[SalsaShark]

Came to post this:



good job Spaniard

(and good luck!)

[luka]

KOF 99:

Jesus. Figures '99 was one of the only games in the series I never spent much time with, so I missed this one completely.

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

handjob alert

Its the reason I became an Airplane traffic director!

not really though.

[The Broken Ska Record]

Holy crap. I forgot how awesome the BB stage, Halloween, looked. I'd love for a high res file of that for a desktop wallpaper.

[BowieZ]

I can't believe we were all clamoring for redone backgrounds and sprites in HD Remix. How wrong we were :(

oh, now i see what you mean... :,/

[PBMax]

This was posted earlier, but much of its beauty is lost without the animation.

Last Blade 2:

[SalsaShark]

I dig the KOF 99 visually, but the thing with Alpha 2's back alley is that it makes me think what happened there. One of those that kinda tell a story.

[octopusman]

Jesus. Figures '99 was one of the only games in the series I never spent much time with, so I missed this one completely.

'99 was the one I had all my childhood memories with.

[GotchaForce]

God DAMN at some of these bgs. I've played a good deal of the SNK ones but seeing them in this resolution is astounding.

[-Eddman-]

From Guilty Gear:

[PBMax]

Garou: MotW:

[BAW]

Ahhh good old 2D art, how I miss thee.

[PBMax]

SamSho2:

[Dragonzord]

Ahhh good old 2D art, how I miss thee.

Eh 3d still gets some good ones.

Daily Bugle and Umbrella labs in MvC3 are fantastic

[GhaleonQ]

Now I regret it - This is art, even if I find the characters tacky. KOF and Last Blade ones being the best so far.

I really don't even think the The Last Blade world is tacky at all, too. I HIGHLY encourage you to play/explore them.

[Solune]

Emugif.com is a good site for stages ... it is not perfect (sorry, no jojo) but has lots of ones ! (the menu is not firefox/chrome friendly)

Damn their galleries are really godlike, but their CvS2 archive only has characters as far as I can tell, any place where I could find backgrounds for CvS2?

[rekameohs]

If Brawl counts, I'd say some stuff there is incredible.

[MNC]

Use the second one and make it cyberpunk

[tearsofash]

Edit: Nvm, I got my games confused. I need to hunt down some AoF 3 backgrounds.

[Kikujiro]

Wow, I missed that KOF '99 stage too, and I have the game for Dreamcast.
Watching all this stages is like remembering my childhood, fighting games were the best thing ever.

The Sakura stage is amazing, I love the everyday life feeling in it.

[To Far Away Times]

Last Blade: KOF 99:

I love SNK artwork.

[Finaika]

Those are awesome.

[Bleepey]

I wish there was a way to have my desktop background be one of these with a fight occuring. No, not MUGEN.

1) Download a vid of youtube
2) Download VLC
2) Convert it to a file format to be played with VLC
4) Play video
5)Set it as background
6)????????
7)Profit!

[MYE]

Holy shit at some of those o__o

Guys, Blazblue Calamity Trigger fo4 9.45€ new or BlazBlue: Continuum Shift for 14.95€?

I'm buying it for the occasional offline fighting matches and pretty 2D art. Dont give a shit about the active comunity or whatever.

[orioto]

The art of making fighter backgrounds is so amazing... Some of SNK and capcom backgrounds are stunning pieces of art!

I'll add that :



And the symphonic music on top of it!

[mattfabb]

[Dali]

[img]http://www.**********************/lastblade/lastbladecda.jpg[/img] Poetry in motion. [img]http://www.**********************/lastblade/lb-7.png[/img]

Last Blade was the first game to come to mind. I couldn't think of any specific stages, I just remembered it having awesome backgrounds. Also SF3: 2nd Impact had some amazing backgrounds. I don't know why they didn't include them in Third Strike.

[BGBW]

Wow, the pixel art here is amazing. Kind of makes me wish I was into 2D fighters when I was younger now.

[djtiesto]

The SFA2 stage that takes place in a bathroom... can't find any good pics online.

Also was looking through the SNK wikia, lots of fantastic sprite-art backgrounds. I like this one because, for some reason, random Japanese games would have "NEW JACK" in their grafitti (ESP Ra.De. has this too) :P



Also these:

[Azure J]

This thread is so fucking cool.

