こんにちは。中山です。
今回は残念ながら未発売となってしまった
「カプコン ファイティングオールスターズ」について
当時のディレクターだった田邊さんにお話を伺いました。

自分は田邊さんと別の会社で5年くらい一緒に働いていました。
とても気さくで話しやすい、いい先輩です。
当時も格闘ゲームの話ばかりしていましたね。

你好，我叫中山 。
这一次，我们要讨论的是遗憾未能发行的那个游戏。
我们采访了当时的策划田邉豊寿先生，他谈到了《卡普空格斗全明星》。

我与田邉豊寿先生在另一家公司共事了大约五年。
他是一位非常友好、容易交谈的好前辈。
即使在当时，我们也经常谈论格斗游戏。

「CODE HOLDER」は
人間たちが害悪になった時に現れる
アポトーシス（自殺細胞）的な生命体で
親から子に遺伝などではない。
イングリッド・デスは
ナチュラルコードホルダーという
生まれながらの能力者。

D.D.とルークは
改造されて「CODE HOLDER」になった。

イングリッド長生きの因子を持っていた。
衰えない因子。
デスは寿命が短い代わりに
身をけずって暗黒物質が使える能力がある。

D.D.は「クリムゾンサンダー」と呼ばれ
赤色の電撃を放出できる能力。
グローブの左右に「－」と「＋」の
マークが入っていたね。

ルークは高速移動ができる。
ちなみに名前は「クール」な奴だから
逆から読んで「ルーク」にした（笑）。

10年以上前の話なので
記憶があいまいだけど、
確かそんな感じだったと思う。

“CODE HOLDER”是一种当人类文明变得邪恶时，会出现的类似于细胞凋亡的生物体。它们并非通过遗传自亲代，而是以某种方式产生的。

英格丽德Ingrid和神秘男子是天生的CODE HOLDER，被称为“天然代码持有者”。英格丽德拥有长寿的因子，不衰老的基因。神秘男子寿命短暂，取而代之的是拥有消耗自身来使用暗物质的能力。

D.D.和ROOK则是通过改造而成为CODE HOLDER的。D.D.被称为“クリムゾンサンダー”（“绯红色的雷”），可以释放红色的电击，他的手套上标有“+”和“-”的符号。ROOK则拥有高速移动的能力。据说他的名字“ROOK”是“酷”的倒写，因为他是一个很酷的人。（笑）

这些都是十多年前的事情了，我的记忆有点模糊，但大致上应该是这样的。

Basically what happened was, around the year 2000, SNK encountered financial losses, and there was a time when it became a subsidiary of [a pachinko company named] Aruze. So we ended up going to Aruze, but after about a year, Aruze decided that they were going to abandon video game development. So, unable to see any future with Aruze, I ended up transferring to Capcom thanks to the help of a number of people around me. Someone I knew put me in contact with Yoshiki Okamoto, the head of development at Capcom, and thanks to both of their efforts, Capcom took me in. […]

It was a team of about 20 people that ended up going to Capcom at the same time. There were more people than that on the team at SNK, but unfortunately, Capcom couldn't bring everybody over, so the number had to be whittled down. So the 20 of us joined Capcom as a single team. […]

I can't deny that there was some of that feeling [of it being a bit strange]. When the 20 of us joined Capcom, I think there were people who thought well of it, but there may also have been people who looked askance and thought, Who the heck are these guys? For our part, as a team, we hadn't yet proven ourselves or accomplished anything, so there was a sense of anxiety about how well we'd fit in and what we'd be able to achieve there. Itsuno was really good to us then. I don't get the chance to talk with him much nowadays, but he treated us very well, and the presence of people like him at Capcom was a huge help for us.

基本情况是这样的，大约在 2000 年，SNK 出现了财务亏损，有一段时间，SNK 成了（一家名为 Aruze 的赌博机公司）的子公司。所以我们最终去了 Aruze，但大约一年后，Aruze 决定放弃电子游戏开发。因此，我在 Aruze 公司看不到任何前途，在周围很多人的帮助下，我最终转到了卡普空公司。我认识的一个人帮我联系了卡普空的开发主管岡本 吉起（Okamoto Yoshiki)，在他们两人的努力下，卡普空接纳了我。[…]

最后有一个大约 20 人的团队同时去了卡普空。SNK 的团队人数比这更多，但不幸的是，卡普空无法把所有人都带过来，所以人数不得不缩减。于是我们这 20 个人就组成了一个团队加入了卡普空。[…]

