Hyper Street Fighter II

Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition^[a] is a 2003 fighting game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2. Created to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, Hyper Street Fighter II is a modified port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (1994) in which players can control any versions of the main characters from the five Street Fighter II games previously released for the arcades.

Not to be confused with Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting.

Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
Japanese PS2 cover art
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Composer(s)	Isao Abe Syun Nishigaki
Series	Street Fighter
Platform(s)	Arcade, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Xbox
Release	PlayStation 2 JP: December 18, 2003 EU: May 28, 2004[1] NA: August 31, 2004 Arcade JP: January 28, 2004[2] NA: 2004 Xbox JP: October 28, 2004 EU: October 29, 2004 NA: February 22, 2005
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	CP System II

Although originally released as a home console game, an arcade port was released shortly afterwards in limited quantities, turning it into the sixth arcade iteration; this version ran on the same CP System II hardware as its predecessor and was the final game released for the platform. Its North American home release in 2004 was as part of Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, which also features Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike; this collection was later ported to the Xbox in all regions. In 2022, Hyper Street Fighter II was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC as part of Capcom Fighting Collection^[3] and also as part of Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium.

Gameplay

The opening sequence has been altered to use a modified version of the Super Street Fighter II intro, in which logos of the past five games appear flashing into the screen. The background music played during the player select screen was also reverted to the theme used in Super Street Fighter II.

Once the game is started, the player has to select the playing speed and will be asked to choose one of the five playing styles based on prior Street Fighter II iterations, which also affects the selectable roster.

• "Normal" features the eight characters from the original Street Fighter II. If both players choose this version of the game, mirror matches will not be allowed, as the original game did not support them, even lacking different character color palettes.
• "Champ" ("Dash" in the Japanese version) is based on Street Fighter II: Champion Edition and adds the four Grand Masters as selectable fighters
• "Turbo" is based on Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting.
• "Super" adds the four new challengers from Super Street Fighter II.
• "Super T" ("Super X" in the Japanese version) is based on Super Street Fighter II Turbo and adds Akuma.

This selection determines all the characteristics the chosen character originally had in the selected game, from the set of moves and animation frames, to its voice and portrait picture. This leads to a roster of 17 unique characters with a total 65 different character variations.

The stages and endings are exactly the same as in Super Street Fighter II Turbo, although some of the stages restore background elements from the original Street Fighter II that were eliminated from subsequent installments, such as the breakable signs in Ryu's stage and palm tree in Sagat's stage.

In the home versions of Hyper Street Fighter II, the player can choose to play the game with the soundtracks from the CPS-1 or CPS-2 versions, as well as the remixed soundtrack previously featured in the FM-Towns versions of Super Street Fighter II and the 3DO version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo. An edited version of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is also included as a bonus.

See also

• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, a similar release by Capcom

Notes

1. Japanese: ハイパーストリートファイターII -The Anniversary Edition-, Hepburn: Haipā Sutorīto Faitā II - The Anivu~āsarī Edishon -