Author Topic: Final Fight & Magic Sword coming to XBLA/PSN in a bundle (Read 4689 times)

ManaByte · « **on:** November 26, 2009, 12:27:39 AM »

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Capcom has slipped IGN the info that Final Fight will be making a comeback in April of 2010. Dubbed Final Fight: Double Impact, this single digital download will contain both Final Fight and Magic Sword. Those with access to the Xbox Live Arcade or the PlayStation Store will have the opportunity to snag it. No pricing details have been announced as of this writing.

Both Final Fight and Magic Sword are old-school side-scroling beat-em-ups. Magic Sword puts players in the shoes of The Brave One in a fight against he forces of Drokmar. If you didn't already know or hadn't guessed, this is a fantasy-themed brawler. Final Fight, meanwhile, takes players along for a ride with the iconic Cody, Guy, and Haggar as they fight across six stages of Metro City against Mad Gear. Cody and Guy will also both be playable in Super Street Fighter IV.

This release will have two visual modes, one that will "make the games shine in crisp and clear HD glory," and another that allows players to use the original look. Both games will support leaderboards and online play with drop-in co-op allowing players to join a friend's game already in progress.

GilloD · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2009, 12:54:23 AM »

MAGIC SWORD YES PLAY AS NINJA

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2009, 12:56:27 AM »

Aw, heck yes!

Capcom beat em ups are due for a revival. Its a shame their really great liscensed games aren't likely to ever get a rerelease, but a guy can dream.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2009, 02:34:59 AM »

Its about time!

Beezy · « **Reply #4 on:** November 26, 2009, 02:42:56 AM »

iconoclast · « **Reply #5 on:** November 26, 2009, 02:59:04 AM »

Final Fight kinda sucks these days. But I'll buy this bundle if the price is right (400 pts).

And by this "make the games shine in crisp and clear HD glory," I'm guessing they mean it'll have the same old shitty filter that no one likes.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #6 on:** November 26, 2009, 03:09:21 AM »

The border art is pretty awesome. I've never played this (Magic Sword) game, is it any good?

Akala · « **Reply #7 on:** November 26, 2009, 03:09:58 AM »

there's pretty much no way this will be 400 pts. I'd still buy it @ 800, which means it'll be 1200. :'(

Quote from: Willco on November 26, 2009, 03:09:21 AM

The border art is pretty awesome. I've never played this (Magic Sword) game, is it any good?

yep. **disclaimer** nostalgiac good.

bork · « **Reply #8 on:** November 26, 2009, 03:20:03 AM »

Yeah, Magic Sword's definitely "nostaliga good," but a fun enough romp through once or twice. You can play it two player, which the SNES home port lacked. Final Fight's pretty much the same way, but I still love the shit out of it. They should have gone the HD Remix route with both games; there's so little animation on those sprites that it would be easy to make some ultra-detailed updated characters.

iconoclast · « **Reply #9 on:** November 26, 2009, 03:24:50 AM »

It's probably going to be 800 points, but what's the point of that? Nowadays the standard price for rom dumps is 400, so bundling two together for 800 is kinda pointless. 1200 would just be

400 is pretty low for two games, and I guess Capcom wouldn't want to try and scam them for 800 each. Eh, whatever. ┐('～`；)┌

Draft · « **Reply #10 on:** November 26, 2009, 10:27:38 AM »

Magic Sworrrrrrrrrrrrrd.

One of the first SNES games I owned.

archie4208 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 26, 2009, 10:56:13 AM »

I remember Magic Sword at the local Pizza Hut when I was a kid. I would constantly beg my mom for quarters because the game was really hard. :'(

tiesto · « **Reply #12 on:** November 26, 2009, 11:04:53 AM »

Used to play Magic Sword at the local bowling alley when I was little... not sure how it holds up today... but I agree that the border art is pretty awesome. Is it Crapbone handling the ports tho?

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #13 on:** November 26, 2009, 11:19:48 AM »

I saw the thread title and thought "hmmm, I've bought Final Fight a jillion times and I'm still mad at Magic Sword for giving me a game over when I chose the evil path at the end..."

but then I saw the screens, day 1.

edit: wait, April 2010?! what the fuck, why are they announcing this so early.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #14 on:** November 26, 2009, 12:56:21 PM »

I love Final Fight so much.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #15 on:** November 26, 2009, 11:15:56 PM »

Hopefully one of the achievements is: PILE DRIVER 200 MAD GEARS WITH HAGGAR

and

Oh, my car! - 10G, description: Oh, my car!

