~Fixed

1. Roo not running away as soon as Bruce is defeated.
2. Enemies attacking way too often on higher difficulty levels (there is a fine line between 'hard' and 'unfair').
3. Enemies who could block would attempt to do so non-stop while the player was close if the enemy guard type option was set to 4.
4. Enemies sometimes wouldn't appear when thrown.
5. Random helper (now removed) being spawned in an invalid state when starting the fight against Shiva.
6. Objects that dropped down were always the same object.
7. Players getting stuck in a grabbed state from Shiva if he gets knocked down due to Player KO (happens if in Simul mode, Shiva KOs one player, then grabs the other).
8. Rocket's stats (when fighting with Jet) not being properly affected by difficulty.
9. Player hit animation not being in sync with Raven's Knee Pummel attack animation.
10. Massive issue that caused various enemies to not have their stats affected by difficulty.

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~Enemy Changes

1. Harakiri now has 15% damage resistance during his Counter Slash attack (while he is sliding back). Base life reduced by 500.
2. Jet MKII is now invincible for a short time after performing his air recovery. Fixes problem where he could be attacked as soon as he recovered, preventing him from ever attacking.
3. All Jet-type enemies now have much faster Flying Punch attacks. When they hit the ground during their Dive-Kick attacks, they now slide across the ground instead of simply 'sticking' to the ground, still able to hit with this attack. Jet's Flying Punch damage increased.
4. Jet's Base life reduced from 1500 to 1250.

5. Rocket's Flying Punch has slightly less delay before he starts the attack. Dive-Kick weakened.
6. Rocket and Jet MKII can't be hit by projectiles or throws during their Flying Punch attacks anymore. The normal Jet has this passive too.
7. Zamza now enters a unique state after his Upper Slash move where he performs a modified ground recover that has him perform another Jump after it ends, instead of simply falling to the ground. While in this special state, Zamza can't be hit by throws, standing attacks, or crouching attacks.

8. Zamza's Double Slash attack now has less end lag, letting him act much faster after attacking.
9. Cooldown added to Jet's and Rocket's 'Corner Escape' move, preventing them from constantly evading attacks. Jet MKII can now also use this move.
10. Roo can't use grabs/throws anymore.
11. Enemy Walk/Run speed loss when playing on 'Easy' or 'Very Easy' reduced.
12. The CLSN1 box of most enemy projectiles has been extended downwards. This is to reduce the chance that the projectile will miss characters who are only slightly shorter than average.
13. Raven doesn't have 'Super Guard' anymore. Previously he took much less damage when guarding compared to other enemies that can guard.

14. When the Enemy Block Type option is set to 4, enemies are now thrown into an invincible state if they are hit enough times. Prevents them from being locked in guardstun, which usually happens in Simul mode when both players are attacking the same enemy.
15. Onihime's & Yasha's base life reduced by 500. Walk/Run speed increased by 15%.

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~Other Changes

1. Proper Intro added for Shiva and Mr.X. Instead of Shiva simply walking in from the side, the screen now fades out, then fades in, with Shiva and Mr.X in the 'background'.
Mr.X will point and Shiva will jump in to fight, just like Streets of Rage 2. Do note that Shiva is invincible until he lands and will use his Air Kick if you are under him as he falls.

Mr.X acts as an 'Arena Locker' effect, similar to the effect when fighting Vehelits and in the Bonus Area, except the screen still scrolls, but won't scroll so that Mr.X goes offscreen.

After defeating Shiva, Mr.X waits for a while before getting up to fight you.

2. During some Boss intros, their StateType is set to L. This is to help prevent characters with custom AI from trying to attack the Boss, as most characters can't attack opponents in a liedown state. Affected Bosses are: Barbon, Zamza, Shiva, Mr.X, Vehelits, Mona/Lisa, and the Control Panel.
At the very least, this should help prevent the AI from wasting Supers trying to hit the Boss.

3. Enemies that are knocked away after being KO'd also have a StateType of L to reduce chance of AI-controlled characters trying to attack that enemy.

4. "liedown.time" parameter of Bonus Game reduced from 60 to 45. This should reduce how much time the enemy spends in an 'unhittable' state (again referring to most characters being unable to attack opponents in a liedown state), while still giving characters who CAN attack opponents in a liedown state a chance to land their attacks/combos. Some enemies aren't affected by this change, such as Shiva (who gets up as soon as he is in the liedown state 5110).

5. When fighting Vehelits, the background from the last area of Stage 3 in Streets of Rage 2 appears instead of the previous greyscale effect. After defeating Vehelits, it now flys offscreen like in SoR2.

6. Enemies now fly in the proper direction when KO'd from behind.

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~Non-Gameplay changes

1. The "Alternate mode" setting in the Config file has been moved up next to the enemy strength settings.
2. Enemy Strength meter appearance changed to match the style of the lifebars. It also no longer appears in Boss Rush mode.
3. After defeating Mr.X, text will appear that shows what difficulty level you cleared the bonus game at. This text doesn't appear if the mode is set to 'Ranked', as the difficulty setting in Ranked mode is not used.

