Street Fighter Alpha - Sega Saturn Review
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2021
- Street Fighter Alpha began a series that spanned nearly the entire life of the Sega Saturn. We take a look at it here.
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
Opening 3D SLX Logo
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Opening 2D Animation(characters)
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured from real Saturn hardware via RGB.
2. Arcade clips from MAME.
3. There was a PC version of this as well. I've never seen it, though.
4. Modern releases like the SF 30th Anniversary Collection have the emulated arcade version. It's on the PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One.
5. This was a game steeped in controversy at its release. GameFan magazine released reviews claiming the Saturn version was inferior due to it not having blue shadows like the arcade. The thing was that the blue shadows were there the entire time. When you switched between the original and remixed soundtracks, it also switched between the original and remixed shadows. Further, the Saturn sound effects recreated the arcades sound effects nearly spot on, while the Playstation sound effects were resampled at a higher rate. This was held against the Saturn as well, despite the reviewers claiming "arcade perfection" as being the criteria for the better scores. It was a shit show plain and simple, and GameFan never admitted that they were just wrong no matter the bullshit excuse.
6. In the unmarked comparisons, the Saturn version is on the left, arcade on the right. - Ігри
All we talked about back then was 3D graphics and polygons. 2D was old and going away forever. Damn were we wrong. What we got were beautiful 2D sprites that age like a fine wine. Absolutely gorgeous to this day and will never go out of style.
Perfectly said👍👍👍
Me: "There were a lot of great 3D polygon games from that era!!"
Cloud from FF7: *shrugs, lifting his boxes which we called "hands"*
They aged like wine but did get old after awhile because they put these sprites in with newer different looking sprites in other games like CvS 2.
Seeing videos like this makes me wish I could turn back the clock 25 years and enjoy these again for the first time. What an incredible time to be a gamer.
I miss the 90s and just how much of video game greatness and how much the industry evolved. New systems come out and I just shrug my shoulders but I remember a time when a new system was revolutionary and changed how we looked at games.
I get you but I'm more glad it happened at all and still discovering old classics.
@@heronoverdose agreed so many directions of classics
It surely was a great time to be a gamer, if only we'd have had the foresight to stockpile a few dozen copies of panzer dragoon saga ehen they were in the bargain bin on a 3 for a 10'er deal
Yes I remember seeing sealed copies of Alpha 2 for Saturn on eBay for 20 bucks like 13 years ago.
I'll never forget the initial feeling I got as a 11 year old playing Street Fighter Alpha for the first time at a friends house and realizing Final Fight and Street Fighter shared the same universe. Seeing Cody and Haggar in the background of Street Fighter Alpha 2 just blew my mind lol. The whole shared universe thing was new to me back then.
most of us knew this with FF 2 on snes , that was the most insane thing ever.
It was new to us in the west. But the universe was always meant to be shared between Final Fight and street Fighter. You could see that in Final fight with Smashing the car in the bonus stages and cage fights to a lot of the bosses. But Final Fight was originally going to be called Street Fighter 89.
Haggar is listed as a former Street Fighter champion in the original arcade of Final Fight both in game and on the bezel artwork, so this was never a secret
I specifically wanted a Saturn to play this game, and I was fortunate to get Alpha, Sega Rally Championship, and the Saturn for my 10th birthday .
Nice
Holy Grail bday present
This game was stunning when it first came out in the arcades. That attract mode was amazing.
Summer of 95, best summer of my life. I’ll never forget playing this near daily with my brother and friends at the video store down the street. My favorite Street Fighter game hands down, when this came out it was absolutely mind blowing, it’s influence is criminally understated.
This was the first game that made me understand that 2d wasn't just consigned to the 16bit era and only 3d games were worth having on my Saturn.
I love the alpha series, in my opinion it is the best over the numeric entries in the 90s, if Capcom released an alpha 4 in the PS2, and Xbox instead of fighting evolution with SFIII like alpha sprites, added the parry and instead of the isms it featured a Street fighter EX2 like super gauge it would have kept the franchise alive
This game is so clean the graphics are just crisp 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
If you ask me, the 2d games from that era aged WAY better than the 3d stuff. Probably my favorite era of gaming because some of the most beautiful 2d stuff came out then.
