In this video originally published in November 6, 2025 on the Gaming Room‘s channel, we have a bunch of attract-mode demos and a Ken playthrough (starting at 9:31) from Street Fighter II: Champion Edition – Hack M7, one of the wildest and most frenetic bootlegs of the undisputed classic Street Fighter II’: Champion Edition that started popping up shortly after Capcom released the upgrade for the also-iconic The World Warrior. This hack was probably released in 1991 or 1992; I’m not entirely sure. I also don’t know who created it or which country it came from.
This crazy Street Fighter is the one where Ken and Ryu throw double hadokens that oscillate in sinusoidal curves across the screen, and their shoryukens practically sweep the entire arena. Among other absurdities, Blanka can drain your entire health bar with his electric shock even if you’re blocking, you can disappear, switch characters mid-fight, throw specials in the air, and Zangief — depending on which match you face him — is insanely overpowered. Anyway, there are so many changes in this wacky competitive fighting game that even if they were all fresh in my mind, we’d need like 8000 words to describe them all on this post.
Although I haven’t played every SF2CE bootleg — especially since it looks like people are still bulding new ones — Street Fighter II: Champion Edition – Hack M7 is my favorite, thanks to its fast-paced action and the ability to destroy your opponent with a devastating dragon punch from a ridiculous distance at any moment. And that’s not even mentioning the tiny margin for error — when there even is a margin, because many times the CPU catches you out of nowhere and that’s it. Thankfully, the tension this creates is balanced by the adrenaline of the frantic and wildly fun battles.
This time, I couldn’t beat it without losing a round. I’m out of practice and using a keyboard that’s far from ideal for chaos like this, but at least I finished it on Hardest — and I’m happy. But if you want to watch a playthrough with the special ending (no lost rounds) in this hack with Ken, Gaming Room got your back as well:
Now it’s your turn: watch this nostalgic registry of the classic hack to remember it — or discover it (if that’s your case)— and then share it with your friends who used to hit the arcade with you to burn a few credits on this crazy Street Fighter version.
Oh! And of course, comment here to let us know what you think about both the game and the video!
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- Length: 27:24
- Channel: Gaming Room
- Categories: Gameplays, Videos