The 12 Secret Characters of Street Fighter Alpha 2: Gold

Although not exhaustive, this video features lots of details on the changes EX characters have over their regular counterparts. As there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of info about this online, most of it just comes from doing a ton of testing.

Going back to Alpha 2 reminded me of how awesome it was. Incredible soundtrack, lots of great background details and easter eggs. Best in the alpha series, in my opinion.

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0:00 - Cammy
0:44 - Shin Akuma
1:25 - Evil Ryu
2:12 - Alt Chun Li
2:49 - EX Character Intro
3:15 - EX Ryu & EX Ken
4:23 - EX M. Bison
5:08 - EX Chun Li
5:54 - Alt Sakura
6:12 - EX Sagat
6:59 - EX Zangief
7:36 - EX Dhalsim

[JackgarPrime]

I remember this version of Cammy was the big draw for people to get their hands on Alpha 2 Gold. They even talked about it in game magazines at the time.

[capngibbens]

I would give so much for a modern port of Alpha 2 Gold, shouldve been in one of the many collections Capcom released recently

[nathadniel]

It's absolutely insane that they just... Dropped in Cammy. In this home console port. Before she got into Alpha 3. Like, at the time, she was a BRAND NEW CHARACTER for Alpha. Just secretely hidden in A2 Gold. Crazy.

[shinbakihanma]

This video made me smile because I get to hear an 8 minute loop of Sakura's Alpha 2 theme.🤣

[spyder]

This is why Alpha 2 was next level. So many cool throwbacks and secrets

[xandrix]

So many years have gone by, and I'm still blown away by these secrets that's just under our noses. Great job desk!

[bigredradish]

i didn't know SFA2 had so many secrets like this! it reminds me in a way of the EX characters from SNK titles like KOF and Fatal Fury (and that would be cool to look at if you were ever inclined to do any SNK stuff!)

[Wolfedge]

The EX characters were great throwbacks to CE, though I didn’t know about the different normals.

Glad to see someone elaborate on them as a whole.

(IIRC, EX Zangief & Dhalsim has a full set of colors while the others only had 2.)

[striderhanzo]

I wish that "hyper Alpha" game mode from Alpha anthologies was playable these days. Such a cool concept that is locked away to time.

[alexlovehall]

Never knew how to unlock them. Great way to showcase the differences and references. You should try this retrospective style with other games and characters

[calgolden]

Alpha 2 gold was one of my favorites. Glad i still have my copies both on saturn and the the anthology set on the ps2

[LowellLucasJr.]

Always a joy to see Alpha 2 Gold covered! More than just an updates version, its a much better spread of characters, enhanced music and gameplay! Absolutely love this game! Great vid! ❤

[drewstar]

Alpha 2 Gold was such an incredible game. I remember when I was like 10/11 and I saw Alpha 2 in the arcades and I thought it was LEVELS ABOVE Alpha 1.

[Elratauru]

Lovely, great presentation, nice music choice, love the demostrations of every change in place. Exactly what I looked in a video about secret chars and unknown crap that developers implemented back in the day but nobody knew. Keep it up.

Man, fighting games from the 90s surely had this magic... secrets, variants, revisions, betas, that made them much more interesting to play and research surely.

[dizzbla]

it's great that you take vintage games! The classics never dies!

[Cloudcolin]

Alt Sakura have a new set move (Sakura Otoshi) : F D, DF + K, and then you can tap Punch for a maximum of 3 times for the follow up. (Edit : Correction : The 1st hit is a knockdown, so Sakura with only hit 1 time (Thanks to Rafael for the info)) This is the same move that Justin Wong used as his finisher in his V-ISM Custom Combos on Street Fighter Alpha 3, (except in SF2 Alpha Gold it's a knockdown, hence 1 hit.

[jasonreinert]

Alpha 2 Gold could possibly be one of the greatest SFs ever. The problem and irony? Back in the arcade era - non-tournament versions/fixes were basically ignored by the entire FGC. You can excuse 'practice' for competition (legit reason) but it's hilarious now that all games have patches that do this exact same thing to 'improve' the competitive play.
Personally, I don't like version/reactive patching at all. But this game was patched by the TOP japanese players after years, carefully protected and only once. I just think it's a shame this hasn't been tried through enough

[imperialzink]

The rumor is Cammy was planned for the original SFA2 but wasn't finished on time. They used what was left of her for XMEN a few months after SAF2 came out. Since Gold was released roughly a year later, that gave them time to finally implement her. It makes sense given that it's a bit odd to have Cammy's Killer Bee persona debut in the X-Men crossover.

[OrochiCr]

Secret characters... in these days we pay for these.

[luziaflone]

The best SF ever made for the arcade. I remember people getting really hype and gather around arcade playing this game