Top 5 must-have Sega Megadrive rom hacks: 5. Streets of Rage II - Sketch Turner hack. The only character that is both professionally done, and fits right in. 4. Golden Axe color enhancement - now matches arcade's. Changes the atmosphere of the game dramatically. 3. Castlevania Bloodlines color enhancement - removes green tint, improves detail. An absolute must have. 2. Shadow of the Beast-1 color enhancement - matches Amiga version near perfectly. A visual masterpiece. 1. Splatterhouse 2 color enhancement + SH1 scheme, enhanced detail & Rick from the first part! This one is the King of ALL Megadrive hacks! What it does to the game is simply insane. Honorable mentions: Shadow of the Beast II, Golden Axe II, Kid Chameleon.
@Digital Rain the PS classic is hackable now then? And can you do something to increase the size of its hard drive like add an SD card somehow? Because if so I'm definitely getting one, and putting at least 100 games on it. That should last me a while. I'll wait a bit for the mega drive mini until they learn to hack it. Should he a week or two
@@duffman18 Yeah, you can load it up with more PS1 and other systems. You use an OTG adapter to connect a flash drive to it. I use a 256 GB flash drive.
@@R1SKbreaker I gotta figure out how to do that for my Nes or Snes Classic systems so I can get more space on each system and see which systems and games actually run well on retroarch or whatever works. Hyperspin looked like a nice GUI but seems not many people choose that over Retroarch
@@duffman18 I reccomend watching my friend MTShark7.. He shows the best way how to hack the ps Classic. I have 394 games on a flash drive and doesn't mess up the original hardware.
I love those color hacks. Just goes to show how well things can turn out when someone has experience working with limited color palettes. So many Genesis games didn't have to be ugly! Looking forward to more of these videos.
I so agree with you. Bad color turned me off of trying so many games back in the day, but if you look at the coloring in games like T.A.O.B.A.R, ToeJam/Earl2, of coarse the Sonic games...I even want to say Pulseman..they had great use of color. Wish developers would have been kinder with the their use of color back then.
There is a tool for SoR2 that lets you change sprites and hitboxes for the playable characters. That tool let people easily make high quality new character hacks.
I was thinking the exact same thing! Funny to look down and see this comment. That turkey may belong in Streets of Rage, but it looked out of place with Donatello.
Dang you Sega Lord X. I've spent years not caring about hacks and homebrews, and now I've spent all morning learning more. And now I'm obsessed with things like whether or not the 'Get Ready!' sample in Spacer Harrier II used the Outrun version or arcade Space Harrier version. Further down the rabbit hole I go...
Man, what an amazing episode. I really LOVE ROM hacks and translations, so this is one of my favorite videos of yours so far. At the end of the video, you showed the page of the Final Fight CD Color Hack by Pyron on Romhacking.net, and that is an amazing hack that makes the game look as close to the arcade as you can get with the palette on the Genesis/Sega CD. Some of these hacks are so good that I really never played the original games again. Every color hack by Pyron is almost obligatory. There is, also, an Ultimate MK 3 patch that brings the game really close to the arcade, with more stages, characters, intros, etc. You should really do more videos on the subject since there are a lot -A LOT- more incredible hacks out there. Great work.
i am also a BIG fan of Rom Hacks as well as Translation Patches, getting to play games that i never could before or playing classic games in a whole new way is super appealing to me.
@@UltimateGamerCC Yeah, man. And then there are the corrections to badly translated games and the fixes that return games to their original design (like the various Streets of Rage 3 back to Bare Knuckle III hacks). Rom hacking is an incredible world to dive into.
3:20 I wish there were more golf games with a crazy futuristic mecha story. This reminds me of the Hot Shots Golf 3 cutscene where they reveal the pensioners
There is a lot more ! Like having the story from Dynamite Headdy. Playing those Visual Novel from Phantasy Star II. Playing an unknown full polygonal 3D J-RPG called Star Cruiser (the X68k version has been translated too though) More controversial : Playing Monster World IV on Genesis BEFORE it was actually translated by Sega himself. Those translations are gold.
Great episode. Doing a fantastic job giving them the proper recognition they deserve. Discovered some new ones here in your video. Especially the Bare Knuckle and colour hacks.
