How Were Fighting Games on 3DS?

For some reason the 3DS has a bunch of fighting games. Let's investigate! (DOA is cool)
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Games Featured:
00:00 Intro
02:22 Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
06:55 Blazblue: Continuum Shift II
13:10 Dead or Alive Dimensions
17:44 Tekken 3D: Prime Edition
24:41 Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden / One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
29:52 Platform Fighters and Other Games / Outro
#Nintendo3DS #Tekken #Blazblue

[@fluzzard2]

3:27: Actually, if you go to settings and turn off "3D view", it runs at 60 :) Only problem is, its only in 60 fps offline.

[@valletas]

You beat me to it lol

[@heardofrvb]

I assume it's not at 60 on wireless

[@JB2X-Z]

I could have sworn I did a test with a friend in which we both turned off 3D and got 60fps online... I could just be remembering wrong

[@matmacsug]

So if you have access to a hacked new 3ds, you can turn off speed limit that Nintendo imposed on the chip for stability/ battery life to its full 800+mhz mode. At that point, street fighter and blaz blue can both run at 60 fps with 3d enabled. It's pretty cool!

[@vintendio]

you can play solo at 60 fps what are you smoking?

[@kaizouwar]

Freaking FINALLY someone has made a video about this, I had all of those games (outside of Butoden) and it was a wild time. Props to how well they actually handled on the system

[@daisukegori2112]

As good as they were on 3ds and I do love the 3ds. The vita was King of portable fighting games. To bad it got a bad wrap online. Press can really destroy a console.

[@sonic100X]

Dead or Alive: Dimensions is regarded as the best 3D fighting game on the 3DS.

[@MadDragonify]

Your Blazblue lore videos are sick! I disagree with a lot of your interpretations of the story but the video quality is nice

[@cptwigglefuffle]

DOA Dimensions is the best fighting game on 3DS It's love letter to the Itagaki era and was a great send off before DOA5 came out

[@chrisfarleyshrek4347]

Yeah, DOA was ruined when you are forced to pay for costumes that cost an arm and a leg. Just play the Itagaki DOA games because they are miles better than 5 and 6 because you unlock by playing, not paying. Hell, any game before disc-locked content, live service, Day 1 patches and microtransactions are miles better. Playing DOA 2 right now on my Series X! Hell, most of my games on Series X are games from the glory days of gaming where you pay for the game and you get everything.

[@DanHuberTube]

All the doa games are fun. People are way too hard on six. Personally I have 7,000 ranked matches and I'm the third-ranked Nico.

[@SONGOKU02]

Doa 2 Ultimate was my Favorite part. But 5 still played awesome. But 2 and 3, maybe 4, those will never beat all later parts.

[@Ryusuta]

Honestly, Street Fighter IV on 3DS was one of the first ports to really wow me on the system. It wasn't perfect, but damned if it wasn't really impressive to look at!

[@phongpham6749]

Impressive until i play marvel vs capcom on ps vita:)just wow

[@youtubeaccount697]

@@phongpham6749 ?

[@CoolPig03]

@@phongpham6749 ¿?

[@uhhh_adam]

@@phongpham6749 1? 3DS can also play MvC

[@dantesparda8524]

it also had 60 fps if you turned off 3d

[@pn33milan11]

Finally some justice for DOAD. I'm honestly not talking as a fan when i say DOAD is probably the most impressive fighting game on the system, for old fans and not. In terms of modes, story, content and gameplay, you got everything you could ask for. Only downside the framerate in 3D mode, that Tekken did better, but that's kinda it. Honestly, this is a game i can't recommend enough, if only it got a digital version 😓

[@xRocketzFighterx]

Spent insane hours on Dead or Alive Dimensions. Most beautiful game during the launch era.

[@pinksywedarnoc8017]

I still have the game on my 3ds 😎

[@xRocketzFighterx]

@@pinksywedarnoc8017 You man are a legend for that. I don't have the game myself anymore. my N2DSXL has become a weeby jrpg machine for me hahaha.

[@JcgLounge]

I have Dead or Alive Dimensions. I still play it from time to time.

[@Khan-bq8qc]

My dad brought the 3DS around 2012 and for a long time my only game was SSFIV. I had played fighting games before but this was the first time I actually went out of my way to try and play everything, finish the game on the highest difficulties get every ending learn combos and stuff. Sadly my 3DS is not in a very decent spot(broken shoulder buttons) so replaying it is somewhat out of hand.

