So whats the News on the 3's you ask? Well I'm talking about Street Fighter 3, Tekken 3, Virtua Fighter 3, Darkstalkers 3...you get the picture. Well here's what I know.
Street Fighter III: New Generation TM Click for More Info
Sources at Capcom say that SF3 as well as DarkStalkers 3 Will run in the Arcade on the CPSIII board and will run off of a CD-ROM drive. And DarkStalkers and Street Fighter MAY be translated to DD64/Cart. Which can easly handle the Frames of animation. Saturn is also rumored to use CD/Cart combo for SFIII.
Check out Official Press Release for SFIII
Capcom Reveals Details On New DarkStalkers Game
Capcom has officially announced the next game in the DarkStalkers series, to be known in Japan as Vampire Savior. The new game runs on Capcom's old 16-bit CPSII hardware, and uses several frames from the first two Vampire games, but has all-new backgrounds. There are also reported to be four new playable characters, including Anita (!), Morrigan's sister, who may be called "Genevieve," a new insectoid female character, and one unknown. The game has debuted at Japan's AOU show. It IS a CPS 2 Board. But the Board can still pack a punch.
Darkstalkers 3 will hit the arcades right next to Street Fighter 3. Based on Capcom's new CPSIII arcade board. Darkstalkers is packing smooth animation and the high resolution character designs. Little information has been released, but it is known that a majority of the characters from the previous Darkstalkers will return with a few new characters rearing their frightning heads.
The balance has been further refined for this version, and several new fetures will be implemeted in order to seperate it from SFIII. Look for Darkstalkers to hit the arcades later this year.
Saturn Conversion: Saturn conversion may be with an optional Model 3 type upgrade for Saturn. Nothing has come up yet. Maybe E3 they will anounce Saturn VF3. Until then, play it in the Arcades.
Battle Arena Toshinden 3 in the US will be released on May 12. It is available in Japan. I don't know too much about it in terms of story or anything, but I guess i'll have to get it...check back if you're REALLY interested..i know i'm not to intrested.
Here are pictures from the american version
Battle Arena Toshinden Pic 2
Thats it for now...Stay tuned for further developement as I get it in here.