I also like better the Bare Knucle 3 english translation. Is quite fair and very enjoyable. What they were thinking in making SOR3 so difficult and even worse, changing color palettes to Axel and Blaze. No wonder I hated it when I played the first time. As for Castlevania Bloodlines, I also like way better the color enhancement. Except the background on the first section of Stage 2. The sun looks and overall background looks bit pale compared to the original.
They did that to artificially extend rental times, a common practice at the time (dirty one, though). It is the same reasoning behind Battletoads legendary (if infamous) difficulty. As for the stupid colors, well... my take on it is that in Axel's case, they wanted to pay a misguided homage to Adam (the palette matches his), but the result turned so amateurish that it looks like a 10 minute palette hack made by a 12 year old. For Blaze's colors... your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they wanted to cater to the female public by giving her a more neutral color? I don't understand american "sensbilities" sometimes.
there is a Contra Hard Corps hack worth mentioning. it's called "Hit Points Restoration Hack", and [apparently] it brings back the health bar, along with native cheat codes, making it pretty much like OG JPN release (EDIT: corrected the abbreviation)
yes this is is the best hack to me, cause the american hard corps is broken it's way too hard. this hit points restoration saves it. makes it better than Contra 3
I just applied 6 or 7 patches just the other day (even managed to try and see if they worked), but, alas, here are more. But honestly though, I'm grateful for all the excellent suggestions.
Nice, I didn't know about a few of these, will def take a look ;) A great colour hack/graphics hack is for Splatterhouse 2, it gives you the proper mask and puts the colour scheme back in line with Splatterhouse 1 on the Arcade =)
I'd love to see a Streets of Rage/Fatal Fury crossover hack. How cool would it be if you could be Terry Bogard and perform Burn Knuckles on some thugs?
A cool idea. Perhaps sprites could be lifted from Fatal Fury 2, but I think they'd need to be redrawn as to not clash too heavily with SOR style and dimensions. That said, I'd rather see this as a fangame made in OpenBOR or something of the sort instead of a Mega Drive hack, as it would be too limiting.
"Warsong" had an awful name and generic boxart, making it an easily overlooked game, but it was excellent. The game would have performed better as Langrisser, with its original artwork on the cover. I highly recommend Langrisser II to Genesis fans. Were it released in America, it would be a top 5 Genesis game.
Thanks for the informative video! Some of my favorite hacks include the TMNT Hyperstone Heist color hack and restoring the HP system in Contra Hard Corps as well as easing the difficulty in The Adventures of Batman and Robin and Comix Zone
It's also worth checking out the Unworked Designs patches for games like Popful Mail and Lunar on the Sega CD, which restore the Japanese difficulty levels (they do leave WD's idiosyncratic English translations intact). Fantastic video as per usual!
great video, tx for the opening montage of games, i love those color hacks, seems more original than original, more like the arcade counterparts, sunset riders, ninja turtles, out run and suepr hang on, all of it ill apply, i love the bare knuckle and the mk2 ulimited too, but mk2 alters the gameplay i guess
My favorite translation is Policenauts on Sega saturn. There is a ton of dialogue but the most impressive thing is that the translators were able to keep the subtle humor in the dialogue.
This is a great topic. I've seen SNES Drunk do similar videos before. I'm glad to see you cover the Sega side. I like the topic because I usually learn at least one or two things that I find interesting. I know of many of the hacks, but there are always a few that I'm happy to hear about for the first time. Here, I was unaware of the Mortal Kombat hack, and it seems quite impressive. Probe stripped out so many of the details that gave the first two MK games their atmosphere that I ended up disappointed. Some of those changes made the games feel unfinished. For example, I don't believe there's a sound effect for when the stage goes dark on fatalities and it's just the music that keeps playing. And the fatalities themselves lacked sound effects. I was impressed when I rented MK3 on the system and saw that they finally got a lot of the speech in. Those color hacks are great. One of the better ones I've seen is for Captain America. Fun video. Great work.
For ssf2 , linkuei BR is making an instrument hack which makes the game (which sounds very sega master system-ish with the big use of PSG) sound CPS1 that’s incredible, check out his channel on TH-cam and look for his demo of the instrument hack , it’s not finished at the time I write this , but soon it will be available to the public. Tryphon made an unofficial SHINOBI ARCADE 1987 port for the megadrive which is nearly complete , missing some things but a demo is available on Linkuei BR's channel too in Shinobi MD Demo 3 by tryphon! Go check it out!
