Author: Franz "d3v" Co

This weekend, the Capcom Pro Tour action moves on to the city of Taipei in Taiwan. While not as populous as other regions, the island nation is home to some of the best Ultra Street Fighter IV players on the planet, including AVerMedia’s Gamerbee and Razer’s RB.

To help people get hype for the event, Beast of the East has released a new trailer that highlights some of the players flying in from various locales to challenge the local powerhouses. Spectators can expect to see high-level competitors like Razer’s Xian and Itabashi Zangief; Chuan from Malaysia; China’s Dark Jiewa; Humanbomb of Canada Cup Gaming; Hong Kong’s Codynp; Shiro and Kim1234 of YUBIKEN; the United States’ Sketch and MillerTime; a Japanese contingent including Misse, Tonpy, KoujiKOG, Reiketsu, KOK, Gonzales; and many more.

Taiwan Fighter Major 2015 is scheduled for August 22. You’ll be able to catch all the action live courtesy of Capcom Fighters.

Source: Beast of the East

Lee Chung Gon, more commonly known as Poongko, recently celebrated his birthday, and took the time to sit down with Arcade Stream for a small interview.

In addition to talking about his sponsorship opportunities with r/Kappa, Poongko touches on how he thinks he stacks up against other top Ultra Street Fighter IV players Surprisingly, he doesn’t consider himself at the same “super high level” as other professional players, but he’s still grateful to be able to play on the same stage as them.

You can check out the entire video below. Aside from the interview, it also contains some footage from Poongko’s birthday celebration.

Source: Arcade Stream

One thing that can discourage any player from trying out Super Smash Bros. is the fact that the series isn’t built for traditional fighting game controls. Smash is still best played with a gamepad–preferably the GameCube pad–with an analog stick.

But that hasn’t stopped some players from figuring out how to play the game on an arcade stick. In this new video, FRC|TheBlackHombre explains how he modified an arcade stick, specifically a Qanba Q1, to work with Super Smash Bros.

Most of the work went towards creating a comfortable way of mapping Smash’s inputs onto the eight-button layout. The tricky bit was to allow a semblance of Smash’s analog controls using the standard digital joystick. This was done using a trick that folks who’ve played Smash with a keyboard on the Dolphin emulator might be familiar with: using a separate button to toggle the sticks inputs between full tilt and various degrees of tilt.

Check out the video below to see how this all works.

Source: FRC|TheBlackHombre

Last weekend, Capcom quietly conducted an “internal stress test” for Street Fighter V, which led to the game’s beta opening up for a limited amount of time. This allowed a few lucky folks to jump into training mode and even play a few matches online, even if the beta had yet to officially return.

Urichinan, who we’ve featured before in an earlier roundup, took the time to explore how Chun-Li could use her V-Trigger to juggle opponents in the current beta build. These combos include V-Skill launches, as well as some interesting anti-air and air-to-air setups where she can use her V-Trigger’s multi-hit properties to keep her opponents airborne longer than she normally could without it.

Check the video out below and share your thoughts in the comments.

Source: Urichinan

As you may already know, Mad Catz’ Daigo Umehara is hard at work training with Guilty Gear legend Machaboo for Toshin-Gekitotsu later this month.

During their latest stream, these two players invited a third teammate to their training session: HORI’s sako. While, like Daigo, sako is known more these days for his Street Fighter skills, we should note that they frequently matched up in Vampire Savior years ago, and sako has recently taken up Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- in addition to Ultra Street Fighter IV.

For those who missed the stream, Sony has you covered with archive footage of their session. Check out the footage and let us know how you think Daigo and sako are taking to Guilty Gear.

Toshin-Gekitotsu is scheduled for August 22. You can check out Daigo’s previous training streams here.

Source: PlayStation

Sheik is one of those characters who sees a lot of use in competitive Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. One major practitioner is Hawaii’s GSM|VoiD, who’s been doing well with the character by making use of her Needle Storm special and creating combos off the ensuing barrage.

In their latest Sheik tutorial video, 4GloryGaming takes a look at these combos, breaking down why the special move is good and then demonstrating guaranteed combos, including those VoiD uses in his matches.

Source: 4GloryGaming

One of the most interesting things for players trying to break down how the system of any fighting game works is finding strange, unintended interactions. In many titles, trading attacks are often the catalyst.

In this new video, 0Harakiry explores some of the odd glitches caused by trades in Team NINJA’s Dead or Alive 5 Last Round. Some of these include seemingly “silly” interactions with the stages.

The video also explores how the game, which has no throw teching, handles trading throws, as well as other situations where both players try to do the same thing at the same time.

Source: 0Harakiry, thanks to Mr. Wah for the tip.

Dealing damage in the corner with Faust in Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- used to be a pretty simple affair. Any combo would usually just end with his spinning “Going My Way” special, maximizing damage and giving him good okizeme options afterwards.

However, as of the latest patches applied in arcades and on consoles, this is no longer the case. Thanks to a number of changes to Faust, both nerfs and buffs, he now has different combo routes in the corner.

To get players up to speed, Zissou has released a new tutorial video that goes over Faust’s options in these situations. Check the video out below and see if you can learn a thing or two from it.

Source: Zissou