The Game Boy Color version received positive reviews, with EGM gaining 7.5/10 and Nintendo Power giving out 6.8/10. Push your talents to the limit as you discover new hidden moves and reversals for every character. Quick Move Reversals, Alpha Counters and the incredible Custom Combo System create a new standard for all games to fight by. Steve Collett wanted the game to receive an alternate soundtrack when using a Game Boy Advance. Street Fighter Alpha 2 explodes on-screen with lightning-fast gameplay and amazing innovations.

Steve Collett started composing the game on January 2001. Crawfish approached programmers to carry alternate modes when using a Game Boy Advance. Crawfish however emulated and converted the 16-bit SNES version of Street Fighter Alpha 2 onto the Game Boy Color hardware. Capcom however submitted talks to Crawfish to return developing the sequel for Game Boy Color. It has an enhanced four-player Versus mode when playing the game on a Game Boy Advance unit as well as Game Boy Advance-only rosters.ĭevelopment of the Game Boy Color version begin on November 2000. Street Fighter Alpha 2 retains most of the new features introduced in the original Street Fighter Alpha, such as the three-level Super Combo gauge, Alpha Counters, Air-Blocking and Fall Breaking.The main new feature in the game is the inclusion of the Custom Combo system (Original Combo in Japan), which replaces the Chain Combos from the first Alpha. The gameplay and graphics is based on the SNES version, except more stripped-down to fit the Game Boy Color's memory, and it has Hi-Color mode support and the engine is similar to that of the first Street Fighter Alpha game for Game Boy Color. The gameplay system from the previous Alpha games was given a complete overhaul with the addition of three selectable fighting styles based on Street Fighter Alpha (A-ism called Z-ism in Japan), Street Fighter Alpha 2 (V-ism), and Super Street Fighter II Turbo (X-ism), new stages, a much larger roster of characters, and new theme music for all the returning characters. This is the only Game Boy Color game to recieve an enhanced soundtrack for Game Boy Advance.

The Game Boy Color version of Street Fighter Alpha 2 is a port of the SNES version of the arcade game developed by Crawfish Interactive and published by Capcom and released in 2001 for Game Boy Color and it was enhanced for Game Boy Advance.

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