Wow awesome video ,never new these hacks existed, I always felt that the sound for street fighter for genesis had been dumbed down, probably at the request of nintendo or just capcom being lazy , and those streets of rage hacks are awesome, great video! !
I agree that the BK3 hack is one a fan of the franchise can't do without. What a disservice SOA did to fans back then... The Street Fighter sound driver rewrites are also neat, since it helps keeping the SNES fanboys quiet regarding the MD's sound quality. At the end of the day it's just as you say: Capcom would often dedicate less resources to ports of its games on the Sega console; likely due to pressure from Nintendo among other things, in my opinion,
Mo Go golden axe has only color enhancements while altered beast also has voice enhancements,, i absolutely could never know that the genesis could do sooo much more out of just a limited colorpallet and soundchip,am really stun about this.
"Check out how good the wide variety of updated sound samples are in SF2!" *cue 2 minutes of "Hadouken! Hadouken! Hadouken! Hadouken!" Haha, I kid. Great stuff! You do quality stuff, and I'll definitely be watching more.
@@SegaLordX And some very crisp "Hadouken"s at that! Awesome vid. I never knew these kinds of arcade-style enhancement hacks existed, so thanks for shedding some light on those!
"Turtles of Rage" looks awesome although it seems "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of Rage Remix" is the more definitive version as it makes some very welcome changes to the original.
Great video, love the commentary. Especially when you call out the haters from back in the day, and point out how wrong a lot of the yapping was. Also, great stuff on your Ryu, those dps are just flying out there - I am guessing you're using the 8bitdo M30 on your MegaSg?? :) Going to throw out there the many, many great hacks of both Adventures of Batman & Robin ("Batvantage") and Rock 'n Roll Racing that have breathed new life into those two favorites of mine. As well as some of the Dragon's Fury hacks for color and such. Great stuff, love my Mega Sg!
Fantastic video mate, really interesting. Such a shame Capcom couldn't be fucked to sort out the quality of the voice samples of Street Fighter 2 back in the day, particularly now we now the system could've handled them. Makes it seem all the more egregious that they then had another opportunity to rectify the issue with Super Street Fighter 2 and still didn't. Grrr. Also, that Megadrive Outrun colour hack makes such a big difference! Why didn't the original developers do that in the first place???
Also, one other thing that would make the Megadrive version of Outrun even better would be if someone could hack some engine sounds into it. The game feels a smidge bare without them.
Purchasing the English translation of Bare Knuckle III redeemed this game for me and filled the missing gap that existed for over twenty years. Any ROM hackers out there who has the ability to replace the game's music data with tracks from SOR 1+2...I'd buy it in a heartbeat. It would finally make SOR 3 THE perfect third installment in the series. C'mon...someone's gotta be able to do it!
Good looking out on SOR3. SOR2 was one of my favourite mega drive games, but SOR3 was really difficult. I could beat SOR2 with ease, but could never beat SOR3 back in the day. Obviously with emulators and stuff, it's easier now but I'll check out the BK3 port.
I have a gorgeous Repro of Gleylancer, dual language depending on the MegaDrive Switch I installed in the back. After trouble getting the official Repro which came out not to long ago,, this one is actually way better.
I've been replaying landstalker 30 years later, its got wonky controls but it might be my default favourite non sonic Sega game. I endorse Mods hacks and clones for it.
The whole sample playback issue on the Genesis is not a myth. Just because more recent homebrew development (which took years) finally were able to obsessively create a streaming driver to over come those issues, doesn't mean it wasn't a real issue (now or back in the day for developers). We know so much more about hardware than devs did BITD. That goes not just the Genesis, but NES, etc too. Even small computer systems. TLDR; sample playback was always an issue on the Genesis. It was never about 'lazy' devs or whatever. It was the hardware.
You need to try Metal Sonic Rebooted, the most amazing hack I’ve ever seen, and a Genesis favorite. It’s an entirely different game from Sonic 2, just incredible.
Great video! I’ve actually been playing and recording a good deal of SOR2 hacks on my channel over the last few months! Some of them are very well made! I recommend you try the Bruce Lee and Arnold Schwarzenegger International heroes hack as well! It’s pretty insane.
