r/Darkstalkers Sep 01 '20

Playing Vampire Savior on Fightcade

119 Upvotes

Note: Vampire Savior refers to the Capcom Play System 2 arcade game, which is played on Fightcade, using the FBNeo emulator.

https://darkstalkers.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire_Savior:_The_Lord_of_Vampire

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/capcom_fighting_collection

Fightcade 2 Setup for Vampire Savior

1) You need to register for a Fightcade account, download, and then install Fightcade:

Fightcade

Most VSav players tend to be on Fightcade. RedGGPO, another place where Vsav is played, has changed its name to GGPOZ, which can now be found at https://ggpoz.com/.

Use Fightcade 2 going forward since the netcode is fantastic.

2) Create a Discord chat account:

Discord

Then join all of the following Discord channels:

The #resources subsection of the VSav Discord is your friend. Also read the Pinned Messages section (click on the Pin) in the upper right-hand corner of the screen in #resources. Each individual character has their own page listed in the character discussion section as well, so read those as well if you want to get good with the character(s) you want to main.

The #help subsection of the Fightcade Discord will also be helpful for any Fightcade-related issues you may have. Also go read their Pinned Messages (click on the Pin) in the upper right-hand corner of the #help screen as well.

If you are looking for any advice on joysticks, see the #hardware-tech section of the Fightcade Discord Channel and click on the pin for the Pinned Messages.

If you are looking for more Fighting Game Discord channels to join, go here:

Make sure that you sort the Game tab in the above list in ascending order in order to find the Discord(s) you want to join.

Additionally, if you are looking for Discord channels dedicated to the games you want to play, look in the Fightcade 2 lobby of the game you want to play. The lobby will frequently have one or more Discord invite links for you to join if you so choose.

3) Familiarize yourself with the intricacies of joysticks:

Recommended joystick for Vsav: Sanwa JLF

Recommended buttons for Vsav: Sanwa OBSF-30 (Snap-In) or Sanwa OBSN-30 (Screw-In)

If you have any other joystick-related questions, ask /r/fightsticks, the /r/fightsticks Discord channel, or Vsav's Discord channel for further help.

4) Watch these videos about how to hold arcade joysticks and entry-level arcade joysticks:

5) Bookmark the Vsav Wiki and Join Mizuumi's Discord Channel:

Other Important Items to Keep in Mind:

  • Before opening Fightcade, make sure your joystick or gamepad is connected to your PC's USB port and is recognized by Windows. If you do not do this first, you will not be able to configure those peripherals within Fightcade.

  • When playing online with Fightcade 2, use a wired connection to your router, and not Wi-fi, because Wi-fi is subject to interference, and thus has high jitter. As a result, you will have a much more stable and consistent gameplay experience using a wired connection than with Wi-fi. Powerline Ethernet Adapters are also viable if your house / apartment / flat etc does not allow you to wire Ethernet cables to your router.

  • If you cannot connect to your opponent, make sure that TCP port 7000 and UDP ports 6000-6009 on your router are port forwarded correctly. Consult your router's documentation on port forwarding, or something like https://portforward.com/router.htm.

  • If your anti-virus and/or firewall complains about either Fightcade 1 or Fightcade 2, add them to your anti-virus' and/or firewall's exceptions list. Specifically, these files in your Fightcade installation:

  • Fightcade\Fightcade1.exe

  • Fightcade\Fightcade2.exe

  • Fightcade\emulator\ggpofba\ggpofba-ng.exe

  • Fightcade\emulator\fbneo\fcadefbneo.exe

  • If your game lags or stops when you are playing online, sometimes you will hear loud feedback noise. To stop the feedback noise from happening in the future, open fcadefbneo.exe without loading a game and go to the Audio menu -> Select Plugin -> Wasapi.

Other Helpful Links:

Online Stores for Arcade Parts:

Site for Hosting Fightcade Videos:

  • Fightcade Vids

  • The site listed above contains Fightcade videos of many different arcade fighting games, including Vampire Savior. To add other fighting games, open a ticket on their Github Issues page, stating the parent rom's romname and it will eventually be added as well.

