Huh, time to get off my ass and try that image on my board then, see what happens. Mine is custom SH2 with auto Japan region select.I have a custom sh2 with auto USA region select and use the Ken Makoto glitch fix cd image. Upon rematch your character selector and super is retained from previous match. So yes, you can just keep mashing buttons to get back to playingI just flashed a CPS3 set for my friend with the Makoto/Ken bug fix version. Which should be the same as the one I have just that one byte difference, since I haven't bothered to do it to mine yet.
In testing I found he has the character select fix. Huh. I should try on my board, but there is one other difference.
I have the custom SH2 on my SuperBIOS, the cart on his is standard. Any chance that makes any kind of difference? I'm running the new bios with the auto region select for Japan fwiw. But before I had that I had a custom cart with the old bios, never used a standard image.