My Soul Calibur collection

PhilBond

PhilBond

[09] Warrior
Just felt like sharing:

All the software I have hard copies of, in chronological order:
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Left-to-right, row-by-row: Soul Edge (arcade), Soul Edge Ver. II (arcade), Soul Blade (PS1), Soul Calibur version 3 with Mitsurugi (arcade), Soul Calibur version 4 with Arthur (arcade), Soul Calibur (Dreamcast), Soul Calibur II ver. D (Arcade), Soul Calibur II (OPM demo), Soul Calibur II (Japanese Gamecube), Soul Calibur II (Gamecube), Soul Calibur II (Xbox), Soul Calibur II (PS2), Soul Calibur III (OPM demo), Soul Calibur III (PS2), Soul Calibur III: Arcade Edition, Soul Calibur Legends (Wii), Soul Calibur IV: Premium Edition (Xbox 360), Soul Calibur IV: Premium Edition (PS3)

My arcade cabinet:
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Formerly the Soul Calibur II cabinet for Madison's East Towne Mall for several years. I use it for all my arcade games. Four of them stay installed at all times. A button under the monitor lets players switch between Soul Edge ver. II, Soul Calibur ver. 4, Soul Calibur II, and Soul Calibur III: Arcade edition.

Inside the cabinet:
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Soul Calibur 1 is on the left wall, Soul Edge is on the right wall, Soul Calibur II is on the back wall, the switching system and two power supplies are on the bottom, Soul Calibur III is mounted on the back side of the front panel, which is open.

Arcade marquees:
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Arcade instruction cards:
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Arcade manuals:
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Reservation incentive swag:
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SCIV Keychains! Whee.

Gashapon style figures:
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American SC1 figures:
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McFarlane SC2 figures:
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Soul Edge jigsaw puzzle coasters:
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How bizarre and great is that?

Xbox 360 faceplates:
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Limited edition stratedy guides with soundtrack CDs in the front covers:
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Three-sided cardboard standee:
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Awesome poster:
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Thanks Aaron!

Xbox 360 stick:
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Not exactly rare, but I'm being thorough here.

X-Arcade:
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This thing's not official merchandise at all, but it is the perfect SC stick. I've customized it to within an inch of its life. Genuine arcade parts, no extra buttons, compatible with everything but Xbox 360, set up to run on the default control scheme for every compatible system except Gamecube. It's very, very satisfying to use a stick that you can beat the living Hell out of for fun.


If anyone's interested in the arcade games, I took some close-ups. Got anything I don't have? Wanna sell it to me?
 
Sweet! I'm jealous! :P

Only things I have are the official Soul Calibur 1 trading cards (111 cards-complete set/mint), a dark-themed official SC3 poster featuring the whole cast, a SC3 PS2 Hori, and a Soul Edge sword replica.

I also have that blue SoulCalibur 4 faceplate, but I want the Darth Vader one...

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I got both of those faceplates at a gaming convention, at a table that had all kinds of crazy stuff like Nintendo E3 press kits and posters for games that never came out. Everything there was really expensive. I think the horizontally oriented one was a European exclusive of some kind.

OOFMATIC said:
Only things I have are the official Soul Calibur 1 trading cards (111 cards-complete set/mint), a dark-themed official SC3 poster featuring the whole cast, a SC3 PS2 Hori, and a Soul Edge sword replica.
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Whoah, what version of Soul Edge?! I forgot that SC3 Hori even existed. My buddy jimmypikachuchoi has piles of great stuff I don't have, including a few really nice SC3 gashapons, some art books, and no-doubt those SC1 cards. I'm terrible at finding figures. I feel like eBay must be the wrong place to look or something.

You know Sophitia's SC2 3P costume? I have three gashapon that look like that, all holding that blue-tipped magic wand, but only one with a shield. I think that must actually be a different character, and the Sophie costume was a cameo. I know for a fact that Cassie's SC2 3P is supposed to be a character called Valkyrie, and I have three of her. They did do a Cassie figure in that costume once, I've seen it, but you can tell the difference between the two of them because Valkyrie is supposed to have a very long braid.
 
Actually, it's not a replica, just a sword based off the soul edge. It looks nothing like any of the game swords, just a big sword with an eye in it. Was pretty cheap.

I remember when Reno lived in Toronto he had a Soul Calibur 2 "Evil SoulCalibur" replica. It looked just like it and it was awesome, and pretty huge. I think he won it at an official Namco SC2 tournament or something.

And yeah I remember reading that some of the 3P costumes from SC2 were a tribute to other characters from Japanese Namco games.
 
