Streets of Rage

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YoniArousement is a fan of Doraemon and Arcade games. He has created his own games in Game Maker, M.U.G.E.N and RPG Maker 2003. He produced several Streets of Rage romhacks throughout the years of 2012-2022. He still uses YouTube like he’s living in 2007.

YoniArousement’s flagship romhack is Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen. It’s a combo and fighter replacement ROM Hack of the Sega Genesis version of Super Street Fighter II. It features tweaked move sets, edited sounds, juggles and adds dashes. The project came about when he was tweeting Game Genie codes for the game.

You can follow YoniArousement on YouTube, Twitter, Game Jolt, RHDN, or his personal blog.

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Streets of Rage 2 & 3 ROM Hacks, from someone who used to make a lot of them

Original Post: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/31585

Related Thread: BHDN

July 13, 2025

Hi. Under my previous usernames of Lorenzo The Comic and Candra Software, I used to produce a lot of ROM Hacks of Streets of Rage 2 & 3 over the years starting in 2012, when gsaurus made his ROM Hacking tools. I was once a moderator on the old Streets of Rage Online forums.

Sometime after gsaurus released his Pancake tools, I started using them with little prior experience with ROM Hacking. It was a massive boon for me and a lot of other people who wanted to insert their own characters into SOR 2/3. Pancakes is really user friendly, as you can edit the animations and hitboxes with ease, and it generates the tile layouts for you without needing to manually define the tile maps. It’s part of the reason why so many SOR2&3 ROM Hacks were made. Pancakes was the tool that got me further interested in ROM Hacking.

Later on in 2012, gsaurus released his Mega Drive Voice Editor tool that can replace PCM samples. gsaurus had shown previews of Streets of Rage 2: Syndicate Wars, a ROM Hack that Red Crimson and he has been working on where you get to play as all the enemies and bosses (barring Vehelits, as gsaurus later decided that it would make no sense playing as a floating head). All the enemies and bosses’ graphics were converted from compressed to uncompressed, so their graphics can be edited freely. SOR2SW added a Survival Mode, and was released around January of 2013 as far as I remember, and I would use v0.9 of the ROM Hack as the base for most of my SOR2 hacks.

Editing enemies in SOR2SW can lead to all sorts of bugs that would need to be undone, such as the options menu not loading. Editing Blaze in a BKIII ROM would also cause problems, like the title screen crashing the game. I make lots of backups of my ROM Hacks in case problems happen.

A thing that might set my SOR Hacks apart from others, is the enemies playing more death cries, or the bosses having their own death cries, like in SOR2: Mortal Kombat CX where the bosses play the fataility scream from Mortal Kombat II.

As for the SOR ROM Hacks I made, SOR2: Puyo Wars was an experiment to see if I could change all the characters. Girls’ Paradise and Simpsons Edition were made during a time when the Unity Genesis Collection’s Steam Workshop was still new at the time. By 2018 or 2019, I was starting to get bored of making these. The ROM Hacks I made where the characters are more viable such as SOR2: Battletoads & Double Dragon would have the bare minimum when it comes to enemy replacements.

As of this writing, only some of [Hacks – Streets of Rage 2] (Hubs) made it here onto RetroAchievements, and only 2 of them have achievement sets. The set for Streets of Rage 2: Syndicate Wars (Genesis/Mega Drive) Hack is based on its 0.9 version, and not the newer version that was first publicly available in 2016 that added Zan, Roo and a CPU partner. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Re-Revenge (Genesis/Mega Drive) Hack on the other hand, has 3 achievement sets. There’s a voice fix I made for that ROM Hack. Somehow, Heavy Nova (Genesis/Mega Drive) was eligible despite being relatively low effort among the hacks I made. Here’s hoping that more achievement sets would be made for Streets of Rage ROM Hacks, a la ROM Hacks of other franchises like Mario, Sonic, and Pokémon.