodown when I was a kid and man it was great times I didn't know any better lol
the genesis is the best one for the console
Better gameplay yes,but they cut some characters.
No pc engine
I think what made the genesis imo better than snes. The genesis version's vs mode had a 1p vs cpu and the other characters felt more complete and all completely playable.
And you can play as the bosses on both sides
This game reminds me of the SNES version of Street Fighter Alpha 2; sad but worthy of one's collection👍Also, REALLY nice video- very entertaining👏
The SNK game that I've ever owned on a home console was King of the Monsters 2 for the Sega Genesis. The Nettou fighting games on the GB are fun but I never owned any of the SNK ones but I've owned Battle Arena Toshinden which is also published from Takara.
when you compare the NeoGeo game (which is 5.5 MB) to the SNES game (which is 1.5 MB)... it's amazing the SNES was able to fit what it did, mainly only sacrificing the 2-lane system... the Genesis game (which is also 1.5 MB) had the 2-lane system but was missing 2 boss characters.
I rented this back in the day, I thought it was trash. One of my neighbors got the Genesis version and it was night and day. Strange indeed.
At that time, differences between ports were a big deal in some cases... and not only about ports of arcade games. Then only after the Ps1-Sat gen the differences started to decrease. And back in the Snes-Gen gen, the ports differences worked in a way that there wasnt a very clear winner in some cases.
Very interesting video. The SNES version was my introduction as well. So many of the details for those early play throughs are completely lost to me. Once I got a Neo Geo and a copy of FF, the experience was so positive I don't think I ever associated it with the previously poor experience I had on the SNES. It was just one of those things, out of sight out of mind. Plus, "you don't know what you don't know." I can however distinctly remember having the feeling of 'loading up' a special move, which you described as lag.
I too completely forgot how most of these games feel on the SNES and genesis. The power of nostalgia hides all defects i guess :D
I never was a big fan of FF 1 and art of fighting 1
My love for snk started with fatal fury 2 then special and later with the kof series and samurai shodown series
Both FF1 & aof1 games are like streetfighter 1
Nobody went back to sf1 after sf2 was released
Now many years later i own a multi arcade cab
With both games
I just skip both games for the later ones
Nice video btw
Yeah those two games in their first versions were made with a strong correlation to SF1, in many aspects. And AOF, because of parallels like the Ryo x Robert duo, who are rivals using the same fighting style, could be called an "alternative timeline sequel to SF1", in the sense of feeling like a direct progression of the gameplay ideas of SF1. I remember starting with FF2 and then played FF1 later and found it rough to play.
@3:50 the genesis has the same cpu as a neo geo so I would assume they used the same coding and just scaled it down while they developed a facsimile of the game from the ground up
I ALWAYS leave a like! How could I NOT? You give us some of the greatest fighting game history and analyses. Thanks for another gem of a video. ❤❤❤❤
I always like Samurai Spirits/Samurai Shodown for the SNES. To me, it’s a pretty impressive port.
I remember when I rented Fatal Fury for the SNES back in the 90s. I was so put off by it, that I wrote off the entire Fatal Fury series until I imported a Fatal Fury collection for my Sega Saturn in 1999. It took me that long to give the series another try. I’ve come to enjoy it quite a bit, since realizing the SNES Fatal Fury was just an awful port.
Still, it definitely has its place in gaming history.
Even though I didn’t get into SNK until around KOFXIV’s release, my first exposure to SNK (unknowingly) was World Heroes on SNES. I still have my copy which I got when I was a child, and it’s been fun going back to a bunch of my SNES games as an adult. I kind of want to find copies of Fatal Fury and Samurai Shodown for it now too.
Fatal Fury controls reminds me more of the orginal Street Fighter game.
Fatal Fury 1 and Art of Fighting 1 were made after SF2 but they had perhaps a stronger reference on SF1. The two games were made by the maker of SF1, who left Capcom and went to SNK. There are also strong SF1 references in the way the arcade mode works, like not open to the whole roster but focused on the "heroes". And the minigame style of both games reminds more of the SF1 style than the SF2 style. And sure, the button layout is just another example.
I grew up with the SNES version and it was the only version of FF that I played for a few years. I didn’t even recognize the short comings until I was an adult. It’s still very nostalgic for me.
Another question; why were none of the Neo Geo games ported to the Amiga?
in 25 disks.
Amiga couldn't even handle SF2.
Yeah.I played Fatal Fury on the SNES.And i think it stinks compared to the Genesis version.
