Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams

Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (known as Street Fighter Zero in Japan, also called Street Fighter Alpha 1) is an arcade fighting game released by Capcom in 1995 using the CPS2 arcade board. Set chronologically between the original Street Fighter and Street Fighter II, it serves as a prequel entry for the franchise. Playable fighters include returning characters Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile and Sagat, alongside new additions Adon, Charlie Nash, Rose and Dan. Akuma is available as an unlockable secret character. It introduced brand-new mechanics: Alpha Counter, air blocking and Custom Combo system. The visual art adopts a fresh hand-drawn cartoon style with softer character line art, different from the sharp aesthetics of Street Fighter II. The super gauge system is central to gameplay. Players fill the gauge to unleash Super Combos or activate Custom Combo free combo sequences. As the first title of the Street Fighter Alpha trilogy, the game redesigned character portraits and expanded the franchise backstory. It was later ported to PS, Saturn and PC platforms. Being the starting point of the Alpha series, it remains popular among retro fighting game enthusiasts.

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.