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~Known issues

1. Very rarely, music during Mr.X battle becomes quieter. Most custom music in the bonus game is played twice because its volume is normally very low and I don't know how else to raise the  volume. Something must be causing one of the Mr.X music tracks to stop playing.

2. The new background when fighting Vehelits is sometimes offset by a single pixel when it starts to fadeout (you can see it move 1 pixel). Mr.X's chair also sometimes moves when he gets up to fight.

~Fixed

1. Missing jump sound when Shiva jumps in to fight.
2. Raven's attack rate being too low.
3. Some of Zamza's CLSN2 hitboxes were too short on some animations, making some standing/air attacks miss against him when they would hit other enemies.
4. Enemies that can block were having their guard disabled if they blocked multi-hit attacks.

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~Enemy Changes

1. Base life of Antonio, Souther, Bongo, and Warrior decreased by 200.
2. Bruce/Roo Base Life decreased by 300.
3. Ash's Base life increased by 100.
4. Jet-Type enemies can't hit with their Dive-Kick after hitting the ground anymore; caused some problems.
5. Parry Detection system added that makes enemies attack sooner than usual if their attack is parried, or otherwise 'absorbed' in some way that involves the character not actually being 'hit' (ReversalDefs will also trigger this).

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~Other Changes

1. The fade in/fade out effect before Shiva and Mr.X appears is now twice as long.

~Fixed

1. Odd camera behavior on stages with zoom when enemies are KO'd, as well as when Jet-Type enemies spawn.
2. Vehelits background not lining up with Vehelits on stages that can zoom.
3. The damage limit system not activating for Bongo and Warrior.
4. Abadede's running Punch attack being avoidable by crouching; will now hit crouching players.
5. No CLSN2 boxes on most of Onihime's/Yasha's back throw & suplex animations, preventing a partner in Simul mode from hitting them and cancelling the attack.
6. Raven taking less guard damage than normal when Enemy Block Type in config file is set to 0 or 1.
7. Jet's CLSN2 boxes of his divekick attack being a bit too short, preventing some standing attacks from hitting once he starts sliding on the ground.
8. The gas 'spray' not lining up with the background panels in the bonus area.
9. Some of R.Bear's animations not being aligned properly, which also meant odd placement of his CLSN2 boxes, which meant you could hit him, but then his "Hit High" animation had a CLSN2 box that was further away, causing some attacks to miss that would hit him if he wasn't already being hit.

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~Enemy Changes

1. Shiva and Mr.X get a slightly higher life bonus when playing on Hard difficulty or above.
2. Cody no longer appears in Speed Run mode.

3. The defense bonus Bosses get when hit in the air or on the ground now only activates if you are in Simul mode against the Bonus Game. The defense bonus was added to make air combos not as effective since it "bypasses" some enemy abilities such as blocking (enemies can't block in the air), but it unfairly affected characters whose main source of damage was air-combos. However, in Simul mode, both players can very easily air-combo Bosses for extended periods of time, causing huge amounts of damage. The damage limiter that kicks Bosses (and Mini-bosses) into an invincible state after they take a certain amount of damage doesn't really help to fix this problem. The defense boost is also now stronger.

Note that Abadede and Shiva still get this Defense bonus even if you aren't in Simul mode, since being air-combo'd disables their Breaker attack (and Shiva can't use his 'Super-Guard'), so the defense boost balances that out.

4. Mini-bosses now get ^this^ new Defense Booster.
5. Reduced the rate Shiva can use his Breaker attack.
6. Roo's 'Tornado Kick' and 'Tailspin' attacks hit less often (Time between hits increased).
7. Bruce's damage with all attacks increased. Roo's damage with some attacks increased.
8. R.Bear jumps further and falls faster during his jump attack (no 'floatly' effect).
9. Barbon's punch damage increased (40 -> 60).
10. Zamza can't be hit by projectiles during his Spinning Slash anymore.

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~Other Changes

1. You now earn points for your blocked attacks, excluding when Shiva blocks (as he takes no damage from blocked hits).
2. The "Boss Life/Damage Multiplier Ratio Fix" option in the config file can now be set to -1, which will make up for the extra damage bosses/mini bosses take due to the "Extra damage mulitplier" by dividing the damage they take by the damage setting instead of multiplying their life. This prevents the odd issue of bosses appearing to have very high amounts of life even on low difficulty levels.

3. Default value of "Enemy Block Charge" setting changed from 0.01 to 0.005.

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~Technical Changes

1. The xscale and yscale parameters of the Bonus Game have been changed (to make the enemies height more accurate to a normal size character).
The SoR enemies' CLSN boxes in the .air file are no longer oversized. Many CLSN boxes of enemies have also been adjusted.

