We’re now just under a month away from the release of the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, which is set to revive eight classic fighting games on modern systems for the first time.
Japanese publication Famitsu recently interviewed Street Fighter 6 Producer Shuhei Matsumoto about the Capcom Fighting Collection 2, which we’ve now translated thanks to our own Nicholas ‘MajinTenshinhan’ Taylor.
We previously covered Matsumoto’s statements about how the Capcom Fighting Collections even came to be, but there’s still plenty more to dig into from their discussion.
One question in particular came up that most fans have probably asked at one point or another being why isn’t this or that version of the game included in these collections?
Well now we have a bit of an answer to that.
Famitsu: Since you’ve already gone this far, I was thinking “I want to be able to play every version of these games!”, but I suppose the cost and return incentive for that might not be viable.
Matsumoto: For Capcom vs. SNK 2, the play experience changes based on the version since there’s the arcade version and the “EO version” which was only on home consoles, so we added the option to switch between versions for that.
However, when it comes to coding that for every game, for some games those circuit boards may not even exist anymore, and it can even be hard to figure out what exactly was done between version changes so to be honest, it’d be difficult to actually do that. So with that in mind, we’ve tried to focus on the versions that had the highest amount of players enjoying them.
While it is nice to finally have some sort of explanation regarding the matter, this still doesn’t seem to cover everything that’s missing.
Why are we getting Capcom vs. SNK Pro, but not the original release for example.
There’s also the question of why the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 has Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper but not the even more complete version, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max.
The latter likely has to do with the new collection being focused around Naomi arcade hardware games, but at the same time, they included Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO, which was a console game.
Ultimately, it likely boils down to technical restrictions of creating a new emulator for something like Alpha 3 Max as well as planning the scope of a particular project.
That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to see different versions of the games in these collections, however.
The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection received a sizable title update this week that added a bunch of stuff including the crazier version of X-Men vs. Street Fighter that fans had been clamoring for.
The Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is set to release on May 16 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Source: Event Hubs
