Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol. 2 releases on the PlayStation 4 tomorrow, March 28th, 2017, and includes Real Bout Fatal Fury, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 – The Newcomers. Just ahead of it’s launch, game director Yasuyuki Oda sat down with PlayStation Blog to reveal some of the problems and challenges the series had during development.
There’s a lot of great trivia and insight into what went on during game design back in the mid ’90s: cartridge recalls because of missing hitboxes on attacks, accidental inclusion of a debug command for supers, and the real reason why Geese Howard wouldn’t stay dead in Real Bout. The cartridge recall seems the most harrowing to me–patches are hard enough for companies these days, doing an actual product recall must have been a nightmare! Quoting Oda himself:
“In those days patches were obviously not possible like they are now and we actually discovered after release of the first lot of MVS cartridges that Billy Kane’s short hop A had no hitbox!” Oda has a bitter smile on his face as he remembers the incident. “We were forced to recall the cartridges already out in the wild to fix this mistake, which was quite an undertaking.”
You can read the full interview here.
Source: PlayStation Blog