Real Bout Fatal Fury Special

Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (RBFFS, RBS)
Developers	SNK
Systems	Arcade WW: 28 January 1997
	NeoGeo WW: 28 February 1997
	NeoGeo CD WW: 28 February 1997
	Sega Saturn JP: 23 December 1997
Online Play	Rollback (Fightcade)
Player Resources	StrategyWiki RBS page
	GameFAQs RBS Arcade page
Community Channels	Discord of the Wolves server

Introduction

Real Bout Fatal Fury Special is the 6th Fatal Fury game released by SNK in 1997. Real Bout Special (RBS) drops from the prior Real Bout 1 ring outs, the third line and Gesse Howard as a playable character in the vanilla arcade release. This game is, in the vein of KOF '98, a dream match. Once again you are graded from C to SSS for your performance in a round, and your K.O. time is recorded, with the best time being displayed at the end of a match. Four legacy characters are added with new sprites, animations and moves: Tung Fu Rue, Cheng Sinzan, Laurence Blood and Wolfgang Krauser. While the character roster goes up to 19 for this ultimate edition, four characters have EX versions that are chosen with a code. This brings the number of characters to 23, or 24 if you count the hidden boss, Nightmare Gesse.

Roadmap

10% complete

Completed	In Progress	To-Do/Wish List
Basically done but room for improvement: Front page Controls Gameplay Overview FAQ Andy page Cheng page Duck page Laurence page Mai page	Working on: Billy page	To-do: Bob page Terry page Add dizzy system to System Wish List: Practically every character needs to be redone Need to add more esoterics to System

Basic Strategy

• Use neutral hops(and jumps) attacks as means sometimes to defend yourself. In the Fatal Fury and KOF games it can look like your ground normals are terrible/not as strong. Using neutral hops and jumps this can make the difference for stopping air attacks where your ground attacks wouldn't do the job. As well as tag grounded attacks with hops. Finding the sweet spot and timing for certain air attacks will take practice.

System at a Glance

Assume character is facing right

Movement or to walk forward or backpedal

to crouch

to jump, tap to hop

or to guard against attacks

Punch

Kick

Strong Attack

Throw / in close proximity

Switch Planes

Dive Attack from opposite line

Dive Kick/Slide Kick from opposite line (overhead/low)

Reach Attack from opposite line Pulls opponent to your plane if attack hits or is blocked

Line Sweep from opposite plane must be blocked low pulls opponent to your plane if attack hits or is blocked

Power Gauge

Fills as you use special moves, attack the opponent or block enemy attacks

H. Power Use Break Shots and Ground Techs

S. Power Super Access to Break Shots, Ground Techs and S Power DMs

P. Power Super While on red life, access to Break Shots, Ground Techs, S Power DMs and deadly P Power DMs