Street Fighter 3 online Japanese NOCD version

July 27, 2004 on 4:17 am | In Games, Internet trash |

Seems lots of people don’t realize that the bulk of people who play Street Fighter 3 online over MAME and Kaillera are using the Japan NO CD version.

The benefit of using the Japanese NO CD version is that you don’t have to sit through the 25 minutes it takes for the US version to re-write files.

The other benefit as mentioned, is that 97% of the people who play 3s online via Kaillera are running the Japanese NO CD version.

How do you run / where do you get the Japan NO CD version of Street Fighter 3?

You download the normal US version of the game and install that to your ROM folder normaly.
The important part, to activate the Japanese version with the NO CD, you have to download this special file.

Once you have it downloaded, you need to extract the contents of the zip file into your ROM folder. This file is not a ROM. Don’t just put the zip into your ROM folder!

Once you have done the above steps, go into MAME and re-audit your SF3 version and the Japanese version should appear.

If this still doesn’t work for you, or you still don’t understand read this tutorial on how to get it to work and if that doesn’t work, ask here.