Reminder: SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos Is Now Available For Switch

I have heard alot about this game...mainly that it wasn't too good, but I'm curious about giving it a second look.

@Pally356 Not SNK’s best fighting game but it ain’t bad. I can still get down with it. I already bought it on PlayStation 4.

Isn't this just a glorified ROM dump of a decades-old game? The sheer audacity of them to charge AU$30 for what looks like something that's had virtually zero effort put into it.

I'll consider biting if a physical release surfaces (as I do like me some Street Fighter), but the pricing for a digital version, that has virtually no bells and whistles (and yaay! Paid online! 🙄), is borderline ridiculous.

Already bought my copy!

@SillyG well... if you count that it has the hit-boxes mode, the secret characters from the arcade version, online and an art-gallery then its not just a ROM dump.
I mean, I'm not sure how much you can change to a fighting game without tampering too much with it.

@SillyG If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say *****. That's how I was raised.

I like the original CAPCOM VS. SNK, better. Played for hundreds of hours on Dreamcast. It was in constant rotation with MVC2, SC. and CRAZY TAXI.

@Yoshi3 : I did say glorified ROM dump. It's also possible for additional (usually minor) features to be added to ROMs via emulation while still essentially running off the original code. I just don't think that these minor additions justify the mark-up (not that the game needed any radical changes/additions), which we are seeing all too often with re-releases of old games.

@Ruler-Of-All-Evil : I said I was still open to buying the game, provided that a physical release surfaces. And considering your hostile use of profanity, you clearly weren't "raised" as well as you so self-flatteringly implied, so maybe take your own "advice" before dishing it out, love. 🙄

It's definitely overpriced especially compared to the ACA Neo Geo games. For the price of SVC I could buy 3 Arcade Archives games.

Whereas this game is the swansong to the NeoGeo, Capcom vs. SNK 2 was the swansong to the Sega Dreamcast. Both games came out at the near end of both of those platform's lifespan.

@SillyG Yeah but if you considered buying the original version of this game you'll be paying jacked up prices for it. Remember while the awful PS2 and Xbox ports could go for cheap at around $30-$70, the original superior NeoGeo MVS and AES versions that this game was based on was originally around the $150-$300 price tag so to get that same quality plus online play plus some new bells and whistles plus your support for the dev for $20 is actually a steal.

At 330 Mexican Pesos, it costs as much as 2 Arcade Archives and then some. May wait a bit before buying it. Capcom and Hamster have spoiled me when it comes to paying for tournament fighters.

Now that SNK vs. CAPCOM: Chaos is available, I want to believe the 2 Capcom vs. SNK games are coming some time after the Marvel vs. Capcom collection comes out.

@Serpenterror : That same argument could be made for virtually any old game, and I'm not going to dispute the value proposition (or perhaps, the sentimental value) of a sealed copy of an older game compared to a digital re-release. I'm willing to pay the "physical premium" should such a release materialise for the Switch version, but the pricing, should it remain a digital exclusive, is far less reasonable in my eyes.

I'll put it on my wish list and wait for a price drop. Also would like to see a physical release. Hopefully capcom releases the capcom vs snk games.

@SillyG yeah I understand where you’re coming from. I’ll also wait for a sale. I don’t know what else could a developer add to an old existing fighter though.
And btw, keep saying whatever you want to, be it negative or positive, this is a comment section and anything is valid unless it’s personal 👍

Was this game released on any home consoles before? That would have been PS2, Dreamcast, GC, Xbox era right?

I am waiting on reviews for Switch, and possibly sale if doing just a download.

Looks awesome though!

@msvt NeoGeo, PS2 and Xbox.

The SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos port for Nintendo Switch had two local versus mode. One is the usual classic versus mode where you and a friend could duke it out using normal controllers sharing the same screen or both of you could try the new split screen table mode which will happen when you plug in two joycons onto the Nintendo Switch. This mode allows player 1 to control the left joycon and player 2 to control the right joycon each with their own perspective of the game's screen split between both players. I guess whenever Nintendo decided to do Nintendo DS or 3DS compatibility maybe they could keep this mode in mind.

@SillyG That's not the same with NeoGeo games though, other older games usually price around the $50-$70 range when new, they usually don't go more than that. With this re-release it's just $20 so let's say if your are new to the game $20 would be the best price for you to finally play the game. Even if you bought the NeoGeo version brand new you won't spend the same amount on the game like you would a typical Super NES or Sega Genesis game would. The good thing here is that SNK isn't asking for more than that and by giving them that $20 at the very least would get you a legit copy of that game and help support them so they could make an SVC 3 maybe.

@SillyG $20 for a ROM dump with some additional bells and whistles is already a fair price considering that there are a lot of factor to take into account mainly, Capcom and SNK's share of the profit plus the percentage cut of the digital storefronts. And for an old game that younger generation don't care about and the realization that you can always download and emulated this game for free, there are no guarantees of how many copies they will be able to sell to justify the development time, cost and effort that they put up for this game's release.

From the looks of it, the port was done by Code Mystics, who previously ported the non-Arcade Archives versions of Garou, KOF 97, Last Blade 2, Metal Slug 3, and Samurai Shodown 5S to PS4/Vita. Their emulation quality isn't too bad but has less customization options than Arcade Archives IMO.

