Retro Gaming Australia

The Virtual Boy has a pretty dedicated homebrew community, who’ve done all kinds of weird and wonderful things with Nintendo’s black and red headache inducer. Today you can add Street Figher II to that list.

Dubbed Hyper Fighting, this unofficial version of Street Fighter II was developed by Mr Anon on M.K.’s Virtual Boy fighting engine. You can get the demo over at the Planet VB forums, but you’ll need a VB flash cart in order to play it, as it is not compatible with any emulators at this point.

If you’d like to see how it plays, watch this clip posted to YouTube by the team over at RetroCollect:

After Burner was a smash hit in the arcades, prompting Sega to license and/or port it to every format under the sun. This flyer is from the release of the Mark III/Sega Master System version. While technically deficient, the SMS version of the game does have some rather neat boss fights.

Excuse our unintentional recent absence!

Xbox Live Arcade
Flashback – 800 MSP

Nintendo eShop (Australia, Europe)

WiiU Virtual Console
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SNES) – $AU10.40
Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (SNES) – $AU10.40
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (SNES) – $AU10.40

3DS Virtual Console
Solomon’s Key (NES) – $AU6.50

Nintendo eShop (North America)

WiiU Virtual Console
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (SNES) – $US7.99
Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (SNES) – $US7.99
Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (SNES) – $US7.99

3DS Virtual Console
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (NES) – $US4.99

PlayStation Store (Australia, Europe)

Nothing

PlayStation Store (North America)

New Releases
Kessen III (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99
Naval Ops Commander (PS2 Classics) – $US9.99
Dragon’s Lair Trilogy (contains Dragon’s Lair, Dragon’s Lair II and Space Ace) – $US19.99

Discounts
Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (PSVita) – $US20.99 ($US14.69 for PSPlus)
Preorder digital edition of Grand Theft Auto V, save up to 75% off selected Rockstar digital games

Good Old Games

New Releases
Thunderscape – $US5.99

Discounts
The Thinking Gamer’s sale – 50% off various strategy games

Steam
75% off the Fallout collection (Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics) – $US4.99
50% off Another World 20th Anniversary Edition – $US4.99

Crazy Taxi 3 is the somewhat maligned final numbered entry in the Crazy Taxi series. Originally an Xbox exclusive, it was released to Arcades as the Chihiro driven Crazy Taxi: High Roller, with a PC release following years later. The game takes some of the maps from the first two games and throws in the new Vegas-inspired map, Glitter Oasis.

Got some rare things on sale today, stranger!

Snatcher (Mega CD)

Worms Armageddon (N64)

Sonic Compilation (Mega Drive)

Yoshi's Story (N64)

Alien Soldier (Mega Drive)

Killer Instinct + Watch (SNES)

Sega Saturn

Terranigma (SNES)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES)

Capcom have announed that the Super Nintendo ports of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (Street Fighter II), Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting (Street Fighter II Turbo) and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers (Super Street Fighter II) are headed to the Wii U Virtual Console this coming Thursday.

Players in North America buying one of the games (US$7.99 each) can purchase either or both of the others at half price, while players in Europe (and hopefully Australia) can buy two of the games (£5.49 each) and get the third Street Fighter II game for free. All three titles come with Miiverse support.

That’s a whole lot of Street Fighter II to keep you busy this weekend.

Spanish artist Abel Alves has posted a trailer for a new creation that will have many of you excited – a free 8-bit style game based on the popular Game of Thrones TV series.

The game features four different characters (Jon Snow, Daenarys and Tyrion are shown in the video – each with different abilities and attacks) from the TV show as well as awesome chiptune renditions of the music from the show created by Floating Point. There are four levels in all, based on different parts of the book and TV series, some of which were provided by pixel artist Carl Olsson.

You will be able to the game here soon.

Japanese translation blog Yomuka has posted an English version of the three way interview between Shigeru Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata (then HAL Laboratory President) and Mother series creator Shigesato Itoi which was posted not long after the official announcement of the cancellation of the Nintendo 64 version of Mother 3 (known to us as Earthbound 64).

The interview is long, but goes into a lot of detail about where the game was at, what was going wrong with it and why the cancellation occurred.

It’s a fascinating read.

Capcom will be releasing a 2-disc, 40 track soundtrack set in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary on September 25th.

Entitled Capcom 30th Anniversary Music Best: Original & Arrange, the CD contains tracks from popular Capcom classic franchises such as Ghosts’n Goblins, Mega Man and Street Fighter, as well as modern hits Sengoku Basara, Monster Hunter and Dragon’s Dogma.

So far the CD is only planned for release in Japan, but you can easily obtain it from AmiAmi for the RRP of 3150 yen.

Via Siliconera

Back in the 1990s, Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong Country out for a CG animated TV show produced by France 2 and Nelvana. The result was not pretty, and most people have tried to forget about it.

However, those of you with a morbid curiosity may be excited to know that a new DVD featuring three episodes from the short-lived series will be released in North America in October. The DVD is called Donkey Kong Country: Raiders of the Lost Banana and will set you back $US10.

This may be the first release of the series on DVD in North America, but a couple of single episode DVDs and one collection have been released in Australia and can be found for cheap.

Via GoNintendo