Virtua Fighter 2/Hidden content

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Saturn version

Clean pause

When paused, press X+Y+Z to hide the 1P/2P PAUSED text. It can be only be reinstated by unpausing and pausing again.

Change pad type before a fight

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On the character selection screen, holding R while pressing Left or Right lets you choose between the four control layouts (A, B, C and "edit") without going back to the options screen.

Play as Dural

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Highlight Akira and press Down Up Right A+Left. If entered correctly, Dural's portrait will briefly appear before the game starts.

Play as gold Dural

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Highlight Akira and press Down Up Left A+Right. If entered correctly, Dural's gold portrait will briefly appear before the game starts.

Slow motion replays

When "K.O." appears after defeating an opponent, hold A+B+C and the replay will play in slow motion.

Play Virtua Fighter music

Before a match starts, hold R on the first control pad. This will cause Sarah's music from the original Virtua Fighter to be played.

For Jacky's Virtua Fighter theme, do the same, but hold R on the second control pad.

Fight the "alphabet character"

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Usually when beating the game, you get to beat up the "alphabet character" to enter a high score. To have the character fight back, when the screen loads hold either A+Z+Up for it to use Shun Di's moves, or X+Y+Z+L+R for it to use Dural's.

Select characters in watch mode

While watch mode is meant to feature random characters, you can force which one is picked by pressing A, C or  START  when the cursor is highlighting the character you want.

Alternative camera angle in watch mode

Pressing X in watch mode will toggle between the standard view and a more "cinematic" camera angle.

Windows PC version

Play as Dural

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On the character select screen, highlight Akira and quickly press Down (default S), Up (W), Right (D), Start+Left (Z+A). Your bio picture will briefly change to Dural and you will now be playing as them.

Play as gold Dural

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On the character select screen, highlight Akira and quickly press Down (S), Up (W), Left (A), Start+Right (Z+D). Your bio picture will briefly change to Gold Dural and you will now be playing as them.

Alternate background music

Hold down the following keys after you've selected a character and keep held until the battle starts to modify the music.

P1 G+K (keyboard T) - Sarah's original Virtua Fighter theme

P2 G+K (keyboard  Home ) - Jacky's original Virtua Fighter theme

Watch mode content

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You can cycle through various camera angles whilst watching by repeatedly pressing any of the R, T and Y keys.

You can force specific characters in the Watch Mode character select screen by pressing P1 Start (V) when the P1 cursor is highlighting the desired character, and P2 Start ( Enter ) when the P2 cursor is highlighting the desired character.

Alternate Costume

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On the character select screen, choose your character by holding Up (W) and pressing Start (Z) to use their alternate costume

End of round extras

Hold down V+G+H at the end of a round (when the K.O. message appears) to trigger the replay in slow motion.


Hold either V, G or H to force a specific winning pose after winning a round.

Bonus ending content

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If you beat arcade mode on hard difficulty without losing a round, you get to view a bonus ending video featuring Dural.

References


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