Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden

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Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden, known as Dragon Ball Z in Europe, is a 1993 fighting video game developed by Tose and published by Bandai for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is based upon Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise, and was its first fighting game.

Due to the popularity of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior at the time, producer Toshihiro Suzuki chose to work on a fighting game when assigned to a new project due to it being his preferred genre. Its gameplay consists of one-on-one fights, with a main six-button configuration, featuring special moves, as well as three playable modes.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden garnered mostly positive reception from critics; most reviewers praised the presentation and gameplay but others felt divided in regards to several design aspects. The game sold approximately 1.3 million units in its first two months of release in Japan. Super Butōden would spawn several sequels; including Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2 (1993), Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 3 (1994), Dragon Ball Z: Buyū Retsuden (1994), Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butōden (1995), Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden (2011), and Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden (2015).

It came out only in Japan; this version has an unofficial English fan translation.

From Wikipedia's article Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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SNESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZM
BXN
XAU
YSH
LQY
REO
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

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Keyboard controls

SNESPlayer 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
AZM
BXN
XAU
YSH
LQY
REO
SelectShiftB
StartEnterSpace

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Online, both players use the Player 1 keys (or a gamepad) on their own computer. Saving, loading and pausing are off while you play online.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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