@@Jeffmetal42 mine too
@@Jeffmetal42 oh fer sure!
This is the first fighting game I saw after years of 16-bit Street Fighting and I was blown away. I was lucky enough to experience the Saturn version. I could not believe the arcade could be even better, it was that good. Brilliant times.
Ports like this had me feeling privileged to be a Saturn owner, though I didn't know just how good it was gonna get for 2D later on!
Totally agree!!! I was so happy to get this game on the Saturn when it came out!!
Saturn truly was the master of 2D. It's a shame we got so few of the Japanese games for it and that people preferred 3D that's aged very poorly since.
Very strange word use.
I loved that you can actually unlock dan, Akuma and m bison and then back up them up to save. The Saturn port is still the port I play till this day because of that
Yeah, was also fun getting the Saturn chipped, and buying into the 2D fighter import scene. Arcade perfect ports from Japan were ace.
I used to play SFA against the other people in my dorm at college, though it was someone else’s PS1 version. I had the Saturn version and it was superior in every way. The Redbook audio meant I could listen to its music in my car CD player, which was awesome.
Yeah I used to do that too!! I also listened to VF2 disc in my CD player all the time!!😁👍
@Resident Zombie PS1 had crappy load times and not great street fight controller and missing animations
@Resident Zombie I personally couldn't tell the difference between the ps1 and the Saturn port of Alpha 1. But when Alpha 2 came along, the Ps1 version looked garbage in comparison to the Saturn port. I was able to tell right away from the intro that the animation and sprites were inferior.
I've owned both since 1995, and the PS1 version does one thing better (aside from keeping the arcade aspect ratio): sound. All of the sound effects are at a much higher sample rate, and the versus matchup music actually comes in at the correct time. But I'm still picking the Saturn version every time for the controls.
@@neobogard still the most impressive will stay Alpha 2 on Super nes
The literal countless hours we put into this growing up is insane : D absolutely unforgettable gaming memories. Thank You Saturn
It came out when I was in Junior High. I remember when I first played this gem, it was at an arcade at my friend's 13th birthday party. There is no way that I can think of 8th grade and freshman year without feeling the nostalgia!! Hit a 👍if you know what I mean!!!
I still have my Saturn copy, def a very nostalgic game, I remember being blown away by this and playing it non stop. The Alpha series is my fav of all the Street Fighters
I personally like the SF Zero 2 ' (dash) I think it's exclusive to Japan not sure though, well that's the one I have. I love Zero 3 but prefer Zero 2 Dash ' (Satakore version)
It's Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold but the Japanese Version you have 👍🏽 And agreed that's my favourite one too.
Yesss that's my favourite version too 😊
@@Junier-Hussein Thank you for the information my friend much appreciated. I googled Satakore apparently it was a budget label in Japan for re-released Sega Saturn games, they released some exclusives.
It's not entirely exclusive to Japan, the Street Fighter Collection Vol. 1 for Saturn and PS1 had Super SFII, Super Turbo, and Alpha 2 Gold included in that collection. Also Alpha 2 Gold was also included in the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology for PS2 which contain Alpha 1, Alpha 2, Alpha 3, Alpha 3 Upper, and Hyper Alpha with Super Gems Fighter (Pocket Fighter) as a bonus title.
@@VOAN I had both Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, and if I'm not mistaken, Gold's difference from the Japanese version is that there was no "dramatic battle" mode. I wanted SFA2 to be superior in all aspects to SFA1, but to do dramatic battle, I had to pop in 1. I never got to do dramatic battle in SFA2, which is a shame, but I heard that the Japanese version (Dash) had it...
Oh man, I missed Alpha but got Alpha 2 and we played the hell out of that game! A constant stream of people playing that on my Saturn at university
The good old days, a golden era of gaming
Love this game, the Saturn version in my opinion is the best.
Yup better controller too.