This version has LOAD SCREENS
Grew up with the Mega Drive / Genesis Fatal Fury 1 love and enjoyed the MD/GEN version even tho it’s missing stuff and with the SNES Fatal Fury 1 i only got yo try it year 2000 not good but enjoyed it for what it is now that I’m older both had stuff cut for back then the Devs had to work with the limited cartridge size rom so they did what they could.
Man have any of you guys seen Real Bout Fatal Fury for Genesis / Mega Drive some talented people from Brazil made there own port which looks amazing great man I wished theses guys if there were allowed to get the rights to release it on original cartridge as I definitely would love to buy for my console and collection and also I would love for the same with the guys who are working on Final Fight Mega which awesome
Fayetteville highway was such a sweet game I used to have that game on the super NES and I used to play the crap out of it. And by Fayetteville highway I meant to say fatal fury. Sorry guys I love you know I'm actually a brain in a jar of the communicate with the world through thought process and sometimes our process get wrong they confuse my thought with another word that I'm thinking of but I'm not thinking of it but they just confuse it for some reason I guess I speak too fast in my thoughts for the program to recognize the words. I found that pretending to speak with an accent sometimes helps for some reason the program probably was programmed by someone who spoke with an accent.
This was my first snk game i played. I didn't know the difference until i played the arcade version on the ps2 collection. I was like holy cow 😮 by the way...i knew no one who played the 2 player mode in the snes one. Because it was so broken 😂 we just put the game on the highest differently and take turns when we lost.
@3:50 the genesis has the same cpu as a neo geo so I would assume they used the same coding and just scaled it down while they developed a facsimile of the game from the ground up
Spent $75 on the genesis version when it came out...
I had World Heroes, Fatal Fury, and Fighters History on SNES back in the day. I still have my SNES but the only game out of the above mentioned I still have are Fighters History. Goddamn I wish I kept my games and systems. Really wish I didn’t sell my 3DO or give away my Sega CD. EDIT; I definitely would have had the Art of Fighting snes game I just can’t remember it much.
Oh you started with the SEGA Mega Drive version, aka the superior home console port, too? I like wha it brought to the table with not only the versus mode but also being able to play as Geese Howard by holding left on the player who wants to play as him (goes for both players fyi) but also to play as mirror versions of the characters you fight against which not only had different colourations (Blue haired Terry Bogard rules and "Coca Cola" coloured Andy Bogard still looks funny next to Gold Dandy Richard Meyer, Red garned Tung Fu Rue or Shadow the Hedgehog looking Duck King, kinda ironic in hindsight) for their clothes but also DIFFERENT COLOURED SPECIAL MOVES like for example a BLUE POWER WAVE for Terry or a red projectile attack for Tung Fu Rue instead of his regular green one!
Oh and it took me until 2022 to find out what the weird final voice take was in the sound test of the mega drive version... that was leftover data that wasn't saying like "hello Vincent" but the japanese version's title screen Garou Densetsu announcer saying that which was removed in the international/non japanese versions.
I Always Remember this game. It was my First Arcade game not to mention My Frist Neo▪Geo Game well the SNES version. So I couldn't be Mad, it felt kool😎 But in all honesty it was such a let down, it Felt un-Finish, The 2 player Battle Suck, Hard Punch and Hard Kick didn't react the way you wanted too, Stages seem different, certain Fighters Missing, Everything was Wrong with game. But I Still Played the Hell out of It👊 ps: Fatal Fury Special was the Way to go in My Opinon #Mia❤
Aside from great music, I thought the SNES port was terrible. No jumping in and out of backgrounds, bad controls (like the arcade), and the two player game could've been better are what ruined it. I was still naive and excited about it as a kid, though.
EDIT: Gameboy's KOF'96 was 100× better than '95!
Ljn was a subdivision of Acclaim they did a lot of really bad licensed movie games but they also did really well with WWE on Super Nintendo
I had the SNES game and definitely thought it was stiff but back then but if it was a fighting game and it was moderately good, I was playing it. The World Heroes and Art of Fighting ports fared a lot better.
I prefer Fatal Fury 2/Special on the SNES over the Arcade versions because it ditched the whole plane switching but that first game is a dud. I hate how the characters sound like clowns when they're KO'd.
The first part was a desaster and Fatal Fury 2 was mediocre - but the 32meg Fatal Fury Special was a great port!
It's so strange to me that the guy who made Fatal Fury also made SF1, but they don't feel anything alike. Street Fighter 1 felt more original, and when moves connected, they felt more brutal, I didn't feel the impact of the hits in Fatal Fury like in SF1.
It's not that they de idea the changes... it's what the hardware allowed.
Fatal Fury was not the first SNK fighting game. That was Street Smart, a game released on the arcades before the Neo-Geo era.
