Street Fighter II, paper trails (2021)

by tangue on 5/8/2023, 8:30:58 AM with 37 comments

  • by thrdbndndn on 5/8/2023, 10:24:48 AM

    Previous discussion:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657343

    Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand (December 23, 2021 — 554 points, 76 comments)

  • by yamazakiwi on 5/8/2023, 4:26:57 PM

    > Notice how Ryu's teeth white color comes from his clothes. For Ken, artists had to reuse some of the skin color because Ken's kimono is red.

    That's interesting that I never noticed the slight differences in color on the teeth given their restrictions.

    Also... Ken is wearing a Gi, not a Kimono. Kimono does literally mean "thing to wear", but a Gi is the training clothes pictured in Ken's model.

  • by fabiensanglard on 5/8/2023, 4:47:39 PM

    If you enjoyed the topic of CP-System games, there is now a whole book about it.

    https://fabiensanglard.net/cpsb_paper/

  • by ai_ja_nai on 5/8/2023, 10:42:34 AM

    Fabien Sanglard is an ace, his 3dfx posts are legendary. Very enjoyable reading

  • by misterprime on 5/8/2023, 6:00:03 PM

    The end of the article speculates that the sheet system was dropped since the tiles appear scrambled. I'm wondering if the artists still used the sheet system, but a memory optimizer tool re-ordered the tiles to help free up a little more space on the ROM.

  • by Dwedit on 5/8/2023, 7:31:18 PM

    Also see: Street Fighter II, The World Warrier

    https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/index.html

  • by psychphysic on 5/8/2023, 10:51:40 AM

    I played this game to death on my megadrive (genesis) and now occasionally plate third strike.

    So amazing to see a bit of street fighter history and funny I'd never noticed Ken's jaundiced eyes and teeth!

  • by bluedino on 5/8/2023, 6:03:12 PM

    With today's 100GB game downloads, it's easy to say that developers gave up on these kinds of tricks.

    But they have to be doing something (other than data compression), right? Otherwise we'd be seeing 500GB downloads?

  • by CTDOCodebases on 5/8/2023, 10:54:50 AM

    I like how they recycled sprites from other games like Final Fight e.g the burning body sprite that Dhalsim triggers.

  • by kaptain on 5/8/2023, 12:57:24 PM

    Can someone help with the math? Why do they divide by two to calculate the memory size of the sheet? Thanks!

  • by pm2222 on 5/8/2023, 11:58:50 AM

    https://youtube.com/@QuanZhenyouxijieshuo Plenty channels like this one. Surprised to find that Zangief can be so strong.

  • by rikthevik on 5/8/2023, 5:28:02 PM

    I love it! Thanks for putting this together.

  • by 592528368 on 5/9/2023, 7:19:14 AM

    Ok