I just don't agree with the philosophy behind the motivation, so I'll remove myself from the thread.
IMO version B is the fixed one, and if you want to run the fixed version that is the one you should be FORCED to use.
A is broken, and I don't believe it deserves to be fixed!
A was NOT the direction Capcom wanted to go in, fans/tournament players refused to accept B and forced them to regress.
Capcom made the game, Capcom didn't feel the double Aegis Reflector belonged, nor did they didn't feel the unblockables belonged.
Who are you to say otherwise?
They decide the future, that's what it means to be the owner/developer of a franchise.
This "please fix broken A" is soulless pandering to the masses, well the masses are wrong... Play B, or don't...
But A should NOT ever be "fixed" because even its creator thinks its unbalanced, hence the fixes present in B.
You don't have to like it, you don't have to play it... What you call "fix" I call bootleg, and no it has no place in tournament play.
Might as well allow Redwave or Rainbow edition in tournament play by that logic.
Darksoft did not want to take the time to re-encrypt the game to work with the custom SH2
Can you blame him? I mean you have played it right?
Was a fun distraction for about 15 mins, never written the SIMMs/played it again.
I wouldn't bother to re-encrypt this bootleg A request either.