Bootleg Fighting Games

“I mained a character who got banned from tournaments” is child’s play compared to “I mained a character who’s been declared illegal under international copyright law.”

The bootleg Guile at the start is a nice touch

In my head, the entire 3 minutes until Kart Fighter showed up i was imagining a crowd stomping their feet and chanting its name, followed by an uproar and mass applause. Thank you for showing off Super Kart Fighter, too. It has a special place in my heart.

Fun fact, there’s strings in the original Animal Crossing’s code to suggest that at one point they tested Tekken 2 for NES for that game’s custom NES emulator

Going from SF2 to SF4 is the ultimate conclusion to the "Capcom can't count to 3" joke.

I unironically "announced" Super Kart Fighter through uploading a video two years ago to this very day. It was meant to be close to the final build, but my partner had been busy with other things to do the stuff I wasn't able to do, so I just kept polishing it until I felt I no longer could. I'm happy to see it getting attention in the more mainstream videos. As for what SKF features... Daisy is added as a semi-hidden character, Mario and Luigi have differences, a proper final boss is present for the singleplayer mode, the controls received major adjustments to be more forgiving and respond at 60 FPS (game still animates at 15 FPS), anti-infinite and -TOD mechanics were added to help balance how insane combos get, coded in i-frames to allow for reversals, inserted extra palettes for characters and stages, and other QoL tweaks to help the experience. I spent THREE DAYS fixing bugs in my endeavor to recode hit-detection so that combos worked properly, and it still had issues that I had trouble fixing until a week after it was on FC2. Whoever coded HT's engine knew how to code efficiently, but had no sense of game design. To contrast, I tried to improve a few things in the World Heroes 2 bootleg, and it's so cluttered and convoluted I refuse to touch it with any length of pole. So yeah, play Super Kart Fighter and spread the love of other bootleg fighters!

Even the titlecard was custom this time, nicely done

I love when bootleg games that use names from other IP just arbitrarily skip numbers. I had a friend that had some bootlegged Sonic game for the Game Boy growing up called Sonic 3D Blast 5 or something, and it was the single funniest game in either of our collections

After Muhammad Ali beat Superman, it looks like he got a little cocky and decided to fight Goku next.

Just imagine the world where top fighter 2000 Mk 8 was an evo main stage game and in grand finals there’s one round left but all of a sudden your goku vs gees match becomes Ali vs joden

I think one of the few bootleg fighting games that didn't get talked about in this was World Heroes on the nes which had Mario, Sonic, Goku, Leonardo, Ryu, etc.

wonderful, the phrase "I've been a Pasta main since SF4" has taken root in my brain and now will inevitably be said out loud in a room fulla people

that Uruk-Hai sprite smacked me with a huge wave of nostalgia, it looks JUST like the troll units from an open source strategy RPG i played a ton as a kid, Battle for Wesnoth. it still gets support today too. great game

"watch out for my toad at evo" 😂😂😂 killer video!

Every fighting game IS good. May this remain forever true.

I grew up with a weird obsession with bootleg games and played a lot of these as a kid, it's cool to see someone talking about them! I remember telling other kids on the playground about a game where Micheal Jordan fights Goku.

Say what you want, Ali vs Goku is a 6-4 matchup

"It's gonna be jank, it's gonna have some weird physics, feel a bit off and have some goofy infinites" That's just non-bootleg vanilla-SF2.

I’ve actually played Super Kart Fighter with a friend before. We played on an emulator that removed the slowdowns and sprite flickering. It is really fun to mess around with see what you can pull off. The only thing I wish for is a sequel fan game that has more moves, characters, supers, etc. it really has the potential to be an amazing fighting game.

Those unlicensed GBC fighters are a sight to behold!