Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper (GBA) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@Darknight0681]

If Crawfish interactive was around for the DS, man they would’ve pulled off miracles.

[@typhlocube9359]

Ralph Pollard maybe we would be able to have cps3 like street fighter 3 on the ds it would be very cool

[@NintendoComplete]

SFA3 on the Game Boy Advance is everything that you could possibly ask for and more. Even with the few cuts required by the limited cart size, it really is hard to find fault with any aspect of this amazing port.

[@NintendoComplete]

+Paperclown Np! :) I'm glad you like it!

[@NYCJoeBlack]

NintendoComplete - I own both, the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance version along with the original box and all inserts. I too, was/is amazed at what the folks at Crawfish were able to accomplish and remember reading that Street Fighter Alpha 3 would be there last game, but I don't remember why. What happened to Crawfish??

[@NintendoComplete]

NYCJoeBlack They overextended themselves and then missed the promised deadline for this one, and so they forfeited a huge chunk of the profits per their deal with Capcom.

[@NYCJoeBlack]

NintendoComplete - So, we are the employees? In addition, you said the game is 8 Mega Bytes, so that equates to 32 Mega Bits or 64 Mega Bits? Capcom is known for using the largest memory storage in cartridge form; Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers for the SNES is 32 Mega Bits and Resident Evil 2 for the Nintendo 64 is 64 Mega Bits.

[@NintendoComplete]

+NYCJoeBlack It would be 64mbit. I'm pretty sure RE2 was 64mbyte (512mbit) though. How do you mean employees?

[@CrimsonMoonM]

I can't believe how smoothly this game runs! The GBA should've struggled to run regular old SFA3, much less Upper, yet here we are.

[@DavideGendo]

I almost cannot believe this is on a portable system that's now more than 15 years old. Was it without that overlay and scanlines, the only true giveaway would be the music quality, great remixes but still often 8bit-ish. I recall Crawfish. They lasted only a few years but were quite prolific, and their games were mostly licensed stuff of varying quality, but they had some people who really knew how to use the portable hardwares. Since you mentioned it I checked videos of Street Fighter Alpha for GBC and damn, what they did there is nearly magic. (They also made an Aliens game that looks a lot like Alien Breed. The irony!)

[@KareemHillJr]

Now it's 20 years old.

[@cloud_s_97]

it's impressive that it's well animated for a gba port...

[@pkradiancegamingbiorhythm]

I came very close to getting this game back in the day but I sadly need had done so. Thanks for posting this as it's certainly a technical marvel for the mighty little handheld.

[@mortenera2294]

Damn, I wish Crawfish was still around in the DS era. I bet they would've done miracles

[@MFields2178]

FACT: Even if I'm not entirely interested in the game (not a big fan of portable) I'll always read NintendoComplete's descriptions.

[@MusicInMe754]

SAAAAAAAAAME!!!! That's honestly a huge reason why I always watch their playthroughs. :)

[@ikagura]

Really impressive, even better than the GBC port of Alpha 1 (which was also impressive in its own way) Sadly we never got a re-release of double upper/Max on console and PC...

[@lordzhuge]

Eagle is the man, I'm still waiting for him to come back to the series somehow

[@larrylaffer3246]

Funny how that a fighting game on the GBA in 2002 could look and play better than that new fighting game on SNES you showed a while back but that just shows the talent of the developers of this port.

[@NintendoComplete]

Larry Laffer Funny, I had the same thought :) but in many ways the GBA was quite a bit more capable than the SNES, to be fair. The SNES port of SFA2 was super impressive, but it couldn't hold a candle to this.

[@larrylaffer3246]

Still though that game should have been better. Yeah after all the GBA is a 32 bit sytem that could handle a true 3D game like Tekken or True Crime.

[@Darknight0681]

GBA is NOT doing that kind of 3D without a GPU. Just because it’s 32bit doesn’t mean it should be able to pull that stuff off. The Virtual Boy was 32bit too and all it was capable of was wireframes and pretty decent 2D at a fairly high resolution for its time.

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

I have one good thing to say about it the music almost perfect considering Game Boy Advance had a mono speaker in it

[@RetroGames4K]

Really good impressive port. GBA had really good games...

[@4713Caine]

This is insane. They even stuffed eagle, Maki, and Yun in this. I turned this down because I already had the alpha anthology for ps2. My mistake.

[@QUEST91]

Had this for my gba sp!!! This game was legendary

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

had this version for a bit. can't believe ONLY THIS VERSION had YUN in it. Like wow.

