#新機動戦記ガンダムW Endless Duel

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【Super Famicom】

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel | 新機動戦記ガンダムW ENDLESS DUEL ~Intro / Attract demo

[ RHYTHM EMOTION ]

// Music: TWO-MIX

// English mod

// MiSTer FPGA / SNES core // Y/C Composite // Sony KV-13TR20 CRT TV

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Reblog, but this remains one of our top fighting games on SNES, if not the best and it's an original game and not an arcade port also.

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel - 1996 - Super Nintendo Developer: Natsume / ナツメ Publisher: Bandai / バンダイ

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Super Famicom - Shin Kidoh Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel

Title: Shin Kidoh Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel / 新機動戦記ガンダムW(ウイング): ENDLESS DUEL

Developer: Natsume

Publisher: Bandai

Release date: 29 March 1996

Catalogue Code: SHVC-AEDJ-JPN

Genre: 2D Fighting

No. of Players: 1-2

Gundam Wing was the first Anime that I watched that was not kid-focused like Dragon Ball Z or Pokemon. When I saw it on TV, I was blown away by how amazing the robots were, how cool the art was, and how it blended war drama with awesome space combat. How cool would it be to play a game where these giant robots could battle each other?! Little did I know that in Japan, a Super Famicom game was released that allowed this very thing. It is a crying shame it never saw a Stateside release.... that is until this very game got an English fan translation. Nice!

The game does a poor job of explaining what the actual story is – mainly because it is in Japanese (which is a language that I do not speak), but it doesn’t really matter because giant awesome-looking mechs are fighting each other all over the place. This is a fighting game built around the design of Street Fighter 2 or maybe Super Street Fighter 2, perhaps? Players select their own giant robot to do battle with against one another. There are a total of 10 robots to do battle with, with each one having unique button combinations to do special moves. In addition, they also have different stats like speed, defense, power, and weapon strength. I played many of the characters and they all felt quite different with lots of cool moves for each.

In terms of controls, each mech has a strong and weak punch, and a strong and weak weapon attack. Each mech also has a counter of 300 power below its life bar which shows how much backup energy for attacks they have. Power attacks take between 100 and 200 power, and shooting a machine-gun-like attack takes it down one at a time. Without this power, you cannot do all the cool fancy destructive moves. It gained be regained though! If you block or use regular attacks, it will refill, and you can unleash some new devastating attacks. There is one last cool feature – you can jet around in your mech! While mechs are somewhat sluggish, if you hit two buttons at once (I think strong punch and strong weapon) plus a direction, you can jet in any direction. What’s even cooler is that do a second jet at the end of your first, so you can jet up, then towards your enemy, and do a dropkick on his head all in one attack. This ability really made me feel like I was fighting in a mech!

While there is the traditional arcade mode where you battle against the computer against all ten mechs, the main fun of this game really is the awesome multiplayer. There are no special options, but it is just a blast bashing each other into the ground! In terms of graphics, this is one of the most beautiful 2D games that I have ever seen. The animations are smooth and there is little to no slowdown! I don’t know how they did it, but they did! The special attacks and beam swords all look great too, and the set pieces for each level really help to see the scale of how large these machines actually are! In terms of music, this game also dominates. I can’t count how many times I looped the intro song when writing this review. Most if not all of the songs help produce a sci-fi war atmosphere that suits this style of game. The sound effects also make it even more satisfying to pummel your friends into the ground.

Next to Street Fighter Zero 2 and maybe the SFC version of Fatal Fury Special and World Heroes, this is my favorite fighting game on the SFC. It’s beautiful, fun, and has giant mechs that battle each other! With a bunch of pals over, this game is endlessly replayable. While the game was never released stateside, there are numerous game sites that produce reproductions of the game. 

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Liked on YouTube: 新機動戦記ガンダムWエンドレス デュエル (Shin Kidou Senshi Gundam Wing - Endless Duel) CM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKyk4UCbmw

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Cover artwork for the 1996 Natsume and Bandai versus fighter for the Super Nintendo:

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel / 新機動戦記ガンダムW エンドレスデュエル

Tonight’s fight night stream will be showing off the versus mode. You can see our previous longplay on it here and some screenshots of it on the blog.

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Full longplay / playthrough / walkthrough / trueplay of story mode as Heero Yuy piloting the Wing Gundam Zero. The art direction is truly superb for a Super Famicom title with huge sprites and over the top moves. Clearly Natsume wanted to prove that games like Capcom's X-Men: Children of the Atom could be done on Super Nintendo and Gundam Wing: Endless Duel proves it could have been. A number of the move designs seem to have been borrowed from X-Men: COTA and Marvel Super Heroes.

This is an indirect follow up to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition, which used the same engine and was also developed by Natsume. The fighting system for Endless Duel includes, super jumps, chain combos and full screen super attacks, giving it lots in common with many modern fighters. Making it very fun to play with a friend. The soundtrack also has some great dance, rock and roll music with fast paced adrenaline packed audio perfect for versus fighters. It also includes a sample of the song Rhythm Emotion which is one of the themes from the TV series.

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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel - 1996 - Super Nintendo Developer: Natsume / ナツメ Publisher: Bandai / バンダイ

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