Gabriel Pyron's Color Hacks!!! (Golden Axe, Street Fighter II, Final Fight CD, etc)

Intro

Gabriel Pyron's work is focused on making the arcade/computer ports visually closer to their arcade/computer counterparts and also on improving the look of great exclusive games which are plagued by bad color choices.
The instructions and links related to his color hacks are listed below.


How To

1- Download and install an IPS patcher like this (Lunar IPS also works): http://home.arcor.de/minako.aino/ipsXP/
2- Download and extract the patch from one of the links in the Completed Hacks section below.
3- Now just double-click on the IPS patch (hack), ips XP will start automatically and ask you to select the file (ROM) where you want to apply the patch.
4- Use the ROM file with the exact same name found in the "ROM Info" section of the game hack's page of romhacking.net.
5- If you want to avoid red screens (especially on real hardware) you must fix the checksum of the ROM after applying the patch.
We recommend this easy-to-use utility: http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/342/


Completed Hacks

Castlevania Bloodlines
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2121/
Comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5IDYu3kueQ
Comparative poster: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3869/...d5cd9b35_o.png

Disney's The Lion King
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2177/
Comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5IDYu3kueQ

Final Fight CD
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2087/
Comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw4G_ofpEQc

Golden Axe
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2082/
Comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOqkgRC2ZO4
Comparative poster: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5561/...1639d22e_o.png

Golden Axe II
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2104/
Comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5IDYu3kueQ

Joe & Mac
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2276
Comparative poster: http://i.imgur.com/FwsH9SU.png

Midnight Resistance
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2081/
Comparative poster: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5522/...28fa00f7_b.jpg

OutRun
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2083/
Comparison video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOqkgRC2ZO4
Comparative poster: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2909/1...76132ba8_b.jpg

Shadow of the Beast
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2259/
Comparative poster: http://i.imgur.com/hhof2mo.png
Media coverage #1: http://www.retrocollect.com/News/rom...a-visuals.html
Media coverage #2: http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2014/...amiga-version/

Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2090/
Comparison video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOqkgRC2ZO4
Comparison video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68RcXjiFNI
Real hardware demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZOrpJP7DUw
Comparative poster: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3839/...5dbce9a9_o.png
Media coverage: http://www.diadu.net/?p=190

Streets of Rage 2
Download: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2084/
Media coverage: http://www.retrocollect.com/News/str...ega-drive.html

Nice! :cool:

Oh god yes!!!! :love:

Keep in mind that you have to patch the JP version of Final Fight or it will crash after the character select screen. I kinda think stage 1 in Final Fight CD looks worse. The barrels seem more dithered than I remember. So far I'm not really sold on this one. Look much better in the Youtube video than it does via RGB (how I play).

I like the color corrections in Out Run. It was always way too dark for some reason.

Didn't really notice much difference in Golden Axe. The eagle's eyeball is still brown (blue in the arcade).

Midnight Resistance may now have colors more faithful to the arcade but in my opinion the original colors look much better.

Streets of Rage 2 was kind of cool looking.

Haven't tried Street Fighter 2 yet.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

Didn't really notice much difference in Golden Axe. The eagle's eyeball is still brown (blue in the arcade).

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Joe... are you drunk again? The entire game looks different with far more accurate arcade colours.

SoR 2 and Midnight Resistance looks worse...

No, looking closely it doesn't really look worse, it's just not a big improvement like the others. Still closer to the arcade so that's a "plus".

It's not possible to just give a new color to a specific parts which used to share the same color with another part. All one can do is to apply a different color in general. So you cannot make the eye blue if it shares the brown color tones with the eagle's body.
And yeah, judging by the comparison screenshots this is MUCH closer to the arcade. Always wondered why the MD port looked so washed out, otherwise it was a phenomenal port.

I am pretty blown away by the idea of a SF2CE color hack. I hated that game's colors even when it was released. SSF2 was such an improvement in that regard. Can't wait to try the hacked version.

This shows how it's not technical weakness that always makes a game look worse.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

I kinda think stage 1 in Final Fight CD looks worse. The barrels seem more dithered than I remember. So far I'm not really sold on this one. Look much better in the Youtube video than it does via RGB (how I play).