Man Im so pumped, I really hope they have the Sega CD digitzed OST and Oh my car (they wont)

The Sceneman · « **Reply #16 on:** April 06, 2010, 10:19:49 PM »

April 14th - 800M$ points

set weenies to hard.

Im going to walk around the office like Mike Haggar to celebrate

Ichirou · « **Reply #17 on:** April 06, 2010, 10:20:19 PM »

I'M CUMMING

The Sceneman · « **Reply #18 on:** April 06, 2010, 10:21:10 PM »

whats youre gtag shithead lets play Final Fight when it drops

Ichirou · « **Reply #19 on:** April 06, 2010, 10:28:13 PM »

My XBL tag is Ichirou Oogami. I'll be Guy, you be Haggar.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #20 on:** April 07, 2010, 01:56:28 AM »

you cant just buy Magic Sword, you have to buy Final Fight. Magic Sword is si ply a bonus 2nd billing. Final Fight is the real star of the show, as the download is called: Final Fight: Double Impact

E-DuB · « **Reply #21 on:** April 07, 2010, 02:51:53 AM »

The idea of bundling is awesome. Will buy as soon as I can find some points on the cheap.

Ichirou · « **Reply #22 on:** April 07, 2010, 02:53:07 AM »

Hope we get more of these beat-em-ups as bundles.

E-DuB · « **Reply #23 on:** April 07, 2010, 02:58:25 AM »

Quote from: Ichirou on April 07, 2010, 02:53:07 AM

Hope we get more of these beat-em-ups as bundles.

Knights of the Round

Ichirou · « **Reply #24 on:** April 07, 2010, 03:02:29 AM »

Powered Gear/Knights of the Round combo pack would rule.

MrSingh · « **Reply #25 on:** April 08, 2010, 12:58:27 AM »

Give us Shadows Over Mystarra please Capcom. (T_T)

bork · « **Reply #26 on:** April 08, 2010, 01:45:48 AM »

Quote from: MrSingh on April 08, 2010, 12:58:27 AM

Give us Shadows Over Mystarra please Capcom. (T_T)

Obligatory "and Aliens Vs. Predator!"

Ichirou · « **Reply #27 on:** April 08, 2010, 01:46:36 AM »

Pretty sure they don't have the rights to those anymore so they can't re-release them.

We're better off asking for Cyberbots and Powered Gear.

bork · « **Reply #28 on:** April 08, 2010, 01:48:37 AM »

Quote from: Ichirou on April 08, 2010, 01:46:36 AM

Pretty sure they don't have the rights to those anymore so they can't re-release them.

We know. WE. KNOW.

:'( :'( :'( :'(

Then again, they lost the Marvel license and appear to have it back now...

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We're better off asking for Cyberbots and Powered Gear.

That would be a fun little combo pack!

Ichirou · « **Reply #29 on:** April 08, 2010, 01:52:45 AM »

They're not very well know, but then again, it's not like Magic Sword was a huuuuuge title and it's getting an XBLA release.

Wonder if Warzard/Red Earth would be another possible release, that was a beautiful-looking game from the screens I've seen of it.

Enl · « **Reply #30 on:** April 08, 2010, 02:10:39 AM »

Quote from: Good Day Sir on April 08, 2010, 01:48:37 AM

We know. WE. KNOW. :'( :'( :'( :'(

Then again, they lost the Marvel license and appear to have it back now...

Well there is a new Predator movie coming out. So what better way to promote the film than to reteam with one of the best game companies of this generation and to rerelease of the best games to come out the franchise.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I can dream can't I. :'(

[close]

The Sceneman · « **Reply #31 on:** April 08, 2010, 02:17:35 AM »

my local takeaway chinese/burger bar had a frickin AvP coin-op but It died :'( I cant get my drunken AvP fix while waiting for burgers and chips anymore :'( :'(

:'(

The Sceneman · « **Reply #32 on:** April 13, 2010, 07:22:23 PM »

its out todaaayyyyyyy cant wait

The Sceneman · « **Reply #33 on:** April 13, 2010, 08:46:20 PM »

List of challenges for unlocking stuff:

Level 1 - Slums
TIER 1
Beat Damnd
Complete slums in under 5:00
Complete slums w/ Cody
Get 50,000 points in slums

TIER 2
Complete slums in under 3:40
Get 100,000 points in slums

TIER 3
Complete slums in under 2:27
Get 110,000 points in slums

Level 2 - Subway
TIER 1
Beat Sodom
Complete subway w/ Guy
Complete subway w/o using 5 continues
Complete subway w/o losing 9 lives

TIER 2
Complete subway w/o losing 7 lives
Complete subway w/o using 4 continues

TIER 3
Complete subway w/o losing 5 lives
Complete subway w/o using 3 continues
Complete subway in under 7:30

