King of Fighters '94 · Combo Video · 2026
King of Fighters '94 has a game-breaking glitch that crashes matches under specific input sequences. CasaRetro isolates the exact conditions — the bug surfaces during character transitions and state management, revealing how the game's ROM code handles incomplete data cleanup. The glitch demonstrates a gap in the arcade hardware's memory allocation that later KOF entries patched out. Reproducing it requires frame-precise inputs; casual play won't trigger it. Worth studying for anyone interested in how 90s fighting games handled edge cases in sprite-loading and character swap routines.
From CasaRetro's YouTube channel