Warsong was my favorite Genesis game. Both copies I bought had damaged memory batteries. I had to leave my Genesis on overnight in order to keep playing. Still never got around to beating it :(
I never really got into the hack scene. I am intrigued by Street Fighter II hack that improves the sound. Sound on the Genesis is very hit or miss, even though I know it's not the hardware's fault, and this hack proves that once again.
Metal Sonic Hyperdrive ? ...Which one ? Looks like they have two different releases: one in 2011 & another in 2014. Are you referring to version 2.1.2 or version 4.0 ?
Top 5 must-have Sega Megadrive rom hacks:
5. Streets of Rage II - Sketch Turner hack. The only character that is both professionally done, and fits right in.
4. Golden Axe color enhancement - now matches arcade's. Changes the atmosphere of the game dramatically.
3. Castlevania Bloodlines color enhancement - removes green tint, improves detail. An absolute must have.
2. Shadow of the Beast-1 color enhancement - matches Amiga version near perfectly. A visual masterpiece.
1. Splatterhouse 2 color enhancement + SH1 scheme, enhanced detail & Rick from the first part!
This one is the King of ALL Megadrive hacks! What it does to the game is simply insane.
Honorable mentions: Shadow of the Beast II, Golden Axe II, Kid Chameleon.
Slight correction. Neo Turf Masters isn't simply "another golf game worth playing"... It is the best golf game ever made. :)
You really are the main man of SEGA on TH-cam mate, god bless you :)
Only a few more days until the Genesis Mini. I preordered mine which, in part, triggered my local retro game store owner to order a dozen more.
@Digital Rain the PS classic is hackable now then? And can you do something to increase the size of its hard drive like add an SD card somehow? Because if so I'm definitely getting one, and putting at least 100 games on it. That should last me a while. I'll wait a bit for the mega drive mini until they learn to hack it. Should he a week or two
@@duffman18 Yeah, you can load it up with more PS1 and other systems. You use an OTG adapter to connect a flash drive to it. I use a 256 GB flash drive.
@Digital Rain Dafuq? I got it at retail price around 100 at what amounts to a bargain store in this shitty town in Canadadadadadada.... Fuqq lol
@@R1SKbreaker I gotta figure out how to do that for my Nes or Snes Classic systems so I can get more space on each system and see which systems and games actually run well on retroarch or whatever works. Hyperspin looked like a nice GUI but seems not many people choose that over Retroarch
@@duffman18 I reccomend watching my friend MTShark7.. He shows the best way how to hack the ps Classic. I have 394 games on a flash drive and doesn't mess up the original hardware.
I love those color hacks.
Just goes to show how well things can turn out when someone has experience working with limited color palettes. So many Genesis games didn't have to be ugly!
Looking forward to more of these videos.
I so agree with you.
Bad color turned me off of trying so many games back in the day, but if you look at the coloring in games like T.A.O.B.A.R, ToeJam/Earl2, of coarse the Sonic games...I even want to say Pulseman..they had great use of color.
Wish developers would have been kinder with the their use of color back then.
@@mogo2433 Ah, the Adventures of Batman and Robin. Took me a while to figure out what you meant there, lol.
Yeah, that game was impressive for sure.
Finally. I would love to see you continue this series. There's so many games avail from RomH. it's unbelievable.
Thanks for the video!
Awesome video. They need to make a hack that changes the turkey in that TMNT hack to pizza.
Yeah, I'd like to see a boss from the turtles universe in each stage as well. Maybe in version 2.0
There is a tool for SoR2 that lets you change sprites and hitboxes for the playable characters. That tool let people easily make high quality new character hacks.
@@SegaLordX Sega Genesis or Mega Drive?
@@matheusgamer157 Obviously Sega Lord X is AtGames dude.
I was thinking the exact same thing! Funny to look down and see this comment. That turkey may belong in Streets of Rage, but it looked out of place with Donatello.
Dang you Sega Lord X. I've spent years not caring about hacks and homebrews, and now I've spent all morning learning more. And now I'm obsessed with things like whether or not the 'Get Ready!' sample in Spacer Harrier II used the Outrun version or arcade Space Harrier version. Further down the rabbit hole I go...