[@gusbart5856]

The 3ds ending up half dead afterwards is why I Do not play Action games on it

[@sorayat2333]

You can Always repair it.

[@fritzthecat8158]

Buy another one. The original models are very affordable. Especially from Japan. Get a Japanese one and mod it to have whatever you want

[@Khan-bq8qc]

@@fritzthecat8158 I might look into that, in my country any 3DS model specially New 3DS is so expensive... I found one the other day that costs as much as my Switch did back when I first brought it

[@xexat]

I wanted to buy that Dead or alive game for 3DS but my mom wouldn't let me because of the fan service and it being banned in Australia The funny thing about it was I just wanted a fun fighting game don't think I even hit puberty yet when it came out

[@therock238360]

Weird part is that DOA Dimensions was the the first game in the series since DOA 3 to have a T rating

[@LucasxZade]

Man, I forgot about it being banned briefly here in Aus 😂 I went on a doa binge recently, think this version maybe my fav outside of 2 ultimate.

[@testname4464]

Oh australia, always being the fun police

[@chrisamponsah1187]

Dead or alive was the first game I ever got and man I wore it out😭

[@DARKTIGGERinc]

I still remember I went on a 10 win streak when fighting people online on doad but then someone in my church took my 3ds because I wasn't supposed to be playing games in church. doad was my first experience to being good in a fighting game against actual people and not cpu

[@illiarudkov499]

You were playing DoA game in church? Boy, you're one risky bastard...Respect

[@mechpilotviolet1478]

I loved doa and sf4 on 3ds

[@princeofhalcyon]

Considering they put master chief in a DoA game they definitely shoulda incorporated Samus

[@MultiYogibear]

DOA Dimensions got me into fighters

[@abel3821]

It’s about time, put respect on DOAD’s name!

[@RondoOfBloodX]

To this day it’s still amazing to think that the team who made Extreme Butoden went on to make FighterZ. Meaning that we now NEED a One Piece game like that.

[@XRTerra]

There was in japan

[@RondoOfBloodX]

@@XRTerra I know about the 3DS one. I meant we need a OP game like FighterZ on modern consoles.

[@XRTerra]

@@RondoOfBloodX oh yeah that would be awesome. But Bandai's money is in arena fighters and arc system works most likely is having issues getting the rights to OP again.

[@mark8200]

Dead or alive is my favourite

[@jamesoliver9278]

Liked and subscribed just for acknowledging DoA.

[@ing4gi]

DOAD was amazing on the 3DS

[@sonic100X]

Dead or Alive: Dimensions is regarded as the best 3D fighting game on the 3DS.

[@pacomatic9833]

But something tells me it's so popular for the wrong reasons.

[@sonic100X]

@@pacomatic9833 There's nothing wrong with the game. Dead or Alive: Dimensions is amazing. The game is so impressive and godlike, I give Dimensions a 9/10. The game is lit!!! 🔥👌

[@Lucrei.]

My only issue with it is that it's too easy. Needed higher difficulty settings

[@Mister_Gency]

The dragon ball/one piece thing honestly makes me think of the guitar hero games on ds where the two games were compatible with each other in multiplayer and you could just play any song from either game.

[@filialuvssquigly7447]

Doa dimensions is hands down the best fighting game on the 3ds

[@xexat]

I recently purchased a Japanese 3DS and decided to check the shop to see if Wreck-It Ralph is on there and I have good news in bad news It was available previously but can't be purchased anymore I saw two other 3D movies that were listed being "up" and big hero 6

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

Samus "technically" showed up in a DoA game. Just went under Sarah instead and snuck in with Pai and Akira.

[@anon3863]

hell yeah; put some respect on DOA's name. best fighting game on the 3DS and a fantastic series outside of it (barring DOA6)

[@Sweetrad]

the touch screen macros for SF4 3D were infuriating. every online match was a turtling Guile spamming Sonic Boom and then Flash Kick if u managed to get close.

[@Martian-Girl]

Isn't that just what guiles often do regardless? I would've thought that walking forward flash kicks would be a bigger deal than turtling, since normally that can't happen

[@Sweetrad]

@@Martian-Girl its even worse when its on a single button macro every single kid with a 3ds would be spamming

[@OriginalCrazyJay24]

It's even more egregious when they have auto block on so they can get all that gray health and revenge meter but you can't really hit them with anything.

[@swill6500]

@@OriginalCrazyJay24 just fadc the booms block flashkick and punish this is basic sfiv

[@chavaspada]

@@Sweetrad sounds pretty based, giving an advantage to tactics rather than to memorizing dumb and arbitrary long commands.

