Delayed Hyper Combo.

Adds a three-page partial match report in the game’s native font and black/gold/cyan panels. Verified points and tracked damage retain only supported facts; N/A means unavailable. Remaining scoring coverage and slowdown during/after X-Factor are deferred. This is a community release, not full gameplay or performance certification.

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• Adds three native-font report pages with verified events, tracked damage and available facts
• Verified points are a partial subtotal; missing coverage remains N/A instead of a complete skill score
• A naturally completed Classic example retained one anti-air and thirteen clean openings for 35 verified points
• Arcade factual loss tracking and successor initialization are separate from category-score coverage
• Carries the scoped X-Factor publication repair and corrected 68000 byte accesses; a moving-activation deadline miss and slowdown remain open
• Retains Classic/REMIX, three bars, nine colors, earlier route repairs and all historical videos
• Remaining scoring coverage and X-Factor slowdown are listed for community testing

Repairs combo-breaker recovery with zero-damage recoil, a grounded 96-pixel pushback stream and 24 eligible recovery ticks. Fresh flight permissions restore sampled repeated same-facing attacks and guard eligibility; ordinary Gold War Machine normals receive a narrow armor exception. Eleven bounded local MAME diagnostics and installer checks passed. Windows/Fightcade, cross-ups and wider roster coverage remain open.

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• Combo breaker adds native zero-damage attacker recoil with 24 eligible recovery ticks
• Grounded recoil uses a 96-pixel pushback stream; stage edges can clamp movement
• Each escape refreshes flight permissions for sampled repeated same-facing airborne attacks and guard eligibility
• Ordinary opposing Gold War Machine normals receive a narrow permanent-armor admission exception; true Hypers, captures and its X-Factor exclusion remain
• Eleven bounded local MAME 0.287 diagnostics passed: 24 paid cycles and three no-spend controls
• Protected native guard witnesses do not establish damage blocking after immunity expires
• Retains the animated opening, COMBO BREAKER announcement, Tech Hit cue, Classic/REMIX rules and nine colors
• v9.3.3 breaker footage, v9.3.2 comeback videos and original v8 artwork remain labeled archives

Combo breaker adds a native animated super opening, flash, COMBO BREAKER announcement and stock Tech Hit cue. One Classic/REMIX package, three bars. Native diagnostics passed; Windows/Fightcade player confirmation remains open.

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• Combo breaker gains an 18-tick animated native super opening and flash
• COMBO BREAKER appears in the AIR COMBO area, then clears; HUD stays visible
• Accepted breaker enqueues one stock Tech Hit cue
• New midscreen, corner and low-attack reel retains native timing and capture audio
• Retains three-bar Classic/REMIX rules, last-fighter X-Factor, four low-tier revivals and nine colors
• v9.3.2 X-Factor/resurrection clips and original v8 artwork stay available as labeled archives

One package: pick REMIX on STYLE, then DHC Classic or DHC REMIX on RULES. Both use three bars. Native diagnostics and installer checks passed; Windows/Fightcade confirmation remains open.

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• One package, Classic/REMIX RULES selection and three bars
• Last-survivor manual XF; RV/GWM excluded; Jin stacking; positive Hulk/OH speed
• Morrigan/Lilith/OH/Roll three-bar automatic revival with saved drain
• One-bar LK+MP normal-contact combo breaker
• Continuous crimson/teal highlights; active-only purple/cyan health; flat recoverable red
• Authenticated activation portrait before full HUD; native revival health cache synchronized

v9.3.1 reduces repeated work during X-Factor. Existing glows, activation effects, rules and nine colors remain. Both-side native checks and installer controls passed; Windows/Fightcade player confirmation remains open.

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• Earlier controller rejection avoids unnecessary work on inactive opponents and speed-neutral paths.
• Active HUD copies ordinary records directly; equivalent glow lookup avoids repeated arithmetic and unused rows.
• Exact artwork, native opening effects, RGB output, gameplay factors, timers and prior repairs remain; measured improvement requires Windows/Fightcade confirmation.

v9.3 is available for community testing: native activation portraits and finite animated super backdrops, a light red backdrop tint and subtle red/fire-gold highlight cycles. The sampled second-life and X-Factor sequence was observed on both sides with ARCADE controls. Full-roster routes, native Windows, audible sound and rollback remain open.

