There’s another awesome news story that’s worth a mention here on Indie Retro News, as thanks to both Ethan Knight and Saberman letting us know through Facebook, we’ve been told that Jon Eggelton and Gianluca Alberico has released a pretty impressive update to their 2023 Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 unofficial hit of ‘SNK vs CAPCOM’; a C64 game which was developed using their in development fighting engine known as RetroFighter. To coincide with this HOT news story, we’ve got some info about the update as well as a video showing the game in action.
SNK vs CAPCOM is a game which doesn’t just include a series of crossover video games by either Capcom or SNK, with characters that appear in games created by either company. But basic attacks, throws, special moves and combos, two levels of supermoves, counter attacks and breakers, multiple fighting arenas as a pure nod to the classics, bonus rounds, musics for all the stages, stage selection in versus mode and complete character storylines with intermission and even ending animations (Yes it’s that impressive!).
Dev Notes JUNE 2025 : In this video you can find another update for the C64 version of SNK vs CAPCOM (Stronger Edition) and a specific version of the same game for C128. SNK vs CAPCOM – Stronger Edition. Available with 16 additional fighters add to the roster, for a total of 32 fighters to play with. Currently it’s an alpha release: only one backdrop and few things are left, but the game is almost there. Some few changes to standard edition gameplay are present in this update too.
- Code: Gianluca Alberico
- Music: Aldo Chiummo
- Graphics: Gianluca Alberico, JonEgg of Genesis Project
- The game uses a new kind of cartridge, called Magic Desk 2 (MD2). Actually, only a modded version of the VICE emulator can run the game, so you have to download both emulator and CRT game files in order to play it. The game can be downloaded for free at Dropbox.