[@rikustorm13]

Dead or Alive Dimensions was p good ngl

[@aljosanpedro4189]

thanks for putting in the effort to make this! was just looking for fighting games on my 3ds (in 2022 😆). definitely trying tekken and doa cus of this vid

[@bigzonks4393]

That CRUNCH on the BB announcer saying “Astral Finish” is so good. I’m kind of nostalgic for the intense audio compression of DS/3DS audio ports.

[@eyezack1066]

came from coolt, and wow this vid was great! really scratched the niche fighting game video essay itch i've had in 2022. nothing i love more than finding out some fighting game info i was unaware of.

[@heardofrvb]

Aw, why didn't you mention the one real highlight of DOA Dimensions that is the Street pass based Throwdown mode?

[@galacticpool1262]

I spent so much time in the summer of 2012 playing super street fighter 4 3d and tekken 3d prime on my 3DS. Even though I could care less about the games now, I'm happy to see someone do a retrospective on them. The former alongside MK vs. DC was my gateway into the FGC.

[@dietcolacan]

I remember playing SF4 online to wait for Smash 4 and all it was was fighting Guile using sonic boom and flash kick or Sagat using tiger shot, and eventually I mained Guile because that was just the meta LMAO Ryu joining Smash felt like getting allll those lost matches back man

[@bananabike279]

Great collection of 3DS fighters, I never even knew BlazBlue was ported to the 3DS. Please do a similar video on PSP and DS fighters as well!!

[@Wolfedge75]

“A lot of modern fighting games forget just how important having all of this meaty single player content” (Shows Guilty Gear Strive) That’s quite an understatement, my friend.

[@harrylane4]

@@hessenic6862 it’s got 5 hours of content in that anime included

[@Pac-TGM]

This is such a super underrated video what the heck This has great editing and is super informative You definitely deserve a sub Can't way to see more!

[@grambortino]

Nah he mispronounced kavɪat, l+ratio+not invited to my birthday

[@Unquestionable]

That was a weird but cool period in time when the 3DS seemed really insistent on making us buy fighting games. I got the system at launch so I picked up pretty much every title during the first year or so of release giving me some mad nostalgia for some of them. Portable fighting games have always interested me as well having gotten a Neo Geo Pocket for dirt cheap and that system had some absolute bangers.

[@alexacosta4754]

Street fighter on 3ds was so cool to me I still have my 2ds really good for road trips back in the day and having a bit of fighting games on handheld was actually fun

[@BortaMaga]

19:49 small correction, the Tekken 6 PSP port uses character models from Tekken 5, while Tekken 3D actually uses character models from Tekken 6 PS3/Xbox 360 version. Devil Jin's character model for example at 20:35 have white eyes like in Tekken 6 PS3 version and is slightly more detailed

[@GigaGom]

loved this a lot. i know you'll prolly do other consoles before it but im ecstatic about you covering NGPC games. I got into them a few years back. Now it's prolly my favorite traditional handheld.

[@noahsolomon538]

SSF4 3D was my first fighting game, and it got me into the fgc and i'll always love it for that

[@Sayuku_P]

Well, the only fighting game I've played on the 3ds was doa domensions, I discovered the series with it and I can confidently say that it is awesome, and being now an hardcore fan (thanks to it) and having all the games from 1 to 6, I'd say it's the best in the series. Great video btw! 💫 c:

[@JYC512]

They need to do a series reboot doing dimensions on ps5 or xbx. It would be insane with even their doa6 engine

[@Sayuku_P]

@@JYC512 A shame Shimbori left, the series is pretty much dead without him or Itagaki in the team.. And yeah, the DOA6 engine in itself is great don't get me wrong, but that's because of it that we didn't get the game on the switch, that we didn't get tag team back, no cliffhangers...the list goes on..

[@dynastymusou8906]

It's good to see a video on this specific topic. There were not many fighting games on 3DS, but the ones available were good. I love Dead or Alive Dimensions, Super Street Fighter IV - 3D Edition and Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden. SSFI IV even still has a somewhat active online community. I had no issues finding matches today. The detail about the cross-game multi-player between Dragon Ball Z and One Piece was not known to me, by the way. It's a really cool concept. Imagine Arc System Works creating a new One Piece fighting game in the same vein as Dragon Ball FighterZ and implementing that system on a bigger scale. It would blow minds...

[@Kurisu545]

Nice video, champ! Subscribed!

