With stunning visuals, solid gameplay, and a then-advanced soudntrack pushing the Genesis console to its full capabilities, Streets of Rage 2 is a must-play for anyone into the Beat 'Em Up genre. It is considered by many fans to be the greatest game in its respective series.

Bringing the roster of characters to 4 by introducing the strong-but-slow Max, and the fast-yet-weak kid Eddie/Sammy "Skate" Hunter (the younger brother of excluded original protagonist Adam Hunter) Streets of Rage 2 brings in plenty of strategy depending on which character(s) you select.

One year has passed since the events of Streets of Rage. Always ready to conquer the city once more, Mr. X kidnaps original protagonist Adam Hunter, and sets loose all of his punks on the streets, bringing the city once more into destructive turmoil. In response to Mr. X's return, the retired police officers Blaze Fielding and Axel Stone once more set forth into the streets of rage, this time with Adam's younger brother Skate, and Axel's wrestler friend Max, in hopes of permanently ending Mr. X's reign on the city and rescuing Adam.

The gameplay of Streets of Rage 2 is similar, yet more refined to the original game. The main protagonists walk to the right on a 2D-3D plane, stopping on occasion to beat through waves of punks and martial artists. In rare occurrences, certain everyday sights (trash cans, phone booths, tables, etc.) are on the playing field, and can be struck to obtain street weapons (knives, lead pipes, baseball bats, etc.) and healing items.

In this ROM hack the player can use one of the X-Men from the Marvel / Capcom fighting game "X-Men: Children of the Atom" : Scott ( Cyclops ), Betsy ( Psylocke ), Piotr ( Colossus ) and Logan ( Wolverine ). Same Bosses have been replaced too.

This Rom Hack is based on savok's hack "Streets of Rage 2 - PLUS ULTRA" (https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4782/) edited with Pancake 2 and other tools to replace sprites and sounds.
So the character can juggle, run etc...

This hack is for the (U) version of the SOR2 bin.

Picking weapons and holding B / attack will activate their mutant powers, except from Betsy, because she is a ninja, so she can use blades.

Please note that after fighting same bosses the spites of same items as the cash bag will get corrupted, this issue will be fixed in the future.

This release is complete and fully functional, but there is still polish to do: redraw and reshade the sprites, add shadows, replace the title screens and portraits, fix the damage level... but it's gonna take a lot of time, so it's been chosen to share this version to be played in the meantime.

Streets of Rage 2 (U) [!]
ROM/File MD5 CB75D5A6919B61EFE917BEA5762C1CB7
ROM/File SHA-1 8B656EEC9692D88BBBB84787142AA732B44CE0BE
ROM/File CRC32 E01FA526

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