@@BoyBlaze2002 Saturn's controller is legendary. Why isn't it replicated in newer consoles? 6 frontal buttons is better than 4 and you can always keep the triggers anyway!
Playstation had also good conversions, but the Saturn was the real deal.
@@Edexote much agreed brother, especially for fighting games, the lay out was a lot better, and I primarily play fighters.
@@Edexote The control sticks seem to be the favorite tool (especiallyin the competitive scene), but there are still controllers made specifically for Street Fighter style games with the 6 face button layout.
Console-wise I think the original Xbox was the last to have 6 face buttons on the gamepad...(not lined up like the Saturn though...)
This was one of the games I rented from my nearest Blockbuster the year it opened!
Played this on my computer back in the day, and still do today along with many others from the series.
Although PC is my preferred platform, SLX has drawn me in. Once again.
The Sega Saturn is no joke! Much respect to the platform and owners of the system.
You rock my dude and so close to that much deserved 100k. 👍
Brought back a lot of memories watching this. Me and my brother used to rinse this game hard on the Saturn.
I want to hunt down a Saturn just so I can get the fighting games. Seems like a great fighting game console.
@@FloridaEbikes EASILY. I owned sa Saturn in the 90s for their fighting games alone.
When it comes to street fighter alpha series on the Saturn I always end up playing alpha 2 more than the other two
Alpha 2 is the best!
This is my favourite playing SF game due to the easy chain combos. Love it.
Made for faster gameplay too. Best in the series for me.
Congrats Sega Lord X , 100,000 subscribers! Very well deserved!! That’s years of hard work and making great entertaining content right there.
I picked this up day one for my Saturn and played it to death!!! Loved doing the dramatic battle against Bison with my buddy!!👍👍👍
Never played Alpha 3, but 1 and 2 are beautiful gems I'm happy to have in my Saturn collection. Bought them about 15 years ago, and I still go back to them once in a while.
u nearly at 100k subscribers. well deserved my man. share the moment when you get there
You're always putting out excellent content man, and I'm not sure how you're capable of coming up with so many new ideas for videos...
Congrats on the 100k subs! Been following this channel since a few k subs and great to see you grow.
Awesome Saturn review! I remember reading somewhere that Capcom had a habit of getting the interns and new hires to work on background art. I think that somewhere between SFA and SFA2 that was thankfully changed and the background art started to really shine.
I feel like your delivery is a lot more relaxed - nice work on a great video!
Congrats on reaching 100k subs. Great job! 👏👏👏 greetings from Rome 🇮🇹
Congrats on 100K subscribers! Thanks for covering Sega in depth, great stuff!
Even though I don't like playing as Guy in "Final Fight" (mainly because of him being weaker against certain enemies like Axl and Slash), I actually really enjoy playing as Guy in "Street Fighter Alpha", especially since he was also the first character that I was able to beat the game as when finishing it on my own.
I have to say, I prefer the "chunky boy" graphics of Alpha compared to earlier editions. Just look at Sagat, his sprites just allow more personality like this.
And M. Bison
We can now play all versions of Snk and Capcom greatest fighting games on our phones and tablets with the help of emulators. They can even be upscaled into HD definition nowadays too. What a good time to be alive.
Getting damn close to 100k!! Congrats man!!
Conratulations for 100 thousand subscribers!
You wanted characters like Mike and Haggar? That did come across as a little confusing the first time I heard that :D
I want haggar and zangief to be long lost brothers.
As always a great review my friend! I too have very fond memories of the STREET FIGHTER series from my youth. From the early days in arcades all the way to this generation’s latest sequel STREET FIGHTER V. It’s a fighting series that has truly stood the test of time!
great video!!!!,thanx a lot and thanx too for activate the subtitles option.
I love the Alpha series so much! I loved the anime inspired art direction.
Sega Saturn ram cart specifically for those fighters!! They were always highlighted in the magazines!!
Yes i remember the first time i saw Alpha 1 in the mid nineties, in a bowling place with a small arcade room in Norwalk CA. My lil 8 year old self was so impressed and hyped. I had loved and followed SF before this but seeing this new art style,graphics and presentation, was so refreshing and hype.