Man, what an amazing episode. I really LOVE ROM hacks and translations, so this is one of my favorite videos of yours so far. At the end of the video, you showed the page of the Final Fight CD Color Hack by Pyron on Romhacking.net, and that is an amazing hack that makes the game look as close to the arcade as you can get with the palette on the Genesis/Sega CD. Some of these hacks are so good that I really never played the original games again. Every color hack by Pyron is almost obligatory. There is, also, an Ultimate MK 3 patch that brings the game really close to the arcade, with more stages, characters, intros, etc. You should really do more videos on the subject since there are a lot -A LOT- more incredible hacks out there. Great work.
i am also a BIG fan of Rom Hacks as well as Translation Patches, getting to play games that i never could before or playing classic games in a whole new way is super appealing to me.
@@UltimateGamerCC Yeah, man. And then there are the corrections to badly translated games and the fixes that return games to their original design (like the various Streets of Rage 3 back to Bare Knuckle III hacks). Rom hacking is an incredible world to dive into.
3:20 I wish there were more golf games with a crazy futuristic mecha story. This reminds me of the Hot Shots Golf 3 cutscene where they reveal the pensioners
There is a lot more !
Like having the story from Dynamite Headdy.
Playing those Visual Novel from Phantasy Star II.
Playing an unknown full polygonal 3D J-RPG called Star Cruiser (the X68k version has been translated too though)
More controversial : Playing Monster World IV on Genesis BEFORE it was actually translated by Sega himself.
Those translations are gold.
Great episode.
Doing a fantastic job giving them the proper recognition they deserve.
Discovered some new ones here in your video. Especially the Bare Knuckle and colour hacks.
you've been killin it lately my man! keep it up!
No joke. Got us fans begging for more. Way to go SLX!
You can say that again brother
So glad I found your channel. This is top-tier stuff. The entire channel!
How I hope Segagaga gets translated one day.
This was great! I didn't know about any of these great hacks! I hope you do more vids like this in the future.👍😀
Thank you for this content. I had no idea these existed, now I have a new level of excitement for my Sega Genesis catalog 👍. Keep it up
I also like better the Bare Knucle 3 english translation. Is quite fair and very enjoyable. What they were thinking in making SOR3 so difficult and even worse, changing color palettes to Axel and Blaze. No wonder I hated it when I played the first time. As for Castlevania Bloodlines, I also like way better the color enhancement. Except the background on the first section of Stage 2. The sun looks and overall background looks bit pale compared to the original.
They did that to artificially extend rental times, a common practice at the time (dirty one, though). It is the same reasoning behind Battletoads legendary (if infamous) difficulty.
As for the stupid colors, well... my take on it is that in Axel's case, they wanted to pay a misguided homage to Adam (the palette matches his), but the result turned so amateurish that it looks like a 10 minute palette hack made by a 12 year old.
For Blaze's colors... your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they wanted to cater to the female public by giving her a more neutral color? I don't understand american "sensbilities" sometimes.
there is a Contra Hard Corps hack worth mentioning. it's called "Hit Points Restoration Hack", and [apparently] it brings back the health bar, along with native cheat codes, making it pretty much like OG JPN release
(EDIT: corrected the abbreviation)
Please use the JPN abbreviation, not “Jap”.
its boring, I prefer the American version
It is as you say, it does just that, and honestly, for me, it makes an annoying game into an enjoyable one.
@@BlownMacTruck don't tell people how to speak sjw word police
yes this is is the best hack to me, cause the american hard corps is broken it's way too hard. this hit points restoration saves it. makes it better than Contra 3
Great compilation of hacks and games! Great content yet again! Awesome video SegaLX!
awesome, good shouts to Pyron for the color hacks! Love his work too! xDD
Goonies 2 Revised and Super Pitfall 30th anniversary patches are a must. So much was fixed in both games, it’s amazing.
both work of nesrocks.com who also did improvement hacks for Arknoid and Adventure Islang, great work
Tnx 4 the heads up on Gleylancer i sure enough needed an english upgrade.
You make such great content! Thank you
I just applied 6 or 7 patches just the other day (even managed to try and see if they worked), but, alas, here are more.
But honestly though, I'm grateful for all the excellent suggestions.
