Experiments in Videogame Audio, Series II: Streets of Rage Remake (1/16)

Wanted to take some time out to highlight Bomberlink's awesome fan project, Streets of Rage Remake. Having fond memories of Streets of Rage 3 especially, I was really enthused upon finding this back in 2007. SORR is everything a fan project should be: captures the spirit of the original while improving upon it.

My favorite aspect of SORR is how moddable it is, allowing fellow fans to take part in shaping their own subjective experience of the game. You can convert your favorite music files to OGG Vorbis format and insert them into the game, and there are a number of graphics mods available; the footage in this playlist was taken with Order66's Blaze graphics mod and a Streets of Rage 3-style Shiva mod in place. Version 5 is supposed to up the ante with a Streets of Rage Maker, like a level editor. Depending on how far it takes the modability of the game, Version 5 might even rival OpenBOR as a scrolling fighter creation engine.

Check out http://www.bombergames.net/ for more info and to download this fantastic example of fanwork.

Recording this would have been murder without unlocking the stage select option with the cheat code SORRGAME4 at the title screen (just enter it with the keyboard when the BomberGames logo starts), so thanks to the Bombergames forumers for revealing that.

As expected with an FW video series, I've selected some choice custom tracks from various artists I thought appropriate for each scene. In this video:

00:00 ~ 05:21: John Kelley, "A Night in the Park." A Night in the Park album.

05:22 ~ 08:19: Kava, "The Gambler." The Empty Hall Sessions album.

08:20 ~ 09:35: Nobuo Uematsu, "Battle in the Forgotten City." Advent Children OST.

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• Rage
• Remake
• Blaze
• Shiva
• Bomberlink
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• music

[FaustWolf]

You have several options for this sort of thing. Directly modding a Genesis ROM would probably be the hardest due to all the obscure file formats that would likely be involved; I'd recommend building the game in SORRMaker (once that's completed, it's supposed to debut with SORRemake version 5). In the meantime, there's also the Beats of Rage game engine.

[abonawal2009]

oh blaze with her old custome at sor 1.

[Dj4354]

@FaustWolf yo this lookin good cant wait for it to be finished

[syxodude91]

is there any possible way to make a streets of rage 2 game but put characters you want in the game like ryu or kyo or anyone you want?