Samurai Shodown V Special, known as Samurai Spirits Zero Special (サムライスピリッツ零 SPECIAL, Samurai Supirittsu Zero Special) in Japan, is the ninth game in SNK's Samurai Shodown/Samurai Spirits series of fighting games. This game is an upgraded version of the game titled Samurai Shodown V, and is the last official game for the Neo Geo platform. Extensive location testing was done to fix the balancing issues that plagued its predecessor. The illustrations in this game were mainly done by Satoshi Itoh. __TOC__