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• Native super portraits and flashes introduce a finite 30-tick X-Factor opening and 60-tick second-life opening. Resurrection lightly tints the native animated backdrop red, preserving its pattern and shading.
• Forty-tick highlight cycles use the current native costume palette: up to a 15% red blend for X-Factor or 10% amber for resurrection, rounded to RGB444. Shadows, black outlines and native brightness remain.
• Selected fighters in REMIX LEVEL 5 revive once after a qualifying lethal hit at exactly five whole bars, then deal 130% damage while health drains over 1,500 eligible point ticks to one HP. X-Factor and bench time pause the drain.
• An existing super portrait refuses a fresh X-Factor request without spending the team allowance. Release all six buttons and press again after it clears; small mirrored power-bar markers show ready, active and spent states.
• Retains nine colors, earlier portrait repairs, native power-bar art and previous DHC route repairs. Bounded machine and four declared-fixture native runs pass; platform, sound, rollback and wider gameplay checks remain open.

v9.2.2 is available for community testing. It corrects extra-color portraits for Orange Hulk, Red Venom and Gold War Machine and reduces extra processing while X-Factor is inactive. Nine colors, existing mechanics and artwork remain. Fresh machine/data checks pass; native portraits, matched super timing, Windows, audible Roll/Spider-Man sound, rollback and broader reports remain open.

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• Corrects Orange Hulk’s added VS/team/super and victory portrait colors; his corrected large SELECT faces remain.
• Corrects Red Venom and Gold War Machine’s added large SELECT, VS/team/super and victory portrait colors. Original two colors, body palettes, other characters and selection-grid art remain.
• Reduces extra animation, damage, sprite-copy and palette processing while X-Factor is inactive. Paired machine checks preserve active behavior; native super timing remains unmeasured.
• Retains existing mechanics, nine colors, HUD, audio data and prior route repairs. Publishes fresh installed-code/art-reader checks; wider gameplay and platform reports remain open.

v9.2.1 is available for community testing. It corrects seven added Orange Hulk SELECT face colors and guards invalid stored selector owners; the Fightcade training report is not established fixed. The v9.2 mechanics and nine colors remain. Corrected native rendering, Windows, audible Roll/Spider-Man sound, rollback and broader gameplay reports remain open.

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• Corrects seven added Orange Hulk large SELECT face palettes, retaining his original two faces and every body palette unchanged.
• Guards invalid stored selector-owner bytes through the native reacquisition path; the Fightcade training report remains unconfirmed.
• Retains v9.2 X-Factor, resurrection, HUD gradients, nine colors and previous route repairs without a new blanket gameplay claim.
• Publishes bounded machine/data and installer checks while corrected native rendering, Windows, audio, rollback and wider gameplay tests remain open.

DHC v9.2 is the current community release: REMIX adds six-button X-Factor, automatic five-bar resurrection, a shaded red pulse, native HUD gradients, a three-frame paired-color window and the bounded Orange Hulk/Akuma repairs. Nine colors and distinct secret palettes remain. Native Windows, audible Roll/Spider-Man sound, Fightcade rollback and broader gameplay checks remain open.

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• REMIX adds X-Factor once per team per match: all six attack buttons from neutral or an eligible normal. XF2 lasts 900 game-clock ticks with 1.5× damage; the last fighter gets XF3, 1,200 ticks and 1.75× damage. Native eligibility, red-health recovery and chip prevention apply.
• REMIX LEVEL 5 adds automatic resurrection after a qualifying lethal hit: exactly five whole bars restore native starting life and red health, once per fighter per match. With fewer than five bars, ordinary KO behavior continues.
• A readable red body tint cycles light, dark, very dark and dark over 128 game-clock ticks. No X-Factor copies or contours are added; native afterimages remain. All four life fills and red recoverable segments gain gradients, with warm team activation pulses and native animated power colors.
• At character select, hold the first button and add its matching partner within three frames for LP+LK, MP+MK or HP+HK. Nine REMIX colors and distinct secret palettes remain; fighting and pushblock recognizers retain native behavior.
• Orange Hulk gains the missing horizontal Gamma Charge source row. Light live-hit Charge into his own Gamma Wave passes both-side controls; whiff, block, expired contact and zero meter refuse. Anti-air Charge and broader destinations remain open.
• Akuma old-beam cleanup now precedes native Team Hyper owner timer restart. This is a bounded emitter-lifetime repair, not acceptance of every stacking, partner, defender or freeze combination. Captain Sword into selected Ryu already passed in v9.1; no new Sword-specific fix is claimed.
• Ordinary-input native controls cover both XF2 teams, actual P1 tagging, pulse positions, settled expiry and ARCADE refusal. HUD display fixtures and their scope are documented separately. Community publication does not establish native Windows, audio, rollback, broader routes or complete gameplay acceptance.

