So I’m still mucking around with fighting games on my keyboard, getting used to leverless play. I can clear some of the fights on easy mode in tekken no sweat with simple combos and good timing. Then when you hit like fights 5+ the AI starts reading your inputs and ducks everything you throw at it and punishes your ass.

So I turned on cheats in mame to get to Heihachi and this man has no chill. He beats you down and doesn’t even give you a moment to wake up, the AI even on easy punishes any oki you do and Tekken 1 doesn’t have wakeup tech like 3 does.

Speaking of 3, 3 is waaaay more fun to play. Handles like a dream and the combo system for juggles is more lenient so I can pick Jin, do a launcher, and a simple 1+4, 2, 4 and gg.

I wish mame had more compatibility with 3D fighting games. I found out Soul Calibur works in it which is neat, one of my favorite fighting games on dreamcast.