STREET FIGHTER ＥＸ : Early Development Version

[@8MKWeb8]

Fun fact, on the character select screen, the character resembling Kairi is named "shujinkō" which is Japanese for "main character" or "protagonist", which makes sense as Kairi was initially meant to be the main character. Also, Hokuto is named "kobudō onna", which means "kobudō girl", and kobudō, or koryū, is a word for ancient Japanese martial arts.

[@ARIKAFGC]

Thanks for the useful information.

[@SHINBAXTER]

LOL. I WAS ACTUALLY JUST TRYING 2 MAKE OUT THE LETTERS OF KAIRI'S NAME JUST THIS SECOND XD =)

[@Noctsranun]

Lieutenant Pie And Nanase?

[@chidorisnake22]

Lieutenant Pie Imo, Kairi is still the main character of EX. He carries more weight in the story than Hokuto does.

[@hotaru3679]

Lol. Shujinko is Mortal Kombat

[@Technosphile]

"Cashew" Snider is the best thing I've seen all day.

[@petrusamp7792]

haha I was going to say the same thing.

[@tannerlion1994]

Allen

[@Mightywhiskaz]

He is a tough nut to crack

[@PixelSushi3]

@@Mightywhiskaz not for cracker jack

[@pabloignacioscaletta]

Maybe this is related to his lore: In Fighting Layer he's said to be Brazilian.

[@gaminggoddess85]

I like how proto-Pullum obviously had the most work done on her portrait.

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

where can i find these unreleased tracks

[@gdam0079]

Midi

[@Ekraelum]

Those Ryu combos are so satisfying to watch.

[@Deeyennay]

Man I REALLY miss that old SF character select music.

[@jordonvazquez7620]

I just love how Arika had the characters vibing to the music in their stances.

[@jajajajavidal5389]

The characters is like to dancing with the music.

[@UltimateShadow10]

1:36 Am I seeing things or did Darun Mister blink? No one else blinked, just him.

[@UltimateShadow10]

Sriram Jeostarzz Look at his tiny portrait the cursor is on.

[@LtheOriginal]

Looks more like a video glitch/video quality issue, than an intentional in game animation.

[@Manobaru]

Nope. It's a video artifact either from VHS conversion or from v-sync. If you pause and look frame by frame, you can se the line affecting Pluma's eyes, and Jacks's hat as well. You can see similar artifact on Ryu's cheek and nose on the big portrait around 1:42

[@RBHobbista]

Allen and Kairi looked cool even before the overhaul and final touch up of the game.

[@FlyingParafin]

Man, even if the music is recycled from SFII, Arika still managed to make it sound amazing like with the final OST. They could have totally made the character select remix an unlockable track in the PS1 version IMO.

[@ADTribalChild]

This is a very interesting find. As as long time fan of the SF series I must say after watching this ,the first EX game really came a long way development wise. The EX series is clearly underrated and it shows how many of the games elements were passed down to Street Fighter IV and onwards (yes I went there). If only Arika and Capcom put their differences aside and just make one more game...

[@ARIKAFGC]

indeed....

[@djbluekid]

ADtheTribalChild Productions what's the beef between capcom and arika

[@ADTribalChild]

Briceson Boyd Possibly creative differences if not dispute with rights over EX characters.

[@ADTribalChild]

MCH122790 well that sucked...

[@cjronetwentyseven2937]

ADtheTribalChild Productions Ikr. Just like I believe Capcom should definitely do another Capcom v SNK 3. They made a Marvel v Capcom 3 (with a Ultimate update not to mention) already.

[@kekutougame]

I love seeing things like this, because it shows most, if not all of the development progress of what made the games we loved. Would definitely love to see Capcom Fighter All-Stars as well; was really looking forward to that game back in the day...

[@ArcadeStriker]

1. You didn't play it. In fact NOBODY could play it because it was cancelled. 2. Apparently it was cancelled because of "negative feedback". So who knows, as again...with what happened to Legends 3 nobody can trust that "reason".

[@ArcadeStriker]

***** IIRC Metal Slug 3D actually was released.

[@slobato]

The ARIKA was the best producer of the Street Fighter in terms of balance system (Matchshups).

[@LikeAGaruda]

Meus porquês do Brasil Yes because literally everyone was overpowered

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

Wahahahaha. Best in balance?

[@Zontar82]

Also because It was formed by the ex devs of the original street fighter 2

[@Zontar82]

​@@DontKnowDontCare6.9Better than 5 and 6 retard bullshit yes

[@KenMasters.]

