My intention was to primarily use this as an art blog, but I suppose a few of you like Plasma Sword, too. Here's a kinda-hard combo I did on fightcade recently for Saturn. It's showtime! (oh yeah, btw. Plasma Sword is on Fightcade.)
Third Strike on Fightcade is crazy. I main Shaun, and whenever I ask for help with my fundamentals, which on any other character I get a good response for, they just point and laugh at me because he's a low tier.
I DONT CARE THAT HE HAS THE WORST DP IN THE GAME AND NO MOVES THAT CREATE GOOD SPACING FUCK IT WE BALL FUCK IT WE BALL FUCK IT WE BALL FUCK IT WE BALL FUCK IT WE BALL
Earlier this week I tried out an old fighting game, Martial Champion, for the first time because someone on a discord was looking for people to play with. Now I'm involved in setting up a wiki for it. Funny how that happens.
It occurs to me that in the long run, the answer to all of our #BringBackNeglectedGameFranchiseWithNetplay dreams is probably just emulation and Fightcade, isn't it.
Like which outcome seems more likely: Konami and Tamsoft hear our plaintive cries and implement The Good Rollbacks and The Delightful Crossplays and run matchmaking servers for Bloody Roar and Toshinden... or fightcade just gets support for PS1 titles?
Video game companies aren't going to save us. People who love video games will though.
Working on the Martial Champion wiki feels kind of like play acting at being an archeologist in terms of stumbling on info about something older than me.
Started to look up how to rip sprites for the wiki, then realized I could just check spriter's resource. The game didn't seem to have been that popular so I wasn't sure, but everything is there. Except my usual image editor isn't great at removing backgrounds because it sucks.
Then another member of the community pointed out there are MUGEN ports of each character we could take from, which made me realize the game wasn't as obscure as I first thought. Looking at the MUGEN ports I saw two characters had versions with the wrong name.
After being sent a 15 year old video of an arcade run for gameplay reference I saw in the description that the 'mislabeling' was because the game has an SF2 situation where two character names were swapped between regions.