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Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega Saturn)

The landmark classic title in the Virtua Fighter series and best selling title in the Saturn's library, Sega's Virtua Fighter 2 cemented itself as a classic nearly immediately after its release date. Though the arcade title is the most classic version, the Saturn version is probably more memorable due to its immense success on a console that didn't see much of that.

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Disc Content#

Text Files#

The US release of Virtua Fighter 2 contains 2 different text files, including:

ABS.TXT

<pre style='white-space: pre-wrap; overflow: auto;> Abstracted by SEGA

BIB.TXT

<pre style='white-space: pre-wrap; overflow: auto;> Bibliographiced by SEGA

Their purpose is unknown. "ABS.TXT" is dated May 27th, 1991, and "BIB.txt" is dated April 13th, 1992, both several years before Virtua Fighter 2's initial Saturn release.

AVI Videos#

On all discs of Virtua Fighter 2, there are 3 AVI files, "VF2END.AVI", "VF2OP1.AVI", and "VF2OP2.AVI", containing the endings and both openings respectively. These are simply the ones found in the game, and can be watched using any media player which supports the DUCK AVI encoding format, such as VLC.

Regional Differences#

US

Japan

The game's copyright text was changed between regions, with the US version reading "1995 SEGA, All Rights Reserved" and the Japanese version reading "SEGA ENTERPRISES, LTD. 1994, 1995". This is due to the Japanese arcade version being released in 1994, and the Japanese Saturn version being released in 1995, whereas both the arcade and Saturn versions were released in 1995 in the US.

US

Japan

On the options menu for the USA version, the button for controller reassignment says "Button Reassignment", while in the Japanese version it says "Key Assign". The reason for this change is unknown.

(Source: Original TCRF research)