Fightcadevids videos can also be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/FightcadeArchive.

Understanding How ROMs work:

Super Gem Fighter - Mini Mix Discord Channel:

Gem Fighter is Capcom's official cutesy arcade parody of both Darkstalkers and Street Fighter. Morrigan, Felicia, and Hsien-ko are guest characters in Super Gem Fighter, alongside Tessa from Red Earth / Warzard.

Red Earth / Warzard - Discord Channel

Red Earth also has a competitive Fightcade 2 scene. For example:

You can also watch previous and subsequent Red Earth Sundae tournaments below:

To Fix the No CD Drive Error Message in Fightcade 2:

When loading up the game for the first time, if you get an error that says "NO CD-ROM DRIVE," you must make sure your region is set to the value shown in the picture here. To access this setting, press F5 while the window is open or go to "Input" and select "Map game inputs". Scroll down until you see the "Region" value and double click it to change. Make sure it matches the value shown here exactly.

Note: Fightcade 2 has now addressed the No-CD Driver Error Message, so you should no longer run into this No CD issue. If you still do, follow the above instructions accordingly.

The Red Earth Discord channel also has additional resources, so consult those as well.

As of June 2022, Red Earth will finally have an official port via the Capcom Fighting Collection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXQQYL2BeHc

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/capcom_fighting_collection


r/Darkstalkers Sep 10 '25

The Night Warriors Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors Vinyl & Artbook Box Set

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59 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 7h ago

Fan Art Felicia is the best by [octavius_dp]

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177 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 23h ago

The Night Warriors Night Guest

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44 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 19h ago

Memes Mega Man X covers for Demitri.

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6 Upvotes

I posted this on the r/addressme community, and I felt like it would be kinda funny to post it here. Mega Man X covers for Demitri. The monster he represents is an android or as some people like to call it "AI getting too advanced".

What are you guys' thoughts on this, and how do you think X will interact with everyone else?


r/Darkstalkers 1d ago

Fan Art Darkstalkers are not dead .... Yet

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68 Upvotes

I'm more of a hsien ko fan lol, made this in a blender with a modified mvc3 morrigan model


r/Darkstalkers 2d ago

Fan Art REAPER VS WITCH (Art by Anthony M Ervin Jr.)

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60 Upvotes

Source.

fan art of two potential rulers of the Darkstalkers


r/Darkstalkers 2d ago

Fan Art Darkstalkers Tribute Art Contest for Udon

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39 Upvotes

Here is fan made art that actually won in a contest with Udon Entertainment. Looks to be signed by the artist.


r/Darkstalkers 3d ago

Fan Art Darkstalkers: Millennium Dawn. (Artist: Alex-kellar.)

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23 Upvotes

“As the Earth ready for the 21st Century and a fledgling age of heroes, the cosmic titan Pyron, recovered from his last defeat from Tunguska, now ready his return to harvest the planet and all its inhabitants.

Basil Maximoff, son and heir to Vampire Lord Demitri Maximoff, now seeks to save the Earth by seeking out and forming his own team of heroes and that the world sees that the darkness and monsters are instead their greatest defense for the apocalypse.

It is a battle for the new Millennium and may the Night Warriors be victorious.”


r/Darkstalkers 3d ago

Fan Art Morrigan in my style! Just recently started playing the games and having a blast so far. Still got much to learn though lmao

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99 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 4d ago

Fan Art Bunny Morrigan (by me)

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32 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 4d ago

Darkstalkers 3 How I rank... the girls!

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47 Upvotes

Hsien Ko > Lilith > Felicia > BB Hood > Morrigan > Q-Bee

  1. Q-Bee - Q-Bee has kind of a cool and cute design. But the main reason she ranks so low is because compared to the entire rest of the cast she has very little personality. She's part of a hive that needs to devour souls and that seems to be the only thing she focuses on. Character wise she's almost kind of like a female spin on Huitzil as far as her allegiance stands.

