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How The Makers Of Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Dug Up A Long-Lost, Unreleased Game - Kotaku

How The Makers Of Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Dug Up A Long-Lost, Unreleased Game - Kotaku

How The Makers Of Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Dug Up A Long-Lost, Unreleased Game - Kotaku
May 27, 2020 1 min, 29 secs

Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection, which will release on Epic Games Store (for free, at first) on June 11, Steam on June 18, and PS4 and Switch on July 28 bundles together seven classic fighting games, including one that only briefly saw the light of day before being hidden away by SNK: Samurai Shodown V Perfect.

As work had already begun on Samurai Shodown VI, SNK quickly shut down the Perfect project, relegating its legacy to a handful of blurry photos from the test site.

As is often the case with developer Digital Eclipse’s fighting game releases, Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection is meant to be a historical archive as much as a bundle of great games.

After this morning’s announcement, Sheffield shared some background information on Twitter about how the team discovered a surviving copy of Samurai Shodown V Perfect while he was interviewing Kouji Takaya for the project.

Sheffield later told Kotaku via email that, despite it being generally “frowned upon” to hang onto company data, SNK was actually ecstatic to learn that Takaya still had a copy of Samurai Shodown V Perfect on hand.

After receiving the ROM of Samurai Shodown V Perfect from Takaya, the developers only had about 48 hours to translate it from Japanese into English.

Sadly, the original writer, Touru Sakurai, died before he could see Perfect reach Samurai Shodown fans, but the game will be dedicated to his memory as a way to honor his original work.

Since Samurai Shodown V was the first Samurai Shodown game developed while the internet was really a big thing, it was a lot easier for fans to make requests, and they sure did it.”

Samurai Shodown V Perfect finally releasing in 2020 is a monumental achievement and important to maintaining the history of the genre

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