SF3 TAG v2: Street Fighter III 3rd Strike as a 3-on-3 tag game (DHC, snapback, 6 players/gamepads)

Video interview with YasonX at    • Morphus Making Mahvel Madness!! (Feat. Mor...   Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (CPS-3, 1999) rebuilt as a three-on-three tag game, played like Marvel vs. Capcom: three fighters a side, all six on screen in the round's intro, tag in and out, cancel a Super Art into your partner's, snap the other point off the screen, and play with up to six people. What's in it: Three picks a side (character, Super Art, color). All six fighters stand in the round's intro, then the partners jump out Tag (HP+HK): your point leaps out and your partner jumps in with an attack; down+HP+HK brings in the other one DHC (HP+HK during a Super Art): the partner comes in already doing its own Super Art, paid from its own gauge Snapback (quarter circle forward + MP+MK): a stock knocks the other point off the screen and forces the next partner in Red life, Marvel vs. Capcom's rule, measured frame by frame in MvC1: about a quarter of each hit turns red, and a benched partner wins it back a point at a time Every fighter keeps its own Super Art gauge, stun and Personal Action An MvC3-style HUD: the portraits stack like a deck of cards and reorder on every tag, and MvC1's player cursor marks the incoming fighter Six players: P1-P3 against P4-P6 in the SF3 TAG core for RetroArch The side rails show the game's own memory, frame by frame: each member's life and red life, Super Art gauge, who has the point, the tag machine, the pad. The board strip counts what the CPS-3 did in each frame: the SH-2's instructions and how many of them were SF3 TAG's own code, the character DMA streaming fighters into character RAM, the sprites drawn, the sound chip's voices. Download: soon at morphus56k.com. You need your own sfiii3nr1.zip (3rd Strike, Japan 990512, no CD); nothing from the game is distributed. Two players on Fightcade, MAME and RetroArch; up to six in RetroArch with the SF3 TAG core. Photosensitivity warning: bright flashes from the game's Super Arts, and fast cuts. On our own frame-by-frame check against the general flash rule of ITU-R BT.1702 (not a certified test) no second has more than three large-area flashes; if flashing light affects you, please take care. Chapters 0:00 Inside the board 0:22 Morphus56K presents 0:33 Six fighters, three picks a side 0:45 Three on three: the tag and the HUD 1:15 DHC 1:31 Snapback 1:43 Red life, and SF3 TAG on the SH-2 2:01 Six players 2:15 Everything at once 2:46 No ROM included Music: "Moment 37 (Less Power Mix)" by morphus56k. Narration: an ElevenLabs voice (Mike). CPS-3 chip roles as MAME reads them (src/mame/capcom/cps3.cpp). Street Fighter III 3rd Strike (C) Capcom 1999. SF3 TAG is a fan mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by Capcom. The game shots run in FinalBurn Neo's libretro core (a build that also reports the board counters) with ordinary inputs, one game frame per video frame (the game's 59.59 Hz shown at 60). The opening's one-on-one clips are the unmodified game; everything after them is SF3 TAG v2.