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Awesome improvement over the original and highly recommended for 2D fighting game fans!!

This is an incredible hack that greatly improves upon the original game with more balanced gameplay, more easy to do combos, a complete English translation, new game modes, new backgrounds and music and even three new characters with their own dialogue in Story Mode. It's really impressive having in this game engine two characters from other SNES games. Both Aoki Marin (from Seifuku Densetsu: Pretty Fighter) and Raphael (from TMNT Tournament Fighters) feel right at home and are very fun to use.

I also really appreciate the ability to view all the moves for your character by simply pressing the Start/Pause button in "Practice Mode". It's a nice touch and very useful. If you're interested, you can also check the game's own wiki page.

It'd be great having another extra character on future updates. A great suit could be Ranma from the SNES game Ranma 1/2: Chougi Ranbu Hen.

I look forward to more updates for this fantastic hack!! Thanks!!

For a follow-up to a decent fighting game, Sailor Moon Super S is tragically underwhelming and added way too little to its predecessor, so it's been in dire need of some real content for a long time now. Well, Metaquarius delivered said content in spades, and in ways that are wildly specatacular.

This hacks polishes numerous aspects of the game that were rough on release. The Story Mode now feels complete with its full roster, the Training Mode has everything I need to playtest movesets, and each character feels much more competitive with the refinements they got. I also love the new 3v3 mode (a la King of Fighters) and the slew of new stages. Add it all up and what you get is an incredibly robust experience that makes it feel like a significant expansion over the previous game, as it was supposed to be.

The translation is also done very nicely, with clean dialog that feels natural and true to their characters. The squarish font used in some of the menus looks odd but conforms with the overall look of the original. The thinner font used for character dialogs looks great though.

Then just when you think the game is now as good as it gets, this hack surprises you with three new characters. Old-school Sailor Moon is a natural choice who fits right into the roster, and plays differently from her Super variant. Aoki Marin from Pretty Fighter is oddly obscure but is neat addition to the game, complete with her own Story Mode dialog exchanges. Then out of nowhere, there's Raphael from TMNT: Tournament Fighters, with some of the most hilarious lines that the game now has to offer.

This hack does so much for a game that got so much less than it deserved. Even if you prefer not to have the non-Sailor Moon content, it elevates Super S to a level that makes it vastly superior to S, and makes it an impressively good game in general. Absolutely give this one a run.

Note: This review was made by someone who doesn't often play fighting games.

Sailor Moon SuperS is basically a glorified expansion pack for Sailor Moon S, with a new character and revised moves. Unfortunately it also features worse handling and broken movesets. This patch excellently revitalizes the way players use each character, fixing controls and adding fun new moves, as well as fun modes and even some new characters.

I can't recommend Fighter S enough. I would say it's almost better than S at this point, though I'm sure the die-hard tournament players disagree. Give Fighter S a whirl! You won't be disappointed. Highly recommended.

Short version, Sailor Moon FighterS is as drastic an update to Super S as Super Turbo was to World Warrior, and you should absolutely play it.

Long version, Sailor Moon Super S is the notoriously disappointing sequel to the enduring cult classic queen of SNES fighters, Sailor Moon S by the acclaimed Arc Systems Work.

Rushed together in an obviously half-assed way by a new team with very little time or experience, Super S featured a uniquely ear grating sound engine, watered down and homogenized versions of the nine returning characters, the occasional glitched sprite, and horribly unbalanced gameplay in the form of the one newcomer to the roster, Sailor Saturn, who featured a very strong moveset, and a glitch unique to her that made her Light and High kicks unblockable. For all of these reasons, and more that I am sure have slipped my mind, the community that has kept Sailor Moon S alive and relevant views Super S as a source of disappointment at best and frustration at worst.

Even as the game has its defenders, most notably being Big Zam, a talented Chibi main in the upper echelon of Sailor Moon S players, Super S, due to its underwhelming, aggravating and baffling gameplay, has never had its chance to shine in the FGC.

Enter Metaquarius, a french gamer who, seemingly of his own accord and with little or no prior knowledge of SMS's community, began work on FighterS, an improvement patch that would add a 3v3 mode. Fast forward to today, and this project has grown way past just an extra mode. Sailor Moon FighterS It has become its own unique title, distinct in its own way and vastly superior to Super S in almost every possible way.

Listing everything changed would take entirely too long, but even just a general look at the progression of this hack is nothing less than shocking.

Changed sound effects, cleaned up sprites, new stages a combo counter, a rudimentary training dummy system, new colors for every character, and a fully complete English translation of all menus and story modes, including the Outer Senshi featuring their own playable stories! And the inclusion of a 3v3 versus mode after the style of King of Fighters!

But most importantly and impressively: A complete overhaul of the balance of the game. Along with buffing the old cast to their former glory, toning down and fixing the obviously broken aspects of Saturn, Meta has taken this opportunity to leave his mark on these characters by giving the entire roster an identity and feel unique to FighterS. Many of the normals and specials of every character in the roster were changed, with some characters sporting brand new moves!

Some stand outs include Sailor Mars retaining all three of her projectiles from both S and Super S, Venus gaining a slide, Mercury having a very satisfying multi kick command normal, and Jupiter having an extremely flashy new desperation move: A divekick with a completely new sprite! And last but not least: Super Moon! With a completely revamped special moveset in the form of Cosmic Punch and Pulsar Dance, and another new DM: Celestial Heart Power!

Which brings me to my favorite part of this entire hack: NEW CHARACTERS!! 3 in total grace the roster: Raphael, hailing from TMNT Tournament Fighters (whose prominence in the FGC rivals SMS), Marin, from the Super Famicom exclusive Seifuku Densetsu: Pretty Fighter, and Old Moon! The original version of Usagi returns from SMS with her own unique playstyle! And all three of these characters come with their very own story modes!

These characters, new and old are the foundation of this hack, make this game as worth playing as the acclaimed Sailor Moon S, and has become one of my all time favorite fighting games ever. I cannot recommend it enough.

The FGC has embraced this obscure SNES fighter over the past few years, so hopefully this great hack will be welcomed as well. Tournaments might stick to the vanilla ROM, but these are definite improvements that I think ultimately benefit some unbalanced gameplay.