Capcom updates XBLA Street Fighter II

Patch fixes "connection and time out issues;" Leaderboards cleared due to instances of cheating.

The highly anticipated arrival of Capcom's Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting on Xbox Live Arcade was quickly followed by a wave of player complaints. Two of the frequently brought-up problems were lag when playing online, and a record-keeping system that didn't punish unscrupulous players for disconnecting from matches when it appeared they were about to be defeated.

It appears Capcom has tried to address those two issues, as there is a new auto-update available to patch the game. Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hryb posted the following note about what exactly the update does on his blog, Major Nelson:

The title update will address connection and time out issues that have been reported by players. In addition, the Leaderboards will be cleared in order to offset players that have cheated by causing intentional disconnections.

[UPDATE] Capcom has told GameSpot that the "connection issues" addressed by the patch have nothing to do with lag. "This patch actually relates to connection issues which stem from players being disconnected in Quarter Match or not being able to connect to matches due to timeouts and whatnot," a representative of the publisher said. "Regarding latency, SFII is dependant on a low latency environment as players' controller inputs must be synchoronized on both consoles. Thus the gameplay experience is greatly related to a player's Internet connection."

For more on Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting, check out GameSpot's full review.

91 Comments

  • nztauranga

    Posted Sep 10, 2008 11:50 pm PT

    NzTauranga: I played SF2 online and spent 3months straight to lower my rank to the top10 xbox live, but because Im playing from New Zealand our broadband is average and terrible for U.S and U.K online play. Well I beat the top no.1 player him Sagat and me Zangief. But because of my lagg, I was voted as cheating to lower my rank and no thank to Xboxlive my rank was reseted from top10 to 4000. After this I sold my xbox360 until our broadband is faster, then I'll go PS3- upset player

  • thomas10soa

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 6:12 am PT

    the game still sux

  • chiefmegadeth

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 7:51 pm PT

    Well i played it for the last couple of days
    And i seems worse,I Get kicked out alot more!!!!
    connection drops all the time!!!! Harder to find a ranked match,
    The only thing they fixed was,when people drop out of ranked match you get the loss.
    But yeah i could not believe it,got worse????WTF!!

    PS I love this game play it every day so dont think im a hater,cause its my fav game of all time.

  • The_Weekend

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 8:43 am PT

    good ... wimps ... let a loss be a loss !

  • ocdog45

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 5:07 am PT

    bout time. maybe this will make me play the game more

  • slayaz

    Posted Aug 30, 2006 1:07 am PT

    So how DOES the update stop people disconecting? Does it punish droppers?

    It needs to. Although I am so sh*t i am scared to even play a ranked game

  • CyphenX

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 10:19 pm PT

    Nice

  • drangel_jam

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 9:06 pm PT

    Finally the leaderboards will be a little bit more creditable.

  • LTomlinson21

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 5:58 pm PT

    This helps make it a lot better!

  • AbstractTerror

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 4:16 pm PT

    Thank god

  • heybrado

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 3:37 pm PT

    thank christ

  • cortdog

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 3:03 pm PT

    tubular!

  • noobdontshoot

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 2:44 pm PT

    good news, now the guy who has over 1000 straight wins can play fair

  • _Sam_

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 11:32 am PT

    that's good

  • jaredgood1

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 10:36 am PT

    I must honestly say, I find online play dull. Be it WOW or a game of Team Fortress, I've never had as much fun as I've had playing Goldeneye, Super Mario Kart, any of the Nintendo branded WWE games, Mario Party, etc. If I'm playing multiplay with my buddies and they start cheating or endlessly trash-talking, I can pop them in the skull (and vice-versa).

    Oh, and it's sad to see that the PC Dev mentality has infected the console market. "Hurry up and get it in the store, we can just fix it later."

  • Da1ShrpSh0trGrl

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 10:25 am PT

    Good. Now it's time to fix Madden 07 issues!

  • Ponsardin

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 10:01 am PT

    Larry Hryb's blog has a quite weird name...

    Talking about that, remember when Jeff was angry on that guy who disconnected while playing with him?

  • neoand12

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 9:47 am PT

    This is Why I don't Buy XBL games.

  • jazilla

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 9:13 am PT

    Man I wish I had a 360 so I could pile drive all of you into submission!!

