Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Arcade)

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight for the Future (Arcade).

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Concept Art#

The Making of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike#

The following concept arts come from 3 interviews originally featured in Gamest magazine and the Capcom Secret File. They were later preserved in the Shmuplations website.

Rough sketches of Chun-Li. What would become her character select art can partially be seen.

Rough sketch of Ibuki's third Super Art, Yami Shigure. According to a developer comment, it used to be a special move but was turned into a Super Art because of complains (which would explain the omission of Hashinsho).

Rough sketches of Necro and Dudley. Necro's sketch looks very similar to his character select art.

Rough sketches of Q, featuring a "Combination Attack". According to a developer comment: “His combination attack is supposed to look like someone who’s drunkenly stumbling down the street and singing in high spirits.”

Rough sketch of Twelve. According to a developer comment, he was originally a face-swap of Necro and they were going to add camouflage to his skin.

Rough sketch of Twelve's original jumping roundhouse attack. According to a developer comment, the wheel was animated but the designer realized something wasn't right about it, so it was changed.

(Source: shmuplations)

Promotional Material#

Capcom's 1999 AOU Show Line Up Japanese Brochure#

This piece of media contains early information and artwork for all the characters with the exception of Gill. It was uploaded to Takayuki Nakayama's X account and Capcom Japan's Instagram account.

Source 1

Left Page	Right Page

(Source: Takayuki Nakayama)

Source 2

Left Page 1	Left Page 2	Right Page 1	Right Page 2

(Source: capcomjpn)

The following differences can be spotted:

Akuma's pupils are visible in his character select art.
Alex, Dudley, Ryu, Twelve and Yang have different character select arts.
- Dudley can be seen holding a cup of tea, being more in line with his character select portrait that also features one.
- Alex and Yang seem to be the most unpolished ones as pencil strokes are visible.
Victory screen:
- Elena is facing the opposite way.
- The victory background is different, featuring different shading and unique text.
- The graphics and positions for some HUD elements are different.
- Elena's win quote doesn't exist in the final game.
Character select screen:
- Urien is smiling in his character portrait. This feature is only seen on his health bar portrait in the final version.
- "YUN UNDER NAME" and "SEAN UNDER NAME" can be read in both character select screen pictures. Probably used for debug purposes.
Matches:
- Small numbers can be seen under the round timer. Probably used for debug purposes.
- Chun-Li's Super Art II is shorter and has 1 stock.
- Makoto's Super Art I is shorter and has 2 stocks.
- Q's Super Art I is shorter and has 1 stock.
- Q's Super Art III is shorter.
- Twelve's Super Art I is shorter and has 1 stock.
- Yang's Super Art I has 2 stocks.