I got this as a kid and enjoyed it, thought it was just an OK fighting game. Only found out how hobbled it was when I played it at a pizza shop years later!
Looks like they got lazy and wanted a cash grab
I had fatal fury on Super Nintendo I quite enjoyed it❤
As stated elsewhere, there’s no mention of the “now loading” screen? On a cartridge?? I took it back to the store for that reason alone.
I always looked at this line of games as poor street fighter clones.
I guess thats why i never really gave them a chance
The apple...
One of the those cases where the Sega Genesis port was better than the SNES one
Fatal Fury 2 on the Genesis is also much better than the SNES counterpart.
Also, the music in the Genesis port of FF2 is AMAZING!! 🎵
Beats the music of the original arcade game
One thing you didnt mention dude. The god damn load time on a cartridge! Back then. Never forgot WAITING...
"Street fighter Alpha 2 was the first SNES cartridge with load time. " Hard no.
I will never forget how my expectations died inside when the game loaded for the first time playing it that day. Wouldnt end up playing the Genesis version till a month later.
Regarding Alpha 2 on the snes, it was discovered those long pauses between rounds were solely due to the music loads itself. There's now a patch for the game that fixes this & the matches now start almost immediately.
That was one example of real issues with those early ports. The first time consoles started getting ports of more consistent nice quality was on the Saturn... and there were those few cases of miraculous well done ports (like Snes KI). Of course, in most cases it felt better than nothing. It was the game making conditions and the console technology conditions of that time.
SNES has loadings even on Bomberman
@@carlosaugusto9821The street Fighter 2 port(s) were fantastic though, and those were system sellers.
Genesis is better
SNES version has a funny KO sound
Great Video talking about Fatal Fury Games, and No, I never play Fatal Fury on SNES or the Arcade, Though I played Street Fighter II on SNES and also I never the first Street Fighter game in 1987, If you consider talking about Street Fighter Games in Videos!
I love this game. I love it so much in the arcades, especially part two!!! Then so they had super Nintendo versions. And I got the first one when the first came out.. I played to death!!!! Then I remember having the second fun as well with the specials. I would check out how you would do i'm on magazines priceless ❤❤❤ then I had the game gear version where Ryo was a special character, Oh boy don't get me started on the art of fighting series😂😂😂
I played the Genesis version and it had me hooked on Fatal Fury. I'm so glad it was the Genesis version and not the SNES version or I would have been highly upset.
are you sega lord x?
who is that???
@@NeoGeoNow Another youtuber, to me you have the same accent and tone, really close anyway. Where's your accent from?
@@NeoGeoNow would you care to answer? I made you a question
I never experienced any of the home console versions of this game, since I first got into SNK with the NeoGeo Station releases on the PS3.
Takara's SNES port of Fatal Fury Special is REALLY good. Controls are tight, has all characters + stages from Neo-Geo, and has pretty cool music. I always preferred it over the SNES Super Street Fighter 2 port, which was out around the same time. There's even a code to unlock Ryo, right outta the gate 😎👍
That ine is a masterpiece for the snes!
There's probably two reasons for this.
One, the SNES has a slower CPU. The cartridge is probably also using LoROM.
Two, the Genesis and the Neo Geo share a 68K CPU. More than likely, Takara had access to the source and was able to reference it during development. In the case of Genesis, this results in something that feels closer to the arcade, while for SNES, it's just used as a reference and needs to be completely rewritten for the 6502 based CPU in the SNES. This also happened with SF2 where the Genesis version felt closer to the Arcade, even retaining the CPS1 chain combos from the arcade.
There's also the factor of the developer's ability. Like, the company actually made better ports after this one. Every single project means experience that goes to possibly improve the next project. This just reminds me of the difference between early Snes projects and late Snes projects... like in the early 90s, if we used the references of those early ports, we would have trouble imagining the Snes handling things like SFA2 and Megaman & Bass (that is a brand new game but uses a lot of assets from MM8). The devs keep pushing and learning better how to use the hardware.
Fatal Fury on the Genesis was my first fighting game. I didn’t even know there was a SNES version.
There was a donut shop right across the street from my high school that had Fatal Fury, World Heroes, and Art of Fighting in late 1992. That's when I fell in love with SNK. Long story short my Mom bought me the SNES version of Fatal Fury 1 at the end of the semester in 1993 right before summer started, and I cannot put into words how heart broken, dissatisfied/disappointed, ripped off I felt with that crap after playing the original the year before. That port really pissed me off back then. The next year I just convinced her to buy me the Neo-Geo AES, and just stopped messing with ports all together. My Mom loved to make me happy when I was a kid, and I'm very grateful for her even to this day.