SoR2 Hack I Made

[thegreatcodini]

I've been working on this hack for a while now, I call it the Killer Edition. This hack makes the game a lot harder than the Mania difficulty. Enemies do like 4x damage and have rapidfire attacks, hence the name Killer. This hack is obviously for expert players who've beaten Mania.

One thing I never liked about SoR2 was that all the enemies, other than maybe Abadede, did crappy damage. Even on Mania all the enemies still do crappy damage. I also think the player characters are somewhat overpowered, especially Skate. Axel and Blaze are more or less okay, Max is a bit overpowered, and Skate is still way too strong for a supposed weak character. All this made the game easy, so I thought I'd make a hack with overpowered enemies as well. That should balance it out some.

The hack isn't complete yet. So far all enemies and bosses, other than the robots, are now overpowered just like the player characters. I'm still working on toning down the players attack strength some. Other things like projectile and throw damage also need adjusting. They actually seem to be coded differently than the other attacks. I'll also be making an easier version of this hack without rapidfire and also a balanced version where players and enemies are neither overpowered nor underpowered.

You can download the hack here.
Alternate download

You'll need an IPS patcher and the Streets of Rage 2 (U) [!].bin rom to play the hack. The hack is playable in all regions even though you're patching the US rom. Remember to backup your rom before patching it.

[cabo-hicks]

oh man i CANT download it

please, cant you upload again to another site like filefactory as example? thanks.

i want play it because i love play in hard in those games i already finished and also love...

by the way, thanks for make it

EDIT: finally i can download it , in firefox dont works, but yes in explorer ¿?¿?¿?. so guys/girls, is this happens again to you, these are the solution!.

[Iceweb38]

Sounds like your hack make SOR2 up to the difficulty of SOR3.
I don't know if I'll can get the motivation to try such a hard mode.
Still, SOR hacks are not really common so yours is still welcome .
You wouldn't happen to be able to alter the palettes of teh characters in all the three games, would you?

[thegreatcodini]

Thanks for the feedback.

I've uploaded the patch to another host here.

The hack is probably harder than SoR3. I will probably make it a little easier by adding a few continues in the next version. The palette data I have not looked for yet, but I could probably find it. I've actually been wanting to put Blaze in purple and Axel with a yellow shirt but still with blue pants.

[cabo-hicks]

first i dont see that you are new here... so be welcome

i try your hack and i like all the ideas you have, sounds good and not are very common have sor hacks so is cool. i remember a cool save state/pro action replay code that makes shiva have more life bars during the game and was cool and funny.

the only thing i think are too strong is these rapid attack, but like you say, you can do some difrent versions with/without these thing as desire of the player .


pd:
after try your sor2 hack, and because i make right now, one BIG recopilation of pro action replay cheats found by myself for be posting in the forum, i have for you one idea/suggestion...


let me explain it...

some years ago, i found one arcade game. but not one normal arcade game.

the game are the "sonic 3 genesis game" hacked for be played in arcades.

first, the game are limitated to can be only played if you insert one coin (of course), and more important: you only have 2 minutes!!.

when time reaches 2 minutes starting from zero, you earned a "time over" and lose 1 of the 3 lives.
so you are limitated TO PLAY HARD, and use several cheats like got these 3 lives that exist in 1st stage, for die and repeat the process (4 or 5 times) for earn some extra lives before continue your way to try finish the game.

and you have to run fast always, for find the lampost to ensure you can continue from there when you run out of time.

even you have free continues! (if you earned it during bonus as in the original genesis game).


but i remenber perfectly that the end are the more hard thing in the whole game, because you only have rest from 1 to 3 seconds left, after defeat the boss (if you can do it). even you have to attack him when go down with the spikes up (you have to attack him with flash 2nd jump of sonic) so you must attack in the exactly moment.


i try make this by codes thousand of times, but like pro action replay codes make the things infinite is impossible, and i dont have one alternate code for make this with game genie for example.

so my question is... can you make one patch for s3 and also for s3&knuckles games roms, for have 2 minutes only of maximun time (or maybe make start the time always from 8 minutes) ?

this can be very cool, and in here are several sonic fans, like sor fans.


can be very cool if you can, (and of course, if you like the idea)...

some aditional info:
apart, these rom never comes to mame32 emulator.

i play it several times years ago, and is very cool for a sonic fan like myself, can pass these very hard version for say: hey im a god, YES i do it! , because believe me that are a really challenge, but not impossible.

note:
i see 2 more genesis pirate games in arcades: aladdin and jurassic park. the first has come to mame32 not too much time ago, but these 2, the jurassic park and the sonic 3 pirated games, are really RARE that never comes to mame until now....

sorry my bad english


final pd:
you can even include continues? cool!, well maybe a good idea can be another "special version" with inf or 99 credits, like arcade games, for can play to the end and with one friend without run out or credits and have to select stage.

or even you can do that the hack have included the level select cheat already on? i think can be a good idea

[JoyJoyfulRabbit]

Omg!! That my fav one... that person, niciesa from YouTube, posted videos of killer too before you

Edited:
Ouch!!!

[thegreatcodini]

The other videos where he's going through the levels seem to be from an old patch where enemy strength wasn’t increased yet.

so my question is... can you make one patch for s3 and also for s3&knuckles games roms, for have 2 minutes only of maximun time (or maybe make start the time always from 8 minutes) ?

That’s a good idea for the Sonic games. I always thought 10 minutes was too much. While a lot of the levels are longer in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, 10 minutes still seems a bit too much. I’d say maybe 3 to 5 minutes might be good. I’ll see what I can do.

you can even include continues? cool!, well maybe a good idea can be another "special version" with inf or 99 credits, like arcade games, for can play to the end and with one friend without run out or credits and have to select stage.

Yep, I can include extra continues too. In the first patch I actually had like 5 continues added but I thought it made the game easy because I hadn’t yet increased the enemy strength. Now with the enemies doing like 4x damage it’s harder to survive. I’ll add the extra continues in the next patch.