The Sega Saturn’s library is loaded with classic 2D fighting games from Capcom, and now, players on modern platforms will be able to enjoy enhanced arcade versions of quite a few of them.
The Capcom Fighting Collection launched today on Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox and Steam for US$39.99. It includes arcade originals of five games that appeared on the Saturn — Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge, Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire, Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness, Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (called Pocket Fighter on Saturn) and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo isn’t a fighting game but rather a falling block puzzler, making its inclusion a bit, well, puzzling — but it’s welcome nonetheless.
The collection also features five more games that didn’t hit the Saturn back in the day. Among them are the original Darkstalkers, the sequels to Night Warriors and Vampire Savior, Hyper Street Fighter II and Red Earth, the latter of which makes its home console debut 26 years after it launched in North American and Japanese arcades.
The collection offers extra features like online play, training modes, button customization, quick save and load, and a museum featuring more than 500 pages of art and design documentation, including some that have never been released before as well as a music player with more than 400 tracks from the classic games.
It also features bug fixes to the original games, such as the first two digits of the high score disappearing in Night Warriors, and the score not calculating correctly in Super Gem Fighter after achieving a combo of 100 hits or more.
Danthrax is a contributor to the Shiro Media Group, writing stories for the website when Saturn news breaks. While he was a Sega Genesis kid in the ’90s, he didn’t get a Saturn until 2018. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the console’s library as well as the fan translation and homebrew scene. He contributed heavily to the Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS fan localizations, and has helped as an editor on several other Saturn and Dreamcast fan projects such as Cotton 2, Rainbow Cotton and Sakura Wars Columns 2.
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