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Cross Fever for MSHvsSF — four players

Four humans in MSHvsSF: P1/P3 versus P2/P4, a timed two-on-two started the MVC1 way, with its countdown in MVC1's TIME-bar art, under MVC1's meteor sky, with MVC1's ∞ on each team's level meter and 1P to 4P markers.

Latest v5 · Sep 24, 2026 · Preview

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Cross Fever for MSHvsSF — four players v5 · Sep 24, 2026

Windows one-file installers, one per set: drag your verified stock MSHvsSF USA 970827 (mshvsfu.zip) onto mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-preview.cmd, or the Euro 970625 set (mshvsf.zip) onto mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-euro-preview.cmd. Needs the native CPS-2 four-controller input profile. v5 starts the mode the MVC1 way and adds 1P to 4P markers. Apply it to the stock ROM, not on top of an earlier version.

Keep a backup of your stock MSHvsSF: the USA mshvsfu.zip (970827) or the Euro mshvsf.zip (970625).
Drag it onto the installer for its set: mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-preview.cmd for the USA zip, mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-euro-preview.cmd for the Euro zip. It writes the patched zip beside it.
Copy that zip to a separate ROM folder under the set's own name (mshvsfu.zip or mshvsf.zip) and play with the four-controller profile.

Patch-only and hash-gated: it checks your clean parent member by member, never overwrites it, and refuses patched or foreign sets. No ROM, key, save state or emulator is included or downloaded. Preview build: this exact ROM ran in MAME 0.264 with four humans' ordinary inputs, the four-controller wiring emulated at the input ports (the call pose, cut-in and partner entrance for both teams, the full bar and ∞ sign while timed, the level after each timer ends, Hypers inside and outside the mode, and stage restoration), and the markers were checked at every sprite-list close over about 18,000 frames on four character sets. The Euro installer's build is the same v5 moved to the 970625 program, every changed address checked there, and it passed the same checks in MAME's mshvsf driver. Both installers passed their own PowerShell and Python test cases. A local FBNeo recorded check, four physical controllers, native Windows, CPS-2 cabinet wiring and Fightcade/GGPO remain untested.

Receipt: /downloads/cross-fever/mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-preview-patch.zip

What changed in v5

QCB+HP+HK now starts the mode the MVC1 way: the point strikes its call pose with its voice (it cannot be hit during it), MSHvsSF's own team-Hyper cut-in plays with both teammates' portraits, then the partner flies in from behind the point with its own tag-in attack.
Nothing is taken when the mode starts. The meter shows full while it runs, and when it ends it costs two full bars (a partly filled third is kept); a Level 3 start runs longer and empties the meter.
MVC1's chevrons track every fighter's head: 1P, 2P, 3P or 4P for the player who owns that fighter (3P in P1's team colours, 4P in P2's), COM over a CPU fighter; they hide during the cut-ins.
The meteor sky, the ∞, joins, controls and team timers are unchanged from v3. v4 was an internal build; its changes are in v5.
Full change log

mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-preview.cmd · 3.1 MB · SHA-256 18858b191291e1cf…

Download MSHvsSF four-player v5 (preview): USA 970827 installer, for mshvsfu.zip

Release details and change log

Parent: USA mshvsfu 970827 or Euro mshvsf 970625. Write-up: /blog/cps2-four-player-cross-fever.

What changed in v5

QCB+HP+HK now starts the mode the MVC1 way: the point strikes its call pose with its voice (it cannot be hit during it), MSHvsSF's own team-Hyper cut-in plays with both teammates' portraits, then the partner flies in from behind the point with its own tag-in attack.
Nothing is taken when the mode starts. The meter shows full while it runs, and when it ends it costs two full bars (a partly filled third is kept); a Level 3 start runs longer and empties the meter.
MVC1's chevrons track every fighter's head: 1P, 2P, 3P or 4P for the player who owns that fighter (3P in P1's team colours, 4P in P2's), COM over a CPU fighter; they hide during the cut-ins.
The meteor sky, the ∞, joins, controls and team timers are unchanged from v3. v4 was an internal build; its changes are in v5.
2026-09-26: an installer for the Euro 970625 set (mshvsf.zip): the same v5 build, with every hook and address moved to that revision's program and checked there.

