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[icycalm]

Another PC-to-arcade fighting game port:

Nitro+'s 2D PC fighter (featuring Saber from Fate/Stay Night) is coming to arcades in HD, courtesy of Milestone, notes Zepy. You can see some comparison sprites here, which make it clear that everything is being totally redrawn. You can watch some footage of the original game here. The companies plan to release the game on Naomi hardware in 2009. By all accounts the original is pretty rough around the edges, but maybe they'll smooth things over in the porting process.

http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/002598.html



http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20081225/nitro.htm

Official site of the PC version:

http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/pc/lineup/into_14/

Video of the PC version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdynYEUMYhE

[icycalm]

Note that Brandon's post makes a tiny mistake: the port is not coming in "HD" -- it's coming in "high-res". High-res in the arcades meaning 640x480, whilst HD would have been 1280x720+, and it would have to have gone to the Type X2.

[Recap]

I wouldn't talk about "a port" in this case. It's clearly a remake.

There's another fighting game announced for NAOMI -- Project Cerberus. It's brand-new this time, though theme-wise it's based on a WIN game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dk9sr52iZs