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The enhanced palette is darker, with higher contrast in several parts and that's probably why the dithering is even more apparent to you now.
The color transitions are less smooth in several segments now and it also annoys me a bit but I think that's the price to pay. Overall, I think I prefer the new version for the non-anemic characters and everything looking less pale than with the old palette. But some parts do look worse now I think.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

I like the color corrections in Out Run. It was always way too dark for some reason.

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Yep, it was pretty annoying to me and now I think it's "smoother".

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

Didn't really notice much difference in Golden Axe. The eagle's eyeball is still brown (blue in the arcade).

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Golden Axe is probably his best work IMO. Everything looks better, the dragons resemble the arcade colors now, the bosses no longer have that stupid green tone and everything is brighter.
I'm one of the guys who never liked the way GA and GAII looked due to the dark-ish palette and now I find that GA looks really good.

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

It's not possible to just give a new color to a specific parts which used to share the same color with another part. All one can do is to apply a different color in general. So you cannot make the eye blue if it shares the brown color tones with the eagle's body.
And yeah, judging by the comparison screenshots this is MUCH closer to the arcade. Always wondered why the MD port looked so washed out, otherwise it was a phenomenal port.

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This.

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

I am pretty blown away by the idea of a SF2CE color hack. I hated that game's colors even when it was released. SSF2 was such an improvement in that regard. Can't wait to try the hacked version.

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I hate SSF2 on the Genesis and on the SNES, so I can't say much about that.
But he did a hell of job with the characters palettes IMO, Ken always looked wrong to me.
My only complaint is about the green usage in the new Guile's stage. The superior part of the background looks worlds better than before but that green kinda ruined it to me, especially 'cause it's in the fighter shadows too.

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Originally Posted by Gentlegamer

This shows how it's not technical weakness that always makes a game look worse.

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Yep.
I hope that guy releases more patches... I'd love to see Fatal Fury 2 with proper colors instead of the shitty Takara color choices.

Hello everyone, first I apologize for my poor english ....

Still, I want to thank you for sharing this content Barone.
And also thank the people who liked it (even those that do not). It's for people like you that I do these things, thank you!

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

Joe... are you drunk again? The entire game looks different with far more accurate arcade colours.

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I dunno about the entire game looking different. Maybe I don't play Golden Axe enough to notice. I noticed that the first stage was a touch brighter, stage 3 was now blue and the dragons you ride on no longer cause my eyeballs to bleed. That's all I noticed. A sprite could be added on top of the dragon eyeball that's blue. It's not like there's a lot going on in that area so I doubt it would cause problems.

Midnight Resistance looks bad. It looks much worse and really shows off more of the Genesis' weaknesses. Closer to the arcade? I don't consider that a plus. Let's make the music all shitty so it's closer to the arcade as well! Surely you'd consider that a "plus". Are you drunk Kamal? Surely you are drunk and like to do drugs like meth. Damn drunks. Same goes with Final Fight CD. It may be more accurate but it really shows off the color limitations more than the original did. I'll have to play the original again. Small Youtube videos and web images can be deceptive.

All of them but SOR2 and Midnight Resistance were good. SOR2 looks worse and Midnight Resistance... I dunno, I didn't play it enough, but I didn't notice any difference.

I think that Golden Axe looks really good now, probably the best of the bunch. Street Fighter 2 overall looks a lot better IMO, except for Guile's stage; like Barone said, there's some weird green going on there.
I thought that Outrun looked good as well, closer to the Arcade but i kinda like the visual of the " original " MD version.

About Midnight Resistance...didn't like that one too much though; i'll have to play it some more.
I can't test Final Fight, so no comments on that.

Now,about SOR2; no one needs to put their hands on that game :)

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Hello everyone, first I apologize for my poor english ....

Still, I want to thank you for sharing this content Barone.
And also thank the people who liked it (even those that do not). It's for people like you that I do these things, thank you!

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No need to apologize my friend and it's good to know that you're a member here.
one can tell that you've putted a lot of effort and love into this, and i'm sure we all appreciate what you did, giving some more life to these great titles on our beloved MD/Genesis.

thanks a lot!
If all you want and if permitted, I could put some pictures with better resolution showing more details.

but to explain myself..