Level 3 - Westside District
TIER 1
Beat Edi. E
Complete westside w/ Haggar
Complete westside w/o losing 12 lives

TIER 2
Complete westside w/o losing 9 lives
Get 100,000 points in westside
Complete westside in co-op

TIER 3
Complete westside w/o losing 7 lives
Get 210,000 points in westside

Level 4 - Industrial Area
TIER 1
Beat Rolento
Complete industrial in under 10:00
Complete industrial w/o using 7 continues

TIER 2
Complete industrial w/o using 4 continues
Complete industrial in under 6:00
Complete industrial w/ Guy
Complete industrial in co-op

TIER 3
Complete industrial w/o using 2 continues
Complete industrial in under 4:10

Level 5 - Bay Area
TIER 1
Complete bay area w/ Haggar
Beat Abigail
Get 250,000 points in bay area
Complete bay area in under 15:00

TIER 2
Complete bay area in under 12:00
Get 400,000 points in bay area

TIER 3
Get 545,000 points in bay area
Complete bay area in under 9:00

Level 6 - Uptown Metro City
TIER 1
Beat Belger
Complete uptown w/ Cody
Complete uptown w/o losing 30 lives

TIER 2
Complete uptown w/o using 10 continues
Complete uptown w/o losing 20 lives

TIER 3
Complete uptown w/o using 7 contiunes
Complete uptown w/o losing 15 lives
Complete uptown in under 10:00
Get 570,000 points in uptown

pretty awesome list, looking forward to going for these!

The Sceneman · « **Reply #34 on:** April 14, 2010, 06:31:39 PM »

anyone get this? I was waiting for it to pop up last night but it was bedtime. Will get tonight and post 'impressions'

Ichirou · « **Reply #35 on:** April 14, 2010, 07:15:48 PM »

I picked it up after playing the demo for about ten minutes. Dunno if it's just me, but it looks and feels so much better/truer to the arcade than all the shit ports Backbone has put out thus far.

Let's play together tonight, man. I got dibs on Guy.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #36 on:** April 14, 2010, 07:30:56 PM »

Love both these games. Did capcom spruce up these ports a bit or are they basically emulated ROMs? I'm not talking about fluff like the border art but the actual in-game graphics.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #37 on:** April 14, 2010, 07:58:15 PM »

yeah ichi, its on! I'll be Haggar.

double lariat

best move ever!

Smooth, it has the usual bullshit emulation smoothing filter (which looks like ass) but not much else is spruced up as far as I know. I dont mind so much as Final Fight still looks and play great. But an HD remix along the lines of SFII would have been awesome!

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #38 on:** April 14, 2010, 11:07:28 PM »

Well, not on the Go

Ichirou · « **Reply #39 on:** April 15, 2010, 01:04:05 AM »

Quote from: The Sceneman on April 14, 2010, 07:58:15 PM

yeah ichi, its on! I'll be Haggar. double lariat best move ever!

Smooth, it has the usual bullshit emulation smoothing filter (which looks like ass) but not much else is spruced up as far as I know. I dont mind so much as Final Fight still looks and play great. But an HD remix along the lines of SFII would have been awesome!

The settings I have it on make it look like an actual arcade cabinet, down to the scanlines.

Scene, I am probably shit at this game, I haven't played Final Fight in at least 18 years.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #40 on:** April 15, 2010, 01:27:13 AM »

thats alright, Im sure the continues are unlimited, just as long as we get the achievement lol

Im good at FF (I think, Ive played it a lot) so I will own as Haggar

Ichirou · « **Reply #41 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:27:54 AM »

How do you pull off the double lariat with Haggar? Did Cody and Guy have any special moves like that? I don't even remember.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #42 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:36:46 AM »

If I recalled correctly, they all have one cheap-ass invincible move that you can pull off by pressing both buttons at the same time. The con is that your health is diminished every time you use it. It was a great way to earn quarters. Kids that suck would just keep spamming that move and pumping in more quarters to continue the game. It's how I played it.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #43 on:** April 15, 2010, 06:08:02 PM »

Alright me and Ichi cleaned up Metro City last night. Cheevs are a little touchy, Ichi died during the last boss, before he could continue I finished the boss off. No cheev for him. I stuffed up and picked Guy at the end of my Cody run - no cheev for me. It DOES save individual levels you have completed with a character and in co-op, but the omission of a level select feature still means you gotta play through the game again.

Its a pretty good port, there will be a visual mode to suit everyone, and there is the option of a remixed soundtrack which is always a nice touch. Unfortunatley it isnt the mid-90's cheesy Sega CD soundtrack.