DHC v9.1 is the current community release: nine REMIX colors, distinct secret-character extras and the retained narrow Gamma Charge, Storm, Hulk and Roll repairs. Released for players to test and report issues. Native Windows, audible Roll/Spider-Man sound, Fightcade rollback, fresh all-secret rendering and broader gameplay checks remain open; the release notes state their scope.

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• Gold War Machine, Orange Hulk, Red Venom, Shadow Lady and Lilith restore their exact own native P/K body, selection, portrait and victory palettes at the first two choices.
• Twenty added single-button colors and five paired choices use approved indexed variants. Ten secret pairs, sixty other paired choices and every other fighter’s colors remain exact. PalMod, native designs and individual contributors are credited in the package.
• All 45 actual secret rows match their approved sources. Across 216 regular/form reference banks, 9,720 full-color comparisons and 9,720 visible-pen comparisons have no exact costume matches; nine choices remain distinct within each secret form.
• Independent full-member reconstruction and checksum checks pass. Retained 68000 artwork readers complete all 1,800 SELECT/VS/team/super/WIN upload fixtures. These are bounded data and reader checks; fresh rendered selection and natural WIN acceptance remain open.
• The preceding paired-button selection and narrow Gamma Charge, Storm, Hulk and Roll route/state work is retained byte for byte. This palette revision does not establish new sound, effect, beam/rock/throw or broader gameplay acceptance.
• Community release: complete gameplay acceptance, native Windows, audible Roll/Spider-Man sound and Fightcade rollback remain open. Gamma Wave into Captain Storm selecting Quake is unresolved; the separate Storm startup repair does not fix that report.

Repaired replacement for withdrawn v9, with partial validation. Windows patch-only installer for a clean Euro 980123 mvsc.zip (21-member MAME or 20-member FBNeo/Fightcade input); writes a separate mvsc_dhc_v9-r2.zip. Complete release acceptance remains pending. No ROM is included or downloaded. The receipt states observed repairs, exact checks and remaining reports.

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• Repaired v9 replacement: selectable incoming Hypers, the LEVEL 3/5 SUPER selector and Roll’s three added moves, with REMIX and ARCADE retained.
• Old Ryu Shinkuu and normal War Machine Proton emitters retire through separate native exit states before a new owner Hyper restarts their timers or completion flags; broader reported pairings, stacking and freeze/damage behavior remain unqualified.
• The old Gamma Crush rock root retires through native cleanup when Hulk begins a new Gamma Wave; sampled pre-Team damage and meter are preserved. Repeated post-Team rock damage, same-action Crush restart and natural Orange Hulk behavior remain unproved.
• Roll’s added HCF and DP intermediate directions use 18 native updates; Psycho Shot checks exact fighter ownership before attack or palette work. Natural corruption and audio quality remain broader open reports.
• The selected-partner request requires a Hyper source and rechecks owner/captured-target state at request and commit; the shared source and chain guards reject seeded retained Hulk capture state. LEVEL 5 survives the reproduced CPU-team-KO transition diagnostic.
• Stated plainly: 99 repeated diagnostic gate cases and 12 native Hulk controls on the exact candidate, plus source-bound machine checks. Player audio feedback is positive but route-unspecified. Complete release acceptance, physical controllers, Fightcade online play and Windows PowerShell 5.1 remain pending; the optional stock-grab compatibility component is excluded.

Optional diagnostic candidate for bounded testing, with three paired-button colors and narrow route/state repairs. Installer checks passed with Python and the actual embedded PowerShell 7.6.5 on macOS. Native Windows CMD/PowerShell 5.1, audible Roll/Spider-Man sound, Fightcade rollback and broader gameplay acceptance remain open. This is not an accepted complete release.

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• REMIX adds LP+LK, MP+MK and HP+HK colors across 25 body/form groups. All six existing body choices remain exact; ARCADE retains its native palette table and inputs. PalMod and individual source credits are included in the tester package.
• Horizontal Gamma Charge now admits Hulk’s own Hyper through the existing hit and meter gates. LK into Gamma Wave works on both sides; MK/HK controls accept and pay. Anti-air Charge, Orange Hulk and wider destinations remain open.
• Fresh Gamma Crush initial body-contact requests require grounded Hulk; accepted requests may continue through lift. Native Team Hyper controls pass on both sides, while selected-partner and actual blocked-contact positives remain open.
• Captain Storm’s accepted P1 startup survives the native screen boundary check. The separate Gamma Wave → Captain Storm report that chooses Hulk Quake remains unreproduced; universal Captain Sword route coverage is still open.
• Incoming Roll teleport after Berserker Barrage X is refused before bench state changes, extra meter or handoff. Roll’s own teleport/Psycho controls remain; Psycho returns the complete selected color index in the exact new REMIX bank.
• Final-build palette controls cover Roll, Mega Man, Jin and Morrigan selection and both-side tags; selected Hyper art readers have bounded source/owner observations. Complete effects, WIN art, KO/rematch, all-partner beam/rock/throw retests and the historical crash remain unqualified.
• All 7,110 loadable Discord photos were visually reviewed, including super effects; five attachments remain unavailable and 48 external MP4 embeds are excluded. Effect screenshots are research leads until native indexed rows and attack ownership are proved. Stock throw behavior remains the default.