Nice, I didn't know about a few of these, will def take a look ;)
A great colour hack/graphics hack is for Splatterhouse 2, it gives you the proper mask and puts the colour scheme back in line with Splatterhouse 1 on the Arcade =)
I'd love to see a Streets of Rage/Fatal Fury crossover hack. How cool would it be if you could be Terry Bogard and perform Burn Knuckles on some thugs?
A cool idea. Perhaps sprites could be lifted from Fatal Fury 2, but I think they'd need to be redrawn as to not clash too heavily with SOR style and dimensions. That said, I'd rather see this as a fangame made in OpenBOR or something of the sort instead of a Mega Drive hack, as it would be too limiting.
Glad someone took the time to create a fully translated version of Rent-A-Hero.
Hope to aquire that ROM soon.
You've been killing it with videos lately. Great content, keep it up!
"Warsong" had an awful name and generic boxart, making it an easily overlooked game, but it was excellent. The game would have performed better as Langrisser, with its original artwork on the cover. I highly recommend Langrisser II to Genesis fans. Were it released in America, it would be a top 5 Genesis game.
Sega Dreams shame the series nowadays is just a skin for a shady Chinese mobile game with hilariously tone deaf English advertising.
Warsong for the Genesis was one of my all time fav... I'll replay though it every few years..
Great video my man. Love the ninja turtles hack for streets of rage 2. Keep up the fantastic videos man.
Thanks for the informative video! Some of my favorite hacks include the TMNT Hyperstone Heist color hack and restoring the HP system in Contra Hard Corps as well as easing the difficulty in The Adventures of Batman and Robin and Comix Zone
Thanks for the tip about Gley Lancer!
Highly suggest a review of Sword of Vermillion.
Great vids, keep 'em coming!
That's one of the best RPG ever made.
Solid recommends, SLX. Thanks for sharing some of your faves here.
It's also worth checking out the Unworked Designs patches for games like Popful Mail and Lunar on the Sega CD, which restore the Japanese difficulty levels (they do leave WD's idiosyncratic English translations intact). Fantastic video as per usual!
Great video! I'll be covering some ROM hacks myself soon and this has whetted my appetite 👍
great video, tx for the opening montage of games, i love those color hacks, seems more original than original, more like the arcade counterparts, sunset riders, ninja turtles, out run and suepr hang on, all of it ill apply, i love the bare knuckle and the mk2 ulimited too, but mk2 alters the gameplay i guess
Thanks for the video. Excellent presentation and your knowledge of Sega is amazing.
I picked up the TMNT hack of SoR2 last summer. It's now my go to way to play SoR2.
My favorite translation is Policenauts on Sega saturn. There is a ton of dialogue but the most impressive thing is that the translators were able to keep the subtle humor in the dialogue.
Awesome game and the people who translated it did indeed do an awesome job.
Excellent episode. I need to explore some of these. Only patches I’ve used is the Turrican fix and the excellent GG2SMS patches.
This is a great topic. I've seen SNES Drunk do similar videos before. I'm glad to see you cover the Sega side. I like the topic because I usually learn at least one or two things that I find interesting. I know of many of the hacks, but there are always a few that I'm happy to hear about for the first time. Here, I was unaware of the Mortal Kombat hack, and it seems quite impressive. Probe stripped out so many of the details that gave the first two MK games their atmosphere that I ended up disappointed. Some of those changes made the games feel unfinished. For example, I don't believe there's a sound effect for when the stage goes dark on fatalities and it's just the music that keeps playing. And the fatalities themselves lacked sound effects. I was impressed when I rented MK3 on the system and saw that they finally got a lot of the speech in.
Those color hacks are great. One of the better ones I've seen is for Captain America. Fun video. Great work.
Can't wait to get my official English physical copy of Gleylancer! Loving the retro-bit releases!
Good stuff man! I can't wait till you do another installment!
For ssf2 , linkuei BR is making an instrument hack which makes the game (which sounds very sega master system-ish with the big use of PSG) sound CPS1 that’s incredible, check out his channel on TH-cam and look for his demo of the instrument hack , it’s not finished at the time I write this , but soon it will be available to the public.
Tryphon made an unofficial SHINOBI ARCADE 1987 port for the megadrive which is nearly complete , missing some things but a demo is available on Linkuei BR's channel too in Shinobi MD Demo 3 by tryphon! Go check it out!