[@vyperii]

I am so over-joyed you mentioned the NeoGeoPocketColour! It has the absolute best hand-held fighting games- not ports, but bespoke entries. It is such a superb but missed hand-held...

[@Redxyellow1]

SF4 runs at 60 fps if you disable the 3d in the game's menu. Yes even on actual hardware.

[@mousefire777]

Honestly that’s crazy. I forgot about that since I haven’t played it in like a decade. The fact that they fit the video, sounds, textures and models, and animations onto a 4gb 3ds cartridge at launch, *and* had it running at 60fps is crazy

[@Redxyellow1]

@@mousefire777 I know right? The mt framework engine is incredible, the games running off of it just looks amazing and runs equally well. See RE revelation, this game is a miracle

[@CopPuncher]

you mentioned a few games that were also on or had games very similar on psp. i'd really love to see a similar-style video touching on those games, or really any other notable handheld fighting games :3

[@PuellaSins]

Extreme Butoden/Great Pirate Colesseum are what got me into pixel art and drawing pixel art

[@HBRO_04]

I love playing SFIV on my 3DS and i still have it. It’s pretty impressive and i would get bodied online but someone using simple controls.

[@armandopineiro4022]

It's important to note that if you disable 3d sf4 runs at 60 fps so you literally have a 1 to 1 port of 4

[@pentexsucks43]

Damn.... That clip of the Zaibatsu at the beginning. It all hurts so much

[@wooten130]

Love the video. I would love to a video on DS fighters

[@zapbolt8]

I get so happy when someone mentions the pirate colosseum and extreme butoden cross play

[@AkibaMomoro]

One of my first fighting games was continuum shift 2. Had it at different points on both 3ds and psp

[@chemmystery5217]

So happy to see someone else care about handheld fighting games!

[@mrdude88]

Street Pass was so awesome! During that time I was traveling a lot so I’ll get a lot of visitors from airports. This also made layover enjoyable because I could walk around to nab people Mii.

[@hgmd3284]

you gotta talk about more obscure 3ds stuff, i need more content like that.

[@MyNameJefff]

Extreme Butoden is actually incredibly solid as a 3DS Fighting Game and has a surprising amount of depth. It really feels like a baby FighterZ at times.

[@AllStarKingD]

I really like BBCTE. The practice mode was fun as Taokaka for me. Also liked the tower mode.

[@abdelali9279]

like when people say if you can only choose one fighting game to play in a deserted island, DOAD is literally that for me, it is basically DOA the greatest hits, but I felt the DS had better options, espciale MK Ultimate and Bleach Dark Souls, what a name, but man SFIV 3D, someone lend it to me, I gravitated towards Juri, and realized that playing SF is so alien to me like taking a scalpel in the middle of a brain surgery just to realize you are not even wearing a sanitized robe, but yeah

[@jesuspernia8031]

I remember playing SFIV. It’s still the best SF imo. Yeah the 3DS version made the combos easier with the second screen, but it was still good ole Street Fighter IV. Also Extreme Butoden is cool and the Butoden series seemed to lay the groundwork for what FighterZ will be.

[@jasomega2446]

I was close to playing Street fighter 4 on 3Ds.

[@GamerMGO]

This is a great video

[@soopplaza4477]

It's about time someone talks about the majority of my old 3DS library lol

[@jay-edemesa420]

I remember going into conventions just to get to use street pass. Good ol days the memories

[@yoran4067]

good video, i hope you improved your soundmixing skills in the future

[@LampHatScott]

When I saw DOA Dimensions at a retro game store I had to buy it because I've never seen it before. Best $50 I have ever spent on a 3DS game.

[@mathiascronqvist6246]

5 years later the switch is still missing fighting games!

[@LordSaladbar1]

Fun Fact: you can watch Dinosaur Office on the Eshop. Anywhere before March 2023.

[@CaravanNoobs]

I swear to god I remember MvC3 being on the 3DS’ eShop. Not Ultimate, only base MvC3. I remember seeing the page for it clearly but when I tried finding it it was gone.

[@sladejosephwilson2300]

The neo geo pocket color had the best handheld analog stick.

[@ericmagers7859]

Surprised that no SNK game (King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown, Fatal Fury) wasn't released on the 3ds.

[@Lucrei.]

Wasn't a good time period for SNK they were in the process of being shut down and refinanced if l recall correctly

[@zultriova89]

they almost bankrupt and been sold to other company..