SOR2 = as I said in the description of the patch I do not think that needs improvement, but I had some things that bothered me and I wanted to change, so I shared the patch if someone shared the plumb feeling.

Midnight Resistance = I really wanted to change that much more... however, unfortunately the game does not allow much modification, for the staff an idea, it uses a 16-color palette that is shared with most enemies, sprites and backgrounds of the first 3 stages. An example for you to have idea, it's the colors of asphalt and buildings of the first phase stage that shares the same colors of the grass / leaves and stem of the second stage.

OutRun = I altered slightly I could ... there are so many stages and variations that have no way to go through them infinitely times to see how my changes were.

FFCD = I finished the game about 90x to try to apply the changes, I was very pleased with the result. Of course everything is on base with my personal taste and arcade in mind that was striking to me in my childhood. The intention was not to look better but faithful to the original.

SF2/GA = As in FFCD, I modified the game 100%, I did the best I could. Finding better or worse also depends on personal taste.

What I recommend to everyone, is play the original again at least for a few stages before trying these hacks. This makes it easier to make a comparison, sometimes our memory can deceive us.

Thanks again friends.

*I fixed Guile Stage, will be avaliable soon.

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Hello everyone, first I apologize for my poor english

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No need to apologize, keep partaking the discussions and you'll get more comfortable with your English... My first 100 posts were really hard but now it's much much easier.

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Still, I want to thank you for sharing this content Barone.
And also thank the people who liked it (even those that do not). It's for people like you that I do these things, thank you!

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No need to thank me either, I just shared it 'cause it was a very good work and people have discussed here for years about hacking the Golden Axe's palette to make it brighter and closer to the arcade game (the same for SFII), so I thought it would be a good idea to make a thread for your hacks.
And it's good for you to have some feedback I think.

Thanks for the hacks, Golden Axe was always a let down with the original palette IMO; it really detracted something from the game. My friends will enjoy it quite a lot, I'm pretty sure.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

I dunno about the entire game looking different. Maybe I don't play Golden Axe enough to notice. I noticed that the first stage was a touch brighter, stage 3 was now blue and the dragons you ride on no longer cause my eyeballs to bleed. That's all I noticed. A sprite could be added on top of the dragon eyeball that's blue. It's not like there's a lot going on in that area so I doubt it would cause problems.

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A sprite could be a good idea but Pyron's hacks are only about changing palettes to look closer to the arcade, so probably someone else will have to build upon it in the future, IDK.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

Midnight Resistance looks bad. It looks much worse and really shows off more of the Genesis' weaknesses. Closer to the arcade? I don't consider that a plus. Let's make the music all shitty so it's closer to the arcade as well! Surely you'd consider that a "plus". Same goes with Final Fight CD.

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I think I understand your point, sometimes to be closer to the arcade version you'll have to use less diverse tones or darker ones which may result in a less colorful or less vivid visual sensation. And you may dislike the new color choices, but I'm pretty sure both games now are closer to the arcade color choices and there was always people complaining about its lack of faithfulness, so I think it's a plus in that way. Those hacks, as Pyron said to me, are focused on making the games look more like their arcade counterparts and not more colorful. Sometimes it will result in a better looking game, like SFII or Golden Axe, and sometimes people will probably prefer the old palette. I find it good to have an alternative though.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

It may be more accurate but it really shows off the color limitations more than the original did. I'll have to play the original again. Small Youtube videos and web images can be deceptive.

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Sorry, Joe, I shared what I had at the moment. If I had better quality images I'd have posted them. But, then again, everybody knows that FFCD in RGB is a no-go.

Pyron sent me a link with some better examples IMO:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2909/1...76132ba8_b.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5522/...28fa00f7_b.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5561/...1639d22e_o.png

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Originally Posted by Bottino

I think that Golden Axe looks really good now, probably the best of the bunch. Street Fighter 2 overall looks a lot better IMO, except for Guile's stage; like Barone said, there's some weird green going on there.

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I agree.
I sent him a PM and he answered me with a new version of the SFII hack which replaces that green in Guile's stage and I think it looks much better now, but I'll wait for his permission or own release prior sharing it.
I'm pretty sure that his GA and SFII hacks will be my default playing versions from now on.

