Soulcalibur III: Arcade Edition [PLAY!]: Standard Mode with Amy Sorel [C6] (WIP EMULATOR FOOTAGE)
7I dunno about you all, but for ME, this video in particular is a special treat, especially as a long time Amy main/fan... (and NO, this is NOT the incomplete PS2 romhack).
NOTE 1: Tutorial I used to get this running: • Tutorial: SoulCalibur III Arcade Edition w...
NOTE 2: As the PLAY! emulator is still in beta, it's got some hiccups in emulating SC3AE directly: namely, an odd random tendency to bug out the positions of the characters at the start of each round and warp them full screen (this can even auto-ring out you for a loss in worst cases). Also when it does this, the polygons on the characters faces glitch out for about a second (it'll fix itself quickly though). Lastly, certain stages with heavy post-processing blur filter (basically any stage with fire effects on it: Yoshimitsu's, Abyss's and Cassandra's being the main ones) are glitched and mess up the screen view some.
...Oh, and at least for me, but the resolution upscaling is broken and doesn't work no matter what setting you put it on. That being said, these only one true reason why this emulator is of noting: it's the only known emulator that can run Namco Arcade board games from the early-mid 2000s era of gaming... which means....
HOLY CRAP, THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!
This is probably one of the few games on the planet that I thought I'd NEVER be able to experience first hand (another being Capcom Fighting All-Stars). SC3AE is a special edition version of SC3 vanilla exclusive to arcades in 2006 that fixes it's notorously broken and buggy performance of the PS2 version, while also promoting previous Bonus characters Li Long, Hwang Seong-gyeong, and Amy Sorel to be main roster playable characters. On top of each character in the roster now having 3 colors per 2 costumes, the added bonus of these three specifically is that they have fully fleshed out movesets compared to vanilla SC3, giving them much appreciated uniqueness.
In Amy's case, this could technically be called her true "coming out party" as THIS is the game that gave her nearly all her signature unique moves and animations that we would all grow to know of her from her SC4 and later SC6 incarnations, separating her from being the cheap Raphael downgrade she was in vanilla. Funny enough, this is ALSO the first game where you technically played as "human Amy", not SC6 (no red eyes or hints of vampirism/malfestation here). Even funnier, vanilla Amy was infamous for her "Pokemon" speak: she had very basic voicing (shared with the other bonus character Lynette) and literally only said one word, her own name "Amy" occasionally. In AE, she somehow manages to SAY EVEN LESS: outside of battle attacks and damage voicing, Amy is practically mute in AE, which is indeed interesting and makes her fleshing out in SC4 into the cynical yet adorable gothic Lolita girl we all know and love stand out even more in comparison.
Perhaps the biggest crime of SC3AE never being released outside of Arcades is the fact that Amy had a VERY cute and well-designed 2P outfit here but it never saw the light of day again, since SC4 she was the only main roster character that only had "one" costume with an alt-coloring being the 2P (since she was literally added at the last minute: to the point where history repeated itself and her attack/damage voicing is AGAIN shared by a Bonus Character and CaS voice option).
What more can be said about AE? Inferno (who was a NPC special opponent in vanilla) appears instead of Abyss as one of the bosses, as well as a strange version of Olcadan (the game's mimic) as the final boss appearing in the same stage that you usually fight the absurdly difficult "SNK Boss" Night Terror in. There's also a secondary game mode called "Legend"... that I know absolutely NOTHING about yet (lol). Guess that can be it's own video in the future.
Phew... that was a lot of info. Anyways, enjoy the video of this thought to be 'lost treasure' of Soulcalibur games.
00:00 Set-Up & Title Screen
00:51 Mode & Character Select
01:35 STAGE 1: Zasalamel
04:09 STAGE 2: Lizardman
07:26 STAGE 3: Li Long
10:12 STAGE 4: Talim
14:12 STAGE 5: Yoshimitsu
17:34 STAGE 6: Kilik
21:39 STAGE 7: Cervantes
29:22 STAGE 8: Inferno [SUB-BOSS]
32:57 STAGE 9: "Hegel" [Olcadan...? - FINAL BOSS]
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