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Street Fighter HD Remix Launches With Fan-Made Soundtrack

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djpretzel writes "OC ReMix just released a free download of our official soundtrack to Capcom's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. While video game companies have worked with fans in the past, HD Remix is the first major video game with a completely fan-made soundtrack. More than twenty gamers from around the world contributed remixes of the original Street Fighter games' music for inclusion in the updated game, in styles including jazz, hip-hop, reggaeton, spaghetti western, garage rock, big beat and electronica. MP3s and a torrent (also including FLAC) are available at OCReMix."

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  1. Well I'm not going to buy it.. by BigZaphod · · Score: 3, Funny

    Personally, I'm holding out for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Imax YouTube Remix Extreme Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition. (But only after the first patch is released, because we all know that first versions suck.)

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    1. Re:Well I'm not going to buy it.. by BigZaphod · · Score: 1

      Thanks for showing me what true cleverness is.

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    2. Re:Well I'm not going to buy it.. by DrugCheese · · Score: 1

      Wait for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Imax YouTube Remix Extreme Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition 2010 it's much better then Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Imax YouTube Remix Extreme Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition 2009

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    3. Re:Well I'm not going to buy it.. by Qango · · Score: 1

      I'll wait for the platinum label SFXmax limited special edition.

    4. Re:Well I'm not going to buy it.. by Tommay3 · · Score: 1

      You have a point there.

  2. One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by VinylRecords · · Score: 5, Informative

    Capcom really outdid the competition with this game. Taking an idea from a hardcore fan, David Sirlin (who produced Capcom Classics Collection and some other stuff for Capcom), to take Street Fighter 2 and update the game with 1080p graphics and new rebalanced moves was something the entire fighting game community wanted like crazy and no surprise the game has come out fantastically. This is easily a sleeper for best game of 2008 on any platform.

    Capcom hired not just OCRemix to do the soundtrack, but they hired UDON Comics (guys who drew SF comics previously), and David Sirlin (a tournament level SF player) to oversee and rebalance the entire game, and they had fans play test the game constantly in local matches in California, and had a beta test for the 360 version to test the net code. And speaking of net code, Capcom consulted the creator of GGPO (a man who also help found the EVOLUTION Fighting Game tournaments) to smooth out the online component of ST:HD Remix. This was basically an all star effort of Street Fighter fans and Capcom to produce something that would appeal to the most rabid hardcore fighting game enthusiast.

    Street Fighter came out in 1987 (SF2 in 1991)...and two decades later the brand is strong as ever because the hardcore fans kept the momentum alive all of these years. And Capcom recognized the overwhelming support from the hardcore faithful and geared the entire game (HD Remix) to the hardcore audience.

    Put some major points on the board for Capcom this week, some other studios should be paying attention, in fact ALL studios should open their eyes up and start moving back to the hardcore fan.

    1. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by Zathain+Sicarius · · Score: 1

      "Might I suggest Strider for the next treatment?"
      Might you? You have to ask if you're allowed to have an idea that awesome?
      Tell the world! Spam the forums! Run around naked with a giant sign that... ok scratch that last one, but I do second that idea.

      At the very least, I would like if they moved passed SFII and did SFIII. That one had a really nice mechanics and art. Telling off Mortal Kombat vs D.C. by making another Marvel Vs. Capcom would be pretty cool too. Though now I'm sinking back into their trend of making rereleases, huh...

    2. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      I wouldn't bet on them doing something of this level again. Development went way over initial costs and time. The end product is totally worth it, but this game got off to a rocky start because they didn't realize they'd have to completely rebuild the game from the ground up.

    3. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by Guspaz · · Score: 1

      Best game of 2008? So, you're trying to tell me that taking an almost 20 year game and slapping some higher res artwork and new music into it makes it a better game than Smash Bros. Brawl, GTA4, MGS4, Burnout Paradise, Sins of a Solar Empire, Disgaea 3, Universe at War, Army of Two, Condemned 2, ET: Quake Wars, R6 Vegas 2, Penny Arcade episodes 1 or 2, Rock Band 2, UT3, Battlefield: Bad Company, Dragon Quest V, Soul Calibur IV, Fatal Frame 4, Tales of Vesperia, Spore, Crysis Warhead, Saints Row 2, Dead Space, Fable II, Guitar Hero World Tour, Red Alert 3, Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, EndWar, Mirror's Edge, Left 4 Dead, etc.?