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Originally Posted by Bottino

I thought that Outrun looked good as well, closer to the Arcade but i kinda like the visual of the " original " MD version.

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I've always liked the higher contrast Ferrari from the MD version, but the stages were annoying in some parts to me.
I'll probably be playing the new version most of the time from now on but I'll keep the original just in case, hehe.

EDIT: I was ninja'd by Pyron's last post.

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Originally Posted by Barone

I agree.
I sent him a PM and he answered me with a new version of the SFII hack which replaces that green in Guile's stage and I think it looks much better now, but I'll wait for his permission or own release prior sharing it.

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You didn't need my permission, i made it to that =D

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

Same goes with Final Fight CD. It may be more accurate but it really shows off the color limitations more than the original did. I'll have to play the original again. Small Youtube videos and web images can be deceptive.

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Joe i hear your feedback on the FFCD, and greatly respect your opinion.
But to clarify, in the video you get a different feel of the results seen in his home by several factors and not by the quality of it.
Here in my country there are simply no TV's with RGB / SCART outputs, maximum quality I have in my Mega Drive's is the modification to svideo I did.
Another factor is that I really like the effects of dirthering being applied correctly, most games were designed with this in mind and FFCD is one of them, so you had this strange feeling about the video.
So I took some high resolution (w/o dirthering) photos of the first stage for you, will not change anything to your opinion but I felt compelled to perform this task for you and whoever else wants. A big hug my friend.


http://i.imgur.com/7VzBNof.png

Can anyone give me specific step by step instructions on how to apply these patches? I have a complete set of Genesis and MD roms, and I play them via Kega Fusion on my PC and NeoGenesis on my Xbox.

I've downloaded some of the hacks, but I don't have a clue how to make them work. How do I add the hack to the rom file so I can see the differences? Do I have to open and extract the rom (with the .bin file inside) or the hack file? If so, how do I get the emulator to recognize both? Normally I just click on the rar file to play a game and it opens. Sorry for all the questions, but I'm kind of a noob when it comes to things like altering rom files.

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Originally Posted by redsox2013

Can anyone give me specific step by step instructions on how to apply these patches? I have a complete set of Genesis and MD roms, and I play them via Kega Fusion on my PC and NeoGenesis on my Xbox.

I've downloaded some of the hacks, but I don't have a clue how to make them work. How do I add the hack to the rom file so I can see the differences? Do I have to open and extract the rom (with the .bin file inside) or the hack file? If so, how do I get the emulator to recognize both? Normally I just click on the rar file to play a game and it opens. Sorry for all the questions, but I'm kind of a noob when it comes to things like altering rom files.

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Use this http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/ to apply the IPS patches to their correspondent ROM files.

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Originally Posted by redsox2013

Can anyone give me specific step by step instructions on how to apply these patches? I have a complete set of Genesis and MD roms, and I play them via Kega Fusion on my PC and NeoGenesis on my Xbox.

I've downloaded some of the hacks, but I don't have a clue what to do with them. How do I add the hack to the rom file so I can see the differences? Do I have to open and extract the rom (with the .bin file inside) or the hack file? If so, how do I get the emulator to recognize both? Sorry for all the questions, but I'm kind of a noob when it comes to things like altering rom files.

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Hi redsox, lets go !

1- Download and Install this program http://home.arcor.de/minako.aino/ipsXP/
2- Download and extract the patch
3- Now just click on it and IpsXP gonna open asking who file you want to aply the patch
4- Choose the rom with the same name found "rom info" and thats done

If you wanna run it in real console you must fix the CheckSum after patch to avoid red screen, use this http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/342/

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Originally Posted by Pyron

You didn't need my permission, i made it to that =D

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Thanks. OK, here we go:
Street Fighter II SCE Color Hack (fixed version): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0c...it?usp=sharing

Sample screenshots (raw):
Ryu's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/IDrWQEh.png http://i.imgur.com/yCUOfrV.png http://i.imgur.com/XjY49lM.png

Guile's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/BioTe2v.png http://i.imgur.com/Z5BImq3.png http://i.imgur.com/RDjnUSD.png

Dhalsim's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/okyBb19.png http://i.imgur.com/EayjqzC.png http://i.imgur.com/tTWu6c9.png

