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    Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen and the New Femme Fatales

    Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

    A romhack for which RA denied achievements by the hack author for certain off-site behavior.

    See one of the related articles for details.

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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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    Bishoujo SSF2: Glamor Queen

    Original Post: BHDN

    Game Blog | SRC | Discord

    August 9, 2025

    Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen and the New Femme Fatales is a Combo ROM Hack of the Sega Genesis version of Super Street Fighter II, where some of the fighters are replaced with female characters from various franchises. It could be one of the first of its kind, like the numerous ROM Hacks of Streets of Rage 2 & 3. An intent is to make the game easier to beat.

    The project started when I was tweeting Game Genie codes for MD SSF2. I wanted to see if I could make Old Sagat’s cancels possible. People were taking notice of my tweets in early 2023, so I experimented with editing the game further. I wasn’t expecting to grab people’s attention from editing the game. I put my blood, sweat and tears into making this.

    Early in the making, I wanted this to draw inspiration from a lot of Champion Edition bootlegs, but I later found that the MD SF2 games weren’t coded to have more than one projectile per player at once, so I decided to make juggles possible.

    The fighter replacements, in order that they were made: Blanka is changed to Roll from Mega Man, Dhalsim is changed to Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury and King of Fighters, E. Honda is changed to Choi Jadoo from Hello Jadoo, Fei Long is changed to Emily from Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter, Dee Jay is changed to Madonna from Makeruna! Makendou 2, Boxer is changed to Avra Yumeno and Belva Lina, both original creations, with the former being created for this ROM Hack. Jadoo and Avra’s sprites were not cheap, and the other characters were given several newly drawn sprites overall.

    Roll is a lethal joke character who is a one trick pony, Mai is a no brainer of a character choice with a relatively balanced moveset, Jadoo is given the Chibi Back Dash, can double jump and can cheese you with her Hundred Hand Slap and Headbutt, Emily can Air Dash and kill you from throws, Madonna is an insane combo character who can take you out quickly, Avra has high priority normals that do block damage, and Belva can use MvC2 Sentinel’s flight with no transitions.

    So is this ROM Hack fun to play? You can decide on it. The ROM Hack certainly spoils its players. I couldn’t find any other Street Fighter II ROM Hacks on Speedrun.com, excluding the Champion Edition bootlegs, of course. This ROM Hack is not to be taken seriously. Fingers crossed it gets added to Fightcade.

    Character Replacements

    • Blanka is replaced with Roll, from Mega Man.
    • Dhalsim is replaced with Mai Shiranui, from Fatal Fury and King of Fighters.
    • E. Honda is replaced with Choi Jadoo, from Hello Jadoo.
    • Fei Long is replaced with Emily, from Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter.
    • Dee Jay is replaced with Madonna de Swan, from Makeruna! Makendou 2 and Makeruna! Makendou Z.
    • Boxer is replaced with Avra Yumeno, an original creation, and Belva Lina, another original creation.

    Features

    • Fighter Replacements
    • The special cancel window is increased by 2 frames.
    • Charge Times Disabled, Air Specials
    • Back Dashes and Forward Dashes. Emily can also Air Dash.
    • Guard Cancels into Dashes
    • Easier Arcade Mode (CPU no longer damage cheats)
    • New Moves, such as Zangief’s Coconut Thunder and Sagat’s Tiger Dive
    • Getting hit out of Empty Jumps by non-knockdown attacks makes you drop down
    • Stage Select in Arcade Mode with the Mode button
    • Easy Death Combos
    • Access Debug Menu by selecting Options, and holding the A or Mode Buttons
    • Refill Lifebars and Time Limit in Versus Mode by holding both Players’ Mode Buttons
    • Random CPU Colors in Arcade Mode, by holding Mode button
    • Switch to the character defeated with Down+A+B+C
    • Switch to the same character with Up+A+B+C
    • Activate V-ISM Normals/Belva/Nightmare Dictator with Back+X+Y+Z+B or Back+Y+Z+B+C
    • Access Boss Rush by holding B
    • Additional Colors can be chosen by holding the Mode Button.
    • Holding a player’s Mode button makes the computer control the respective player in Elimination Group Battles.
    • Stance sprites for Ryu, Ken, Sagat and Cammy are newly inserted.
    • Sagat and Cammy’s sprites are partially re-indexed to allow for more freedom in their colors.

    Play This Romhack If

    • You want a SF2 ROM Hack that changes up the roster.
    • You like infinites or death combos that are extremely easy to do.
    • You like mechanics outside of what SF2 normally has to offer.
    • You want to end rounds in a few seconds from one correct read.
    • You like fighters where knowledge checks play a large role.
    • You like ROM Hacks that take advantage of unused data.

    Don’t Play This Romhack If

    • You like spamming projectiles or doing fireball traps.
    • You don’t want ROM Hacks or fan games that teach you bad habits.
    • Random jank or bugs can get in the way of enjoying this.
    • You’re looking for good character balance.
    • You primarily use Ryu or Ken. They get shut down in this ROM Hack.
    • You dislike Lolis and/or the heavy emphasis on panty shots.