Historical rollback record. This describes the September build and its withdrawal, rather than the v9 r2 replacement.

Historical rollback record: the September 23 v9 was withdrawn after reports of sound problems, corruption and unreliable Roll moves. During the September 30 repair work, v8 was the public download. The old installer is preserved locally for comparison and is not offered here; its historical receipt does not certify the v9 r2 replacement.

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• Withdrawn September-v9 scope: selectable partner Hyper on hit, block or whiff, the LEVEL 3/LEVEL 5 selector, and Roll’s air beam, Hell Warp and Psycho Shot. These were not features of the v8 download offered during the rollback.
• Repair work covers the separate Ryu and Proton Cannon beam reports, Hulk rock/contact and captured-target state, Mega Man/Roll animation and ownership, legal routes, handoff inputs, audio and the historical v9 UI reports.
• The Captain Commando and Zangief grab report is a stock-game compatibility proposal; it is not attributed to DHC or extended to Hulk without evidence.
• Historical receipt only: the old c1891313 candidate recorded 306 declared observations. Those checks did not establish resolution of the new player reports; as of the September 30 rollback record, no repaired candidate had been accepted.

ROM-free patch-only installer: no ROM is included or downloaded. One installer, two styles: REMIX (default) adds Special-to-Super, Super-to-Super, the partner handoff, five Hyper levels, six colors and the expanded hit display; ARCADE is the stock game. Verifies your clean Euro ROM and writes a separate mvsc_dhc_v8.zip. The release receipt states exactly which checks ran on this build and at what tier.

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• REMIX and ARCADE ship from one installer, chosen on the STYLE SELECT screen before the roster. ARCADE bails out of every added route before it runs, so stock play is unchanged.
• Partner handoff, REMIX only: re-input your active Hyper's command after qualified contact and your partner enters on their own native team Hyper. The destination is fixed to that team Hyper; this is not MvC2's selectable DHC.
• The partner's Hyper now draws its background. The cross route handed the incoming fighter a Hyper without initialising its animation state, so the script event the animation would have delivered never arrived and the background graphics load was never reached; six bytes inside the v8 post-commit hook supply that event. Confirmed in play on 2026-09-10 after four withdrawn attempts, with a 1501-line zero-difference regression against the base.
• Level 4 of the five-level meter fills yellow, the way MvC2's does, by pointing the bar at the tile the game already draws with pen 8. Forty-four bytes, no palette row written, levels 1, 2, 3 and 5 byte-for-byte stock.
• Five Hyper levels, six color choices per fighter and the expanded hit display are in the same build, as before.
• Stated plainly: the two new fixes were verified on a headless MAME fixture and by hand, not by the full pinned lane table; the Windows installer path was verified through the Python patcher on twelve hostile cases and rebuilt byte-identically on two machines, and the PowerShell gate on this exact build is still to run. The receipt carries each status.

ROM-free patch-only installer: no ROM is included or downloaded. The parity edition, superseded by v8 on 2026-09-11 and kept here with its roster sibling for anyone who wants the exact bytes that shipped on 2026-09-03. Special-to-Super now works from every fighter's qualifying specials - the sealed core recognised 17 sources, this ships 83, built from the PlayStation port's own recognizers - so Wolverine's Berserker Barrage into Berserker Barrage X and its siblings chain. A destination posture gate reads the acting fighter's posture at the cancel, so an air-only Super can no longer be entered from the ground, or a ground-only Super from the air, through a route its own command would refuse. This edition also refuses the six destinations the PlayStation port never marks cancel-legal (Zangief's three grab Hypers, and one CPS-2 custom each for Ryu, Morrigan and Shadow Lady); Zangief's Iron Body, which the port does mark, is kept. If you want those six and the all-roster three-Hyper chains, take the roster edition below - it is the same build with the extensions left in, named for what it is. Everything from v6 rides along. No whole-game/strict PSX parity or official Fightcade compatibility claim.