      Don't get me wrong, SF2HD is an excellent product, giving the fans what they want and updating an old favourite. But let's not get out of hand. There were a ton of really great original games out this year, and the vast majority of them are better than SF2HD simply because they're original. I mean, if you want to say that an update of an old game is the best game of the year, I could probably just say "Chronotrigger DS" and end it there.

      I'd love to see a great many more games like SF2HD, but there are a lot of games that are far more deserving to be called "best game of 2008 for any platform".

    4. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by VinylRecords · · Score: 1

      The reason right out of the gate that ST:HD Remix separates itself from the pack this year is that it was a community wide effort between Capcom and the most loyal and devoted Street Fighter fans to produce a game that the community wanted above all else.

      In addition to having new music and art the game is fully playable online using the excellent latency compensating GGPO, and is completely rebalanced, this game took a long time to develop because of that.

      With your premise of a game being an update making it unqualified to be Game of the Year that disqualifies some pretty major titles from past years. Are you saying that a game like Starcraft: Broodwar shouldn't have been considered for Game of the Year when it came out because it was simply an expansion pack? On the surface it might look like they only added a couple of new units and threw in three new campaigns. But to the most hardcore player of Starcraft the new strategies and competitive depth introduced with new units and abilities (and maps) created a new opportunity for strategies and build orders and macro that only the most hardcore could ever appreciate.

      Guspaz (556486): Don't get me wrong, SF2HD is an excellent product, giving the fans what they want and updating an old favourite.

      But it's not just any fans. It's the HARDCORE following. The legion of people who travel to arcades and tournaments around the world. The people who keep arcade cabinets in their own houses. Capcom only consulted those fans for this game.

      There are not many companies that are willing to listen to the most rabid fans. Just take one look at Nintendo's emphasis on producing softcore games that have an extremely casual appeal to them. Sure they make a lot of money because children play them, but for adults, the games fail to be intellectually satisfying.

      Even NAMCO with Soul Calibur keeps shutting its hardcore fans out by, instead of balancing the game and structuring a sold online net code, they spend the money obtaining a license for a Darth Vader character. The game was dumbed down so that the Star Wars brand could help move copies. Money was spent not on balance but on a Star Wars license.

      Would you want Unreal Tournament? Starcraft? Fallout 3? Metal Gear Solid? etc. toned down and dumbed down not just concerning content but concerning difficulty as well just so they could sell more copies to younger and casual fans?

      There were a ton of really great original games out this year, and the vast majority of them are better than SF2HD simply because they're original.

      I'm sorry but you contradict yourself excessively here. ST:HD Remix should be disqualified because it's not original? Because it's a remake? But nearly all of the games you listed above as contenders for Game of the Year are sequels and remakes of older versions...let's have a look at that list:

      Smash Bros. Brawl
      GTA4
      MGS4
      Burnout Paradise
      Disgaea 3
      Army of Two
      Condemned 2
      Quake Wars
      R6 Vegas 2
      Rock Band 2
      UT3
      Battlefield: Bad Company
      Dragon Quest V
      Soul Calibur IV
      Fatal Frame 4
      Saints Row 2
      Fable II
      Guitar Hero World Tour
      Red Alert 3
      Fallout 3

      Yes, those games are highly original. Even Dead Space is just Resident Evil 4 in space with shinier guns...

      I mean, if you want to say that an update of an old game is the best game of the year, I could probably just say "Chronotrigger DS" and end it there.

      But that's where Squaresoft doesn't listen to the hardcore community of fans and produces something for the softcore and younger generation.

      The fans who played Chrono Trigger now don't want Chrono Trigger DS, they want Chrono Trigger II and they want it on the PS3 or Wii, they want a true sequel for the current or next generation. Square instead took the nearly the same game and merely ported it over to a new system not out of demand at all (no one was pounding down the door saying "WE WANT CHRONO TRIGGE

    5. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by ZXDunny · · Score: 1

      Just take one look at Nintendo's emphasis on producing softcore games that have an extremely casual appeal to them. Sure they make a lot of money because children play them, but for adults, the games fail to be intellectually satisfying.