  • dhjohns

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 8:04 am PT

    Way to listen to us Capcom! I still get my butt whipped online, but at least I do not cheat!

  • LosDaddie

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 7:38 am PT

    I'm so glad Capcom & MS listen to the gamers!

    Go, MS!

  • GoddBless

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 7:01 am PT

    Soooo how about that Alpha series!?!

  • djord02

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 6:59 am PT

    This is great news, and I am glad Capcom and MS are listening to gamer concerns. It'd be great if they released another patch to fix the difficulty settings and tweak a couple of the sound effects that are off. Then the game would be perfect!

  • GoddBless

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 6:58 am PT

    "SnuffDaddyNZ
    No, you don't re-review games as the point of a review is to tell you what the shipped product is like."

    So a re-review would make sense in this case. IT's not shipped it's downloaded. So everyone who downloads it now will get the patched version since you can't play it without the patch.

  • Icekxg

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 6:53 am PT

    "WESLY_SNYPES
    4 Words: Third Strike on LIVE!!! "

    Amen Brother!!!

  • gonzalezj1

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 6:29 am PT

    I feel sorry for the guys that actually played fair and made it to the top of the leaderboards. Now they'll have to do it all over again. Good job ruining it for everyone, cheaters!

  • Dav_id83

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 6:19 am PT

    It should turn off the disconnect when starting a fight so you can't log off when your on the verge of defeat. They should of knew this would happen as soon as it was released. Or at least add to your profile a DISCONNECTED counter to log how many times you've D/C then people can look at it and say LOOOOOSER for running instead of accepting defeat.

  • Autolycus

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 5:48 am PT

    lol how pathetic. people have to disconnect instead of accepting defeat. wimps

  • bluemonkeyuk

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 5:07 am PT

    Definitely going to buy this game now.

  • ubj007

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 3:30 am PT

    Good.

  • wenbin09

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 3:00 am PT

    great that they remedy the problem!!!

  • Hussein

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 2:26 am PT

    I'm really happy to see gamespot (and other news websites) punish this game by giving it poor score.

  • elythemonkey

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 1:22 am PT

    I still get laggy matches and the sudden disconnets, so what did this patch fix?

  • smbius

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 12:56 am PT

    IT'S ABOUT PHREAKIN TIME. I remember beating Rank #15 out of 60,000 ...and when the round ended...he'd just disconnect. All of a sudden his streak of 295 wins was intact.

  • WESLY_SNYPES

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 12:15 am PT

    4 Words: Third Strike on LIVE!!!

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 12:09 am PT

    very interesting

  • sunrire

    Posted Aug 29, 2006 12:02 am PT

    Yay?

  • chiefmegadeth

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 11:44 pm PT

    Yes about time LOVE THIS GAME!!!!
    Cant wait i play this game everyday
    Best Street Fighter by far,
    360 rules!!!!!

  • orshick

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 10:22 pm PT

    so what about the hard punch sound? has that been fixed? If it ain't, they shouldn't have bothered with the update

  • cypher50

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 10:20 pm PT

    I don't even have the game and the first thing I was going to comment on was "did they fix the hard punch???"...Jeff really has us thinking about that LOL.

  • majorwes

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 10:18 pm PT

    Did they fix the hard punch??? LOL!!!

  • peterles

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 9:32 pm PT

    im glad they fixed it, but im pretty much through with the game anyway...maybe ill start playing it again.

  • bern20

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 9:05 pm PT

    Sweet. I can start all over.

  • icemancell

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 8:49 pm PT

    screw it, go and do alpha series or something, or even better 3's series

  • bdhoff

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 8:14 pm PT

    I bet the people at the top of the leaderboard are pretty upset right now.

  • Ahiru-San

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 7:51 pm PT

    "Kai_Ozu
    Top 10 players = Owned. "

    LOL

  • Martyr

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 7:45 pm PT

    bout time...now ill look forward to playing

  • SnuffDaddyNZ

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 7:44 pm PT

    No, you don't re-review games as the point of a review is to tell you what the shipped product is like.

  • Sonicgod

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 7:36 pm PT

    WOW half way there no fix the graphics and sound effects at least. and it will be 70% good enough

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 6:59 pm PT

    Sweet this could make the game much better!

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