Street Fighter 64

[@Jugdjay]

Those are some interesting names. "Shujinkou" ("Main character" in Japenese) "Kobudo Onna" ("Kobudo Girl" in Japanese, Kobudo being the traditional Okinawan art of weapons) "Cashew" Snider "Plum" Purna "Brise Dame" ("Lady Breaker" in French...? Dunno if that was intended)

[@kaihedgie1747]

And then there's just BOSS

[@moescredriver5486]

Brise dame was the greatest 😂😂😂

[@nwosyxx9774]

Damn that character select theme is awesome

[@bennyp915]

Like, ripping just the music audio from this beta would be hella nice, the ryu and character select themes sound really good in this soundfont

[@jacobingram8152]

4:25 It sound like Guile said Peek-A-Boo

[@kyokari4]

Seeing that early kairi is so weird..Man I wish I could get a ROM of this this early version.

[@ZooBuddyDoo]

I love all the faceless faces! This is very awesome to see this pre release stuff.

[@boyalegre6028]

Project from Capcom and Arika. First 3D Animation Project of Capcom to support with Arika before Fighting Layer in Arcade and PSone.

[@kibegamimultimedia]

I loved how that early version of 'Stronger' (Theme of Garuda and Evil Ryu) in this prototype sounds. I laughed when they used the 'Player Select' from SF2 for the character selection screen I wish they left that as well. 2:07 That Ryu theme is catchy as hell too though Alpha-vibes from it.

[@GORO911]

Wow this game reminds me of beautiful times of the 90s

[@sdlock83]

2:07 Awww they were originally gonna have the classic melody as the BGM? Too bad they didn't make it into the final cut.

[@Miguelnoriega2]

There were already a lot of games with Classic music

[@sdlock83]

@@Miguelnoriega2 That is true lol! I believe SFA3 was the first in the mainline SF games (yes the Alpha games are considered mainline despite the name) to have brand new melodies for each character.

[@Jahn_Pah_Jonz]

​@@sdlock83and for worse. The Alpha 3 tracks could not hold a candle to SF2, Alpha 1 and 2, and the X-Men and Marvel game OST. Still, the Alpha 3 music was still better than the SF3 Third Strike soundtrack.

[@sdlock83]

@@Jahn_Pah_Jonz I agree! The music in the SF3 meta-series were God awful! It's like in the late 90s when Capcom couldn't hire halfway descent composers and resorted to have interns do the music. Can't stand the jazzy and hip-hop BGMs of that era of Capcom.

[@Jahn_Pah_Jonz]

@@sdlock83 yes. The X-Men and Marvel game soundtracks were amazing with exception of MvsC 2. That was just a Capcom glorified Mugen game and the Marvel characters felt out of place.

[@noside.foxhound]

It seems like you could actually chain combo with Lp>Mp>Hp, pretty cool.

[@Ma21L]

Looks like they're just dancing in tune to the theme 😂

[@Miguelnoriega2]

I didn't know that all the characters were called Akira

[@julioc5227]

Street fighter ex plus alpha is my favorite street fighter game of all time!

[@bennyp915]

Interesting that ryu had his classic theme here. Any chance of ripping audio files from this?

[@zurdocontragedia9380]

The model's shadow and the early idle animations are kinda similar from Fighting Vipers, it seems they used the same engine.

I want that ryu theme

[@VOAN]

Street Fighter's answer to Virtua Fighter, it's too bad the Sega Saturn versions of these games were cancelled. Arika was having trouble porting these to Saturn and Sega didn't help them with the porting process.

[@tannerlion1994]

I like this Stronger theme of Garuda from the start

[@Noctsranun]

The first part in this video is like some sort of VF polygonal thing.

[@Noctsranun]

Yes.

[@genshoryukenpou]

0:00 Remix theme song of garuda

[@chikaragaming7517]

Hi there just found your channel actually by chance, huge street fighter fan especially EX series and III, if you need help with Japanese or even want to feature on our channel when we talk about the game don't hesitate to let us know. Great channel!

[@ARIKAFGC]

Thank you so much we try our best to revive the community also we'll try our best to provide as best content as ever if you're interested in joining our watsapp group please let us know ;)

[@chikaragaming7517]

+ARIKAFGC some of us still care about Arika and the EX games, you are doing a wonderful thing, sure wouldn't mind talking with you sometime and perhaps having you on our podcast starting next year :) you could talk about your channel at length if you like :)

[@ARIKAFGC]

CHIKARA Gaming! 力 ゲーミング! Thank you so much I would love to have a podcast with you guys also we're about to make a facebook fanpage pretty soon I will send you the link pretty soon Once again thank you for the whole thing we added your channel on our channel and hopefully we do great in the future :)

[@chikaragaming7517]

+ARIKAFGC I will be doing lots on EX anyway so will send some people your way, I think any Arika fans and EX fans would love your channel. keep up the good work!!