      Sorry, are we talking about SF here, or what?

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    6. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 1

      I'll point out that Street Fighter 4 is coming out soon.

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    7. Re:One of the greatest community efforts in gaming by powerspike · · Score: 1

      yup,

      Been able to pick up a game, play it for 10 minutes, and put it down, is well a game to me. having to load up a game, spent 10 minutes working out where i was, then another 10 minutes working out where i was going, is more like work, and if i've only got 10-20 minutes of free time, well ...

      a game is for fun, and well this rates a hell of alot higher then most, because frankly, it's 90%+ action gameplay, most other games would be lucky to be 10% these days, at least they look good right?

  3. If you ever enjoyed Street Fighter by UserChrisCanter4 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then you owe it to yourself to pick this up. The graphics are absolutely phenomenal; it's literally like playing an HD cartoon. All of the tweaks to update the game have resulted in a massively improved Street Fighter that still retains all of the fun of the old versions. Online play is phenomenally good; I see a tiny bit of stutter at the beginning of a match, and outside of that I might as well be placing my quarter next to the TV to signal that I've got next.

    If you ever think you and your friends might want to sit down and play a few games of SF for old times' sake, then you should have this version. It's just that well done, and the price is very reasonable.

    Just beware the online community: if you think you're good at Street Fighter, there are some people on there who will quickly set you right.

    1. Re:If you ever enjoyed Street Fighter by neostorm · · Score: 1

      How is the frame count for animations on this? Did they up the amount as well, or did they stick to the same frame count for animations and only raise the resolution?

    2. Re:If you ever enjoyed Street Fighter by TrancePhreak · · Score: 1

      Same frame counts. Changing those could have made rebalancing much harder.

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  4. Here's hoping by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 1

    Here's hoping they include a PC version of this alongside the PC version of Street Fighter IV.

    1. Re:Here's hoping by portscan · · Score: 1

      is there going to be a PC version of SFIV? I only saw ps3 and xbox360 versions. seeing as i have neither of those, but i do have a pc...

      oh please tell me you are not toying with my emotions.

    2. Re:Here's hoping by Briareos · · Score: 2, Informative

      *cough* *cough*

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  5. I care! by icedcool · · Score: 1

    Like posts above, I think this whole thing is great. OCremix is a great community with a lot of talent.

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  6. I care too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The whocares tag really surprises me. Granted... I don't care about Street Fighter. But this - an industry behemoth like Capcom not just stealing fan work, but actually approaching them, and crediting them for it in a commercial game, is pretty awesome. This is the audio equivalent of Valve cooperating with the dudes who made Counter-Strike.

    1. Re:I care too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Funny example. I really wish Valve would do something like this with Counterstrike.

      Theres so much potential still left in that old game, and such a huge community willing to meet it.. yet instead we're stuck with a dwindling away game or an update that left so much to be desired.

      Please valve, at least give us the 1.6 sourcecode and maybe accept a few patches that come your way. The "people will use it to cheat" excuse falls flat when people can already cheat just as well without it.

  7. Street Fighter Story by Enderandrew · · Score: 1

    As someone who played SF2 religiously as a kid, I grew up and never played many of the later iterations of the series, nor have I watched all the Japanese anime series. Many of the characters I keep hearing about, I know nothing about.

    Is there a good source to read up on the apparent Street Fighter canon?

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    1. Re:Street Fighter Story by frission · · Score: 1

      If you like anime at all, I'd recommend at least watching the (uncut) movie. It's great, the series...not too good.

  8. Am I alone? by soniCron88 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Am I the only one underwhelmed by this game?

    The new "HD" graphics aren't THAT great. (They look more like cleaned-up 2xsupersai-scaled versions of the original, and...no new frames?) The game feels like it's locked on a high super-turbo mode. And is the sound MONO? (It only comes out of my center speaker.)

    I still think NeoGeo had the best 2D fighting games, HD or no...

