Is the game broken? I genuinely want to know. I'm trying to beat the Movie Battle and just don't know if it's me or if the game is just plain unfair.

It's comparable to contemporaneous PSX / SAT ports of Street Fighter II: filled with jank hitboxes, extremely strict inputs, hella lag, unresponsive controls... technically playable but not worth bothering with.

And yes this has cheating AI, it is extremely unfair at times.

Insane. Thanks for the reply. I may very well have to take the L on this game. Been going through the chronological history of the PS1 on my stream, trying to beat all the games and stuff. I'm gonna give it a few more tries, but I'm not sure what more else I can do. Been stuck on Sagat in Movie Battle, and I'm told Bison isn't going to be much better.

Btw if you're interested to know, a viewer of mine managed to look into the code, and found that choosing a difficulty level makes no difference. Depending on how you do, it tries to do "adaptive" difficulty switching, but ends up sending you all over the place. If I tried to start a match with the lowest difficulty and lose, it starts to get harder. The more I lose, the harder it gets. If I fail Movie Battle and try it again immediately after the Game Over screen WITHOUT resetting the console, it spikes you to the hardest difficulty without your permission. It's a nightmare. There's a lot of other weird sequences that can cause difficulty spikes. Hella broken.