Did you main broken Naruto? Discover a weird infinite with Ichigo? Or just spend hours trying to load the stage select screen on a school computer?
Let’s talk nostalgia in the comments. 👇
So here’s to SSF2 0.9a — broken hitboxes, placeholder sound effects, and all. Without it, we wouldn’t have the legend it became. ssf2 0.9a
Let’s set the scene. It’s the late 2000s / early 2010s. Flash games rule the browser. Smash Bros. Brawl is controversial. And a tiny team of passionate fans decides: “What if we just… made our own Smash? With blackjack? And anime?”
It reminds us that every great fangame, every indie fighter, every “impossible crossover” starts with a scrappy alpha build, a forum post saying “try this,” and a small group of players who see the diamond under the jank. Did you main broken Naruto
🔹 0.9a was when the SSF2 forums exploded. Combo videos on YouTube with potato quality. “Who’s better – Naruto or Goku?” threads that ran 50 pages. Fan-made tier lists putting Ichigo at S+ and Mario in D (which was wrong, but fun to argue about).
If you weren’t there for Super Smash Flash 2 version 0.9a, you missed the gaming equivalent of watching a phoenix learn to fly — while crashing into walls, randomly teleporting, and somehow still looking cool doing it. Let’s talk nostalgia in the comments
This was also when the dev team started listening. Bug reports from randoms on the internet shaped the next decade of updates. 0.9a wasn’t a finished product — it was a conversation starter . Today, SSF2 is a sleek, balanced, browser-defying masterpiece (especially with the standalone launcher). But 0.9a represents something rare in game development: the beautiful ugly stage where passion outweighs polish .