I absolutely loved playing this game throughout the 90s.
Thanks for uploading a video man!
My first Street Fighter Alpha game was Alpha
III on my Dreamcast. I own the Japanese disc and I still play it like I did the first time. It’s such an amazing game, the graphics, the music and the gameplay are simply awesome. Thanks for the memories and also for sharing your awesome videos. I have to say that Street Fighter 4 is for me when the franchise reached it tops. The graphics blow me away. I wish you could do a video on Street Fighter 4, although it’s not a SEGA related, it’s an amazing game and a Classic game that must not be forgotten in time. Hope you’re well and cheers to you all! Love retro and new videogames, never to old to enjoy them!
Never played 1 but Alpha 2 I think is the best one. I was fortunate enough to find it at a local retro video game store and man was I blown away when I first played it.
congrats on 100k subs. Been here since you literally had a 500 subscriber post before you left and came back.
"You simply can't tell it apart from the arcade without seeing the two side-by-side." Now now, depends on how important super-move shadows are to you (lol). This game was just awesome when it came out, one of the biggest stylistic leaps in gaming I can remember. Bengus was probably the best anime-style character artist in the world at that point, and it's unbelievable how faithfully they were able to bring his art style over to a 384x224 screen. I only have Zero 2 right now, but one day I'd like to own all 4 of them on Saturn.
Appendix code let you set the super shadows to arcade coloring and i think choose arranged sound and a few other things.
@TrueSinister @MrERLoner Oh I knew that, just having fun with some deep Saturn lore. Nick Rox, the guy who wrote that infamous review for Gamefan, after a lifetime of having it brought up actually has a Resetera account called Aokage ('Blue Shadow') now.
Awesome video awesome content
I love the art style in this series. So beautiful
Nearly the 100k!!!
I can’t wait for the alpha 2 and 3 reviews.
Congratulations SLX.. you’re just a hair away from 💯k! 🏆🏆
i miss the games of this time. the good ol days
"Chun-Li is more shapely" XD
Before she got too "shapely" with her future tree-trunk legs.
Never liked her Alpha look in those boring jogging pants. Show us some leg dammit!
I got to admit that the Sega Saturn had the best controls for Street Fighter games. Aside for the D-Pad being smooth and responsive, the Button Layout is very exceptional for a Street Fighter game where you can barely need for a reconfiguration.
Rented this and the Saturn one weekend, and so many QCFs made my fingers blister on that dpad.
Awesome review man!
Awesome video dude. It's like a video version of Nick Rox's PSX vs Saturn Street Fighter Alpha reviews in GameFan.
Alpha was INCREDIBLE and the port to the Saturn was FANTASTIC. I spent SOOOOOOOOOO many hours playing that game. Another great video my friend.
Thanks for the reminder about how good the music in this game is! I loved this game when I was a kid but haven't played it for 20+ years. I'm going to go listen to that OST again now.
Street Fighter is definitely a true classic! I always remember as a kid playing street fighter 2 champion addition and getting wrecked by Ryu lol but man did I not know m. Bison was another problem in itself lol. I always loved street fighter lore and this game gave us some and more. Great Review again Sega!
Hope to see more of your reviews on 2D Fighting Games on the Sega consoles.
This is great! Please do Saturn Alpha 2 and Zero 3 as well!
Thank you for all of your hardwork sega lord x. Now I'm working on my own retro gaming youtube channel. Your a big inspiration👍👍👍
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Great review.
It always struck me as ironic that Capcom spent 4 years upgrading SF2 and when they FINALLY got to a sequel of sorts it felt rushed-- too few characters and stages. That said, the extra year made all the difference as Alpha 2 is the GOAT
Awesome Review dude 😍
Great video SLX! and charlie's stage music is the best of the best!
That was one Awesome Review!!! Big THX to our Lord the Sega Guru and a Legend on UA-cam!!!
