Street Fighter II': Champion Edition

Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (known as Street Fighter II Dash in Japan, also called 12-character Street Fighter by Chinese players) is an arcade fighting game developed and released by Capcom in 1992. It is the first major upgraded version of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, running on the CPS1 arcade hardware. The biggest update is making the four Shadaloo boss characters, M.Bison, Balrog, Sagat and Vega, playable. The character roster expands from 8 to 12 fighters. Mirror matches are supported for the first time, allowing two players to pick the same character with alternative colour palettes to tell them apart. Capcom also rebalanced moves and hitboxes for the original eight fighters, adjusted background art and colours, and refined core fighting mechanics such as combos and hit stun. The game keeps the iconic six-button control layout. Players take control of fighters from all over the world and compete in an international martial arts tournament using special moves and combos. Champion Edition flooded arcades across China and became the most well-known Street Fighter II version for local players. It pushed the global arcade fighting boom of the 90s to new heights and laid the foundation for early competitive fighting games. It was later ported to home consoles including SNES and Sega Mega Drive.

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.