I'll get this at a sale, probably. I'm more excited about Marvel vs Capcom, to be honest. And I'd prefer Capcom vs SNK EO2,which I owned on GameCube and played for many, many hours.

Definitely going to purchase this, hopefully the rest of the Capcom vs SNK collection gets released on the Switch.

SVC Chaos has limited continues in Arcade Mode in the recent rerelease! Be warned! Currently, Code Mystics don't have any plans about implementing infinite continues!

@PKDuckman You have to consider that the Arcade Archives games doesn't have online multiplayer. This even has rollback netcode (locked behind NSO though along the leader boards - which is a bit of a bummer imo).

But yeah, I also find it a bit pricey. But then again it has a ton (36) of interesting fighters and is imo a quite unique take on the Fighting Game genre; it's rather gritty and bleak and it seems like throws/grabs are integral to the gameplay, if you want to succeed (game's quite difficult even on lowest difficulty imo).

Pro tip: Assign LP+LK to ZL and SP+SK to ZR (or vice versa) and you have each fighters 2 throws/grabs easily accessible.
(you have to stand very close to your opponent before they work).

@Ryu_Niiyama

Thank you, I would suspect since it essentially a re-releases (not HD remaster, etc) that it probably won't have physical version.

SNK has sales, I will hold off on the download, I agree that price is too high for a download.

Getting this for sure, but not for $20.

(Gosh, all the stages are soo generic and dull, and in a game where they absolutely should not be... 😮‍💨)

It's a nice emulation, I like the game but I also enjoyed Capcom Vs. SNK more. Weirdly, playing this game docked seemed to cause a short lived burn in of the timer graphics on my (not OLED) TV after only a short play session. Really odd, could be my TV is suddenly on the way out as I can't imagine that could be unique to a single game, but no other Switch games have caused this previously.

@SillyG Four things.
1. Sorry, I didn't know you were still considering buying the game.
2. My mom taught me to curse in a CARRS PARKING LOT.
3. My parents raised me right, as harsh as they were while doing it.
4. DON’T CALL ME “LOVE.” You just met me on the internet yesterday night.

All ready download it😊
Now will there be a physical copy please 😁

I bought this instantly. Online is great and there were a lot of players on last night. It's an interesting game for sure and I'm enjoying it. I get the complaint about the price but Fighting games without online play are a waste of money for me. I own a lot of the ACA games but don't play them because there's no online.

Wish it was on Xbox but since apparently MS is more concerned about making rearend controllers than getting good games on its console a Switch version is better than nothing.

Yeah I grabbed it. I've literally wanted to own this game for decades, haha.

@Serpenterror

WOW, that's pretty neat, I believe it is the first fighting game I see that does it on the Switch. It could even work with the Switch Lite. I had to see the video to get it, I would call it vertical (or 'Tate' for the more savy out there) mode.

Oh well damn lol. Glad to know it's out.

Note for fighting games fans who like to play online: GET THIS GAME NOW.

Not as a surprise, but to get the most online enjoyment out of these releases you need to be playing right away at launch. I was playing yesterday and there were a ton of lobbies and matches going online, so it was a lot of fun to learn the game a bit in practice and in solo arcade mode and then jump online and start slugging it out. This game is a ton of fun if you are a fighting game fan and will scratch that 2D fighting itch until the Marvel vs Capcom collection comes out.

There were some really good players online yesterday, many players just barely learning the game, and a lot of in between. So if you are interested in playing SvC Chaos with others and learning the game with us, then get the game NOW and I will see you online! Shoryuken!

@SillyG As a fighting game junkie, I don't want them changing too much about the game other than giving us quality of life upgrades, which we got with the expanded training mode and some fixes to common glitches and bugs from back in the day. The thing I really needed was smooth rollback netcode and smooth online play, which this delivers nicely. I was playing yesterday and there were a ton of matches going and the connections were good. That is all I can ask for.

@Vyacheslav333 I noticed that yesterday when I finally got the end game boss (Mr. Karate) and I was pressing the continue button after he destroyed me and the button press wasn't doing anything. I immediately thought of Alpha 3 Final Boss M. Bison (who you also could not continue against). Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

@dleec8 These finite continues are exclusive to Code Mystics's release. Original versions have infinite continues!

@Vyacheslav333 I wonder if this is a glitch of some sort or they wanted to up the difficulty for arcade mode? Strange thing to change for a retro release! Mr. Karate smoked me in my only attempt so I need to go for some rematches today lol.

@dleec8 They've made it intentional, for some really weird reasons. It's their first bad port, btw. All previous releases by Code Mystics were fine.

@Mirage-5x5 @SillyG Pix’n Love Games will be handling the physical releases. (Page isn’t live yet, it seems)

@masterLEON cool thanks for the info👍😊

@masterLEON @dleec8 : Cheers for the info. Looking forward to picking up a physical copy once they're available.

I would really like to get this, but I remember that I've already got a ROM of this on my PCE Works Mega Engine and I have no wish to line the pockets of Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.

@BLAZINOAH pirates life for you!