Virtua Fighter Emulator WANGMODEL1 is Out

I’m not the only one digging back into Virtua Fighter. (In fact, someone recently added a 32X guide to the game over on GameFAQs. Crazy!) SEGA MODEL KING (WangDrum) has released a Sega Model 1 arcade emulator that perfectly recreates Virtua Fighter.

A bit of background: MAME has run Model 1 games to some degree for years, but particularly in the OG Virtua Fighter, collision detection has been super poor. Throws won’t connect, many hits aren’t picked up — it’s a bad experience if you actually want to play. So, there’s been a need for this. Via comments, WangDrum has been analyzing the Model 1 hardware for years and has fairly recently started programming this emulator. I’ve been following it for a bit, waiting for the final 1.0 release before posting something. It’s good! It’s really good! And, you can increase the resolution to get your polygons looking as sharp as they possibly can!
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Back in the Club

Club Sega has been updated for the first time in probably 17 years! A few happenings collided to make it happen: I started to dive into the Neo Geo library (what?), which eventually circled back to playing a fighting game series I understand (Virtua Fighter). Of course, Virtua Fighter Crossroads (VF6) has been formally announced. Oh, and add a little vacation free time to the mix.

Updates:
Club Sega – News on main page
Club Sega – Virtua Fighter – Character origins and unused characters
Club Sega – Fighters Megamix – High-res images added.

A bit of a ramble below and the story of Club Sega at Local Ditch Gaming:
The club story