Vega's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/2a9depM.png http://i.imgur.com/uIGgcHp.png http://i.imgur.com/EcxGnU7.png

Balrog's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/fqo1I1v.png http://i.imgur.com/44AH0eq.png http://i.imgur.com/SwrDtpB.png

Chun Li's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/eoEKxzs.png http://i.imgur.com/2U0tlsQ.png http://i.imgur.com/0Uob7WA.png

Sagat's Stage
|-----------------------Arcade-----------------------| |-------------MD Hack------------| |------------MD Original-----------|
http://i.imgur.com/IbNHi0L.png http://i.imgur.com/o2QnlGu.png http://i.imgur.com/K7SYnZZ.png

Pyron, awesome job! Back in May Black_Tiger posted some pixel art that highlighted the poor use of color in the Final Fight CD version and how the colors could have been optimized in spite of the fact that the color palette was "limited. The post can be found here:
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...-enough/page9&

I'm quite glad that you've taken up the mantle and begun making color hacks of various games.

From what I can see of the images, this is my opinon:

The color enhancements of Final Fight CD do improve the overall look of the game.

In terms of Golden Axe, I think the Mega Drive version looks ALOT better than the arcade version. In my opinion, the arcade version has a washed out, bland look. Joe mentioned how the eagle's eyeball is still brown. When I first played this game and reached stage 4, I didn't like the fact that the eagle had no animated charactertics. Just before you reach the eagle's head, you fight a series of skeletons. SEGA tried to convey movement by having feathers blow past you but they should have also used some parallax scrolling for the background. Your essentially riding on the back of an eagle which is taking you to your next destination! Anyways, SEGA should have added more life to the eagle by coloring it's eyeball a destinct color. It would have also been nice if it was animated and tracked your every moment as you hopped off it's back and continued on towards your journey ... Speaking of which, In stage 3, you are also walking on the back of a turtle: Why didn't they color the eye of the turtle a different color and also make it animated? Anyways ...

MD Outrun: The bright new colors in looks great! I always hated the color choice for the sky! I like your rendition alot and in my humble opinion it looks alot better than the arcade version!

Street Fighter 2: I like all the color enhancements except for Guile's stage. Back in the day, I always hated the dithered background that Capcom used. I always felt that they could have done a better job designing that stage. In fact, everyone knew that the console ports were never going to be an exact 1 to 1 version of the original arcade game. Capcom should have actually played to the strengths of each console and created backgrounds that were entirely original.

Midnight Resistance: I have mixed feelings about the changes. But not bad overall. Mainly it's because I have a gripe with Data East and how their stage/background designs tended to be quite blocky. But that is something that you really can't change. Midnight Resistance is a fantastic game but the stages are quite ugly. I like the fact that you kept the original color of the sky instead of changing it to aqua marine found in the original.

One last thing: I took a gander at your Youtube channel and your material is quite good! Amen to close captions even though Google needs to improve on the technology! Keep up the good work!

EDIT: I just noticed that Barone posted new screens of SF2 color hacks! They look great!

This is awesome that someone is going to such efforts to enhance such classic Genesis games. If I play these patched versions, I'll record my feedback. Not sure if I will though. I am slightly "color-deficient" and it seems I can barely even see the differences in some of these screenshots. lol

Also, for the games that I'm familiar with (SOR, FFCD, SF2:CE): I always thought their colors looked awesome already lol. I do like the idea of making them slightly more arcade accurate though.

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Pyron, awesome job! Back in May Black_Tiger posted some pixel art that highlighted the poor use of color in the Final Fight CD version and how the colors could have been optimized in spite of the fact that the color palette was "limited. The post can be found here:
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...-enough/page9&

I'm quite glad that you've taken up the mantle and begun making color hacks of various games.

From what I can see of the images, this is my opinon:

The color enhancements of Final Fight CD do improve the overall look of the game.

