Street Fighter Miscellany — Random SF franchise factoids

Posted by Catalyst — August 14, 2011 at 12:29 p.m. PDT

Street Fighter Miscellany is a site containing a bunch of random factoids for the franchise we know and love. There are a number of details you're probably familiar with in here, but that are some obscure references and notes that you may not have picked up over the years.

The examples in here have visuals to go with them, which is a nice way to see some of the history. Here's a clip to get you going.

Birdie holds the bizarre distinction of being the only Street Fighter character to completely change race from one appearance to the next! In Street Fighter he is clearly white but when his design was updated for inclusion in Warriors' Dreams (Street Fighter Alpha) he became black, whilst the rest of his design remained essentially the same. Capcom knowingly referenced this barefaced change in Secret File #16 (see picture) and playfully in one of his Alpha 3 win quotes:

Oh, what!? ... Before? I looked pale because I was sick!!

Entering the classic 'Konami code' (↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, MP, LP) as player-2 during the attract mode's demo fight in arcade World Warrior causes twelve sets of numbers to pop up. Each set refers to the following: (1) Unknown (2) The number of coins put in the left hand slot (3) Unknown (4) The number of coins put in the right hand slot (5) The number of times Ryu has been used (6) Likewise E. Honda (7) Blanka (8) Guile (9) Ken (10) Chun-Li (11) Zangief (12) Dhalsim. These numbers would be highly useful to Capcom in gauging the popularity of each character. The code is expanded in Champion Edition to include the four boss characters.

Mentioned by Alex Jebailey.

Comments

Ex_Ein said on August 14, 2011 at 12:52 p.m.

The qouted one is pretty well known

Ex_Ein said on August 14, 2011 at 12:53 p.m.

the first qouted one DAMN YOU Cat you changed the article on me last second

hamalope said on August 14, 2011 at 1:10 p.m.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. A factoid is "an item of unreliable information that is repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact".

ryuhayabusa13 said on August 14, 2011 at 1:16 p.m.

Lol at the Birdie reference. That's a good way to cover up design. Cool site for reference and origin of street fighter ideas.

deice said on August 14, 2011 at 1:20 p.m.

@3 the second meaning of factoid is "an interesting item of trivia".

kpxcho said on August 14, 2011 at 2:27 p.m.

"Much to the annoyance of players who prefer the original colour schemes for their favourite fighters, Super Street Fighter II: Turbo only allows this by entering a code on character select. The downside of using the code is that your character is quite literally an old version, meaning his or her super move is disabled which puts you at an immediate disadvantage against a notoriously difficult CPU. However, a glitch in the code was discovered that allows the player to use the original colours and keep their super move! Here's how:"

page 5. i guess OG ST players would completely disagree considering some of the old versions such as o.sagat and stuff are actually better than the super turbo counterpart

TheOGB said on August 14, 2011 at 3:19 p.m.

Found this site a few weeks ago, thought it was old as dirt. Glad to see I'm not the last one to know of it. :D

Great site, lots of cool info.

Catalyst said on August 14, 2011 at 3:37 p.m.

@hamalope

fac·toid/ˈfaktoid/Noun
1. A brief or trivial item of news or information.
2. An assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact.

The first definition is legit. :P

xeraton said on August 14, 2011 at 4:10 p.m.

@Okay142

Stop posting your sh-tty video every article no one cares

Cauptain said on August 14, 2011 at 9:12 p.m.

WOW...15 years old news...

#10

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