Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge

Rebalancing Roundtable with Western Pro-Level Players

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Recent buzz on social media was sparked by a tweet from Akira Nishitani (西谷 亮), president of Arika.

Akira served as Planner at Capcom for the first three entries in the Street Fighter II series on the arcade.

These include Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Street Fighter II’: Champion Edition, and Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting. To learn more about Akira, click here.

Machine translation of the tweet, courtesy of Grok:

Is it okay to tweak Street Fighter II X again?

I wasn’t really involved much, but if it’s possible, I’d kinda like to give it a shot.

Sorry if it turns into a nerf fest lol

スパⅡXを再調整するのアリですか？

私はほとんど関わっていなかったのですが、もし可能ならやってみたいなぁ。
ナーフ祭りになったらすみませんw

— 西谷　亮 (@nin_arika) September 3, 2026

In response to the buzz, courtesy of the Super Lore Boys channel on YouTube here, the roundtable features the following Western pro-level players:

• Damdai – S Ryu¹
• makiri² – X Ken
• ultracombo – S Sagat
• riz0ne – X Vega/Dictator

1. And various non-charge characters such as S Hawk, S Ken, X Cammy, X Dhalsim, and X Zangief. ↩︎
2. Westerner currently residing in Japan. ↩︎

You can also follow Super Lore Boys on Twitter here or check out the affiliated Discord here.

Nishitani-san asked a simple question and sparked a debate around the world for Super Street Fighter II X.

I did a roundtable with Damdai, Makiri, and Ultracombo talking about rebalancing, design philosophies, and a crazy idea or two. Round 2 is inbound.https://t.co/N7oLenYzv8 https://t.co/lWD29mS3eA

— riz0ne (@superloreboys) September 13, 2026

Relevant to the discussion is Born2SPD’s fan rebalancing effort in the form of the New Legacy mod of the Western release of SSF2X, SSF2T (colloquially known as Super Turbo or ST). You can find out more about the mod, currently at version 0.9, here.

If you have an account on X/Twitter, please consider supporting the following reply tweet from Born2SPD.

I am the author of a romhack that does exactly that. It's still WIP but it's on a very advanced state. I will not go much in depth on the changes, the changelog is on the website: https://t.co/QmNYdJZtGq. Please take a look, you can test it on emulator too, even on netplay. pic.twitter.com/K2HuTXmyqa

— Born2SPD (@Born2SPD) September 3, 2026

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