Here's (Even More) Footage Of Street Fighter Alpha Running On Mega Drive / Genesis

Hats off to this dude l, this looks and sounds terrific. And that Q sound engine is difficult to make sound good on the megadrive.

Looking forward to seeing a finished erosion one day.

Very excited for the future of fighting games on the SEGA Genesis. Real Bout, and Darkstalkers are also very interesting looking projects.

Wow...im impressed at the progress so far. My first thought was "wonder if they'll have the cool intro" and then lo and behold, i saw that intro. Awesome!

Can't wait to see the final product.

The sprites look great. The backgrounds not so much. The sound is a bit scratchy.

Will be interesting to see how much better this can all look and sound by the end, as I imagine it can be improved quite a bit.

One thing I've very curious about is how the whole energy bar section is done, because it visually looks like a layer on top of the two background layers, which you can see when the energy bars deplete and parts of the two backgrounds show through, so it either has to be done using lots of sprites or a combo of backgrounds and sprites or some trick I'm not aware of. If anyone has any info on that it would be much appreciated.

Would be doubly interesting for me to see what the SNES could manage in 2023 also.

Totally agree with seeing what the awesome SNES could be doing in 2023.

Well they did somehow port Alpha 2 to the SNES

@JayJ Yeah, back in the '90s. But I think it would be very interesting to see what would be possible if the system were pushed to its limits in 2023. I mean, even with Alpha 2 someone figured out in recent times you could basically eliminate the loading times just by tweaking the code, which made a big difference to the experience right there. So, for me, it's about seeing what the system is truly capable of when people can spend as long as they want to make whatever project and optimise and tweak everything as much as possible, just like we're seeing on the Genesis right now.

I remember playing the snes version of Alpha 2 with my friends back in the day. It was so slow it was almost unplayable, but we still managed to have a lot of fun, competitive matches, in spite of it being a less than ideal version.

There seems to be a lot of people working on both Capcom and SNK fighting games for the Mega Drive. Not necessarily a bad thing as it's fun to see how they are running but it seems like everyone has had the same idea on porting arcade fighting games.

Great to see how the game is coming along. Looks great so far.

It was always strange that neither the Sega Genesis/MD nor the Super Nintendo got a port of Alpha 1 back in the day, even though the Super Nintendo did get a port of Alpha 2.

Feels like this is finally getting rectified decades later. Similar to how the Genesis/MD is finally getting a port of R-Type, a game that always felt like a natural fit for the system.

@Daze_of_Reality in hindsight, Alpha 1 always felt like a glorified demo of what Alpha 2 ended up becoming, so it was good that they went straight to it without charging punters twice, but I'm still astonished they managed to get it on the SNES at all (plus i didn't even find out it existed until the late '00s)

@Daze_of_Reality Reason why both Super NES and Sega Genesis didn't get a port of Street Fighter Alpha 1 was cause both console's hardware specs couldn't handle it. At that time enhancement chips like the S-DD1 chip were either still in development or too expensive to afford. For Capcom to afford it they had to hope that either Super Street Fighter II Turbo or Street Fighter Alpha 1 on Saturn and PlayStation sell well enough for Capcom to finally afford the chip.

The thing is the chip is only compatible with hardware that is advance enough to handle 20,000 colors palette or more, since the Genesis only had a 64 colors palette, Genesis wasn't able to received a port while the Super NES which had around 32,000 color palette was able to get a port; however, by 1996 Street Fighter Alpha 1 is old news so Capcom port Street Fighter Alpha 2 for Super NES instead. Using the S-DD1 chip is both a blessing and a disappointment as most of Capcom's dev doesn't know how to use it properly so even though they manage to get the game to work for Super NES, they didn't had much time to polish out those constant freeze which was cause by the S-DD1 chip. All is not lost though as Nintendo's platforms still got Street Fighter Alpha 1 for Game Boy Color and Nintendo Switch while Sega players got the Street Fighter Alpha 1 port for Sega Saturn.

@Serpenterror I appreciate the detailed explanation. I still feel Capcom could have done ports of Alpha 1 for the SNES and Genesis without the S-DD1 or any similar chip. Sure, it would have been cut back quite a bit from the arcade original... But if the Game Boy Color got a port, the 16-bit consoles could have gotten something a least a bit closer to the arcade.