  2. Morrigan - Some people are probably surprised I would rank Morrigan this low. She is after all essentially the face of the series after being used constantly in crossover games unlike Demitri who was originally kind of the face of the series. But... she kind of has a stereotypical super model kind of look that just isn't that interesting to me unfortunately. But she's an interesting character so that at least ranks her higher than Q-Bee.

  3. BB Hood - The purely adorable character who is a parody of Red Riding Hood. But she's secretly a badass because her cute look is a deception. She's a rather unique character in a gallery of classic monster characters and extremely amusing just from her in combat animations in the games. I don't think I was into her as much when she debuted but her making it into Marvel vs Capcom 2 really moved her up my list. Not sure if we should call her a loli or not because I think her appearance is just supposed to be deceptive. But her personality is kind of addicting.

  4. Felicia - The marvelous cat girl that was in the first game in the series along with Morrigan. Aside from being cute and curvy she's always portrayed as a really friendly character. Also in the anime she was portrayed as a rather heroic character trying to form a friendly bond between humans and monsters while a lot of the world in that was falling apart. People treat cat girls like a massive anime cliche, but I don't think that's as much of a thing now that it's not the 90s anymore.

  5. Lilith - People think she is Morrigan's sister but she was actually created by a part of her soul splitting off from her. She's probably one of the first characters that made me see why there is that meme slogan of "Flat is justice!". She's really cute and has all kinds of entertaining special moves in the fights. It's such a shame that she basically just ceases to exist after the game that introduced her regardless of whether her or Morrigan is who you beat arcade with. They might have changed this in a sequel but unfortunately we haven't gotten a new game after the one that introduced her cause Capcom is bad at judging the popularity of this series.

  6. Hsien Ko - I can't remember if I've ever mentioned in this blog or Youtube that I have a thing for blue skin. If I haven't said that... well I do. That just adds to Hsien Ko's beauty but beyond that she is the girl in the series that most feels like she could be the main character in a storyline. Someone driven by a tragic past of losing her mother to magic, so she and her sister team up to use magic to take down evil monsters. Hsien Ko is also glorious enough that she's made it into the most crossover games aside from Morrigan and Felicia.


r/Darkstalkers 4d ago

Memes They call him 007

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52 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 5d ago

Fan Art ITSS CALLED AURA BRUH

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73 Upvotes

bottom text lmao


r/Darkstalkers 6d ago

Fan Art felicia stretch (oc)

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81 Upvotes

patreon request i did, so alt will be there!


r/Darkstalkers 6d ago

Fan Art I'd love to see a new DS, mostly to see them interpret newer horror genres into characters (fting a Backrooms/Liminal Space OC)

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16 Upvotes

Their name is Filler text textbut they prefer to be referred to as Crossroads for the sake of simplicity. They exist in a liminal state, so they can't be perceived, hence the censor bars they can use to open up portals to the Backrooms "The Between," to toss out whatever else noclipped "fell through the cracks." Namely, random furniture that happens to look like what you see in Liminal Space images :p

I wanted to anthropomorphize the concept of liminality with the best known depiction of it, plus a little bit of Slenderman since they're both evocative of the newer gen of horror.


r/Darkstalkers 6d ago

The Night Warriors My hsien ko figurine

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140 Upvotes

I got her sometime in July but I’m still so happy about her!! I love hsien ko so so much


r/Darkstalkers 7d ago

Memes Lord Raptor hitting on Q-Bee

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52 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 7d ago

Fan Art A Practice of morrigan concept by Fran S Cano

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72 Upvotes

Hope you like it! More in my Instagram: jo.gatica3d


r/Darkstalkers 7d ago

Fan Art Demitri fanart, by me

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36 Upvotes

r/Darkstalkers 8d ago

Resurrection Fan-Game Rumors

8 Upvotes

I heard rumors that a very well done fan-game based on Darkstalkers is in the works. It sounds really promising!


r/Darkstalkers 8d ago

Fan Art Iron Horse, Iron Terror ft. Morrigan and B.B. Hood. by @chakkux.bsky.social on Bluesky

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