Ps3 – Why can’t I play Street Fighter 4 online between different versions

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I have Super Street Fighter 4 + Arcade Edition DLC and all costumes. My friend has Super Street Fighter 4. We are trying to play against each other, but when I receive an invite, I can't join in his session and when I send an invite, he receives a message that tells that he needs to download something. As far as I know, the problem is not with the costumes DLC, since I already played against a lot of people that does not have alternate costumes. He tried to download and install the Update Kit for SSFIV, but the problem continues. I tried to change the version of my game, but the problem continues too. Do you know what we are doing wrong? Is it impossible to play with two different versions? I'm asking this because in the network battle I have an option to play against SSFIV only. I almost forgot. We are using PS3.

Best Answer

I solved the problem. My friend SSFIV version is European. His psn user is american. When he downloaded the update kit, he did using the american ps store and the update kit is for the american version of SSFIV and even this package being installed, it does not changed his game (european version). Thinking about this, I said him to create an european psn account, access the european ps store and download the update kit. The european update kit worked as expected and now we are finally able to play.