Some retro game fans shudder with revulsion when someone mentions the name DotEmu, and this game provides unequivocal, objective justification for that forceful reaction. I consider Fatal Fury Special one of the best fighting games of the mid 90s, right up there with Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, and DotEmu did an ATROCIOUS job bringing this game to PC. They literally just packed the ROM with a terrible emulator and called it done. You get a single save state, and it supports 8bitdo's Neo-Geo Pad, and probably other Xbox controllers. In fairness, Capcom's mediocre at best Street Fighter 30th Anniversay Collection also only supports 1 save state per game, but come on. Those "features" aside, you get: No support for Dualshock/Dualsense controllers No ability to reconfigure the asinine default keyboard config No graphics options beyond Fullscreen and Windowed. No scaling options, screen filters, screen borders, nothing. No sound options beyond basic volume control No support for high refresh rate displays. If you have a 144 Hz (or higher) display, the game will play ABSURDLY fast unless you either manually set your refresh rate to 60 Hz before playing, or maybe use your GPU options to limit this game specifically to 60 Hz. DotEmu did such a miserable job with this one that they literally got the default keyboard controls wrong. It lists the following in the "Input Options": D button - Q A button - W B button - X C button - C Besides coming up with one of the worst default key configs I've ever seen personally, these buttons DON'T MATCH the actual bindings. For me at least, the keyboard follows THIS config: Z - A button X - B button C - C button (Honestly okay so far) A- D button (WTF?!!?!) Legit no idea how I have this *only slightly less* stupid button layout. The garbage emulator has no built-in rebinding and I don't recall messing with an INI file or anything to change them. If I did, I wouldn't have set up this lousy config! Shame on you, DotEmu!