The vault challenges are mostly easy, time trials are cake on easy co-op. Points I think you need to play single player on hard. I already got most of them just by playing through a couple of times.

Ichi lets try and bag that Industrial time trial challenge this weekend, I'll be Haggar. When you were playing as him I notice you werent using his flying Pile Driver. Its devastating on bosses (takes off 3/4 of a life bar when their health is high), to perform it: when you are holding an enemy, press jump and when you are at the height of the jump press attck to pile drive. you can even direct yourself onto other bad guys for extra carnage! (Im sure you saw me going nuts with the move lol). Once were done we should play some Magic Sword. Do you have a headset? It sucked ass having to type out messages all the time

Ichirou · « **Reply #44 on:** April 15, 2010, 06:59:49 PM »

I'm gonna do Haggar on my own in hard to see if I can get the Haggar cheev (every time I try to jump in on someone else's game they're already using Haggar so I can't do that to skip thru levels to get to the end, argh) and the points challenge.

TBH, of all the characters I used I liked Guy best. Cody suckkkkks, I died so many times while I was using him.

Let's do a hard playthru with you using Haggar and me using Guy this weekend to see if we can get those time challenges to unlock everything in the vault.

EDIT: I do have a headset somewhere, need to look for it.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #45 on:** April 15, 2010, 07:16:43 PM »

I reckon we should go on easy for the time trial, I'll set up a save game for us so we can retry it if we need to and stuff. Theres only one time trial we need to get still, which is industrial. We'll need to go solo for the points anyhow, as you'll need to kill everyone and get all the items yourself to reach those points totals.

The game is fun as hell so yeah lets do another playthrough, then we can crank Magic Sword co-op. (theres a vault challenge for beating the game co-op so lets do that)

The Sceneman · « **Reply #46 on:** April 15, 2010, 11:08:54 PM »

okay I read up on the Industrial time challenge, the trick is to use easy mode, and keep pushing forward non-stop (some baddies get left behind!) then pile driver stupid ass boss with Haggar.

Single player on hard for the points challenges.

wow, thread is so dead. Glad to see everyone is passing this game up. Enjoy your waggle future assholes

Ichirou · « **Reply #47 on:** April 15, 2010, 11:49:14 PM »

This is way better than the Puzzle Fighter/MvC2 hackjobs done by Backbone, dunno why anyone would pass this up...unless they were waggle lovers.

Ichirou · « **Reply #48 on:** April 15, 2010, 11:55:29 PM »

You know, you can hurt the other player in this game and the default is set in so anyone can jump in and join a game randomly.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #49 on:** April 16, 2010, 12:02:39 AM »

when we were knocking each other last night it wasnt dealing any damage (except with the Masamune blade)?

I dont think Backbone did the port?

Ichirou · « **Reply #50 on:** April 16, 2010, 12:07:57 AM »

Yeah, it was Proper Games, not Backbone...which is why I think Capcom should let Proper Games do these XBLA ports in the future.

I think it deals like a sliver of damage when you knock each other around.

Magic Sword is 50 floors, wtf...one of the achievements is to clear a level without taking damage.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #51 on:** April 16, 2010, 12:29:38 AM »

I bought this earlier today and played through Final Fight with Guy... still awesome.

Captain Commando port next, please!!

Ichirou · « **Reply #52 on:** April 16, 2010, 12:57:12 AM »

Captain Commando, Warzard/Red Earth, Powered Gear...there's so many other Capcom greats they should put up for download, not even counting the licensed stuff!

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #53 on:** April 16, 2010, 01:00:26 AM »

So was I right about the ultimate move being two buttons pressed simultaneously?

The Sceneman · « **Reply #54 on:** April 16, 2010, 01:13:06 AM »

yes of course

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #55 on:** April 16, 2010, 01:13:33 AM »

Ichirou · « **Reply #56 on:** April 16, 2010, 01:17:39 AM »

Smooth Groove

The Sceneman · « **Reply #57 on:** April 16, 2010, 01:30:49 AM »

ffs every side scroller has the super move of pushing attack and jump at the same time

Ichirou · « **Reply #58 on:** April 16, 2010, 02:20:16 AM »

Final Fight was one of the first ones I played, I didn't remember if they had one back then, lol

originalz · « **Reply #59 on:** April 16, 2010, 02:34:20 AM »

Red Earth is not a good game, and would be the absolute worst choice to port if they can get CPS3 working on the 360.

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Author Topic: Final Fight & Magic Sword coming to XBLA/PSN in a bundle (Read 4689 times)