Cycloid Beta

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Cycloid Beta
Cycloid Beta Image.png
Cycloid-β
Birthday '
From '
Height Unknown
Weight Unknown

Debut Match
Cycloid Beta L
Pin
Dural
8chanmania LII
First Victory

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First Championship

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Cycloid Beta is a playable fighter from the Street Fighter series, first appearing as a secret unlockable in Street Fighter EX Plus.

Bio[edit | edit source]

In many ways, the switch from 2d to 3d graphics was a blessing on the fighting games genre. Alas, having a fully rigged 3d model instead of 2d sprites also upped the workload. To make sure aspects such as collision physics and hit zones worked properly (and did not randomly shift to non-Euclidian geometry), the developers made ample use of blank test characters - essentially 'skeletons' for the actual fighters that would be added later on.

Cycloid Beta (along its wire-model cousin, Cycloid Gamma) were exactly that. But where most of their type simply disappeared somewhere in the game's code, the developers instead chose to add them as unlockable bonus characters - if mostly because the trick of just adding random animals as playable fighters was already taken by Tekken.

In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]

Cycloid Beta fought in the 90s-themed 8chanmania LII. He (it?) found a fitting opponent in another glorified test dummy, but utterly failed to make it past the first round.