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Mai's Apprentice
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Numbers, ie 236=qcf, 214=qcb, etc are extremely common in Asia, especially in small-run, non-mainstream publications. The system has nothing to do with "playing on a keyboard." The reason it's employed at all is that people speaking disparate languages can all understand that the numbers are stand-ins for joystick motions that don't assume one speaks a particular language, and are used when it's either impossible or impractical to use arrows.
Like it or not, acronyms like qcf, dp, etc, mean nothing to someone whose English isn't great, and are difficult to figure out for people who don't have a familiarity with English-language fighting game lingo. It's just another system used to denote the same thing and it's not difficult to read after a bit of exposure.
Like it or not, acronyms like qcf, dp, etc, mean nothing to someone whose English isn't great, and are difficult to figure out for people who don't have a familiarity with English-language fighting game lingo. It's just another system used to denote the same thing and it's not difficult to read after a bit of exposure.