https://www.speedrun.com/BSSF2GQ

Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen and the New Femme Fatales is a Combo ROM Hack of the Sega Genesis version of Super Street Fighter II, where some of the fighters are replaced with female characters from various franchises. It could be one of the first of its kind, like the numerous ROM Hacks of Streets of Rage 2 & 3. An intent is to make the game easier to beat.

The project started when I was tweeting Game Genie codes for MD SSF2. I wanted to see if I could make Old Sagat's cancels possible. People were taking notice of my tweets in early 2023, so I experimented with editing the game further. I wasn't expecting to grab people's attention from editing the game. I put my blood, sweat and tears into making this.

Early in the making, I want this to draw inspiration from a lot of Champion Edition bootlegs, but I later found that the MD SF2 games weren't coded to have more than one projectile per player at once, so I decided to make juggles possible.

The fighter replacements, in order that they were made: Blanka is changed to Roll from Mega Man, Dhalsim is changed to Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury and King of Fighters, E. Honda is changed to Choi Jadoo from Hello Jadoo, Fei Long is changed to Emily from Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter, Dee Jay is changed to Madonna from Makeruna! Makendou 2, Boxer is changed to Avra Yumeno and Belva Lina, both original creations, with the former being created for this ROM Hack. Jadoo and Avra's sprites were not cheap, and the other characters were given several newly drawn sprites overall.

Roll is a lethal joke character who is a one trick pony, Mai is a no brainer of a character choice with a relatively balanced moveset, Jadoo is given the Chibi Back Dash and can cheese you with her Hundred Hand Slap and Headbutt, Emily can Air Dash and kill you from throws, Madonna is an insane combo character who can take you out quickly, Avra has high priority normals that do block damage, and Belva can use MvC2 Sentinel's flight with no transitions.

Upon its first release, I had shared it in ROMHack Plaza, which to many is seen as a successor to ROMHacking.net, which seemingly had its submissions closed at the time. Within a couple months, it managed to surpass 2,000 downloads. But 5 months later, out of nowhere, it got taken down from ROMHack Plaza along with all the other ROM Hacks I shared there. But I have since managed to get this ROM Hack mirrored onto ROMHacking.net, whose official Twitter account used to tweet about new additions to the site.

BSSF2: Glamor Queen had spawned a lot of playthroughs in its first couple of months when it was released. Many of the videos I saw would spam the same moves over and over again, which to me is boring to watch. It also means that they don't take advantage of the other things that the characters have to offer. Nowadays, it's extremely difficult for me to convince anyone to play this ROM Hack. For reference, @CorpseGrinder's Battletoads ROM Hacks have their own leaderboards here, as well as a good amount of leaderboard entries from different players.

As for the categories and rules, I went with a mix of Super Street Fighter II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3's leaderboards. Each character has their own sub-category, and the difficulty must be on 4-stars or higher. "Baton Pass" as a category name (named after a Pokémon speedrun category), where you use all the characters in a single Arcade run, might be subject to change.

So is this ROM Hack fun to play? You can decide on it. I couldn't find any other Street Fighter II ROM Hacks here, excluding the Champion Edition bootlegs, of course. This ROM Hack is not to be taken seriously. Fingers crossed it gets added to Fightcade.

Some features include:

-Fighter Replacements

-Charge Times Disabled, Air Specials

-Back Dashes (Emily and Madonna can also Forward Dash)

-Guard Cancels into Dashes

-Easier Arcade Mode (CPU no longer damage cheats)

-New Moves, such as Zangief's Coconut Thunder and Sagat's Tiger Dive

-Getting hit out of Empty Jumps by non-knockdown attacks makes you drop down

-Stage Select in Arcade Mode

-Easy Death Combos

-Access Debug Menu by selecting Options, and holding the A or Mode Buttons

-Refill Lifebars and Time Limit in Versus Mode by holding both Players' Mode Buttons

-Random CPU Colors in Arcade Mode, by holding Mode button

-Switch to the character defeated with Down+A+B+C

-Switch to the same character with Up+A+B+C

-Activate V-ISM Normals/Belva/Nightmare Dictator with Back+X+Y+Z+B or Back+Y+Z+B+C (essentially like the UMK3 Human Smoke code)

-Access Boss Rush by selecting Arcade and holding B