Previous versions

Download MSHvsSF four-player v3 (preview)
v3 · released Sep 23, 2026 · Preview. Windows one-file installer: drag your verified stock MSHvsSF USA 970827 (mshvsfu.zip) onto it. Needs the native CPS-2 four-controller input profile. v3 keeps v2's meteor sky and puts MVC1's ∞ in place of each team's level digit while that team's timed mode runs. Apply it to the stock ROM, not on top of v1 or v2.
- MVC1's ∞ replaces each team's level digit while that team's timed mode runs, in MSHvsSF's fixed HUD colors.
- In the heaviest scene tested the bottom HUD can drop out for a single lag frame; v2 has the same lag there.
- The meteor sky, joins, controls and team timers are unchanged from v2.
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v3-preview.cmd · 3.0 MB
SHA-256 4188aaf0ac4d07534d34b6a0359c16df3d4b8e24dc00510d42ba3935a6248846
Download MSHvsSF four-player v2 (preview)
v2 · released Sep 23, 2026 · Preview. Windows one-file installer: drag your verified stock MSHvsSF USA 970827 (mshvsfu.zip) onto it. Needs the native CPS-2 four-controller input profile. v2 puts MVC1's meteor sky behind the timed mode; ordinary Hypers keep MSHvsSF's own Hyper background. Apply it to the stock ROM, not on top of v1.
- MVC1's meteor sky behind the timed two-on-two: four of its eight frames, with its full color cycle.
- The sky stays up while either team is timed, flashes white with the game's own Hyper flashes, and the stage returns when the last timer ends.
- Ordinary Hypers outside the mode keep MSHvsSF's own Hyper background. Joins, controls and team timers are unchanged from v1.
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v2-preview.cmd · 3.0 MB
SHA-256 7c47dfb03a0d77ebb87737dd66e5ea6cea5606c9b3779c387558a4e562ede539
Download MSHvsSF four-player (preview)
v1 · released Sep 22, 2026 · Preview. Windows one-file installer: drag your verified stock MSHvsSF USA 970827 (mshvsfu.zip) onto it. Needs the native CPS-2 four-controller input profile. The timed mode shows MSHvsSF's own Hyper background; v2 replaces it with MVC1's meteor sky.
- Four independent humans in MSHvsSF: P1 and P3 against P2 and P4, each fighter on its own controller.
- Press HP+HK outside combat to join; each human chooses one fighter.
- QCB+HP+HK starts timed Cross Fever with its countdown in MVC1's TIME-bar art; QCF+HP+HK stays the team Hyper.
mshvsf-cross-four-human-preview.cmd · 47 KB
SHA-256 8a0686631a62bd69bcc56b8a5dfd714b1b2322d1319aece9a9d2c0a7c91d1230

Same latest version, other files

Evidence package: README, patch spec, verification, Python patcher
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-preview-patch.zip · 552 KB
SHA-256 8eb1874eff21b4b500da60929d26b4488eae2352832bd9b85a75bf4fe5e6e90d
Euro 970625 installer: for mshvsf.zip
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-euro-preview.cmd · 3.1 MB
SHA-256 a111427640dea5ebfb83f82abd674276c4d740033ae4f18711b500d36f594d13
Euro evidence package: README, patch spec, verification, Python patcher
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v5-euro-preview-patch.zip · 552 KB
SHA-256 9cd3885b6d306b3067e8af407ff1fe3a1d5492b37c39e6a37d46106633407a82

Files from previous versions

Evidence package: README, patch spec, verification, Python patcher
v3 · Sep 23, 2026
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v3-preview-patch.zip · 542 KB
SHA-256 a9521553dca5fdbbcb23b821434389ee3f737f4e8e1027bf850e271d4ee5fb4a
Evidence package: README, patch spec, verification, Python patcher
v2 · Sep 23, 2026
mshvsf-cross-four-human-v2-preview-patch.zip · 540 KB
SHA-256 bcd7a32c681e9c07faef0ee4a4f3ba035e9effd8a0110abae6eda7fef250f1a5
Evidence package: README, patch spec, verification, Python patcher
v1 · Sep 22, 2026
mshvsf-cross-four-human-preview-patch.zip · 50 KB
SHA-256 ef16f9da5bf7b991e89bb8efe87ffd5f07b9632167b1d7ef3cfdb314e9b75f89