8) 8-player tournamentsĪs you saw from the open beta test, you can create your own 8-player, single elimination tournaments. Now there’s no reason to stall on this screen, you might as well just pick your character right away. That means that you cannot see who your opponent picked or even where his character selection box is until both of you finish picking your characters. In HD Remix, all online play has double-blind character selection. When you’re playing online, don’t you hate it when your opponent refuses to pick a character until the last possible moment because he’s trying to make you pick first? He wants to see who you pick so he can pick the best character to beat yours. 7) Double-blind character selection online Note that the networking uses Tony Cannon's ggpo technique, and he consulted to ensure it was done correctly. You can set this to suit your own tastes, but try the default setting (2 frames) first. We found that best results were generally when there’s a very small input delay of 2 frames, as that leads to smooth network play that it is still so responsive that it feels instant to most people. The final version of the game has another feature called “smoothing” that lets you turn the input delay up or down.
We were able to refine this from the feedback on our open beta test, and also from a few experimental things we tried in the patch to the open beta. I know that sounds pretty jargon-filled, so in plain English, it makes the game feel responsive and usually look smooth even during lag. We went with a predictive/rollback system that has the advantage of reducing input delay. The art delays in this project gave us a chance to experiment with several different networking techniques and we chose the best. All three of those affect your experience only, and your opponent might have different settings for those options on his end. All of this stuff is independent so you can customize these options however you want.Īlso note that when you play online, your opponent won’t even know what your choices are regarding HD sprites on/off, remixed music on/off or widescreen mode on/off. Finally, no matter which of any of those modes you’re in, you can play in widescreen mode or 4:3 mode. If you prefer the original game’s tunes, go for it, it’s up to to you. Regardless of whether you play in Classic/Remix and HD sprites on/off, you can also turn remixed music on/off. This has no impact on gameplay, it’s just visual. If you turn them off, you’ll get the original game’s sprites scaled up in all their blocky glory. Whether you’re playing the Remixed or the Classic game, you can turn HD sprites on or off. 5) Every combination of the features above Widescreen mode zooms in and has slightly different camera behavior, but has no affect whatsoever on gameplay. On an HDTV, you can play the game in its original 4:3 aspect ratio, or switch to widescreen mode to fill your screen during gameplay. It’s from the OCRemix community, so the fans really contributed here.
Every stage, every ending, and the menus. 3) Remixed musicĪll the music in the entire game is new. That includes backgrounds, characters, endings, menus, and-well-everything.
2) HD graphicsĮvery single piece of art in the game is redrawn in 1080p HD. That said, the Remixed version has many improvements. Special thanks to tournament player NKI for meticulously listing every single difference so that we could perfectly match the arcade version.
The code we used was based on the Dreamcast version, but it also had software dipswitches to set all gameplay to exactly like the classic arcade version.
Note that there was lots of misinformation about this. The classic mode has identical gameplay to arcade ST. (They are called Classic and Remixed in the menus.) That means you get the nostalgia of the old, awesome gameplay AND you get a new, rebalanced game guided by the wisdom that tournament pros have accumulated over the last 14 years. You get the gameplay of the classic Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, just like the arcade, and the brand new sequel to that game, Street Fighter HD Remix, both in one package.