What's new

Dataset baseline

Totals: 12 games · 281 fighters · 404 appearances · 5,028 moves

Visual input glyphs land

• ▸Every motion, button and system mechanic now has its own SVG glyph. The /inputs page opens with a full visual reference, grouped by family.
• ▸Motion glyphs cover quarter circles, half circles, dragon punches, pretzels and spinning grabs.
• ▸Buttons cover the Capcom six button layout, the Guilty Gear and BlazBlue four button layouts, the SNK A B C D family, Persona 4 Arena, and Them's Fightin' Herds.
• ▸System mechanics include Roman Cancels in all four colors, force RC, air dash and instant air dash.
• ▸A new /credits page lists the artists and projects whose work made the visual identity possible.

SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium joins

• ▸The 1999 Capcom and SNK crossover is now in. Twenty six fighters, three hundred and sixty two moves across throws, command moves, specials and supers.
• ▸Two new faces enter the wider roster: Akari Ichijou from Last Blade and Baby Bonnie Hood from Darkstalkers.
• ▸Authentic select screen sprites in the character grid, full body portraits on every fighter page.
• ▸The game lives at /snk-vs-capcom-the-match-of-the-millennium and slots into the King of Fighters franchise hub under Crossovers.

Fighter pages get a fresh hero

• ▸Every fighter in game page now opens with a tilted, animated dot field map and a continuous text marquee that picks up where you left off.
• ▸Side chevrons and arrow keys cycle through the rest of the roster.
• ▸Hover any tab to preview that game's logo and watch the portrait swap to the matching art.
• ▸A new active game dropdown sits at the front of the tab strip, so you can jump straight to any of the fighter's games.

Game pages turn into character select screens

• ▸Every game page is now an arcade style character select. Hover a fighter and a giant mirrored portrait fills both sides of the screen.
• ▸Pixel grid backdrop, scanline glow, arcade chime on hover and select.
• ▸The Random Fighter button plays a slot machine roulette before it lands on the next fighter.
• ▸Per game character art is in for Street Fighter Alpha 3 and SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, with more games on the way.
• ▸Game logos pop into the fighter tab strip when you hover, so you always know which entry you're looking at.

Homepage and site shell refresh

• ▸Cleaner all white homepage with bigger game tiles. Hover any game to see its alt art swap in.
• ▸Site header is taller and a touch chunkier so the brand reads at a glance.
• ▸A new gray marquee strip sits under the header on every page, cycling the page title.
• ▸Every game intro got rewritten in plain English. Two short paragraphs about what made the game feel different at the time, not a list of dry facts.

SNK joins the roster

• ▸King of Fighters from '94 through XV is in, including '98 Ultimate Match and 2002 Unlimited Match.
• ▸Fatal Fury and Garou Mark of the Wolves, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, Last Blade and the SNK side of the crossovers.
• ▸Combopedia now indexes 124 games, 755 fighters, and almost 100,000 moves.
• ▸Cross franchise characters expand again. Terry Bogard appears in Fatal Fury, KOF, Capcom vs SNK and Smash. His page now lists every appearance with a tab strip to hop between them.
• ▸New /king-of-fighters franchise hub with the full SNK library grouped by series.

Pixel art headlines, dithered and chunky

• ▸The big COMBOPEDIA logo on the homepage and the FIGHT! call to action now render in proper 8 bit pixel art with a hand picked yellow to dark red dither gradient.
• ▸Section headings across the site adopt a matching pixel typeface in arcade yellow.

Tracker, franchise hubs, and per franchise sections on fighters

• ▸New move tracker at /tracker. Mark every move you know or are still learning, and Combopedia keeps count. Saved in your browser, no account.
• ▸A toggle button on every move row inside fighter pages so you can mark moves while you study them.
• ▸Each franchise now has its own hub page: /street-fighter, /tekken, /guilty-gear, /marvel-vs-capcom, /darkstalkers. Plus an overview at /all-fighting-games.
• ▸Cross franchise fighters now show separate sections per franchise. Akuma's page splits into "Akuma in Street Fighter", "Akuma in Tekken", and "Akuma in Marvel vs Capcom", each with its own intro and games grid.
• ▸Search bar in the tracker so you can find any move you have tracked across the entire roster.
• ▸Export and import the tracker as JSON to back it up or move between devices.

Four more franchises arrive

• ▸Tekken is in. Twenty games indexed, including all eight numbered entries, both Tag Tournaments, the spin offs and the crossovers.
• ▸Darkstalkers, Guilty Gear and Marvel vs Capcom join the roster too.
• ▸New totals: sixty nine games, four hundred and fifty six fighters, almost fifty thousand moves.
• ▸Cross franchise characters merge into a single profile. Search Akuma to see his Tekken 7 movelist next to his Street Fighter 6 one. Same with Morrigan across Darkstalkers and Marvel vs Capcom, Wolverine across the MvC line, and so on.
• ▸New game pages like /tekken-8, /guilty-gear-strive, /marvel-vs-capcom-2-new-age-of-heroes and /vampire-savior-the-lord-of-vampire.
• ▸Per fighter pages now span the entire fighting game world. Akuma's page lists every appearance across every franchise, with a tab for jumping into any one of them.

Combopedia opens for business

• ▸Twenty nine Street Fighter games indexed, from the 1987 original through Street Fighter 6.
• ▸211 fighters with portraits, 9,471 moves with input notation, every appearance cross referenced.
• ▸New shareable URLs like /street-fighter-2 and /ryu/street-fighter-2 with a tab strip for hopping between a fighter's game appearances.
• ▸A search box that shows everything by default and filters as you type, no empty results page.
• ▸Cover art for every game on the games and homepage grids.
• ▸Notation reference for the input motions, the buttons, the SF6 Drive system and the SFV V system.
• ▸Move of the day on the homepage, picked fresh every morning.
• ▸Tekken, King of Fighters, Mortal Kombat, Guilty Gear, Darkstalkers and Marvel vs Capcom listed as next on the queue.