Hacks & Homebrews: Streets of Rage Remake

[N FUL FX]

The game itself is unbelievable because it has a song or band (or whatever the hell Prodigy is) you like?

Yes. That's exactly it. :eye roll: Sheesh. Care to make any more brash conclusions?

It's the icing on the cake. Like I said before, it's the little things.

Anyway I didn't play SOR1 very much, but I played using Adam last night. Is it just me or is his directed special move extremely weak? I don't remember if SOR1 had special moves. I jumped on the SOR wagon when I got SOR2 from Woolworths for $12. (LOL when was the last time you heard that store?)

[Melf]

I'm going to merge this thread with the one for the article on it. No sense in having two threads on the same topic.

[djtwok]

The Soundtrack is available for download here:
Part1
http://rapidshare.com/files/10121156...Part2.zip.html

[GeckoYamori]

Ugh, I go to stage 8 on mania without wasting a continue and the damn thing crashed.

[N FUL FX]

So far only 8 people downloaded from my site. Looks like they might have fixed that server issue they were having.

[David J.]

Yes. That's exactly it. :eye roll: Sheesh. Care to make any more brash conclusions?

It's the icing on the cake. Like I said before, it's the little things.

Anyway I didn't play SOR1 very much, but I played using Adam last night. Is it just me or is his directed special move extremely weak? I don't remember if SOR1 had special moves. I jumped on the SOR wagon when I got SOR2 from Woolworths for $12. (LOL when was the last time you heard that store?)

Well, various people in my area claim that Woolworths was founded in my city. However (according to wikipedia)... the first store was opened in Utica, New York in 1879. The claim is made because Woolworth, employed as a clerk in Moore's Store, set up a successful clearance display of low-priced items, which led to his idea of a store specializing in fixed-price cut-rate merchandise.

Oh yeah, and my city is where the Little Trees, aka, Car-Fresheners came from.

[Rusty Venture]

The Soundtrack is available for download here:
Part1
http://rapidshare.com/files/10121156...Part2.zip.html

That part 1 link is an utter joke. 66 Meg file on a cable connection does not take over an hour to download.

I'm downloading Part 2 now (and its doing much much better).

[Wesker]

I have been playing it since day 1, and it is truly an awesome work.

The redesign of stages is noticeably and looks great. The branching paths is also a good thing in terms of replayability.

I love the extras. The game is full of them, like the additional playing modes, artworks (excellent job here), customization feature, or theathre mode.

And the music. This is one of the best features. Those remixes are very good, specially some like the robot factory stage, the boss music, or the final boss tune (I LOVE this one). There also some new tunes which are pretty good, like the one in the beginning of the Stage 2. Too bad these new tunes are few.

The mayor complain I have, is the absence of using the superior SOR3 playability style. I mean, except the running feature, the rest is SOR2-style.

It lacks the 6-button disposition of SOR3, so you have to use the hold B and press B+C ways to perform the techniques you can do by simply pressing Y and Z.

The upgrade system of SOR3 is also no more. Nor even perfoming those techniques with the X button. It has the consequence of lacking cool attacks like the SOR3 rotating and uppercut of Axel.

Although the running feature has been enhanced with the possibility of running into vertical directions while going straight, you can't perfom specific running attacks with the weapons. The character simply does its typical -> -> B attack (like the Axel's "grand upper") no matter what weapon you have.

Anyway, my personal congrats to the Bombergames team. I have been following their progress about 3 years now, and it was worthy enough. It is a great game that successfully recaptures the essence of the series and becomes into what a classic SOR game truly is.

By the way, I have made a SORR thread on the SEGA of America's boards, but it seems the people over there have shown little interest on it. Shame.

[ary incorparated]

Any chance of this seeing a full console release as other homebrew games have? Would be nice to be able to play this on the Sega CD, especially if it could include three- or four-player support.

would it be possible?, maybe im to gushed but i think the sega cd can do it maybe a tad weaker but i think it can do it with the transparencies in the windows and the effect one thing i surely know that its going to push the system very hard.the game is pretty nice i love the multiple routes but they dont seem to work?.

[kevinski]

I honestly wasn't expecting much from this, so I must say that I was absolutely blown away by the quality of this game. I'm playing it using my Logitech RumblePad 2, and it plays beautifully. The branching paths are certainly a welcome addition, as are the enhanced graphics.

Regarding the lack of SoR3 features, however, I couldn't care less. I never really cared much for SoR3, and SoR2 is widely considered to be the best game in the series. Sure, the run feature is nice, but I'm actually glad that the overall gameplay feel is most similar to that of SoR2.

Oh, and I love the fact that the sound effects are so true to the Genesis originals. I'm curious, though…aren't some of the sound effects from Beyond Oasis (another Genesis game)? I'm referring to some of the enemy death yells, although I'm sure that other sound effects in this game could be from other sources. In either case, wonderful choices are far as audio is concerned.

I'm a tad bit disappointed in the character graphics, though. They look like nothing more than Genesis sprites when played through emulators that smooth the graphics, causing them to look more like vectors. Redrawn sprites would've been nice. Still, I suppose that it's faithful to the originals, for the most part, so it's all good.

[ary incorparated]

talking about sound track iv got some for you .BTW im not so fond anymore with gh.ffshrine.org as for many cartridge console game tracks the just use vgm or gym dumps,comix zone sounded terrible cause it came from emu.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/full-met...leste-mp3.html

http://www.zshare.net/audio/for-the-...leste-mp3.html

[GeckoYamori]

I didn't have time to finish all of my work for the release, and I had to reinstall Windows last month so I couldn't load my source files properly as I had to set up all my stuff again. The syndicate HQ was to have a brand new version but instead got an old one from VGMix. I've started working on the other one again and made sure it suits the game a lot better:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/the-last-soul-mp3.html

[Rusty Venture]

Snap! influenced track, very nice.

I always liked "The Last Soul", and I was ecstatic when it showed up in SOR2 & 3.

[Wesker]

Regarding the lack of SoR3 features, however, I couldn't care less. I never really cared much for SoR3, and SoR2 is widely considered to be the best game in the series. Sure, the run feature is nice, but I'm actually glad that the overall gameplay feel is most similar to that of SoR2.

The fact is that it's a step backwards having the SOR2 mechanics when you can have the more complete SOR3 ones. I'm not talking about other aspects like levels, enemies, bosses, general designs or something like that here. I'm just saying that the characters controls, undoubtely, are better in SOR3, as I detailed before.

Oh, and I love the fact that the sound effects are so true to the Genesis originals. I'm curious, though…aren't some of the sound effects from Beyond Oasis (another Genesis game)? I'm referring to some of the enemy death yells, although I'm sure that other sound effects in this game could be from other sources. In either case, wonderful choices are far as audio is concerned.

No. It's on the contrary. It was The Story of Thor the one who borrowed those sound effects from the Streets of Rage games and even The Revenge of Shinobi. It was due to Yuzo Koshiro's involvement in the music and sounds of this game, just like it was in the other mentioned games.

[Joe Redifer]

The same death yell can be heard in Sword of Vermilion, which Koshiro had no involvement in. It's a stock sound effect that has been used in other games as well.