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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: PyroMenace on Thursday, August 30, 2007, 01:34:01 AM
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Thats right, Streets of Rage 2. The genre, as simple as it is, doesnt get much more perfected than this. I couldn't count on my fingers the number of times I beat it, and I always loved the music.
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Sweet! Might convince me to get an Xbox and get XBLive! Then again I do have the ROM (as well the old cartridge) and an emulator.
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Yeah, I have that too. I had the real cart at one point. The music was outstanding for the 16-bit era, especially before the SNES. (The Genesis/Megadrive had way inferior sound hardware.) The game mechanics are spot on too. I liked very few scrolling brawlers, and this was one of them. I hope it gets appreciated all over again.
Edit: Oh, man. Perfect port. I realize it's being emulated, but still. The sound is just right. The graphics are nicely filtered into the higher res. It plays exactly as I remember it. I breezed through that 1st stage with Blaze. This is SoR 2, though, not the original. I liked it even better because it expands on the original. I do miss the arrangement of the boss theme from the first game, though. That was the best.
Edit 2: . . . but Pyro said it was SoR 2. My mistake.
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I have Streets of Rage 2 on my Genesis -- that game kicked ass.
And Skate ruled.
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I know I have that boss tune somewhere, in Genesis-native form, but I just can't find it. I got a bug up my butt about it, and searched until I found this page with the soundtrack in MP3 form (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/1679). The tune is the 4th one, Attack of the Barbarian. Just picture taking on a 16-bit 2D boss with that in the background. It really worked back then. The SoR-2 soundtrack is on that site as well.
Edit: Yuzo Koshiro got a bit of a disservice here in that the MP3 was recorded at too high a level, so the Genny waveforms, never all that pure to begin with, are clipped. Still, it's awesome.
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I've been playing so many brawlers lately, this is great. I thought I remembered the track you linked to until I downloaded it, Cobra. It wasn't the one I was thinking of, and I didn't even recognize it until about halfway in... then it all came back to me! Heh, awesome. I really need to break out an emu now.
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It certainly brought back good memories, from a very happy time in my life. It turns out that site also has the Genesis-native soundtrack (http://gh.ffshrine.org/egm/2/231). I couldn't remember that they were GYM files. With that info, maybe now I can find my collection, probably in some archive in an obscure directory.