[@PatternLand]

Glad that the ds somehow got you guys into street fighter 4

[@rydog_64]

Damn deep sliver was involved with punch time explosion didn't know that before watching this

[@DragoonMS]

Interesting. Never knew that there was a DBZ fighter on 3DS; ironic because that One Piece fighter is effectively the same thing, and I've actually heard about that.🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️ Also wasn't aware of the actual BlazBlue fighter, just the crappy Clonephantasma chibi style one. Super Street Fighter IV & Dead or Alive Dimensions were pretty amazing (I have both of'em), though it really sucks that Capcom didn't really bother with any updates like they did for the console versions (I would've loved to have Ultra SFIV on the go); meanwhile, it's just as surprising Tecmo didn't bother porting DoA1 Ultimate, DoA2 Ultimate (the souped-up Xbox versions from the DoA Ultimate collection), or DoA3, since Dimensions is largely the MK Trilogy spin on DoA4...just because 1-3 (and probably the real DoA4) would've been way less taxing on the 3DS.

[@SAsaiyajin]

That is not necessarily the case of it being less taxing. As those older games were specifically made for PS2 hardware and DOA3 uses Xbox more powerfull hardware as well. It would still require some optimization anyhow. Dimensions also focuses more on the main plot around Ninja characters and Helena. Would like a remake for Switch though with extended plot elements not just the story around Kasumi and Ayane.

[@daisukegori2112]

Neo geo pocket color had loads of amazing fighting games that control better than some fighting games Today. Also Tekken 5 Dr on psp was incredible.

[@TariqYasiinProd]

I really miss my 3DS I need to turn it on fron time to time

[@LazyPirate8]

SfIv on the 3ds was Not the first fighting game I ever played, but the first one I owned.

[@GeaForce]

I can't believe ASW did a Dragon Ball Fighting game... without DLC

[@ShiningTaiga]

I’m so lucky I have a good portion of these games in my collection I couldn’t get tekken sadly

[@LazurBeemz]

Everyone complains about touch-screen Guiles, but as I recall there was an option to only play against people using normal controls.

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

I wish we got that One Piece fighting game, it looks so good.

[@JoEs_Do9]

On the day street fighter I always changed the screen angle to normal

[@vellas8737]

I can’t get over how he said caveat at 0:30

[@TariqYasiinProd]

I love that win button thing 😂😂😂😂

[@m1k3l1f3]

Tbh I still enjoy playing Killer Instinct on the original Game Boy. It surprisingly has some depth for such limited hardware.

[@danaugust993]

There is a really goofy video on the 3DS e-shop for Street Fighter 4 3D featuring the series director. Watch it while you can.

[@sethgallagher6042]

Why is the tank from akatsuki blitzkampf in a Blaz Blue game...? Were they the same developers?

[@Travis-ea4205]

Imagine Street Fighter III (either 2nd Impact or 3rd Strike) gets ported to the original DS

[@98kreB]

I mean WWE all stars on 3ds is the only way to play every character nowadays

[@Jetanium]

Guile is a god in this.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

Great video. Although what was with the 6 month hiatus?

[@Gobsmac]

Personal life + doing research for another side video that didn't come out + busy at university. So expect the next video by the end of June

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

@@Gobsmac Ok. I'm actually going to college in 15 days.

[@ekkusu9493]

Mans said caveet lol

[@mikeoxmaul4685]

Please do a “How were fighting games on Vita”! 😆

[@eddiebus2651]

Speaking for Blazblue CS 2 being the only fighter I had on the 3ds besides Smash Bros Blazblue was decent. Now that you point it out the graphics quality is very bery low. But having 3D cutting sprites into different layers. Some stages look better in 3D for having lots of layers were others had barely any. Im surprised I had spent so much time on BB when DOA or SF would've been way worth the money. 🤷‍♂️

[@summercrews5620]

I played the shit out of Blayzbloo to the point where i thought thats what the series was like, i swear i got whiplash when i actually played bbtag

[@JtheBOSS]

I assume you were saying caveat near the beginning and I’ve never heard it pronounced like that unless it was a different word and I had misheard it

[@mamodokod4613]

I have tekken, dragon ball, and street fighter, DOA and Blazblue are really expensive

[@ZzigZaG00NIN]

since are make a console version on EB i'd love to see them make a console version of GPC one day

[@uhhh_adam]

3ds got me into sf4 so I eventually got it on PC but no one fought online wout the touchscreen specials lol. I would watch wreck it Ralph on 3ds lmao