Or does the default 3 star difficulty act the same as the max star difficulty?

the 3 star does seem much harder then i remember it, but it could be that i haven't played SF2:HF in probably about 10 years (call me boring, but i've always been a sf2:world warriors fan myself) and this is VERY differant from sf2:ww (well, lots of subtle differances that effect stratagy)

I wonder why they insisted on going with Hyper Fighting instead of World Warrior? You think that WW would have been more popular...

well, i think people would have been dissapointed if they couldn't play as bison, sagat, vega, and balrog, but i would have been pretty happy with SF2:turbo. either way, i'll play HF and i'm sure eventually i'll get good enough to not get raped by the cpu characters

I wish it was just Championship Edition

i wish it was the hyper fighting that was packaged in with 3rd strike for the xbox...

but yeah the comp is damn cheap on 3 stars... fucking sonic booms and flash kicks with abs no charge... grrr... guile's a bitch...