Streets of Rage 2 - Go Straight Beatmix (TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine Cover)

[fragmare]

So this happened. 

Streets of Rage 2 - Go Straight Beatmix (TG-16 Cover) on SoundCloud

Streets of Rage 2 - Go Straight Beatmix (TurboGrafx-16 Cover) ROM File Download

[touko]

Excellent version, i like it 

[fragmare]

Thanks.  I was originally going to use Speedy's Go Straight cover as a base to work from, but the beatmix version was just too different and i needed to change too much stuff, so I redid it from scratch.  I think this will probably be my last chiptune I do for a while.

[roflmao]

Awesome!

[Michirin9801]

I gave it a like on YouTube, pretty good!

[elmer]

Thanks.  I was originally going to use Speedy's original Go Straight cover as a base to work from, but the beatmix version was just too different and i needed to change too much stuff, so I redid it from scratch.

Good stuff! This sounds great. 

I think this will probably be my last chiptune I do for a while.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! 

[EvilEvoIX]

VERY impressive!!!  Would it work on real hardware with all the sound effects as well?  If so I am floored (Minus the missing Bass)

[fragmare]

Thanks!  I'm glad you all seem to like it. 

I think this will probably be my last chiptune I do for a while.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! 

Lol, it'll be okay...  I want to do some pixel art! 

I'm definitely doing more chiptunes, I'm just taking a little break.  Besides, I have to do at least one more Raiden II cover by April anyway (25th Anniversary Project, etc).

VERY impressive!!!  Would it work on real hardware with all the sound effects as well?  If so I am floored (Minus the missing Bass)

Yea, it sounds great running on real hardware with a Turbo EverDrive.    I'm not even going to bother with a 5 channel "game-friendly" version on this, since there are VASTS tracts of channels just sitting idle, doing nothing... it's already more or less "game-friendly".

So, to answer your question, yes, it runs on the real hardware and would sound just fine in-game.  Though, for a game, I would swap channels 3 and 5, and then cut out channel5 whenever you need to play sound effects, since all the "least important" stuff currently resides on channel 3... but that's no big deal.

And the bass is missing??  :O

[EvilEvoIX]

And the bass is missing??  :O

I mean in comparison to a Model 1 Mega Drive.

[fragmare]

And the bass is missing??  :O

I mean in comparison to a Model 1 Mega Drive.

I think I'm discovering that the PCE's bass holds up against the MegaDrive a lot better than people think it does.  It can sound bassier than most SNES games I've heard, for sure.  I could just mix everything else down a notch or two in relation to the bassline/percussion and it would probably sound just as bassy as the MegaDrive.  It'd probably also sound too loud and maybe a bit dirty.  MegaDrive waveforms tend to be smooth when looked at under a microscope... PCE waveforms look like the read-out on the stairmaster machine at your local gym.  So the fact it sounds anything like the Genesis version at all, is no small feat for a 1987 machine... The little engine that could!!! 

[EvilEvoIX]

Like I said I am extremely impressed!!!  I'd love to see a port over in some way.  Talk to the folks who did Beats of Rage maybe they could help?

[fragmare]

Like I said I am extremely impressed!!!  I'd love to see a port over in some way.  Talk to the folks who did Beats of Rage maybe they could help?

I think the only people you're going to find with the knowledge and skill to do it on the PC-Engine are right here on this forum, and sadly, I think the support for an SoR port here is nearly nil.  :/

The PC-Engine *does* require a good beat-em-up, at some point, though... and a hucard/rom would probably be the best way to go with it too.

[Michirin9801]

The PC-Engine *does* require a good beat-em-up, at some point, though... and a hucard/rom would probably be the best way to go with it too.

It really does, but you know what? If it depends on me it will have one!
... Eventually...

[EvilEvoIX]

The PC-Engine *does* require a good beat-em-up, at some point, though... and a hucard/rom would probably be the best way to go with it too.

It really does, but you know what? If it depends on me it will have one!
... Eventually...

Lets do it just port over a version of SOR for the music alone! 

[Necromancer]

I'd rather see something all new or at least a port of a less well known arcade game.  Either way it'd be a ton of work, and it seems a shame to exert such effort just to end up with a slightly different game than what most everyone's played repeatedly.