In terms of Golden Axe, I think the Mega Drive version looks ALOT better than the arcade version. In my opinion, the arcade version has a washed out, bland look. Joe mentioned how the eagle's eyeball is still brown. When I first played this game and reached stage 4, I didn't like the fact that the eagle had no animated charactertics. Just before you reach the eagle's head, you fight a series of skeletons. SEGA tried to convey movement by having feathers blow past you but they should have also used some parallax scrolling for the background. Your essentially riding on the back of an eagle which is taking you to your next destination! Anyways, SEGA should have added more life to the eagle by coloring it's eyeball a destinct color. It would have also been nice if it was animated and tracked your every moment as you hopped off it's back and continued on towards your journey ... Speaking of which, In stage 3, you are also walking on the back of a turtle: Why didn't they color the eye of the turtle a different color and also make it animated? Anyways ...

MD Outrun: The bright new colors in looks great! I always hated the color choice for the sky! I like your rendition alot and in my humble opinion it looks alot better than the arcade version!

Street Fighter 2: I like all the color enhancements except for Guile's stage. Back in the day, I always hated the dithered background that Capcom used. I always felt that they could have done a better job designing that stage. In fact, everyone knew that the console ports were never going to be an exact 1 to 1 version of the original arcade game. Capcom should have actually played to the strengths of each console and created backgrounds that were entirely original.

Midnight Resistance: I have mixed feelings about the changes. But not bad overall. Mainly it's because I have a gripe with Data East and how their stage/background designs tended to be quite blocky. But that is something that you really can't change. Midnight Resistance is a fantastic game but the stages are quite ugly. I like the fact that you kept the original color of the sky instead of changing it to aqua marine found in the original.

One last thing: I took a gander at your Youtube channel and your material is quite good! Amen to close captions even though Google needs to improve on the technology! Keep up the good work!

EDIT: I just noticed that Barone posted new screens of SF2 color hacks! They look great!

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Ohh thank you for kind words, i really love these games.

Golden Axe is an excellent port from arcade i played it like a hell in original arcades and lot more in my home, but the enemy's colors always piss me off... Mainly the Amazons and dragons ...
I will post pictures and other preliminary showing palette of enemies ..
http://i.imgur.com/EZ8Khgc.png
http://i.imgur.com/1DGlDzd.png

About my youtube channel it is very small but I try to do something with passion ..
I have some videos with embedded subtitles I made for some friends, if you want to watch I'll leave the links here below, and thanks again for your generous feedback!

[videos]
Knights of the round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIo9...qdsxWow5x2C_jw

Zero Wing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVUu...qdsxWow5x2C_jw

Ripple Dot Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65gG...qdsxWow5x2C_jw

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Originally Posted by Barone

http://i.imgur.com/XjY49lM.png

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Uh, Barone... Is there any particular reason why all your MD screeshots are squished horizontally? Gotta keep the aspect ratio correct.

So wait, if the point is making it closer to the arcade, why is Streets of Rage 2 one of them?

Listening your feedbacks i try improve some things....

but first, i forgot to change the intro, i did it now.. take a look and say to me what you guys think...

Arcade / Original / Hack
http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/3/f/...42_1_3_mid.jpghttp://s17.postimg.org/oqzw6y8r3/Str..._Edition_U.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/Y4hzuvX.png

Much better, now the characters aren't suffering from some serious liver disease.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

Uh, Barone... Is there any particular reason why all your MD screeshots are squished horizontally? Gotta keep the aspect ratio correct.

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They aren't squished, that's the raw resolution. Anything else is stretched.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

Uh, Barone... Is there any particular reason why all your MD screeshots are squished horizontally? Gotta keep the aspect ratio correct.

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All 16-bit ports are based on the initial SNES' port of WW which used 256x224.

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Originally Posted by Pyron

I forgot to change the intro, i did it now.. take a look and say to me what you guys think...

Arcade / Original / Hack
http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/3/f/...42_1_3_mid.jpg

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The Japanese Mega Drive version has the original intro intact! Maybe you can color hack that game too ?


btw: Golden Axe REALLY looks fantastic now! :D

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

The Japanese Mega Drive version has the original intro intact! Maybe you can color hack that game too ?

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Sorry, at the start i thiking on that but a prefer the US version, because this is the version that everyone has and played. I can't work on 2 versions... is alot of job.

Looking at Barone screens i think... vega stage must be improved.. so i made that, please share your feedback

Arcade / Original
http://i.imgur.com/2a9depM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/EcxGnU7.png

Hack v1 / Hack v2
http://i.imgur.com/uIGgcHp.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/WGWYe3m.png

I understand. I thought maybe there was an easy way to "port" your color hack to the Japanese version.

