Street Fighter 2 will be available on MS MarketPlace...

[LinkinPrime]

Microsoft's CES presentation also had revelations for current Xbox 360 owners. In an almost offhanded remark, Gates said that one of Capcom's most popular old-school arcade titles, Street Fighter 2, will be available via Xbox Live Marketplace later in the year. If poker is your game, it was also revealed that a new Texas-hold-'em-game will be available this year as well.

source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6141859.html

update thanks to ryanbph:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6142004.html


Capcom hypes SFII for Xbox 360

Capcom ports Turbo Hyper Fighting edition of arcade classic, attempts to duplicate arcade experience with new online mode.

In Bill Gates' keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Microsoft founder and chief software architect casually mentioned that Street Fighter II would be coming to the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Marketplace. The impending arrival of Capcom's seminal fighting game classic piqued the interest of Street Fightin' men (and women) everywhere, but Gates' announcement immediately raised a number of questions. Would it be one of the upgraded iterations of the game instead of the original? Would it be playable online over Xbox Live? Would it cost an arm and a leg? Some of those questions received answers today, and they are "yes," "yes," and "maybe."

While no price tag was announced, Capcom has confirmed that Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting (known in the arcades as Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting) will become available over the Xbox Live Marketplace, with a number of new features (including online play) sometime in early 2006. In addition to the Xbox Live standard Quick Match and Optimatch, Hyper Fighting will also include a new Quarter Match option.

Intended to replicate the arcade experience, Quarter Matches will let two players duke it out while a group of spectators wait for their own chance to dethrone the reigning champ--similar to the online mode of the Xbox 360's only fighting game so far, Dead or Alive 4. Just as in the arcades, on-lookers will be able to watch the brawls while they wait their turn, trash-talking the fighters or discussing strategy. Players' "quarters" will be used to represent their spot in line.

Before entering a Quarter Match, players will be able to choose ranked or unranked matches to determine whether or not stats will be tracked for the Xbox Live leaderboards. Beyond the somewhat common all-time and monthly leaderboards, Hyper Fighting will also include rankings broken down by character, as well as a board for the most consecutive wins.

Capcom is also promising more than 10 online and offline achievements to reward players for meeting certain tasks, and a "feature-limited" demo version will allow gamers to play single matches with two playable characters

[anubis20]

nice

[Murcielago77]

damn it, that means arcade, that means marketplace points. Someone sell me some for cheap :D

[Scorch]

..or, you know, they could make Street Fighter Annivesary Collection backwards compatible.

[mr ryles]

Anyone got some marketplace points for trade?

[zewone]

SF2 and Texas Hold 'Em! I love M$. Take all my money. (No sarcasm)

[mr ryles]

yes I am a sucker for this kind of stuff, so M$ can just keep sucking it out of me with stuff like this.

[dios]

I Hope its not JUST plain ol SF2 and they give us the rest of the add ones, even if its seperate downloads at least. SF2 is hella broken. But meh, that and Texas HM are good enough. Kudos 360.

[controlcommerce]

*Screams like a girl*

Another game that can use the DOA 4 stick.

[specialk]

woo...*high five*

/lovin the marketplace more by the day

[Apossum]

..or, you know, they could make Street Fighter Annivesary Collection backwards compatible.


and miss out on the double dip? HA!

[tigerjh81]

i bet its sf2 championship edition that lets you pick bosses and have vs mode, i hope they release alpha too

[asianxcore]

they should just release all the SF games. :)

[Diiz]

Forgive my XBox 360 ignorance, but does that mean you will be able to play against others online or does that only mean you can download it via live?

[tigerjh81]

most likely it will have online vs question is how much! not willing to pay more then 800 points for it

[kristianator]

im also dumb about this 360 stuff... so you gotta buy the game with points? how do you aquire points?

[Ledhed]

I knew it was only a matter of time before they got around to making some form of poker available.

[tigerjh81]

im also dumb about this 360 stuff... so you gotta buy the game with points? how do you aquire points?
you can get points from retail stores 20bucks will get you 1600 points in most store, or you can buy them off xbox live marketplace, 25 will get you 2000 point, but no tax online i belive.

[Pratt75]

Outstanding, keep the great games coming to the marketplace. I've never been a street fighter fan but for 4-5 bucks you can't go wrong for a game with online play and xbl leaderboards. I'm really looking forward to the poker game as well since half my time is spent a full tilt poker.

[Brak]

I'm jazzed about the Texas Hold'em, but I'm indifferent about Street Fighter. As much of a Street Fighter fan as I am, I'm still aware of how unresponsive the original Street Fighter is -- it did not age well in the least bit...