SFII is my Favourite but only to the fact that it was the first one. Zero or Alpha is my Nr.1 SF to Fight it is nearly perfect! I love it
SFA was the game that got me to love an appreciate fighting games, i mean yeah i played sf2 at the arcade, on a friends SNES or at the local market that had a cab of sf2ce, but i ended up borrowing the ps1 version of SFA from a friend who later gave it to me, and apart from the long load times, i never really noticed the missing animation frames, it had a freaking training mode... and if you popped the game disc in a cd player you could hear all the game tracks, original and remixed, that made me appreciate ost's way more... it still was a great experience and it got me to appreciate the franchise even more, and even to this day ill load up mame and play some SFA...
Almost 100K subscribers!!
Great stuff!
The best versions of the Street Fighter Alpha series games that I highly recommend are:
1. Street Fighter Alpha 1 (Sega Saturn).
2. Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold (Sega Saturn).
And 3. Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (Sony PSP).
I remember being huge into SF2 from the time it hit arcades til Super came out on SNES but I didnt touch the Alpha series til the early 2000s. Once I started delving deep into them, courtesy of the bargin bins at Gamestop, I feel in love. Definitely was a great evolution of the genre.
I remember when my best friend back had this game for his birthday. The graphics were simply amazing..!!Also 60€ was a lot of money back then .. this music gives me a lot of great memories.
Amazing home conversion
First saw Street Fighter Alpha as a kid in the arcades. Wouldn't get to play it until years later as a teenager.
Based on the comparison video, it would've been pretty hard to detect the difference between the two versions on an analog signal monitor unless you were looking for them specifically.
Excellent video 👍
i rented this from blockbuster back in the day, now I have a japan import copy for my collection, the saturn controller shines playing this game
The hours i spent playing Alpha 2 on my saturn are probably part of why i have carpel tunnel now
My first Street Fighter Alpha experience was with the PS-X version. I did eventually play the SEGA Saturn version a few years later, and I personally like the Saturn version alot better.
That SFA series character select BGM is awesome...
even though i'm from the uk, even i heard about the infamous Nick Rox Gamefan review. where he marked the Saturn down from the Playstation version for its shadows and remixed music. surprised this wasn't mentioned in the video.
This was the first proper Street Fighter game on the Saturn, sure Street Fighter the Movie came out before it and I bought and played that for a while, when Alpha appeared Street Fighter the Movie never graced my Saturn again.
The Alpha series are great, being Alpha 2 my fave Street Fighter ever, but this one really felt like a cool step forward from Street Fighter II at the time, very refreshing with the change in art style, the kinda new gameplay and (in my opinion) the very refreshing roster of fighters, bringing new characters but keeping it in the right numbers, I preffer less characters with more personality than an overwhelming selection screen, this also allows you to fight against the rest of the fighters like the original SFII, I think this game made a good choice in that aspect. Of course Alpha 2 made everything in this game better, but this is still one hell of a game, specially the home ports, as you mention, it was arcade perfect, and that meant a lot at the time.
These vids are excellent background noise for driving or cleaning house
Good job dude
I really like the art style in that series. I never got the original but I did have Zero 3 on PSX.
I played this one after Alpha 2 and zero 3 on the Saturn and I was still impressed with this one.
Omg its alpha 2 gold that perfected everything.
The Zero / Alpha SF games are my favorites in the Street Fighter Series ...
I actually appreciate the backgrounds on this game. They are actually redone versions of OG Street Fighter 1 backgrounds with some of SF2!
One of my best video games experiences
The best intro in the planet
I was fine with the roster. I'm super glad they didnt' stuff this with a bunch of sf2 characters. It was supposed to be newer and different so the roster was fine with me. Gave the newer characters more of a chance to shine.
I feel like the only person on the planet that loves this more than part 2. I think part 3 trumps them all, but the glorious simplicity of this one is fantastic. Yeah, the backgrounds are blah, but the music is some of Capcom’s best.
I had played Street Fighter Alpha in the Arcade so I couldn't wait to get my copy of it home finally a new version of the game that wasn't just an update to Street Fighter 2.
Capcom and Sega Arcade ports were the reason why the Sega Saturn was my console of choice that generation.
I just remember trading away basically my SNES collection at EBs to get Alpha. And I still owed like $30 on the balance.