One game that has been a significant influence to the fighting game community is Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes. A standout game of Capcom's library that pits the rosters of Marvel Comics and Capcom's games into this game. This crossover comes complete with team-based battles, beautiful sprite-based graphics and music. Hailed as one of the best fighting games of all time by many, this game has received support long past its original release and frequently made appearances at fighting game tournament EVO. However, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 has spent the last decade unable to be officially purchased, which was the basis for an online campaign.
Maximilian Dood is a YouTuber whose primary focus is fighting games, covering series like Capcom's Street Fighter to Bandai Namco's Tekken. One of the games he also has played is Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, which has been delisted from digital stores like PSN for the past seven years. This was enough for Maximilian Dood to start a campaign known as "#FREEMVC2" to garner support to re-release the crossover game onto modern systems. This ended up catching the attention of a studio head of Digital Eclipse who would be happy to support the project.
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Digital Eclipse is a game studio focused on gaming preservation. This includes porting the code of older video games to modern systems. Some of the releases includes the re-release of The Disney Afternoon Collection, a compilation of Capcom-published NES Disney games. With Digital Eclipse's focus on preservation and previous partnerships between Capcom and Disney, it seems like Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is possible for most fans, Maximilian Dood included. Mike Mika, a studio head at Digital Eclipse agreed, tweeting out that he hears the support and would be thrilled to remaster MVC2.
While Digital Eclipse had experience working with reviving Capcom and Disney games in various collections, the company had also previously ported Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 under a different company name. Mika listed several improvements that would be made to this hypothetical port, such as the implementation of rollback netcode for a smoother experience. Another producer at Digital Eclipse, Stephen Frost, chimed in on the campaign, having the same desire to port the game to modern systems.
The biggest hurdle for this re-release, as acknowledged by Maximilian Dood, Mika, and Frost is that it would require a talk between all parties involved. This includes Digital Eclipse, Capcom, Marvel Comics, and Disney itself in order to get this hypothetical remaster/port possible. As seen during Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite's development, the relationship between Capcom and Marvel was incredibly rocky, which contributed to the game failing to sell. However, as the circumstances have changed between that game and now, perhaps a re-release of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is a possibility.
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