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Looking at Barone screens i think... vega stage must be improved.. so i made that, please share your feedback

Original / Hack v1 / Hack v2
http://i.imgur.com/EcxGnU7.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/uIGgcHp.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/WGWYe3m.png

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While v2 is more accurate I like v1 better for the color difference between both color tones for the floor tiles is more subtle. It is preferrable the two colors go along well with each other over accuracy. A middle ground is the best.


In China /Chun-Li's stage in your hack there is one thing I noticed: the lampignons hanging from the ceiling in the background looked better in the original game.

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

I understand. I thought maybe there was an easy way to "port" your color hack to the Japanese version.

Edit: While v2 is more accurate I like v1 better for the color difference between both color tones is more subtle. It is preferrable the two colors go along well with each other over accuracy. A middle ground is the best.


In China /Chun-Li's stage in your hackthere is one thing I noticed: the lampignons hanging from the ceiling in the background looked better in the original game.

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oK, i will take a look.

Some others stages/chars.
http://i.imgur.com/tTEW5KD.png

Beautiful! Just beautiful! :love:

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Looking at Barone screens i think... vega stage must be improved.. so i made that, please share your feedback

Arcade / Original
http://i.imgur.com/2a9depM.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/EcxGnU7.png

Hack v1 / Hack v2
http://i.imgur.com/uIGgcHp.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/WGWYe3m.png

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I prefer v2, both for being more accurate and bringing more life to that stage. IMO it should be vivid like that since there are lights pointing to the ground. Awesome work.
OTOH, Christuserloeser is valid IMO. Can't we have both versions (I mean, two different IPS files)??? :p

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Some others stages/chars.
http://i.imgur.com/tTEW5KD.png

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Ken's stage was awful in the original version IMO, you managed to give it some dignity.
Honda's is clearly better now IMO.

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Originally Posted by Barone

OTOH, Christuserloeser is valid IMO. Can't we have both versions (I mean, two different IPS files)??? :p

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Nah, upon further inspection I have to admit v2 is better overall. (not that I'd be against having two versions haha)

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Originally Posted by Barone

Ken's stage was awful in the original version IMO, you managed to give it some dignity.
Honda's is clearly better now IMO.

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Yep, these look superb! Absolutely perfect!!! :D

Allow me to do a super happy dance:

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

In China /Chun-Li's stage in your hack there is one thing I noticed: the lampignons hanging from the ceiling in the background looked better in the original game.

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I check it and i found one problem of shading and a fix it, but overall still the same, i really cant do bether job over it..

original / hack
http://i.imgur.com/sX1fSOL.png

Yep, that was what I meant. It's perfect now!

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

They aren't squished, that's the raw resolution. Anything else is stretched.

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That can't be right, the MD's default resolution is quite wide, much wider than the SNES.

If you mean strictly SFII is squished horizontally, then yeah I'll take that.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

That can't be right, the MD's default resolution is quite wide, much wider than the SNES.

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It is, but it also got a 256x224 mode, presumably implemented to help with ports from SMS, NES and PCE (SNES wasn't released in 1988). It doesn't seem to have any other advantage over the MD's 320x224 mode, only disadvantages as far as technical features go from what I remember reading. But yeah, SF2 uses that mode for a multitude of good reasons. Had Capcom used 320x224 it would have required an even larger cartridge for the same game. The game's engine would have needed to be reprogrammed for the different physics on a 320 pixels wide screen area. And each and every sprite and background would have to be redrawn from scratch using the arcade version as a blue print.
All in all it would have made it a better port, no doubt about that. At the same time it would not have made any sense whatsoever from Capcom's point of view. 24 Mbit already was much larger and more expansive to produce than any other game available at the time.

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Originally Posted by Pyron

Original / Hack
http://s17.postimg.org/oqzw6y8r3/Str..._Edition_U.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/Y4hzuvX.png

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The changes to the guy on the left totally work and look great! but the changes to the guy on the right make his eye look evil as they used part of his skin tone for his eye I guess. The brighter yellow for his blond hair looks good though.