Fighting Game Starter Kit

Hey, here's a starter kit for fighting games.

Beginner Guides:
https://critpoints.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/street-fighting-for-beginners/
https://critpoints.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/smash-bros-melee-beginners-guide/

This is fightcade, a netplay client for playing thousands of classic arcade fighting games (and a few shmups and beat em ups):
https://www.fightcade.com/

It can play Street Fighter 2, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, King of Fighters 98 & 2002, Darkstalkers (Vampire Savior), Garou: Mark of the Wolves, The Last Blade 2, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and more. It cannot however play Capcom Versus SNK 2, or Marvel Versus Capcom 2, Mortal Kombat, or Guilty Gear. These were all released on arcade boards not supported by Fightcade's emulator, Final Burn Alpha.

Here's a few Roms of my favorite games:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8dtln84so0tcply/sfiii3n.zip?dl=1 (Street Fighter 3rd Strike)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rry4qzij3fdjfe7/jojoban.zip?dl=1 (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/io9quvigiil8j7s/sfa2.zip?dl=1 (Street Fighter Alpha 2)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i18tzc5k5xd8txz/sfa3.zip?dl=1 (Street Fighter Alpha 3)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfgmreu4e7bux5z/vsav.zip?dl=1 (Darkstalkers, called Vampire Savior in Fightcade)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7g6la6w9lr6ayth/ssf2.zip?dl=1 (Street fighter 2, all 3 of these are necessary)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vtj8ux0rdoe37ru/ssf2t.zip?dl=1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ypn25bddn5utbg/ssf2xj.zip?dl=1 (SF2 is played in the room named, "Super Street Fighter II X - Grand Master Challenge")

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ci2b7ew85m1rcc2/neogeo.zip?dl=1 (Necessary to play all the SNK games below)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rxjfvxr8eg8seh/garou.zip?dl=1 (Garou: Mark of the Wolves)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zmqvog2o0lb0hwb/kof98.zip?dl=0 (King of Fighters 98)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rag8s29jx6euhok/lastbld2.zip?dl=1 (The Last Blade 2)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhnfkx5a7sszwu1/wjammers.zip?dl=1 (Windjammers)

To play them, just stick them in the Roms folder of Fightcade. DO NOT UNZIP. Unzipping them will cause them not to work. They must stay zipped.

Once put in the folder, you can play them in Fightcade by joining the appropriate lobby (Settings > Hide games with missing roms, makes it easier to find the lobbies you have roms for) and double clicking the name of the person you want to challenge. You can also spectate games in progress, and be challenged by other people. Challenges appear in the chat.

You can bind your controls ingame from the file menu, or by hitting F5. Final Burn Alpha (fightcade's emulator) does not support hotswapping, so if a controller comes unplugged mid-game, or is not plugged in when the emulator starts, it will not be detected and you will need to restart the emulator (just the emulator, not all of fightcade). You can test if a controller is working from the USB game controller setup in your control panel. You can save your bindings by going to Misc > Save Input Mappings Now, and also enabling auto-saving of inputs from the same menu. You always use the Player 1 controls while netplaying someone else, even if you're player 2 in-game.

If you want to play a game by yourself, you can go to the room for that game and type /play. Alternatively you can open up either ggpofba.exe or ggpofba-ng.exe in the fightcade folder and loading the game manually in the Final Burn Alpha Emulator (Shortcut is F6)

There is a training mode hack for 3rd Strike that works by hooking into the final burn alpha emulator. To use it, just start up FBA with 3rd strike by yourself, then download this file and run it after the emulator is running. You can use the player 2 inputs to set up a dummy to use.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/416986/ROMS/SF3hack.exe

Street Fighter 3rd Strike is my favorite game, and the game I'm likely to teach you if asked, so here are some resources specific to Street Fighter 3rd Strike if you're interested in learning the game:
http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Street_Fighter_3:_3rd_Strike (general guide to SF3)
http://ensabahnur.free.fr/BastonNew/ (detailed framedata and hitbox display for every character)

If you want to learn anime fighters these two sites are useful:
http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Main_Page (Esoteric anime games)
http://www.dustloop.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page (Arc System Works anime games)

Have fun, fighting gamers!