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  • YoniArousement’s Romhacks

    Streets of Rage

    Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

    Screenshots added during the editorial process.

    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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    Ban of Romhacker YoniArousement, 34th-Ranked Softcore Player on Retro Achievements

    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.

    2012

    Streets of Rage 2: Axel’s Ambition (SOR2)

    Streets of Rage 3: Punksure (SOR3)

    Bare Knuckle III CS (BKII_CS)

    2013

    Streets of Rage 3: Pokémon Edition (SOR3_Poke)

    Chocobo Knuckle III (CR)

    2014

    Streets of Rage 2: Cosmic Mix (SOR2_CM)

    Streets of Rage 2: Puyo Wars (SOR2_Puyo)

    Streets of Rage 2: Sonic Wars (SOR2_Sonic)

    2015

    Lorenzo Fighters 2/Streets of Rage 2: Kathy’s Quest (LF2, SOR2_KQ)

    2016

    Streets of Rage 2: Girls’ Paradise (SOR2_Girls)

    Streets of Rage 2: Simpsons Edition (SOR2_Simpsons)

    Streets of Rage 3: Dragon Ball Edition (DBOR3)

    Streets of Rage 2: Sonic and Miku (SOR2_SAM)

    Streets of Rage 2: Touhou Wars (SOR2_Touhou)

    Streets of Rage 3: Candra Returns (SOR3_Candra)

    2017

    Streets of Rage 2: Battletoads & Double Dragon (SOR2_BTDD)

    King of the Rage Streets 2 (KOTRS2)

    Streets of Rage 2: Loli Eyes/Diaper Girl Derby (SOR2_Loli, SOR2_DGD)

    Streets of Rage 2: Attack of the Rolls (SOR2_AOTR3)

    Fight ‘n Rage 3 (FNR3)

    2018

    Streets of Rage 2: Doraemon (SOR2_Doraemon)

    Streets of Rage 2: Mortal Kombat CX (SOR2_MK)

    Streets of Rage 2: Sailor Moon (SOR2_SailorMoon)

    Streets of Rage 2: Manko-chan (SOR2_MankoChan)

    Streets of Rage 2 Minus (SOR2_Minus)

    Streets of Rage 3: DarksydePhil (SOR3_DSP)

    2019

    Streets of Rage 2: Girls’ Revenge (SOR2_GirlsRevenge)

    Streets of Rage 2: Peach DX (SOR2_PeachDX)

    2020

    Streets of Rage 2: Doraemon vs. Roll (SOR2_Doraemon_vs_Roll)

    2022

    Streets of Rage 2: Among Us (SOR2_AmongUs)

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  • New Badges Available

    Designed and Verified by clymax

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube, Twitter, or Retro Achievements.

    Below are examples only. They are not exhaustive.

    Hacks by clymax

    A. Final Fantasy V: Whirlwind (SFC)

    Fiesta Conqueror
    Ultraboss Conqueror
    Crimson Conqueror
    Fiesta Champion

    B. Battle of Olympus: Item Randomizer (NES)

    Region Skipper
    PaciFIST

    C. Tetris: Convention-Controls Edition (FC)

    Triple Threat

    D. Megatris: Arcade Edition (Uzebox)

    Perfect 10

    E. Super Metroid: Liberation (SNES)

    Executioner

    Games

    1. The Battle of Olympus (NES)

    The Legend of Love

    2. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song (PS2)

    Godslayer

    3. Tetris (NES)

    Maxed Out

    4. Dungeon Defenders(PC)

    Solo Slayer

    5. Quake III Arena (PC)

    Space Sniper

    6. TETR.IO (Web)

    Clear Vision

    7. Final Fantasy X HD Remaster(PC)

    Ethereal Equipment

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  • Achievement Badges Now Available on FFV Central

    Will Platform Pokémon Clover

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube, Twitter, or Retro Achievements.

    Today marks one month from Pokémon Clover being deplatformed in terms of fan-made achievements on the Internet.

    Today, FFV Central is pleased to announce that achievement badges are now available for players to earn.

    Badges are currently awarded based on video evaluation by achievement verifiers.

    Over twenty-five titles are currently supported. All genres and platforms are eligible to be supported.

    Players and eligible achievement designers are welcome. The latter will also act as achievement verifiers.

    1. FFV Central will strive to be a bastion of freedom of speech, transparency, and accountability.
    2. There will be no departments. No “authoritarian regime” as Salsa put it. The platform will be guided by libertarian principles.
    3. Any achievement designer can design achievements for any game.
    4. Players’ legit achievement unlocks will not be removed against their will.
    5. The work of achievement designers will stay their own.
    6. The work of an achievement designer will not be vandalized by another achievement designer or removed against the will of the achievement designer.
    7. Hack patches will not be cloned or hosted without hack author permission.
    8. Legally sold paid mods are eligible to be supported.
    9. Progression, beat, and completion achievements will not be supported. Games are meant to be beaten or completed.
    10. Softcore achievements will not be supported.

    For more details, please check us out in any of our sister Discords.

    A separate announcement will be made when Pokémon Clover achievements are available. If you are interested in assisting in that effort specifically, please reach out to us.

    [Update on November 4: Clover added.]

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