[@RhodieSlayer]

ex needs some love

[@KnottsBear-yTalesPreserved]

Thank goodness for the more original tracks. I think that made EX into what it is. As cool as it would of been to have Arika renditions of the already established Street Fighter tunes. I think they made the right call doing all original tracks.

[@deadzone4033]

2:07 Where can I find that ryu theme?

[@HitParade]

4:27 one the greatest command throws in fighting game history.

[@jordonvazquez7620]

wish Shinji and the other folks would release the unreleased songs.

[@MrZillas]

Knee before "Virtua Fighter", which is the grandfather of all 3D-fighting-games

[@VMUboy]

This is so crazy! How the hell was this footage hidden for so long? Please make a new fighting game ARIKA.. Still hurting from the 3DS April fools joke ;(

[@ARIKAFGC]

We all are hurt to be honest....hope it happens soon.

[@VMUboy]

ARIKAFGC and it looks like it might happen and a better looking one at that!

[@superduperhypersonic]

it's happening

[@Pecora_Nero]

More content is on the way

[@KingWayne714]

Heavy on the Tekken and virtua fighter gfx with Capcom sfx

[@theyouth2000]

My most loved fighting game on PS1. Played it to death throughout the console cycle. I could still hum to Sakura level's tune till this day, out of no where. 😂

[@pascalthiele6903]

I love the early sound effects🔥

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

is there a soundtrack for this version of the development

[@BigBoss64MV]

Akuma used the the power of the 3rd dimensional plain

[@sridrawings4510]

ryu and ken's shoryuken looks like tiger upper cut! link of the game please.

[@boomvlogs8609]

Tiger Upper Cut, known as Tiger Blow, the technique is for Sagat

[@dave9020]

It's just footage of the EX series in a WIP state. Don't expect a download from them.

[@dave9020]

It sounds like basic music from the SF EX series...

[@kidloser777]

ARIKA really nailed this one, very underrated game 💯💯💯💯💪💪💪 still playing this in 2023 🙏

[@tailedgates9]

The character select screen reminds me of Soul Blade. :3

[@AbstractReplayer]

Where is this from? Did they showcase these at Tokyo Game show in the 90's?

[@WRILLI4M]

I wish there was a ROM dump of this beta for MAME.

[@songoku9348]

Ryu’s theme sounds good. It should’ve been included in the final game.

[@ArthurEboli]

Ryu looks sharlie Sheen rs

[@Camilodelelisfer]

@ARIKAFGC We Need this remix of "Stronger"...

[@HypnoSwag]

It's the unreleased arcade version of Stronger.

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

Interesting to know that Blairs early name wasn’t Blair but something else i just can’t read behind those Japanese characters,but her last name stayed the same.

[@jodyposey9558]

It's Brise Dame

[@1mingameplay75]

This Street Fighter is very enjoyable to play

[@jordonvazquez7620]

Cashew looks like Elvis in his Karate Phase.

[@manafbenayache1880]

who didn t like Kairi, Hokuto, Garuda, Shadow..... these were cool characters weren t they ??

[@HOXHOXHOX]

1:34 is this hell

[@Apemopo]

they're dancing! skullo looks so dorky hehehe

[@Mike77154]

that version of SFA ryu theme is a cover by Ayako? where I can get it?

[@GamerGal1986]

1:36 Hey isn't that the Street Fighter 2 character selection theme?

[@wijsis013]

ObsessedGamerGal 86, Sure is sista!😎

[@Shuten_Wukong]

Omigod it looks so horrible, but the final product was extremely underrated. Had an excellent soundtrack too.

[@-S-zo1dv]

Skullomania looks horrible....but the rest of the characters just look unpolished

[@nekomamire0105]

初期はリュウの曲がいつもの曲だったのか...衝撃

[@BruceLeeroyX]

SF:EX series is my favorite next to the alpha series.

[@SailorNatsu10]

Whats the song in the background?

[@christopherthomas4417]

Arika bring Hokuto,Garuda,Skullomania and Ddark to StreetFighter 5 AS DLC.

[@ARIKAFGC]

We all wish this to happen there is a petition link Petition : ARIKA CHARACTERS FOR STREET FIGHTER V facebook.com/ArikaCharactersForStreetFighterV make sure to sign your petition to make it happen

[@4.7m_views]

Incredible.

