1867: Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.19: Fighting Vipers PS2 \\ Bahn playthrough! Uppercut juggles??

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Published on April 16, 2024 11:52:43 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFYckfTvDA4

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Virtua Fighter 2 (1994)

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Playing through Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.19: Fighting Vipers for PS2 as Bahn (aka "Gengis Bahn III"), using PCSX2 in Windows!

My other fighting games playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzPbqNlJ5ZwYaFzrG-P24_zr

0:00 - start
2:03 - fights
8:40 - PSCX2 crashes! Start of Stg 3 (Picky)
10:44 - fighting again
43:40 - cheap uppercuts to beat Jane
59:37 - uppercuddles on boss
1:01:00 - credits
1:04:28 - pole dancer truck 'p'

This game kind of rules. For all the silliness, the basic fighting is so solid. It doesn't have the funky throws getting munged when collision boxes collide thing that VF2 does (at least in the PS3 port), so maybe this is the game they were using to sort stuff like that out.

Finally realized at the end, trying to find some kinda way to get enough cheap damage in on the boss, that Bahn's thing is super-cheap uppercut juggles. I was having fits trying to do his flying uppercut--is it just me or is the uppercut motion input SUPER unforgiving here? Or have I totally forgotten how to uppercut in fighting games? I don't know!--but even his standing uppercut produces a huge juggle opportunity--heck, probably a better one than the standing uppercut actually, although he does have a double-flying-uppercut move if you can somehow pull that off.

I'm also real bad at knowing when to throw in this game. : PPP

You can't freely remap the controls--you're stuck with a small assortment of pre-configured button layouts. Fortunately they did come with combo buttons (I use P+G for throws and K+G for fancy kick moves...I think Bahn might have ONE back-direction-y fancy spin kick I couldn't quite figure out?) and I could just remap them however I wanted in PCSX2.

Maybe those PS3 ports of this and VF2 were so solid because they'd already pretty close to perfected them in the 2500 Series on PS2!! Has pause-menu move lists, like the PS3 version.

This PS2 version uses dithered textures for things like hit smoke and shadows, where the PS3 version used transparencies. It feels just as sharp as the PS3 version graphically, though, when run through PCSX2--except for a slight yellowish muting of the colors (it looks like the Sega Ages 2500 VF2 port may have that as well). Personally I think the dithering is cool. Actually, the earlier Saturn port used dithering in the same spots (this isn't a port of the Saturn version though--at least, other stuff here is a lot different from the Saturn version, like the frame of the timer, the layout of the objects in the background of Bahn's Old West stage, the higher-poly look of the characters, etc.

Gonna have to try Bahn in FV2 for DC. My feeling right now is that FV1 has a solidity to it that FV2 doesn't; also the stages in 1 are way more memorable than 2's, for the most part--although maybe I'm biased by the Cyber Seattle setting here. ; D But take Jane's FV1 stage, for instance, vs her FV2 stage...which I can't even really remember right now. It's, like, a lab or something? Anyway they're probably both cool but different, I gotta go give 2 a proper try. 1 rules and I'm so glad I can play it emulated on PC now and it's not stuck in my PS3, YEAHHHHHhhh woo.

Bizarrely, the game's intro appears has a Sega non-monetization copyright claim on it!

"MODEL2 COLLECTION (モデル2コレクション) トレーラー
Content owners: sega
Content type: Video
Impact on video: Not monetizing"

So that's what I had to cut out near the end, right after the pole dancer truck passes the Pepsi sign. : PPP (That's in the attract mode; that same stage in play--it's Picky's truck-stop stage--only has PEPSI and SEGA trucks; but in the PS3 version, there are no PEPSI trucks (no PEPSI logos at all--not on the underside of Picky's board, either ; ), and it's a pole dancer truck rather than a PEPSI truck parked at the truck stop.)

4/15/24

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