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Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: June 23rd, 2015, 2:47 am
by zumbito
Hi,

A guy is trying to sell me a No CD version of Stree Fighter 3 3rd strike. Is there such a thing? I thought all CPS3 games needed a CD.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: June 23rd, 2015, 7:58 am
by pulstar
I'm sure there were Asian No CD versions (possibly other regions)...as far as I remember they are legit versions. Maybe someone else can clarify, but I'm pretty certain they're official.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: June 23rd, 2015, 2:05 pm
by orio1
They have no cd versions in mame ..

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: July 1st, 2015, 8:55 am
by Chris
I used to have a japanese nocd version of that game.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: July 9th, 2015, 5:56 pm
by jhonny_d
so with a nocd mobo one can simply swap simms and cart to change game?

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: July 9th, 2015, 6:22 pm
by idc
jhonny_d wrote:so with a nocd mobo one can simply swap simms and cart to change game?
It's the cart that dictates whether or not the game is a no CD version.

You could get a CD-ROM drive, disc and cart for another game that is a CD version and use that to re-write the existing SIMMs, but you'd need to borrow a CD version 3rd Strike cart to rewrite 3rd Strike back to the SIMMs; you could then swap back to the no CD 3rd Strike cart again.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: July 10th, 2015, 5:00 pm
by jhonny_d
thanks for the explanation

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: October 28th, 2015, 3:20 am
by zumbito
Chris wrote:I used to have a japanese nocd version of that game.

Is there any difference between the CD and noCD version? Why did you get rid of it?

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: October 28th, 2015, 3:12 pm
by Chris
The battery died after only 3 years. I think the game is the same apart from the boot screen saying NOCD. If you plan to buy a 3rd strike board stay away from the asia version. All the voices have been censored and are often missing completely. Also i think NOCD versions only existed for the japanese market.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: October 28th, 2015, 3:15 pm
by phillv85
There's definitely Asia versions of the NOCD games. Arcade club has a 3rd Strike one.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: October 28th, 2015, 4:14 pm
by zumbito
Chris wrote:The battery died after only 3 years. I think the game is the same apart from the boot screen saying NOCD. If you plan to buy a 3rd strike board stay away from the asia version. All the voices have been censored and are often missing completely. Also i think NOCD versions only existed for the japanese market.
It is a Japanese version. Censored voices? Why?

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: October 29th, 2015, 10:55 am
by Chris
phillv85 wrote:There's definitely Asia versions of the NOCD games. Arcade club has a 3rd Strike one.
Just saw there are asia NOCD new generation versions too. So it's safe to say there aren't any USA NOCD boards?
zumbito wrote:Censored voices? Why?
Some 90's ASIA games had all traces of japanese langauge removed since japan isn't very popular in that region. Gameplay is untouched of course. It's just a little confusing to throw silent fireballs or do silent dragon punches. And those who want to get rid of these boards rarely ever bother to tell you.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: March 19th, 2016, 4:14 am
by zumbito
One question, what does a board No-cd? Is it the cartdrige? I mean changing the cartridge of a Jojo for a SF3NoCD will it make it playable? Or is it something else in the board?

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: March 22nd, 2016, 3:13 pm
by gray117
idc wrote: It's the cart that dictates whether or not the game is a no CD version.

You could get a CD-ROM drive, disc and cart for another game that is a CD version and use that to re-write the existing SIMMs, but you'd need to borrow a CD version 3rd Strike cart to rewrite 3rd Strike back to the SIMMs; you could then swap back to the no CD 3rd Strike cart again.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: April 1st, 2016, 4:06 pm
by zumbito
Embarassing :lolno: Anyway, I got my SF3.3 finally! CD version.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: April 3rd, 2016, 6:43 am
by zumbito
One question, I want to check my SFIII CD, but not sure when can I take out the CD. I've heard the board is very delicate, and I'm afraid taking it out while the board is on, will damage it, but if the board is off, the cd drive has no power to eject the CD. Is it safe?

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: April 3rd, 2016, 8:13 am
by nem
You can remove the CD when it is booting. Nothing will be damaged.

If you want to you can also jam the end of a paper clip into the pin hole next to the eject button. This will open the tray when it is unpowered.

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: April 3rd, 2016, 8:15 am
by zumbito
Thanks!

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: June 21st, 2016, 4:56 am
by XeD
Can someone school me on CPS3. Is there an easy way to tell apart an asia version of the cart?

Re: Street fighter 3 versions.

Posted: June 21st, 2016, 4:47 pm
by Jackalus
I have this for TX2, the HD scaling is very nice :)