[Shig]

How do I get to the game directory on that emugif site?

I can get to the ones that have had recent updates by their specific links, but all the links in the site's top banner lead me to 404 errors.

[noneofexion]

SF Alpha stages were great. I've never seen those Last Blade ones - amazing.

[BAW]

Gotta love beat em ups. It's like the characters said, "We will travel far and wide, and visit the most breathtaking and iconic vistas of our planet. And then beat the shit out of each other."

[Raging Spaniard]

If Brawl counts, I'd say some stuff there is incredible.

They would, but personally I dont want anything with magical floating platforms.

Thank you so much for all these responses! Some really fantastic pieces in here, I cant wait to completely butcher them :P

And yeah, HD Remix had horrible backgrounds. I bitched at them then and I was right, haha.

[Foil]

Not a very good game, but I always liked this background.

[Alextended]

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/ph...1/ssf2thd2.jpg

Woah, that looks like some bad fan art... What happened to you, Ryu?!

[QisTopTier]

guilty gear had tons of ones I loved

[Criminal Upper]

Woah, that looks like some bad fan art... What happened to you, Ryu?!

A brief history lesson:

1. Capcom hires a company to do all the in-between animation cells for the game.
2. Sprites are pretty dang awesome, tons of shading, very detailed.
3. The animation company cannot keep up with the detail, and is very inconsistant.
4. Capcom/Udon start lowering the ammount of detail in hopes of getting it done faster.
5. Animation company still sucks.
6. Capcom fires them, then has to re-do all the animation over again, with a new company.
8. They have the reduce all the detail/shading so they can get it done relatively on-time.

We're stuck with what we have today.

[The Take Out Bandit]

Really liked this one in blazblue: The barking dog just made it for me

Hype Dog!

Woah, that looks like some bad fan art... What happened to you, Ryu?!

Udon is bad fan art.

To be fair, we didn't know that HD Remix would look like complete ass.

I told you so.

Keep that in mind the next time you clowns try shouting me down.

[udivision]

If Brawl counts, I'd say some stuff there is incredible.

Battlefiled
Delfino Plaza
Yoshi's Island (Brawl)
Spear Pillar
Halberd

and the best, Lylat Cruise.

[Raging Spaniard]

I told you so. Keep that in mind the next time you clowns try shouting me down.

Yeah if TTOB and I agree on something its mathematically impossible for the conglomerate to be wrong.

[The Take Out Bandit]

Yeah if TTOB and I agree on something its mathematically impossible for the conglomerate to be wrong.

lol

I have to say these stages make me miss that TrueD swagger even more. Except for the Western developed toilet fare. Mortal Kombat will never count, good on you Australia for putting that trash in its place.

Seeing stages I haven't seen before compels me to seek out these games.

[DrFunk]

Elena's 2-stage background from SFIII. My God

[The Take Out Bandit]

Elena's 2-stage background from SFIII. My God

SF3 series has so many amazing backgrounds, and it's the primary reason I want a Street Fighter 3 Collection released. So we can enjoy this great art in our homes.

[Raging Spaniard]

lol I have to say these stages make me miss that TrueD swagger even more. Except for the Western developed toilet fare. Mortal Kombat will never count, good on you Australia for putting that trash in its place. Seeing stages I haven't seen before compels me to seek out these games.

I need you to gimme backgrounds, not spread your sensationalist propaganda >:|

[The Take Out Bandit]

I need you to gimme backgrounds, not spread your sensationalist propaganda >:|

Where can I find the amazing SF3 backgrounds?

Alex's 2ndI stage sprang to mind immediately, but I can't find an image that does it justice. Everything I find is tiny and lame.

[Flib]

Not necessarily this specific one, but just stages with multiple parts in general. Need more of those.

What game is this from?

[The Take Out Bandit]

What game is this from?

Whatever game it's from, it couldn't possibly be revealed in the file name!

MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter-Manhattan.png

[Jocchan]

What game is this from?

Either X-Men: Children of the Atom or one of the first Capcom VS. titles, I think.

[tzare]

wow really SNK were absolute masters. good old times