JoJo's Venture

JoJo's Venture is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Capcom in 1998 for the CPS-3 arcade hardware. JoJo's Venture is the overseas title; an enhanced updated version named Heritage for the Future was released afterward. It is adapted from Hirohiko Araki’s manga *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders*, created by the same team behind Street Fighter III, with Araki participating in art consultation. The story follows Jotaro Kujo and his companions on their cross-continental journey to stop DIO and save Jotaro’s mother Holly. It introduced the revolutionary Stand system. A dedicated Stand button summons your Stand to fight alongside you. Each Stand has its own Stand gauge; once depleted, the Stand gets crushed and temporarily disabled. Every character’s Stand faithfully replicates unique abilities from the manga. It uses a six-button fighting layout, with classic Capcom mechanics including super meter, guard cancel, rolls and hit clashes. The game includes single-player story campaign and 2-player versus mode. Its bold art faithfully reproduces Araki’s manga style with comic panel visual effects. It is a groundbreaking fighting game adaptation, later ported to PS1 and Dreamcast, and re-released as an HD remaster in 2012.

These are the default keys. Every arcade board has a different number of buttons and means different things by them. The rows above are buttons 1–6 on the board: on Neo Geo boards (The King of Fighters and friends) A/B/C/D are buttons 1–4, Metal Slug uses only 1, 2 and 4 (shoot / jump / grenade), and Pac-Man uses none at all. Six-button fighters with three punches and three kicks (Street Fighter II and the like) get a different layout from the core: light punch U, medium punch I, heavy punch Q, light kick J, medium kick K, heavy kick E. Click the gamepad icon 🎮 in the player toolbar, then “Remap keys” to open the emulator’s own control settings (keyboard and gamepad, saved automatically). Gamepads are detected automatically. On phones you get on-screen buttons.