That would be pretty kickass to have a replica
but dang i can tell your devoted to soul calibur series!
wish i had that stuff haha
 
I've got a SCII Link cardboard standee, with Link as the main figure with the SCII logo underneath :P
 
Well, you guys seem like you're interested in this sort of thing, so here's some close-ups to check out:

Namco System 246
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This is the system that runs the arcade versions of SC2 and SC3. It seems to basically be a juiced-up PS2. Take off a couple tiny phillip's head screws, and the whole top cover slips right off, revealing some recognizable PS2 parts including memory card connectors, but also a totally standard PC DVD ROM drive that can be replaced easily with a normal one from any computer store. It's hard to find good documentation on these things. Even when you can find official documentation on arcade hardware, it's written like crap, so I don't know why the little exposed circuit board is so separate from the rest of the unit. I wonder whether it's capable of being hooked-up in a very different way, such as to a VGA computer monitor.

Soul Calibur II
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There are a handful of different versions of arcade SC2. This is the most recent one, which most units should have been upgraded to, but there are older versions out in the wild too. The card on the left is the copy authentication dongle. Without it, the disc won't boot at all. Note that there's no paint on it. The card on the right is a memory card, without which the game's "Conquest Mode" cannot be played. It looks like an ordinary PS2 memory card with a special label, but there's another sticker on the back that orders "USAGE FOR SYSTEM 246 ONLY," and I'm not about to fuck with that.

Soul Calibur III: Arcade Edition
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You'll notice right away that that's an SC2 memory card there. Well, that's what they sent me with this game, and it works, so... whatever. If there's such a thing as an SC3 branded memory card, I'd like to know about it.

There is also such a thing as the Namco System 256. I've never gotten an intimate look at one, but that's what Tekken 5 runs on, and there's a version of SC3AE for it. It runs in HD.

Soul Calibur 1:
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Physically, my two versions of SC1 look identical except for a small sticker underneath each one. It's hard to tell from this angle, but it's not just one board. It's actually three circuit boards fixed together in kind of a sandwich arrangement. On the right edge, you can see the larger JAMMA connector on the bottom carrying almost all of the audio/video/control/power interface, and higher up is the smaller JAMMA plus connector that carries the guard buttons and the right speaker. On the top edge, you can see a USB jack, some RCA audio jacks, and two serial ports. I have never used any of the connectors on that edge. I don't know what any of them do (though of course I have suspicions). They say this board is basically a Playstation 1, and the graphics back that up. All the stage and costume *designs* are the same as the Dreamcast game, but the arcade version doesn't come anywhere close to Dreamcast graphics. The polygon count is much, much lower.

Soul Edge:
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Also allegedly basically a PS1, but obviously a lot rougher-looking, smaller, and with fewer features than an SC board.

Soul Edge ver. II:
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At first glance it looks like the same thing as version 1, but if you inspect the way the chips are laid out, you see how different they are. Gameplay wise, version 2 made Cervantes playable, introduced Hwang, and added gameplay mechanics like GI and 3B launchers. (According to the instruction cards, that is. I haven't tested to verify if the older game is missing GI and 3B.)

I've posted these elsewhere on the board, but here's a repost of SC1 Arthur, and the SC3AE exclusive 2P Amy costume:
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The one thing ive always wanted was the old school soul calibur 1 statues. I once saw a nightmare, but it was $90 and that seemed like too much at the time. Wish I would have bought it. WCMaxi had the ivy, ive never seen that one anywhere else. As far as I know, those are the only two caracters they made.

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Fuck. That is great. I actually have a Nightmare from the same series as my Mitsurugi and Xianghua, but I didn't take a picture of it because it's broken. It was a present from my awesome girlfriend to commemorate the completion of the arcade machine, but she got it used. The stand was broken and his elbow joints were fused. It wasn't too long before the human arm broke off at the elbow, and I haven't figured out what to do about that yet. Oh well. It's ugly anyway. I want that statue.
 
Man, PhilBond, if I would have known you had this stuff a year back I would have been buggin you to send me some files from that SC3:AE disc, I was really into hacking SC2 and SC3, modding the game and such back then.

I eventually got my hands on a copy of the SC3:AE ver. C disc that someone sent me online, which I wanted so that I could port all the movesets onto the PS2 version. It didn't go so well. I managed to get Amy, Hwang, and Li Long from AE fully playable on the PS2, but for some reason I wasn't able to port the movesets from the other AE characters...

I also wanted to port Amy's 2P costume to the PS2 version, but that didn't work out either. I did however get Inferno on there.

I never really did find out why only some of the movelists/models were able to be transferred to PS2 properly..
 
Don't feel too bad, Oof. I only got AE in February.

Those links are hot, Ditto. I googled that Gashapon set and found them in stock in three places. I'll grab them next payday. The Ivy isn't too bad either, but I've seen it in person, and it creeps me out for some reason.
 
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