Your character's name in Langrisser II had me cracking up. I remember doing things like that with units in Dark Wizard on the SegaCD
Wow awesome video ,never new these hacks existed, I always felt that the sound for street fighter for genesis had been dumbed down, probably at the request of nintendo or just capcom being lazy , and those streets of rage hacks are awesome, great video! !
I agree that the BK3 hack is one a fan of the franchise can't do without. What a disservice SOA did to fans back then...
The Street Fighter sound driver rewrites are also neat, since it helps keeping the SNES fanboys quiet regarding the MD's sound quality.
At the end of the day it's just as you say: Capcom would often dedicate less resources to ports of its games on the Sega console; likely due to pressure from Nintendo among other things, in my opinion,
Golden axe & altered beast have also undergone amezing hack treatments.
What are they? Color hacks?
Mo Go golden axe has only color enhancements while altered beast also has voice enhancements,, i absolutely could never know that the genesis could do sooo much more out of just a limited colorpallet and soundchip,am really stun about this.
@@johneygd
Agreed!!
"Check out how good the wide variety of updated sound samples are in SF2!" *cue 2 minutes of "Hadouken! Hadouken! Hadouken! Hadouken!"
Haha, I kid. Great stuff! You do quality stuff, and I'll definitely be watching more.
It was more like 30 secs of Hadouken's..... ;p
@@SegaLordX And some very crisp "Hadouken"s at that! Awesome vid. I never knew these kinds of arcade-style enhancement hacks existed, so thanks for shedding some light on those!
Damn!! If only they released THAT MKII on day one!
Immediate thumbs up for Moon Beach in the intro
It's one of my favorites.
Cheers man hadn't heard of many of these.
Great video!
I wish the people who did "MK2 Unlimited" would do the same for the 32X version.
"Turtles of Rage" looks awesome although it seems "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of Rage Remix" is the more definitive version as it makes some very welcome changes to the original.
Great video, love the commentary. Especially when you call out the haters from back in the day, and point out how wrong a lot of the yapping was. Also, great stuff on your Ryu, those dps are just flying out there - I am guessing you're using the 8bitdo M30 on your MegaSg?? :)
Going to throw out there the many, many great hacks of both Adventures of Batman & Robin ("Batvantage") and Rock 'n Roll Racing that have breathed new life into those two favorites of mine. As well as some of the Dragon's Fury hacks for color and such. Great stuff, love my Mega Sg!
Another great retro gaming video - ty.
Realm Chat admit it, you didn't watch the whole video when you commented!
Fantastic video mate, really interesting. Such a shame Capcom couldn't be fucked to sort out the quality of the voice samples of Street Fighter 2 back in the day, particularly now we now the system could've handled them. Makes it seem all the more egregious that they then had another opportunity to rectify the issue with Super Street Fighter 2 and still didn't. Grrr. Also, that Megadrive Outrun colour hack makes such a big difference! Why didn't the original developers do that in the first place???
Also, one other thing that would make the Megadrive version of Outrun even better would be if someone could hack some engine sounds into it. The game feels a smidge bare without them.
Gleylancer! It's criminal that the U.S. never got this amazing horizontal shooter.
Love those games ... takes me bk to sega games high quality cases with booklets .. SEGA for ever
6:11 Huh I didn't know this is what Wargroove (indie title like Warsong made about a year ago) was based off of.
Wargroove was based more on Advance Wars
TMNT of Rage is greatest crossover in beat`em ups history.
I like it a lot myself.
i wanna play it so bad but i dont know how.. :/
@@annexx7728 Sorry I meant i have the emulators to play.. I just dont know to where to get the dang ROM 🤷♂️ lol
@@annexx7728 That's ok, and sure, whenever you have time. Thanks!
@@annexx7728 i got it. thankyou so much sir! You can delete the links now if you like.
Darn. Your intro looks epic.
I like a lot some of these hacks. They made awesome upgrades for various games
Star Cruiser and Psy-O-Blade also received fans translations.
Purchasing the English translation of Bare Knuckle III redeemed this game for me and filled the missing gap that existed for over twenty years.
Any ROM hackers out there who has the ability to replace the game's music data with tracks from SOR 1+2...I'd buy it in a heartbeat. It would finally make SOR 3 THE perfect third installment in the series. C'mon...someone's gotta be able to do it!