• Special-to-Super on every fighter with a qualifying special: the source table goes from 17 rows to 83, built from the PlayStation port's own recognizers. On v6 the core never tagged Wolverine's qcb+P as a source at all - its source tag stayed $FF for the special's whole life - so there was nothing for the Super to cancel from; on v7 the same route commits at frame 1576 on both sides.
• New destination posture gate: every allowlist row carries two posture bits taken from the destination's own command descriptor, checked at the cancel with its own reject code. A cancel can no longer hand a grounded fighter an air-only Super, or an airborne fighter a ground-only one.
• v7 ships as two editions from one version. The parity build refuses six destinations the port never marks cancel-legal; the roster build keeps them plus the all-roster three-Hyper chains for Venom, Red Venom and Captain Commando. Both are listed here; neither is hidden behind the other.
• Measured, not asserted: the twelve demoted routes are refused on the parity build with a live source Hyper and a qualified contact, never entering the destination and never committing, while on that same build Zangief's Iron Body commits at frame 1543. Twenty-two object-cleanup lanes stay green on both editions.
• Not fixed, and not claimed: reports of Gold War Machine's Mega Optic Blast coming out from the ground were not reproduced. Five routes were driven on the pinned rig and none produced it. The posture gate is correct parity work on its own terms and is not being sold as that fix.
• Same ROM-free format-2 installer; writes mvsc_dhc_v7.zip beside your untouched mvsc.zip.

ROM-free patch-only installer: no ROM is included or downloaded. The v6 release: combined v5 plus the PlayStation port's cancelled-Super object cleanup. Superseded by v7, which opens Special-to-Super on every qualifying fighter, adds the destination posture gate, and splits parity from the roster extensions. Retained for anyone who wants the exact bytes that shipped on 2026-09-02.

• PSX-style object cleanup: at every accepted same-fighter Super-to-Super cancel the first Super's catalogued beams, drills and allies are freed the way the PlayStation port's child-object handlers free them - no more Proton Cannon, Big Bang Laser or Rush Drill stuck on screen (War Machine, Hulk, Wolverine, Roll, Captain Commando, Jin, Morrigan, Mega Man, Orange Hulk, Shadow Lady on the PSX rule; Gold War Machine and Lilith as deliberate extensions).
• The rule comes from decompiling the PSX per-character overlays (parent action != spawn action -> free) and is applied once, at the sealed cancel commit, after the commit's own bookkeeping is published; Ryu's Hadouken, Gambit's cards, War Destroyer's missiles and every other object keep their native lifetime.
• New 22-lane object-lifetime gate (P1/P2 kill-set positives, protected survivors, pre-contact and whiff negatives) added to the release authority; every v5 gate re-run on the same candidate: 42/42 three-Super, 36/36 Special-to-Super, 142/142 destination actions, Duo, timing, six colors, 999 HIT, Gold Mega Optic, boot.
• Visible in the reel: Shadow Lady's Galaxy Missile now connects after the Big Bang Laser cancel instead of firing under a stuck beam.
• Same ROM-free format-2 installer; only mvc.06a, mvc.10, mvce.03a and mvce.04a change; writes mvsc_dhc_v6.zip beside your untouched mvsc.zip.

Previous combined release (sealed 2026-08-31). Same feature set as v6 minus the PSX-style object cleanup: a cancelled Super's beams, drills and allies stay on screen until they time out. Use v6.

• Combined stock-size patch: Super-to-Super chains for all 21 supported identities plus Special-to-Super (36 lanes, exact Ryu Hadouken -> Shinkuu Hadouken), six MvC2 colors, the 0-999 display, Mega Man's Magnetic Shockwave and Gold War Machine's one-bar Mega Optic Blast in one installer.
• Captain Commando runs the distinct $00 -> $0C -> $00 route; Mech Zangief captured at the close fixture gap; native Duo isolation (added cancels suspend while Duo is active and return after expiry).
• Known limitation, fixed in v6: a cancelled Super's beams, drills and allies stayed on screen until they timed out.

Previous Hyper-to-Hyper-only release. Use combined v5 for Special-to-Super, six colors, 999 HIT, Gold Mega Optic, and Duo isolation.

• Hyper-to-Hyper (same-active-fighter Super-to-Super) across the roster on P1 and P2, sealed by the final action matrix and repeated timing runs; no Special-to-Super, colors, 999 display or Gold Mega Optic yet.
• First ROM-free format-2 installer: replacement bytes and verification metadata only, no stock before-bytes.

Previous Ryu-only release. Use combined v5 for the full scoped feature set.

• Ryu's two-link route only; roster-wide cancels were not released.

Captured on v6. This does not demonstrate v7 source coverage or the current release. The 999 display segment is a seeded boundary diagnostic, not a naturally played 999-hit combo.

Read the archived article and release hashes. These are historical claims and do not certify the current release.