Undoubtedly they have seen that Fightcade is enabling people to play the NAOMI/Dreamcast era of Capcom games that have languished without official ports for many years. The enthusiast crowd represents but a sliver of the overall market for established IPs and legacy titles.Ĭapcom is acutely aware of the latest and greatest in emulation technology. Nobody in the FGC spreads the gospel of Ultra Street Fighter II owing to a myriad of issues that prevent it from being a true competitive title in the long line of SF2 iterations, but it still sold 500,000 copies.
So what can you do? While I often see these releases met with skepticism on social media for reasons that seem obvious to anyone in the know, the reaction from the crowd simply does not change the trend that publishers like Capcom and SNK continue to release and see sales returns on retro re-releases. I got the Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection for free on Epic Games Store and I still think I deserve compensation for that experience. Digital Eclipse specifically has a bad track record in producing retro re-releases that people will actually buy.
Other fighting games have been in similar situations with the Neo Geo and CPS arcade boards are emulated to a great degree of accuracy through Final Burn and Fightcade has provided a pound-for-pound better experience than the official takes on emulating these games with online multiplayer (a must-have for FGC support) in many instances.
Which begs the question for anyone already invested in playing games on Fightcade: why should we even care about a new port of MVC2?
It’s a great time to be a fan of the mid-2000’s era of fighting games: Following the news that Digital Eclipse has begun talks with Capcom and Disney to produce a new release of Marvel vs Capcom 2 in response to the #FREEMVC2 social media campaign, Fightcade has released the much anticipated Flycast update for GGPO online play making NAOMI arcade games like MVC2 easily playable online for free with just a PC and an internet connection (and you should totally tip developer Flyinghead for his work on that, by the way).
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