I like bloodlines just the way it is.. but many good hacks here.. cheers
Good looking out on SOR3. SOR2 was one of my favourite mega drive games, but SOR3 was really difficult. I could beat SOR2 with ease, but could never beat SOR3 back in the day. Obviously with emulators and stuff, it's easier now but I'll check out the BK3 port.
For your part 2 of this series, Vixen 357 english translation and Monster World 4 english patch (although probably no point once the mini releases).
Thanks for the recommendations. :)
Battle mania 2 has also a very nice English patch
You know what would be an awesome hack? Sonic in Super Mario World and Mario in Sonic The Hedgehog. Somebody HAS to do these!!! :D
I have a gorgeous Repro of Gleylancer, dual language depending on the MegaDrive Switch I installed in the back. After trouble getting the official Repro which came out not to long ago,, this one is actually way better.
Great video lord!!! I'll check out that hacks.
My life would be complete if someone made the duck in Ghouls n Ghosts quack when you hit fire...
I've been replaying landstalker 30 years later, its got wonky controls but it might be my default favourite non sonic Sega game.
I endorse Mods hacks and clones for it.
Niceee, thats why I always check romhacking site, many awesome stuff on there coming almost everydays
Great video
Turtles of Rage is the best genesis hack i think. Itsbeen my go to SOR hack for years!
Translation's missing:
Panorama Cotton
Pulseman
Hack's missing:
Mortal Kombat3Ultimate V0.6(Arcade edition)
Altered Beast color and voice Arcade
Awesome vídeo🖒
Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy? That's an AWESOME HACK!
But not run on everdrive...
hehe those SOR2 hacks are so much fun!!
I would still love an English Fist of the North Star patch for Last Battle from the original Hokuto No Ken for the MD.
Lion King color hack is amazing.
The whole sample playback issue on the Genesis is not a myth. Just because more recent homebrew development (which took years) finally were able to obsessively create a streaming driver to over come those issues, doesn't mean it wasn't a real issue (now or back in the day for developers). We know so much more about hardware than devs did BITD. That goes not just the Genesis, but NES, etc too. Even small computer systems. TLDR; sample playback was always an issue on the Genesis. It was never about 'lazy' devs or whatever. It was the hardware.
You need to try Metal Sonic Rebooted, the most amazing hack I’ve ever seen, and a Genesis favorite. It’s an entirely different game from Sonic 2, just incredible.
I can vouch for it. It was awesome and I have a song from the hack itself as the tracks from other games notably the 32x sounded really good.
Been watching and enjoying these videos for awhile now and I'm curious where the girl saying sega sound clip came from.
I think it's from Astal, on the Saturn, but I may be mistaken.
Mk 2 Unlimited..👍And this video has me curious about the Street Fighters sound upgrade.
I love Phantasy Star 1's translation
Please do another like this one man great video
The new sample voice on SF2 does really sound great, but am I hearing a missing sound channel or two in the background music?
Great video! I’ve actually been playing and recording a good deal of SOR2 hacks on my channel over the last few months! Some of them are very well made! I recommend you try the Bruce Lee and Arnold Schwarzenegger International heroes hack as well! It’s pretty insane.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out.
Warsong was my favorite Genesis game. Both copies I bought had damaged memory batteries. I had to leave my Genesis on overnight in order to keep playing. Still never got around to beating it :(
My Favourit Patch is policeanauts in English for sega saturn, just in time the console got cracked, played the whole thing on Saturn in english
man, how sweet it would be if that final fight SoR hack had Jessica as the 4th character instead of randomly Chun-Li?
I actually like the silence of the fatality in MK2.
I never really got into the hack scene. I am intrigued by Street Fighter II hack that improves the sound. Sound on the Genesis is very hit or miss, even though I know it's not the hardware's fault, and this hack proves that once again.
SEGA LORD X IS GOD !!!
This patch system is awesome !!!
There is also phantasy star 4 in french. Pure beauty version.
Sonic 3 Complete, Metal Sonic Hyperdrive - 2 awesome Sonic hacks
Metal Sonic Hyperdrive ? ...Which one ? Looks like they have two different releases: one in 2011 & another in 2014.
Are you referring to version 2.1.2 or version 4.0 ?
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Metal Sonic Hyperdrive is my favourite Sonic hack :)