I remember some time ago that there was supposed to be something special if we kept vanilla SF4 when Super was released. Now that Super is out in the wild, keeping a vanilla SF4 save only unlocks colors 11 and 12 (ink brush and pencil scratch shaders respectively). Was there mention of any other bonus content that was going to be unlockable with the vanilla/super combination? Or was it a Capcom ploy to prevent everyone from trading in?

What I want to know is, why do people call it vanilla?

Sit down, my child. Let me tell you the story of Capcom and incremental upgrades.  
 
Bri

" What I want to know is, why do people call it vanilla? "

" What I want to know is, why do people call it vanilla? "

You only unlock something for your save file, so keep that and you're golden. Even then, it's only two colors for each character (which are filter overlays anyway). If you've played the PC version, you'll know what I mean.

If you've unlocked the stuff I guess you could trade it in and get like 3 bucks for it. By you might as well just keep it. In 15 years you might want to play some SFIV instead of SSFIV. Like sometimes I want to play Hyper Fighting instead of Turbo.

" If you've unlocked the stuff I guess you could trade it in and get like 3 bucks for it. By you might as well just keep it. In 15 years you might want to play some SFIV instead of SSFIV. Like sometimes I want to play Hyper Fighting instead of Turbo. "

It only needs the save data from SF4 and it unlocks some graphical filters as skins. If you have it and don't want to keep it as a reminder of all those good times you had with it, you can get rid of it.

" @AlwaysAngry said:

" What I want to know is, why do people call it vanilla? "

Same reason WoW 1.0 s vanilla wow.  Its like vanilla icecream, no extras, just the basic foundation that the new stuff is built on, like a delicious ice cream sundae.  God damnit, I'm hungry now. "

I'd sell it. Fans understand this is basically like a yearly sport game iteration, where the previous version is worthless after the next one comes out, but unlike a superseded sports game you can probably get a decent trade in price for this.

" I'd sell it. Fans understand this is basically like a yearly sport game iteration, where the previous version is worthless after the next one comes out, but unlike a superseded sports game you can probably get a decent trade in price for this. "

There's also completely different intro and ending animations for each character, the gallery that is not present in Super, and Super's lack of the epicness that is Indestructible. Keep SF4.