Street Fighter II CE: Why on a Hu-Card instead of a CD?

[jboypacman]

I was playing SF II last night and got to thinking...."Why didn't they put this game on a Super CD or better yet a Arcade CD?".

This was something i was curious about and while i enjoy the Hu-Card version am betting a CD version could of turned out fantastic if done right.

[Sinistron]

It's so much sweeter to play this without CD load times- and just because it's the highest meg hucard game makes it extra special.

[kitkit.com]

I also agree that I have better experience playing it on Hucard card- no loading time at least.  Maybe NEC didn't want to make the same mistake as Fighting Street.

[jboypacman]

I didn't think about the load times a CD would have i could see NEC wanting to avoid this and going the Hu-Card route.

[awack]

I think it was mostly about money, every body who had a pc engine could play a hucard but not every one who had a pc engine could play a super cd or arcade card game, and SF II was the bigest name around at the time.


SF II was a 20 meg game, Flash Hiders and Godzilla for the snes were also 20 megs, i think the super cd versions of those two games were if anything better, so i think a scd version would have been very good and a ACD version of course would have been awesome.

[Tom]

Awack's right. A hucard release would hit the largest audience for sales. Though, personally I would have liked to see a ACD version as well.

[Joe Redifer]

How else could you play Street Fighter 2 on a portable system like the friends with a link cable?  Wait... that probably wasn't even supported, right?  The TurboExpress didn't have a 5-way link with an optional 6-button pad?  Nevermind me, then.

[Duo_R]

I read an article in VG"&CE back in the day about it originally being planned to be the first combo Hucard / CD-Rom game. It was going to use CD for arcade perfect sound. Obviously it got scrapped and probably for good reasons, look at the combo games on 32X. Also, larger reach with Hucard is the best explanation I have (more potential customers).

[Joe Redifer]

There are not "combo" games for the 32X.  Anyway, the concept could work.  You wouldn't need the CD to play the HuCard, it'd just use it if it were there.

[Duo_R]

Really Joe? What is this then?

There are not "combo" games for the 32X.  Anyway, the concept could work.  You wouldn't need the CD to play the HuCard, it'd just use it if it were there.

[Black Tiger]

Really Joe? What is this then?

There are not "combo" games for the 32X.  Anyway, the concept could work.  You wouldn't need the CD to play the HuCard, it'd just use it if it were there.

That's the Sega-CD equivalent of Shermatlock 2 and other bi-compatible games.

The rumors of a SFIICE PCE combo were that it would involve a cart and CD running the game together, like KOF '95 for Saturn.

[Duo_R]

and the upcoming Pier Solar for Sega CD

The rumors of a SFIICE PCE combo were that it would involve a cart and CD running the game together, like KOF '95 for Saturn.

[Joe Redifer]

Really Joe? What is this then?

That's not a combo game, it just comes with both versions.  A HuCard that uses a CD would be a combo game.  No 32X game uses both cart and CD.

[ceti alpha]

I'm glad it's on a Huey. No load times as mentioned, and there's just something about Hueys, especially SFII CE. It's work of art.

[hoobs88]

How else could you play Street Fighter 2 on a portable system like the friends with a link cable?  Wait... that probably wasn't even supported, right?  The TurboExpress didn't have a 5-way link with an optional 6-button pad?  Nevermind me, then.

PC Engine LT with multitap and 2 Arcade pads.