The KO #46 - AST, other cool extras in Fatal Fury Battle Archives (PS4)

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Published on July 7, 2018 5:00:58 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyrlZBDcNc

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Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991)

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Showing some of the cool extra features in Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol.2 on PS4!

(Note: after recording this I noticed that the game is interpolating frames--if you pause the video during some animation, you're likely to see a ghostly view of a second frame over the first. They might have done this to smooth out the frame-by-frame on/off flicker of the character shadows, an old trick to get the effect of transparent shadows on the games' original NeoGeo hardware, which couldn't do real transparency. But having two frames rendering at once does make the game look a little weird; it's hard to see at first, but hard to un-see once you've seen it. : o So I think I'm going to stick with the original version of Battle Archives on the actual PS2, which does not have this problem. A couple other SNK PS2 fighting game ports to PS4 do have the two-frames-at-once problem: The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match and Fu'un Super Combo. Curiously, another SNK PS2 collection, Art of Fighting Anthology, does *not* have this problem on PS4!

Worth noting on that subject perhaps that the online-enabled conversions to PS4 by Code Mystics--so far they've done Last Blade 2, Garou, KOF 97, and um one of the later Samurai Shodowns (I don't have that one)--do have the double-frame-rendering thing on by default, but after people complained, they made it a configurable option, "Flicker Filter," that you can turn off in those games. ; )

Okay but anyway, cool extras in Battle Archives (on both PS4 and PS2 : p)! First, you can toggle on fully orchestrated, "Arrange" (often called "AST") versions of the game soundtracks (0:10). They sound cool! Second, there are Practice modes (0:17) for all of the included games. Third (1:46) there are pause-screen move lists for each character--and these are much more complete than the tiny, selective move lists shown in the in-game "manual" in the menus of the ACA NEOGEO versions of these same games on PS4--those only show five or so moves per character, no matter how many more moves they may actually have!

Both PS4 and PS2 versions of Battle Archives Volume 2 have about one more frame of input lag than the ACA NEOGEO version, and they don't have the little dip-switch style options ACA NEOGEO offers, such as being able to turn off "How to Play" and Continues, and to be able to turn on the display of the difficulty level, which I like a lot. So I'll probably play the ACA NEOGEO version for the most part, but I'll keep the Battle Archives version handy (the non-frame-interpolated PS2 one, anyway : p) in case I really want to practice, check out all the moves, or just groove to the Arrange soundtracks while playing. : )

Recorded with: PS4 to Elgato Game Capture HD60.

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