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This patch mercifully does what it says on the tin and eases up the AI difficulty to much more manageable levels, akin to the difficulty Super Street Fighter 2 had on consoles.

The patch description doesn't make it too clear, but the targeted romset is hsf2.zip (040202 USA). After patching and replacing the relevant ROM in the set, the emulator might throw an error about CRC mismatching, but it is safe to ignore and run the game.

My hope is that the author eventually revises the patch to also addresses Vega's (Claw) (c) D, U + K motion because it is inverted when you pick Vega's Super Turbo version; this issue plagues every version of HSF2 and was only corrected in the Kapkore re-issue of the PS2 version, as far as I'm aware.

In any case, this patch is wonderful and a must have.

I compared level difficulty on each (Japanese original vs us patched) and the patch says exactly what is explain. Ryu stay still very strong but heh I need some training I guess

The best arcade version of Street Fighter fully playable in English with working difficulty settings, an oversight plaguing both this and the earlier "Turbo" edition. AE is the same as Turbo but with some niceties like easily selectable older character versions.

Thank you so much for this!

One thing that would be nice as well while on the topic of HSF2:AE, to have the original character color schemes as default even for their turbo versions, it's always so odd not being able to pick turbo Blanka in green for example and playing single player and facing characters in their wrong colors. Always wondered why Capcom did that.

The difficulty fix is more important anyhow, so long japanese version of the game!