[-Never4ever-]

Anyone want to guess how many points SF2's gonna cost? I'd say 1600 at least.

As for Poker; meh, I already have spades, maybe if they let you gamble MS points :D

[guardian_owl]

I am going to guess the equivalent of $10.

[ryanbph]

Good news, I hope they really develop the marketplace

[mykevermin]

and miss out on the double dip? HA!
QFT. I don't see why they haven't rereleased Street Fighter yet. It hasn't been put out on any system, console or PC, since the Turbo Grafx CD (y'know, that lumbering hunk of shit that only alonzomoruning owns; though, to be sure, with the right system card it can play the highly sexual Akumajou Dracula: Chi no Rondo) in 198fucking8.

For a pop music-feuled time duration explanation, I present wikipedia's "1988 in music" page; this will give you an indication of how long ago Fighting Street was released:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_music

[RedvsBlue]

I have a feeling that this will mean that the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection will never see the backward compatability list.

[62t]

QFT. I don't see why they haven't rereleased Street Fighter yet. It hasn't been put out on any system, console or PC, since the Turbo Grafx CD (y'know, that lumbering hunk of shit that only alonzomoruning owns; though, to be sure, with the right system card it can play the highly sexual Akumajou Dracula: Chi no Rondo) in 198fucking8.

For a pop music-feuled time duration explanation, I present wikipedia's "1988 in music" page; this will give you an indication of how long ago Fighting Street was released:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_music
Because the original SF is one of the worst game ever made. In fact it is so bad it made the news. Thats why Capcom try to market the seres as "Street Fighter 2" and try to hide SF under a rug.

[LinkinPrime]

It would be intersting if they allow gambling of MS points in Texas Holdem. Sure it wont happen but it would sure make things intersting...

[mykevermin]

Because the original SF is one of the worst game ever made. In fact it is so bad it made the news. Thats why Capcom try to market the seres as "Street Fighter 2" and try to hide SF under a rug.

Profit derived from nostalgia is not contingent upon "good" or "fun." (see: Taito Memorites, Tecmo Classics, the numerous handheld TV game things, etc.). Sure, it wasn't SF2, but it also wasn't Karate Champ either. At the time, it was incredible.

EDIT: It was so bad it made the news? Tell me more!

[RedvsBlue]

It would be intersting if they allow gambling of MS points in Texas Holdem. Sure it wont happen but it would sure make things intersting...

They wouldn't be able to because the microsoft points cost money and therefore it would be like gambling real money.

[LinkinPrime]

They wouldn't be able to because the microsoft points cost money and therefore it would be like gambling real money.

I know, thats why I said im sure it wont happen, but it would make things intersting.

[Trakan]

..or, you know, they could make Street Fighter Annivesary Collection backwards compatible.

And they will... months after SF2 has been available for download.

[KaneRobot]

Sure, it wasn't SF2, but it also wasn't Karate Champ either.

Karate Champ is STILL awesome. If you have two players who know what they are doing and don't play cheap, it rules.

..or, you know, they could make Street Fighter Annivesary Collection backwards compatible.
I have a feeling that by springtime, regardless of how many games are running (or running smoothly...completely different category in this case) MS updates to backwards compatibility will dry up quicker than....oh, I dunno...*insert tasteless line about a specific body part of Marilyn Monroe post-death*

[Ma12kez]

Man, looks like a couple more dollars down the drain.

[javeryh]

Are all these games going to be playable online against others? This 360 Live thing is sweet and the PS3 and Revolution are going to feel archaic without a similar service.

[shipwreck]

Did anybody else run to their television and put a quarter on their screen when they heard this news?

[daphatty]

*Screams like a girl*

Another game that can use the DOA 4 stick.

This made me laugh. :lol: Thank you!

[Apossum]

QFT. I don't see why they haven't rereleased Street Fighter yet. It hasn't been put out on any system, console or PC, since the Turbo Grafx CD (y'know, that lumbering hunk of shit that only alonzomoruning owns; though, to be sure, with the right system card it can play the highly sexual Akumajou Dracula: Chi no Rondo) in 198fucking8.

For a pop music-feuled time duration explanation, I present wikipedia's "1988 in music" page; this will give you an indication of how long ago Fighting Street was released:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_music

I threw a hadoken once in Fighting Street! those were the glory days. mmm 1988...I seem to remember having my 7 year old brain warped by my brother's copy of Nothing's Shocking and arguing with my friends about what the G n' R song "I used to love her but had to kill her" was about...(axl's dog, right?) :lol:

[javeryh]

Nothingis Shocking

God that's a great CD - can you believe it's almost 20 years old?

They should just get all versions of SF2, SFIII and SFA working as one DL if possible.