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    1. Re:Am I alone? by pizzach · · Score: 2, Informative

      I wonder if moderators seriously read the moderator guidelines nowadays. There is a line that says "attempts to moderate up more than down." The parent said nothing that deserves to be marked as flamebait.

      I don't own the game, but I too noticed that there was no increase in the frame rate. Something to remember, soniCron88, there is only so much you can upgrade before the game isn't Street Fighter 2 anymore. Keeping the frame rate low is probably the largest reason it doesn't feel like Street Fighter 3 HD remix.

      The sprites are definitely more detailed. Double check some still images. It's a fact that you may only notice when the game is paused or when you go back and play the original Street Fighter 2. While 2xsupersai will get rid of jaggies on an HDTV screen, it won't add that amount of detail. If the game did zooms when the characters are close together, the upgrade in artwork would be more apparent. But a zooming feature too would make the game feel less like Street Fighter 2. I wouldn't surprise me if the developers tried it and then got rid of it.

      As for the game feeling like it's locked on a high super-turbo mode....I think that falls in with the territory of calling it a remix. Actually, the title of the game describes it very well. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix...Its turbo street fighter that is remixed in HD. Nothing more, nothing less.

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    2. Re:Am I alone? by TrancePhreak · · Score: 2, Informative

      You can turn on the orignal sprites for the characters. They are incredibly blurry due to stretching.

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    3. Re:Am I alone? by pizzach · · Score: 1

      Thanks for that little piece of info. Why in the crap did they use a blurring algorithm instead of something like 2xsupersai or nothing at all!? Blurring is the half-assed middle road. ::hurl::

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    4. Re:Am I alone? by TrancePhreak · · Score: 1

      My guess is they just used the defalt bilinear filters on the hardware. 2xsupersai has a peticular look that I definitely didn't see on these sprites. There might be something about how the game works that made it hard to do this, or maybe they're just lazy about it. Hard to say without being the developer.

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    5. Re:Am I alone? by pizzach · · Score: 1

      I'm just being picky. I wish more developers would try to implement better filters in their retro games. It feels like emulation technology on consoles is about 5 to 10 years behind what is available on PCs. It wouldn't surprise me if the blurriness of the sprites is from a built in hardware anti-aliasing algorithm for textures.

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    6. Re:Am I alone? by soniCron88 · · Score: 1

      Thank you for the support and the quality response. :)

      Regarding the older games in the series: they always had a turbo slider, so you could change the speed of the game. Oh well...

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    7. Re:Am I alone? by Swordsmanus · · Score: 1

      Regarding the older games in the series: they always had a turbo slider, so you could change the speed of the game. Oh well...

      Both the original and the HD remix version of the game does in fact have that slider. The line from the GP,

      As for the game feeling like it's locked on a high super-turbo mode....I think that falls in with the territory of calling it a remix.

      was a load of nonsense. Behold, factual information rather than vague conjecture!

      14) Game speed. The game speeds match the arcade version of the game, but this is confusing so bear with me. In SF HD Remix, speed 3 is the default and is intended for tournament play and online play. It's the same speed as Japanese arcade speed 3, which is also known as US arcade speed 2. You don't really have to understand what's going on with all that, just play at the default speed 3 and be happy that it matches the arcade.

      Furthermore, there is a speed 0 in there for the hardcore players. On all speeds except 0, the game uses its own system of dropping frames in order to increase speed (we didn't touch this, the arcade version did it too). This does affect whether some combos are possible/impossible. Speed 0 is slow, but it will let combo masters and makers of combo videos take frame-dropping out of the equation when they are trying to figure out which crazy combos are possible.

      This information is straight from http://www.sirlin.net/articles/street-fighter-hd-remix-features.html . Sirlin was the lead designer for the game. So it doesn't get much more definitive than that.

  9. Good by kieblerh · · Score: 1

    I like all of these old 2D fighter ramkes. If they came out with a Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 I think everyone would want it. The new graphics are way better, most people probably havent played the SNES version in quite sometime so they dont remember how bad they can be. The game speed is increased but if it wasnt it wouldnt feel smooth. Grab this game, its cheap, and better then ever.