Beats of Rage for DC, PS2, and Xbox

[bramenjam]

Our Streets of Rage inspired beat'em up Beats of Rage has been successfully ported to the Dreamcast and PS2. A xbox version is also floating around the net, but since I don't have a xbox, I cannot comment on it.

However due to the enormous popularity all connections are constantly taken, so I suggest you download it from the newsgroups.

Dc version:

alt.binaries.dreamcast

alt.binaries.cd.image.dreamcast

PS2:

alt.binaries.kenpsx

If you can't help yourself and you want to visit the webpage, go to http://senile.mine.nu/beatsofrage

But seeing that our bandwhith usage exploded since these ports, I'd rather you didn't 😉

 

[IceDigger]

I could probably host the dc game for you. PM me

 

[it290]

Awesome. Have you guys considered using bittorrent and the p2p networks for distribution? It'll ease your bandwidth load considerably.

 

[Daniel Eriksson]

Fantastic! I loved the classic Streets of Rage game. Ill download it asap!

 

[racketboy]

yeah BitTorrent would be perfect!

 

[bramenjam]

Well I don't have bittorrent, so I won't be able to do this (at least today). Maybe I'll check it out tomorrow.

 

[bramenjam]

I forgot to mention that the amazing Neill Corlett handled the ports for DC and PS2, so kudos to him 🙂

 

[vbt]

impressive work :thumbs-up: , I have a DC I will take it 😛 Also did you think about a Saturn port ?

 

[Pearl Jammzz]

Hmmm....looks liek I am gunan have to go in search for the xbox version 🙂. I dont like to hurt my DC's laser w/ backups 🙁.

 

[Arakon]

uhm, right.. wtf?

cdrs don't hurt lasers. lasers are LIGHT.

but yes, the xbox version is pretty damn perfect and works really nicely.

 

[racketboy]

the laser arm CAN get worn out, but unless you do a TON of small games with no dummy file, you'll be fine

 

[Shakey Jake33]

Very Very impressive. I'm usually very skeptical about homebrew, but this looked good enough to make me go and set up my Dreamcast, and true enough, it was well worth it.

Fantastic work man, I am impressed.

 

[racketboy]

Is the DLing getting any better?

I haven't tried on my DialUp.

Will go for it at work tommorow

 

[racketboy]

I'm interested to see if we'll have any more mods for the DC in the future

Check out this one with Chun Li:

http://senile.mine.nu/beatsofrage/forum/vi....php?t=11\

Also saw another TMNT one in the works.

As a beat-em-up freak from the past, I'm getting excited.

 

[it290]

Yeah, the game is sweet for a homebrew, but I feel the engine could use a few more tweaks. More moves would be appreciated, as would dashing, but the main thing I feel the game needs is more invincible frames; it feels like you're vulnerable at all times, which just doesn't play that well. Also, I think those biker guys should act like they do in SoR2 and 3, that is, lining up on the same plane as your character so that they can hit you (and you can jump kick them). Still, this is probably the most polished DC homebrew game I've seen (unless you count FoF).

That Chun-Li mod does look nice, although I kind of have a soft spot for the Alpha style Chunners.

 

[bramenjam]

There are now 5 mirrors for the DC, so you should have better luck getting a connection now.

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

The mirror at DCEmulation worked for me. 🙂

 

[Pearl Jammzz]

anyone know where to snag the XBox version?

 

[bramenjam]

You can find the executable (or whatever it is called for the xbox) here. But you still need the bor.pak which you can find on the beats of rage homepage.

 

[Alexvrb]

Originally posted by Pearl Jammzz@Jan 31, 2004 @ 11:55 PM

Hmmm....looks liek I am gunan have to go in search for the xbox version 🙂. I dont like to hurt my DC's laser w/ backups 🙁.

Homebrew isn't going to hurt your DC. This is NOT a backup. That would assume that the game had a release on GD-ROM, and was perhaps optimized for GD-ROM access.

If you're really worried about it, you can always take the plain files, add a dummy, and make it self-boot.