Quick query: According to T.Akiba’s ST frame data, OG Sagat’s Tiger recovery is 37F, while New Sagat’s Tiger recovery is 37/39/41F recovery for LK/MK/HK Tiger. Is this wrong? If not, where does the 12F difference come from?

Also, I take it Sagat’s Tiger Shot recovery is now fixed, and not determined by the normal done before the Tiger?

From reading various blog entries, it seems like Backbone and Capcom are really listening to the fans and implementing changes as a direct result.

I was a huge fan of the artwork and animation in the original SF2 games and would often see a frame of animation I’d never seen before when a new challenger entered the fray and when the game was paused (when it was eventually released on various consoles). As the biggest change in this revision is the high definition update of all the character sprites, backgrounds etc. will you guys include a mode to showcase the new HD sprites – perhaps a bullet time, frame by frame mode, or is it too late in the developmental process?

We’ve had to fight across twelve different stages for many years. This increased to fourteen after SSF2 was released. With the upgraded stage backgrounds, will you be including new backgrounds, taken from other versions of SF, or the Udon comic books, or maybe even brand new backgrounds as envisioned by the Udon artists?

Will there be an option to randomly select backgrounds in online and offline VS mode?

It’s already been mentioned that the super meters look odd - both in terms of appearance, animation and placement - covering fighters legs and feet more than before it seems. Will this be addressed at all? Perhaps by repositioning them underneath the life bars and adding some kind of transparency to the life bars and super bars when they’re empty (if that’s not the case already)?

Is the character art at either side of the life bars necessary, as they don’t really seem to serve much purpose to me, other than to cover up the redrawn HD backgrounds? Any self respecting SF fan will know by now what Ryu, Ken etc. look like and any newbies will know who is who at the character select screen, or be able to determine that in the middle of a game - a player takes a 3 hit combo, losing lots of energy, that would be Ryu then. Maybe the best thing to do is implement an option to enable/disable character art at the side of life bars?

Further down the road, what if you find that in rebalancing the characters unbalances everything in the remixed mode? Will you be making updates available to improve the remixed version as a whole or fix things if required? Or will this be the only release?

In fact, I even went out and had a custom PS3 stick made, just to be able to play it when it comes out. ^_^;

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