Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV's title screen
Publisher	Gouder Co.
Developer	Hummer Team
Console	Famicom
Date	1993
Engine	SFII engine
Sound engine	Someri Sound Engine
Alternate names/hacks	AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting, The Legend

Street Fighter IV (full title: KuaiDa ChuanShuo - Street Fighter IV) is a Famicom game made by Hummer Team and published by Gouder Co. in 1993. Aside from having Street Fighter in the title, it is a practically original fighting game and should not be confused for the official game released on Xbox 360 and PS3. It should be noted that this game has a sound select like in Somari and is one of the 2 NES pirated fighting games fighting games to have voice samples. (The other is Sachen's Street Heroes)

Overview

Street Fighter IV's gameplay

Street Fighter IV acts like all the other NES pirate fighting games. There's punch, kick and also some special moves.

Characters

The characters are different from the original Street Fighter (although 2 of them are similar). There's also another version of them that really is just a recolor.

Cliff/Goho Li - Pretty much the Ryu of the game. He even sports the same gi (different colors but Goho Li's is white) and attacks as him.

• D, DF, F, a: Hadouken
• F, DF, D, a: Shoryuken
• D, DB, B, b: Hurricane Kick

Pasta/Rober - Supposedly the Ken of the game. Unlike Ken though (except for later games), his Hadouken and Hurricane Kick are slightly different, being more wavier. The moveset is the same as Cliff/Goho Li's.

Bunny/Tracy - One of the more original characters (and from here one are the more original ones), these 2 seem to be Playboy bunnies working at a circus with racing cars. (although the sprite shows them with cat ears instead. Tracy's portrait shows bunny ears but is a recolor though)

• D, DF, F, a: Card Shot
• D, U, b: Backflip
• F, DF, D, b: Spin Attack

Chunfo/Moon - These characters are monks, one of the original characters.

• D, DF, F, a: Hand Shot
• D, DB, B, b: Praying Spin
• F, DF, D, a: Hand Thrust

Stalong/Ranboo - These 2 are pretty much topless men in pants. They're the only characters in the game that lack projectiles. It should be noted how his moveset seems similar to Guile's via commands.

• Hold Back, b: Flying Kick
• B, F, a: Dive in
• D, U, b: Knee Stomp

Musashi/Conbon - Both of these appear to be Japanese samurai. These 2 are unplayable and appear to be the antagonists of the game.

• D, DF, F, a: Wave Shot
• B, F, b: Bouncing Attack
• F, D, DF, a: Copter

The Legend

The Legend is an updated version of this game which changes numerous aspects of it. This hack was released on a 15-in-1 multicart by ABAB Soft in 2005.

Differences Between Street Fighter IV and The Legend

• The Legend removes the English title from the title screen.
• All references to Gouder Co. are removed. (although the credits are unchanged from the original game)
• The DPCM samples seem higher-pitched and more distorted.
• The recolours were removed, the storyline is much shorter.
• The select screen is different, choosing one character fills up all the icons with the selected character's icon. Also the VS screen's portraits stop halfway through instead of going all the way to the other side of the screen.
• You wait at the beginning of each match with a "READY" in the HUD, similar to Street Fighter II: The World Warrior.
• Pasta's and Stalong's portraits were swapped.
• The ending loops and all the characters are replaced with Cliff (but with their palette).

Connections

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Stalong VS Conbon, the latter being an unplayable boss

• Cliff/Goho Li's and Pasta's/Rober's body seems to be from Master Fighter II's Ryu. Also Stalong/Ranboo's sprites seem to use Guile as a base, especially since Guile's face appears on some of Stalong/Ranboo's sprites.
• Marry from AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting is actually Bunny but with a different projectile move and portrait. Also all of (with the exception of Chunfo's/Moon's) the stages were taken from SFIV but they have rearranged music. Many other graphics, most notably the HUD, were taken from it as well.
• The Hacker (a hack of Dragon Co.'s Felix The Cat by Shenzhen) uses one of the graphics from Pasta/Rober's stage.
• There is a high score table in the game. However, you can input your score in when you lose just like with Street Fighter II.
• According to the credits, the composer of the game is B.B. King. However, this might refer to Barbara King from the credits of Street Fighter II, although she was an artist for that game.

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Street Fighter IV's cartridge

Trivia

• Unlike all of the other NES fighting pirates that use the Kart Fighter engine, this game has a separate 2 Player option. Note that you can't select the same character as your opponent, which may be the reason for the recolors.
• On some emulators, the options menu is glitched as it doesn't have any captions for the selections. As well as this, the border is missing on the same screen.
  
• The names for Stalong and Ranboo could be a reference to Rambo. This was probably intentional given their appearance.
• Cliff appears on the front of BootlegGames Wiki.
• Some of the graphics in this game are taken from Shatterhand. There is a "Natsume" found in Street Fighter IV's tiles.