不可否认，我们当时有一些[有点奇怪]的感觉。当我们这 20 人加入卡普空时，我想有些人对此抱有赞誉心理，但也可能有些人斜眼看了看，心想：这些家伙到底是谁？就我们而言，作为一个团队，我们还没有证明过自己，也没有取得过任何成就，所以我们有一种焦虑感，不知道自己能不能适应，也不知道自己能在那里取得什么成就。当时伊津野 英昭（Itsuno Hideaki）对我们真的很好。现在我很少有机会和他聊天了，但他对我们很好，卡普空有他这样的人对我们帮助很大。

There was a lot going on there. […] When we joined Capcom, there were two plans put forward for the kind of game we could develop. We had a lot of people on our team with experience developing fighting games, so our first idea was to make our own fighting game. However, creating a fighting game from scratch, with a new gameplay system, would have been very time-consuming, and as a new team at Capcom, we felt we had to contribute something to the company as quickly as possible.

So instead, we went with our second idea, which was to use Capcom's pre-existing assets as the foundation for a new project. And that game, well, I can't really talk about too much, but … that's how Capcom Fighting All-Stars' development began. Unfortunately, we just weren't able to work it up into something interesting. Partly due to my own inexperience, in the end, even though our staff did their best, the game never made it to release.

发生了很多事情。[……]当我们加入卡普空时，有两个关于我们可以开发什么样的游戏的计划。我们团队中有很多人都有开发格斗游戏的经验，所以我们的第一个想法是制作我们自己的格斗游戏。但是，从头开始制作一款格斗游戏，并采用全新的游戏系统，会非常耗时，而作为卡普空的新团队，我们认为必须尽快为公司做出贡献。

因此，我们采用了第二个想法，即利用卡普空已有的资产作为新项目的基础。那款游戏，嗯，我真的不能说太多，但……卡普空格斗全明星（Capcom Fighting All-Stars）的开发就是这样开始的。不幸的是，我们没能把它做成有趣的东西。部分原因是我自己经验不足，最后，尽管我们的员工尽了最大努力，游戏还是没能发行。

I mean, everybody saw the footage of Capcom Fighting All-Stars, and it was kind of — even though it was their first official attempt to go 3D [as an internally developed game using Street Fighter characters] — a lot of people looked at it and [were disappointed]. I think that kind of contributed to the whole feeling that Capcom wasn't really going to make a lot of quality fighting games at that point in time, and people were just kind of resigned to say, "Yeah, OK, whatever." Capcom wasn't the best anymore at making fighting games. They just weren't, and that expectation wasn't there.

I remember when Capcom Fighting All-Stars first started showing up with footage from game magazines and Japanese game sites. People just looked at it and were like, This looks kind of bad, you know? And so when it was canceled, I still kind of remember people just being like, Yeah, it's probably for the better.

我的意思是，大家都看到了《卡普空格斗全明星》（Capcom Fighting All-Stars）的片段，尽管这是他们第一次正式尝试 3D 游戏（作为使用《街头霸王》角色的内部开发游戏），但很多人看了之后都[感到失望]。我觉得这也让人们觉得卡普空在那个时候不会再制作很多高质量的格斗游戏了，人们也就认命地说："是啊，好吧，随便吧。” 卡普空不再是制作格斗游戏的佼佼者了。他们不再是了，人们也不再有这种期待了

我记得《卡普空格斗全明星》刚开始出现的时候 游戏杂志和日本游戏网站上都有它的片段 人们一看就觉得，这看起来有点糟糕，你知道吗？所以当它被宣布取消的时候，我还记得人们会说："是啊，也许这样更好。

Right after the time Capcom Fighting All-Stars was canceled, Capcom, as a whole, underwent an organizational change, and I ended up leaving Capcom and joining its subsidiary Flagship [a scenario and development team that Okamoto started]. I worked at Flagship for several years. I wasn't involved with fighting games. I was involved with other titles that were in development in the studio at the time.

就在卡普空格斗全明星被取消之后，卡普空整体进行了组织变革，我最终离开了卡普空，加入了其子公司 Flagship（岡本 吉起创办的一个开发团队）。我在 Flagship 工作了几年。我没有参与格斗游戏。我参与了工作室当时正在开发的其他游戏。