Ports

Ports
These are the major ports of the Street Fighter II games made for consumer devices and is not comprehensive.
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior for the Super NES was released in 1992 as a 16Mbit game pak. Character sprites were slightly smaller and less detailed, and some frames of animation were omitted. The arcade's Frequency modulation synthesis background music was adapted to the SNES's SPC700 PCM based sound chip. It went on to become one of the biggest selling titles for the SNES. The SNES version is available for download on the Wii's Virtual Console.
Street Fighter II': Champion Edition and Street Fighter II' Turbo: Hyper Fighting
The PC Engine was the first console to receive the updated Street Fighter II and was ported by NEC. The game is contained on a standard PCE Game chip and features graphics comparable to the more powerful SNES port which came later. A 6 Button PCE Controller was created specifically for use with this game. It was never released in the US for the Turbo Grafx system. The Mega Drive/Genesis port, known as Street Fighter II′: Special Champion Edition (Street Fighter II ′ Plus or Dash Plus in Japan), contained both Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting — as did the SNES release of Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (the SNES port does not contain a prime symbol on its title). The Mega Drive/Genesis version received the Special Champion Edition subtitle because it was intended to be a port of Street Fighter II′: Champion Edition to be released in the fall of 1993, about one year after the SNES version of the original SF2. The Mega Drive/Genesis was to be the only US console to receive a SF2 game that allowed people to play as the bosses, but 5 months before its release Nintendo announced an exclusive deal with Capcom to port the newer Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting to the SNES for release before the Mega Drive/Genesis version of the game. However, their contract only extended exclusivity to the name and presentation of the game, allowing Capcom to add Hyper Fighting mode to the Mega Drive/Genesis game as a bonus, giving both versions of the game the same features. The legacy of this contractual obligation is apparent in the games as the Mega Drive/Genesis version presents the Champion Edition intro, attract mode (only presenting Champion Edition gameplay and color scheme) and title screen and defaults to Champion Edition mode, while the SNES version contains the Hyper Fighting intro (though missing the fight in front of the skyscraper), attract mode (presenting Hyper Fighting gameplay and color scheme) and title screen and defaults to Turbo mode. Street Fighter II′: Special Champion Edition for the Mega Drive/Genesis allowed the selection of game speed by increasing 'stars' at game start, up to 10-star speed (as opposed to an estimate 4-star speed that the original arcade featured. The SNES Version has the 4-10 option, but requires a controller code to activate Stars 5 to 10). The Mega Drive/Genesis port also allowed for four stars of speed in Normal/Champion mode, but the SNES version lacked this feature, allowing stars only in Turbo mode. Gameplay was faster than the arcade versions. Though both versions of the game were identical in overall gameplay and graphics, there were huge differences in the sound. The SNES even mimicked the different tones of Ryu's voice using different levels of the Hadoken attack. His voice was quick and precise for the fierce attack, or slow and prolonged for the jab version. The Sega versions had only one version of the sound for each level of the attack. While the SNES-voices sound somewhat muffled the Mega Drive-version's voices are clearer, but scratchy. All tunes had to be remixed for the SNES-version, offering a more natural instrumentation, while the Mega Drive was closer to the arcade-original thanks to the Yamaha-soundchip being a relative of the one found in the arcade. The result are two very different sounding versions where every player had to judge his favourite by personal preferences. The PC-Engine-version is to be mentioned for having by far the clearest voices. The soundtrack is closer to the Mega Drive-version than to the SNES-version. In Brazil, there was an official port of Street Fighter II′ for the Sega Master System, developed and published by Tec Toy. This version had collision detection problems, missing moves and missing characters, but the graphics were very impressive regarding the system's limited capabilities and were not too far from the 16-Bit counterparts. Street Fighter II′: Hyper Fighting (the American arcade version never had the word Turbo in the title) has also been released on the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service featuring online play through Xbox Live and a new 'Quarters mode' which allows players to watch, and challenge others to matches. The order in which the players fight is represent by a US quarter. This was done to re-enact the arcade scene of the 1990s. The game was released on August 2, 2006 for a cost of 800 points ($10 USD) and has become the fastest selling game on the Xbox Live Arcade service. Recently, the Super NES port, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, has been released on the Virtual Console for America and Europe.
Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo
The SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis received a port of Super Street Fighter II a year after their respective SF2'T port, but was a commercial failure at retail and a financial hit to Capcom who had overestimated consumer demand. This was a sign that the audience was not willing to pay for annual updates of SFII, especially when Super Street Fighter II Turbo already superseded Super Street Fighter II in the arcades and fixed many of the complaints people had of SSF2. There was also endless speculation that Capcom would release Super Street Fighter II Turbo in less than a year, causing people to wait for what was thought to be the inevitable SSF2T release though no port was ultimately released. Despite this, Capcom plans to release this game on the Wii Virtual Console sometime in 2007. The 3DO received the first console port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo, it's noted for having much better sound than even the arcade, with full Q Sound support, and slightly updated graphics. The second port was for the IBM PC by Eurocom (released by Gametek) in 1995 and was the first truly ported version of a Street Fighter game for a home computer, helped by the fact that PC hardware was sufficiently powerful to reasonably duplicate the 2D graphics and sound capabilities, to the results of dedicated 2D game machines like the CPS-2, the original platform of the game. Up until this release, home computers received interpretive remakes of past Street Fighter games that did not play like the arcade games they were based on. An interpretive remake of Super Street Fighter II Turbo was on the Commodore Amiga for its AGA chipset based systems, coming on 12 floppy discs and requiring a hard drive to play. In 1997, the PlayStation and Sega Saturn received a port of both Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo along with Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold in Street Fighter Collection. The Saturn version was thought to turn out superior because of the dramatic increase in Video RAM it offered over the PlayStation version. The last stand-alone version of SSF2T released is for the Dreamcast and was released only in Japan. It featured online play via Capcom of Japan's Matching Service, making this the first Street Fighter game to be officially playable through a network connection. A reworked portable version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo titled Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival (Super Street Fighter II X: Revival in Japan) was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. It featured new character artwork on the versus and post-fight screens, as well as for the game endings. Some of the game endings were changed to reconcile the storyline with the Street Fighter Alpha games. There were new stage backgrounds for Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile, Zangief and Bison and the car and barrel bonus stages from Super Street Fighter II returned. There were two unlockable versions of Akuma. However, the classic versions of the other main characters were removed. A high-definition remake of Super Street Fighter II Turbo titled Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will be released on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network in 2008. It will feature redrawn graphics at 1080p HD resolution and online play.
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection was released in 2004 for the Xbox, PS2 and CPS-2 , which contained both Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition. CPS-2 version was updated version of SSF2T. Capcom also included the censored version of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie as a bonus. Hyper Street Fighter II on its own was released for the PS2 in Europe, which also included the censored version of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie as a bonus.
Retro collections
The Street Fighter Collection was released both in the US and Japan in late 1997 on the original Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn. It featured near arcade perfect versions of both Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II: Turbo as well as Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold. A second collection, titled Street Fighter Collection 2, was released in the US in late 1998 on the Sony PlayStation and featured the first three major Street Fighter II titles: Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Street Fighter II′: Champion Edition and Street Fighter II′ Turbo: Hyper Fighting. In 2003 Capcom Arcade Hits - Volume 1 was released for Windows PC, featuring emulated arcade versions of the original Street Fighter and Street Fighter II: Champion Edition. 2005 saw the release of Capcom Classics Collection on the Sony PlayStation 2 and Xbox and it also featured the first three major Street Fighter II titles: Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Street Fighter II′: Champion Edition and Street Fighter II′ Turbo: Hyper Fighting as well as a multitude of other Capcom games. The versions contained in this collection are actually ports of Capcom Generation vol. 5 (released in North America as Street Fighter Collection 2) for the PlayStation and the Sega Saturn, complete with its special modes including versus mode, CPU battle mode, training mode, and more. Even the cast artwork and information is the same as Street Fighter Collection 2, but there is some new unlockable artwork that was not featured in that collection. One complaint about the game is that the load times from Street Fighter Collection 2 were ported over, which is unusual since each game should be able to fit into the system RAM of the PS2 and Xbox in their entirety. Perhaps the best feature for fans is the Street Fighter Deluxe mode in all three versions of the game, which allows players to battle with characters from different versions of the game, for example, matching Champion Edition Ken vs. Turbo Chun-Li. The Deluxe mode is not unlike the concept found in Hyper Street Fighter II and Vampire Chronicle. 2006 saw the release of Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for the Playstation 2 and Xbox and contains Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
Control methods for ports
As a result of the different ports of Street Fighter II, it is often played with control pads, instead of the arcade-style joysticks for which it was originally designed to be played with. Some of these control pads, such as the official Super Nintendo pad, feature only four face buttons, leaving two attack buttons on shoulder buttons. Most, if not all, home releases of Street Fighter II have allowed for players to configure the buttons as they see fit. Capcom released two specialized controls for the SNES (a joystick and a joypad) that have six face buttons instead of four (with the L and R buttons being located around the X button). Subsequently, whereas some players find the game easier with this control method, others have found that purchasing an arcade-style joystick for their home system makes it significantly easier for them to execute many of the game's special moves. The Sega Genesis ports suffered from the 3-button layout of the original pad. The start button was used to toggle the three button punches or kicks. This made executing combos very difficult. Wise gamers purchased the official 6-button Sega pad, or aftermarket pads.