Super Street Fighter II (Actual SNES Capture) - Ken Playthrough on Max Difficulty

[Note: This video and description were originally posted on Youtube in September of 2015.]

This is a capture of me playing through Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers on the SNES. This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii or Wii U Virtual Console. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using a real Super Street Fighter II cartridge. I'm using my favorite character, Ken, and playing on max difficulty (8 stars) with a 3-star turbo setting.

Although I already own Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES and Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival for the Game Boy Advance, I decided to pick up a copy of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers for the SNES. Street Fighter II is such a good game that you can pick up every variation (World Warrior, Championship Edition, Turbo, Super, Super Turbo) and still have fun.

As with my Street Fighter II Turbo upload, I'm beating this game on the highest difficulty without losing a single round.

I've been a Street Fighter II fan since The World Warrior first hit arcades in 1991. I remember the first time I played it at a 7-Eleven near my elementary school. I instantly got hooked and couldn't stop thinking about the game even during class. Of course, at the time, I didn't know how to do any of the special moves, but that didn't stop me from playing the crap out of the game. In fact, when I was only 7 or 8 years old, I entered a Street Fighter tournament hosted by that same 7-Eleven. They hooked up a bunch of Street Fighter II cabinets outside the store and had everyone play against each other in elimination matches. Naturally, I got my ass kicked in the first match, but I still had fun!

Once I learned the special moves I started getting more proficient, and for Christmas of 1992, my brother and I received a brand new Super Nintendo as well as a copy of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. We played that game to death. I remember all the neighbor kids coming over to our house to play it and we would hold our own little improvised round robin matches. By that time I started clobbering everyone with Ken. Damn was it fun. I even remember that some specific friends of ours (two brothers) picked up a Super Nintendo just to get to this game. That's how popular Street Fighter was back then.

Even though my brother and I owned the World Warrior, we would frequently rent Street Fighter II Turbo and Super Street Fighter II from the nearby video rental store. The new moves, characters, faster speed and greater challenge was plenty of incentive for us to rent the newer versions.

The SNES version of Super Street Fighter II has lower quality sound and fewer sound effects than Street Fighter II Turbo, but it features additional characters and moves and still includes selectable turbo settings. The AI is a little easier in this game compared to Turbo, but beating this version on max difficulty is still quite challenging. I hope you like the footage.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a standard SNES controller.