[@ultimatesol]

EX4 is coming yay ^^

[@Sarah-em9gd]

FEXL

[@ren7a8ero]

I would support fully an Arika game, since sfv is still an unfinished game that will never see my money, i guess.

[@ARIKAFGC]

Please share this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6HQhKCNZ5WFqrs If you want to support ARIKA we're trying to bring ARIKA for an interview and also to make a future tournament let the others know about it.

[@ReimuHakureiShrine]

They'd actually be doing everyone a favor if they ACTUALLY MADE A FIGHTING GAME WITH THE EX CHARACTER FOR ONCE instead of just having the rights to the characters and never using them. Seriously, what's the point of them having the rights if they aren't even gonna use them? Plus if you could ask them about actually using their characters for a stand-alone fighting game that'd be cool :V.

[@chidorisnake22]

ReimuHakureiShrine Well, you just got your wish.

[@InhumanFan98]

EX Fighting layor is a arika fighting game with only their characters

[@arantzasanchez3768]

Excelente formato

[@GoukimusPryme]

what is the game engine used in street fighter ex 1?

[@GrayFoxGamingHD]

Cool stuff :)

[@MasterNinjaKF]

I loved your game!

[@manafbenayache1880]

They were gonna make the characters have the same stance !

[@genshoryukenpou]

1:41 I wonder who is the boss beside skullomania

[@kaihedgie1747]

It's likely a placeholder for Garuda

[@kendallmasterssank369]

The best Street Fighter game

[@jajajajavidal5389]

interesting

[@Team99Hits]

Please, make a port for PS3 or PS4 ! A SFEX Collection!

[@Sarah-em9gd]

FEXL is happening

[@Team99Hits]

@@Sarah-em9gd Sorry, but SFEX2P > Any other EX Someday maybe a miracle happen, and SF EX2 Plus with rollback netcode exist.

[@gjenkinsjr5676]

Wow, so Blair Dame’s name was originally Brise Dame.

[@FuranGameplays]

The music is almost unmixed, sounds like a demo

[@先走魔羅男]

元々オリジナル格ゲーとして販売する予定だったけど、テストで評価がイマイチだったんでリュウ等の既存のキャラを追加してストリートファイターEXとして発売して成功したんでしたっけ

[@池田好弘-c3w]

ボスって、ガルダです。

[@Yoshimatsu414]

Why can't fight game music go back to this???

[@jambo619]

is there a download for this anywhere?

[@zorkatron986]

Would you mind if I used this footage for a video sometime?

[@ARIKAFGC]

I don't mind at all Please do take the footage but make sure to credit us so people know about the community that I am building

[@kramoszx]

jazz fusion

[@gamefails743]

1:33 This just screams Tekken

[@nicholas.papathanasiou]

Same composers actually, they also worked on most Tekken games including Tekken 8

[@Koho7]

Which game is Ryu's theme in this video from?

[@Mike77154]

same question?

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

street fighter alpha one and 2 (plus alpha 2 gold)

[@xSata]

Better graphics than KoF XIV

[@krowsnk]

+Wiwewo Predictable! lol

[@manafbenayache1880]

what the ! are you kiding me ? you compare Street fighter Ex with Kof XIV ! i admit that it s a great game and still play it alongside with Ex 2 and 2 plus Alpha but Kof XIV is way too far from it !

[@ryuushow2680]

Wow,this is very unpredictable

[@fernie-fernandez]

Wiwewo WOW...try compare that to SFV... At least KoF XIV had more than what SFV failed to have...

[@Love-Sensibility]

​@@colonellistgruber2437then sf fans should just play Garou. Its literally SNK's answer to Capcom's SF2 lmao

[@manafbenayache1880]

i have an idea of a game witch would be great if it comes out to real life lol: Street Fighter Ex Alpha 3: from the name you it will come to your mind that so many characters from Aplha, Ex and Sf 1 2 3 will be in that game so just imagine the game with that name !

[@gochem3013]

4:22 SIKOKUHN!

[@Agent4403]

This look like Virtua fighter

[@blakenapier3125]

How about having a Better Perfect Improve Street Fighter 1 by Capcom with Gameplay Graphoc Combat from both Project Justice Rival Schools & Final Fight Revenge for Playstation 1 & Xbox 160 In The 1990’s just like how Super Smash Brothers 1 did

[@retrono_81]

game bom demais !!!

[@Mike77154]

even the select theme?

[@etrotm12thebluewolf15]

i want that song it sounds so cool

[@bossm4nlooney-topic282]

etrotm12 the Blue Wolf it sounds like a mixture of SF 2

[@morikumi]

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