Hyper Street Fighter II

Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (Japanese: ハイパーストリートファイターII -The Anniversary Edition) is a competitive fighting game by Capcom that was originally released for the PlayStation 2 in 2003 in Japan and in 2004 in North America and Asia. Released to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Street Fighter series, Hyper Street Fighter II is a modified port of Super Street Fighter II Turbo in which players can control any versions of the main characters from the five Street Fighter II games previously released for the arcades. Although, originally released as a home console game, an arcade port was released shortly afterwards in limited quantities, turning it into the sixth and final arcade iteration. The PlayStation 2 version was released by itself in Japan and Europe. In North America, it was released in a two-in-one disc titled Street Fighter Anniversary Collection, which also features Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. The Anniversary Collection version was later ported to the Xbox in all regions.

Game System
Hyper Street Fighter II allows players to choose between one of five character rosters from the previous Street Fighter II installments: "Normal", which features the eight characters from the original Street Fighter II; "Champ" ("Dash" in the Japanese version), which is based on Street Fighter II: Champion Edition and adds the four Grand Masters as playable fighters; "Turbo", which is based on Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting (originally titled Street Fighter II Dash Turbo in Japan); "Super", which adds the four new characters from Super Street Fighter II; and "Super T" ("Super X" in the Japanese version), which is based on Super Street Fighter II Turbo and adds Akuma. This leads to a roster of 17 unique characters with 65 different variations. The characters control exactly as in the games where they originally appeared, with the same set of techniques, characteristics, and animation frames. Moreover, if two players both choose the "Normal" roster, then mirror matches will not be allowed.

The stages and endings are exactly the same as in Super Street Fighter II Turbo, although some of the stages restores background elements from the original Street Fighter II that were eliminated from subsequent installments, such as the breakable signs in Ryu's stage. The opening sequence has been altered to use a modified version of the Super Street Fighter II intro, in which logos of the past five games appear flashing into the screen. The background music played during the player select screen was also reverted to the theme used in Super Street Fighter II.

In the home versions of Hyper Street Fighter II, the player can choose to play the game with the soundtracks from the CPS1 or CPS2 versions, as well as the remixed soundtrack previous featured in the FM-Towns versions of Super Street Fighter II and the 3DO version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo. An edited version of Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is also included as a bonus.