Category: Street Fighter II
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MAME Frontends in Ubuntu
I have been interested in getting MAME running on my desktop again. I never got SDLMAME working on Fedora 8 because performance was terrible. For some reason, under Ubuntu with my Intel GMA3100 onboard video things work well enough to play pacman at least (and probably others, SFA2 seemed to work well, but as always […]
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Street Fighter IV on Test in Akihabara 2/29 – 3/2
I keep up with a few blogs via Google Reader, and recently came across this entry about Street Fighter IV going on public test (Japanese). I’m a big Street Fighter fan, but pretty much only Super Street Fighter II Turbo or the new mix-and-max Hyper Fighting Anniversary Edition. Great games. (A brief side-note: last night […]
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No force on Earth can stop one hundred Santas!!
Today, Saturday Dec. 23rd, there was a Santarchy gathering in Shibuya. Since it is close by, I decided to stop by and check it out. I’ve got plans already – I’m heading to my friend Watanabe‘s place this afternoon for a Christmas party, so I couldn’t join in on the Shibuya Santa fun, but I […]
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SF2 scene at Shibuya’s Game Kaikan
On Friday I decided to head over to my favorite arcade, the Shibuya Game Kaikan, and play some Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting Anniversay Edition. Over on Shoryuken.com they call this one AE (Anniversary Edition) but I wonder what it is called in the states: there already was a Hyper Fighting over there. Anyway, I […]