[@bgasman]

First time I played this game before, but its looks cool!

[@Computer468]

This is my dream game

[@Shinobi33]

Pretty impressive

[@LilReikoGold]

Do you think that the sega dreamcast 2, playstation 5, or a new nintendo console will come out in the 2020s?

[@NintendoComplete]

Rico 1990 I would think PS5 would happen before then. It's already 5 years old now. Lol what a random question.

[@mortenera2294]

@@NintendoComplete Well, PS5 will come out in November 2020 rofl

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

It's not Street Fighter Alpha 3 without the announcer

[@stantonbentley2534]

Next time turn the contrast up! :) But seriously, all this on an 8 meg cart? They must've used some nifty tricks! Always nice to see Street Fighter games.

[@NintendoComplete]

Stanton Bentley If I did that, it wouldn't look like the real system!

[@NintendoComplete]

Stanton Bentley Yeah apparently that had an extremely good programmer who barely managed to fit it. Everything on the cart is supposedly ubercompressed

[@hec5426]

Got this game today and I can't find a way to chose the original color for the characters each button changes the color. Any advice?

[@sonic42688]

Use both the L and B buttons at the same time to select your character

[@hec5426]

@@sonic42688 U rock buddy

[@DryThronesSquad2001]

On Street Fighter Alpha 3 GBA, do you know how to select a character with the normal outfit? Another thing, I have been trying to use A-ISM or X-ISM but I couldn't get it. I did manage to use V-ISM but didn't know what I was actually doing.

[@jackpaq1274]

Koopa Gangster Rules 2001 use L and B at the same time to use the normal color

[@DryThronesSquad2001]

JackPaq 12 OMG! it actually worked this time! Thanks you so much JackPaq 12! I'll subscribe to you! Would you like to subscribe to me?

[@AGZhark]

I know this is an old comment, but V-Ism is used for combos. X-Ism gives you access to only one really strong special, while A-Ism gives you access to three that vary in power.

[@greasemonk4576]

Here's hoping for a re-release of this version.

[@louiskeiflin5858]

Impressive port, but man the difficulty is so hard or maybe I am not good at fighting games. ;-;

[@dylansantos5958]

What is the shader you're using?

[@NintendoComplete]

It's a standard LCD shader that was included with Retroarch iirc

[@beaniegee5129]

Classic!!

[@gilvannygg]

how to select the original color of the fighter? TKS

[@sodeyroth9611]

they should make a gamecube version and SSF2RB too

[@KenMasters.]

It would sell more than HYPER SFII.

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

If this port soundtrack had some opportunity used Pokémon, Zero and other style samples etc.

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

Plus GG.

[@alighoul3482]

J'ai encore ce jeux en boîte original en très bon état avec dans une boîte de protection. Je l'ai acheter à sa sortie. La cartouche est intact J'ai passer des heures et des heures dessus. Je joue encore avec ma gba sp version nes. Quand vous avez des jeux en boîte protéger de l'humidité car le carton s'abîme sur les côtés.

[@paulang1054]

Nice

[@peteradamethetunaboy]

7:26 9:44 16:55

[@odjiramirez85]

En tant que grand ferru et mordu de 2X et de SFA3 upper DC US, je trouve pas terrible cette version en comparaison à ces dernières ou encore à la version double upper Alpha 3 Max, la faute à la résolution, trop basse, l'absence de bouttons middle pose un énorme problème, les rendus sonores et la digitalisation est très médiocre et ne reflète en rien la version arcade upper, DC et PsP. Çes manquements font tâche je trouve pour moi en tout cas mais sinon on ne peut que saluer l'effort du studio britannique d'avoir réaliser cet exploit à une époque où les contraintes étaient nombreuses, sur un hardware vieillot ultra limité. Les gars se sont fait un nom dans le milieu grâce à cette prouesse incroyable d'avoir porté le meilleur jeu de versus fighting de tous les temps sur une petite bombinette Nintendo bourré de contraintes et de limitations techniques.

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

PlayStation is better and the PS2 version is way better then the original PlayStation

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

This port sucks to me I had it when I was 17 in 2002 and I just didn't like the way they put all the moves into 4 buttons

[@tiradouken2854]

Well considering that the system only had 4 main buttons to begin with they had no choice 🤔

[@Bcuervo33]

@@tiradouken2854 four buttons, but in configuration options you can configure it using button combinations and get the six buttons. The gameplay is very good

[@tiradouken2854]

@@Bcuervo33 I know that. I agree. Its fantastic.