Oh, and did I mention it's entirely from scratch? No reverse engineering - it's an engine built from the ground up to emulate the SoR games based purely on experience and observation. If you haven't heard of Streets of Rage Remake (perhaps you've been unconscious since 2003?), then let me fill you in - Streets of Rage Remake is a fan project that spanned EIGHT YEARS that merges all 3 Streets of Rage games into one monstrous game. Why you ask? Because of the cease and desist issued to Bomber Link for Streets of Rage Remake. The reason I'm talking about SEGA, is because if SEGA was a person, I'd kick it square in whichever genitalia it would bear, for being a complete dick. Now SEGA focuses purely on game development for other consoles, and continued arcade game development, a transition that happened from 2001 to 2005, and as of lately has been branching off into other realms and partnering with various studios to create new IPs, as well as a possible foray into the online gambling world (Yay SEGA! Take all of my money in one hand of online blackjack!) Today I'm not going to be talking about Squeenix - I'm going to be talking about SEGA, who used to be one of the top game companies around the time of the Sega Genesis, then fucked themselves with the SegaCD and Sega Saturn, then finally bought the farm after the Dreamcast. Now don't get me wrong, I understand that the games industry is an ever changing, living monster, that demands change and innovation, but for fucks sake, who said that a little throwback to the golden days is a bad thing? And if they do end up doing something with them, they fuck it up horribly. I don't understand why companies that have blockbuster intellectual properties do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH THEM. My love/hate relationship with SquareEnix has been on a downward spiral like a piece of soiled bathroom tissue in a toilet. Having played all three, and don't think any are bad, I think Streets of Rage does come out on top.It's not a secret that I'm none too thrilled with the way big name companies handle their business and deal with their fans. Probably in the same way how Final Fight or TMNT Turtles In Time may be popular to people who own a Super Nintendo. Yes, it's a popular game for many people who owned a Genesis/Megadrive. NOTE: To the people comparing various games with Streets of Rage 2. It mostly makes finding a proper rhythm for the combos a bit frustrating that wasn't in the first or third game. There is delay after hitting someone (Similar to Street Fighter) and after the character performs their attack animation. While personally, I don't know if it's a bug or not, the delay of movement after performing attacks was an hindrance. There is bugs between all three games on the genesis/megadrive. I believe the youtube channel of the person responsible for this game's port has some videos showing off the bugs. Besides the ones exploited by speedruns, there also just other things about it as well. A watch of a TAS Tool assisted Speedrun later, there is quite some bugs to behold. The requirement to play the port is to get your official Streets of Rage 2 ROM, be it the user's dumped copy, or the recommended method by the devs, which is purchasing a copy of Streets of Rage 2 from Steam, with the ROM being included in the package and easily copied over for usage with the ports.Ĭlick to expand.Yes. The creators have also added an online functionality to the port, in the form of multiplayer with up to 4 people playing at the same time. The game features 2 different modes, Classic, where you can play a faithful recreation of the game on PC/Mac, and 30th Anniversary Mode, where you can enjoy the game with a vast range of changes and QoL features, like widescreen, bugfixes and more fluid controls. Not only that, but the developers have gone beyond just porting the game. Following with the surge of retro games getting PC ports, this time the focus is on Streets of Rage 2, where a group of fans have created both a Windows and Mac ports of the game, without relying on any emulation and entirely reverse engineering the Sega classic, with the project being codenamed "Streets of Rage 2: New Era".
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