[Chris in Cali]

I don't know why it takes them so long to put up some damn games. I have around 4,000 live points just sitting here because there's nothing I'm interested in except Gauntlet, and Smash TV. No way am I paying for lame ass "gamer pictures." Give me some Pac-Man, Galaga, Centipied, a pinball game, some slot machines or better yet a full casino game, Metal Slug, Dig-Dug, Rampage, Hydro Thunder, Burger Time, San Fransisco Rush, Vector-Mna, THPS 1 & 2, ect.

I think the live arcade thing is awesome and full of potential. I love the thought having a bunch of games just right there on my hard-drive to play without getting up and changing discs. I just Microsoft gets it going, because I know when the Revolution comes out it's going to be pretty hard to compete with their enitre game library from NES to Gamecube. Like Cheapyd said in a past CAGcast, I would really like to see a Gametap type thing going on for the Xbox Live Marketplace.

[ryanbph]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6142004.html


Capcom hypes SFII for Xbox 360

Capcom ports Turbo Hyper Fighting edition of arcade classic, attempts to duplicate arcade experience with new online mode.

In Bill Gates' keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Microsoft founder and chief software architect casually mentioned that Street Fighter II would be coming to the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Marketplace. The impending arrival of Capcom's seminal fighting game classic piqued the interest of Street Fightin' men (and women) everywhere, but Gates' announcement immediately raised a number of questions. Would it be one of the upgraded iterations of the game instead of the original? Would it be playable online over Xbox Live? Would it cost an arm and a leg? Some of those questions received answers today, and they are "yes," "yes," and "maybe."

While no price tag was announced, Capcom has confirmed that Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting (known in the arcades as Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting) will become available over the Xbox Live Marketplace, with a number of new features (including online play) sometime in early 2006. In addition to the Xbox Live standard Quick Match and Optimatch, Hyper Fighting will also include a new Quarter Match option.

Intended to replicate the arcade experience, Quarter Matches will let two players duke it out while a group of spectators wait for their own chance to dethrone the reigning champ--similar to the online mode of the Xbox 360's only fighting game so far, Dead or Alive 4. Just as in the arcades, on-lookers will be able to watch the brawls while they wait their turn, trash-talking the fighters or discussing strategy. Players' "quarters" will be used to represent their spot in line.

Before entering a Quarter Match, players will be able to choose ranked or unranked matches to determine whether or not stats will be tracked for the Xbox Live leaderboards. Beyond the somewhat common all-time and monthly leaderboards, Hyper Fighting will also include rankings broken down by character, as well as a board for the most consecutive wins.

Capcom is also promising more than 10 online and offline achievements to reward players for meeting certain tasks, and a "feature-limited" demo version will allow gamers to play single matches with two playable characters

[Apossum]

it's cool and all...but no matter how many features they pump into it, it's still riding on the nostalgia factor.

now if alpha 3, or thrid strike were on the live arcade-- then we'd be talking.

[javeryh]

Those quarter matches sound sick. Hopefully they will set a limit on people in an "arcade" at the same time or you might be waiting forever to play...

Third Strike would be awesome - I never really got into it in the arcades (mainly because arcades were almost dead when it came out).

[62t]

they could just work on BC list and get thrid stike on live...

[mykevermin]

Intended to replicate the arcade experience, Quarter Matches will let two players duke it out while a group of spectators wait for their own chance to dethrone the reigning champ--similar to the online mode of the Xbox 360's only fighting game so far, Dead or Alive 4. Just as in the arcades, on-lookers will be able to watch the brawls while they wait their turn, trash-talking the fighters or discussing strategy. Players' "quarters" will be used to represent their spot in line.

Before entering a Quarter Match, players will be able to choose ranked or unranked matches to determine whether or not stats will be tracked for the Xbox Live leaderboards. Beyond the somewhat common all-time and monthly leaderboards, Hyper Fighting will also include rankings broken down by character, as well as a board for the most consecutive wins.

That's fuckin' AWESOME.

[orphicblue]

I Want Gunstar Heroes On Teh Live Marketplace!!!

[Ledhed]

I Want Gunstar Heroes On Teh Live Marketplace!!!

If we start down that road, this thread will never end.

P.S. Gunstar Heroes is the best game ever.

[scp89]

when!! I want my SFII fix!!!

[danked]

blah ...

[H-Town Info]

i bet we'll have to wait til june for it

[Spoon_si]

If we start down that road, this thread will never end.

P.S. Gunstar Heroes is the best game ever.


Tru Dat!

Hopping for Some classic arcade perfect port of double dragon & final fight, w/ online Co-op... I'll drop $10 each in a sec..