When the Bonus Game was made, I wasn't quite sure how several things worked related to the size of the characters, and the default size of explods, so I made the SoR enemies have "size.xscale = 1.5" & "size.yscale = 1.5" and adjusted their hitboxes to account for their increased size (when a helper's size is increased by "size.xscale" and "size.yscale" parameters, their hitboxes aren't scaled).

I also used 1.5 as the scale because the enemies normally appeared way too small. Unfortunately, this turned out to be too big of a increase.
Hopefully, this makes the enemies not appear so tall compared to other normal-sized characters.

This took a while. I had to change the CLSN boxes of over 700 animations.

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All characters (except Yamato for most changes)
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1. The xscale and yscale parameters have been changed. All hit spark/explod/target bind positions have been modified to now scale with xscale/yscale, so it can be changed later without messing up the positions of those things.

2. Red grip meter removed, normal grip meter now regenerates constantly without a 'secondary' max. Regen rate very slighty slower than before.
Throws now reduce yellow meter, landing hits now increases yellow meter.

3. Throwing an enemy from the SoR2 Bonus Game will now throw them in a special state that allows them to hit other enemies, just like in the games where you can throw enemies into other enemies for a good chunk of damage.

4. Blitz star regeneration rate increased by 40%.

5. Most characters now have different amounts of life. Any characters that previously didn't have 100 defense now have 100 defense.

6. Walk backwards speed is now same as walk forwards speed. Reference to the games where characters could walk in both directions at the same speed (since they instantly turned to face the proper direction when walking, they didn't have a true "back walk" state).

7. Position of SoR characters during their Vault action no longer based on target height; is now a fixed position regardless of target height.

8. Max level of AI on Config files can now be set to 8.

9. Changed characters 5070,20, 5071,20, and 5072,20 sprites to proper "Thrown, body horizontal, head in front" poses.

10. All characters (except Yamato) have a new large portrait; instead of just showing a stand sprite, it also now shows a small portrait. and a simple stat graph that rates the following stats out of 5 bars:

Life (3 bars = 1000 life. -50/+50 life for each bar below/above 3)
Power (Overall strength of attacks)
Technique
Speed (Walk/Run)
Jump (Jump Height)

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Axel
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1. Comboing into "Force Bolt" now uses a faster version so that it can actually hit.

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Roo
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1. Adjusted positions of target when Roo back-holds them so they aren't held so close.
2. Start-up time of Defensive Special "TailSpin" (Ground Version) reduced from 10 frames to 4 frames. Damage slightly reduced.
3. Slightly reduced travel distance of "Tornado Kick".

4. CLSN2 boxes of run animation are no longer placed directly over the sprites, instead changed to be 2 CLSN2Default boxes for the whole animtion. Fixes problem with the boxes bouncing around wildly making it somewhat hard to hit Roo with certain attacks, especially low attacks. Also prevents Roo from being able to "run" over opponents lying on the ground.

5. Position of some sprites adjusted; they weren't quite centered, making Roo's position appear further forwards than he really was.

6. Intro is now him jumping in like the other characters. Was really odd that a kangaroo didn't have a JUMP in intro.

7. Walk/Run speed slightly increased.

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Blaze
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1. Start-up time of all Blitz attacks reduced.
2. Walk Speed very slightly reduced.

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Skate
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1. Back Throw removed, to make him more like the games where you had to use his "Overhead Throw" to actually throw enemies. The back throw can still be used for Team Attacks.
2. Walk/Run speed increased.
3. Jump height slightly increased.

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Adam
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1. Walk/Run speed increased.

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Max
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1. Max's Slide & Slide+ attacks now only cause knockdown if combo'd into from his Basic Combo or if opponent is already 'stunned' from a previous Slide. This allows Max to use these attacks to approach enemies and start a combo, while still allowing the attacks to be used as a combo ender, and also preventing Max from infinitely chaining Slide attacks into each other.

2. Walk/Run speed reduced.
3. Hammer Punch start-up speed slighty reduced.

4. Some moves have be changed to the new moves from the fangame "Streets of Rage Remake". Changes are as follows:
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A. Lv.2 Blitz is now "Spear Tackle", which causes Max to do a low jump and perform a full body tackle forwards, then a grab that deals big damage to a target after Max lands. Both hits can be blocked, but not while crouching. Should the grab connect, Max is invincible until he gets up after after hitting the ground, and he also will damage any other enemy he runs into before hitting the ground; the latter part won't matter much unless you are fighting against a Simul mode team, the SoR2 bonus game, or an enemy that summons some sort of object/assist/etc that can be hit.

B. Lv.3 Blitz is now "Shoulder Tackle", which has Max use a very short-ranged version of his "Thunder Tackle" (without invincibilty), before using the above attack.

C. NEW MOVE: "Power Bomb". When holding an enemy from the front, press 'y' to have Max perform an impressive lift and slam that deals big damage. The quirk of this attack is that it uses the Special meter instead of the grip meter, meaning Max takes damage if the special meter isn't fully charged when this move is performed.

D. Lv.1 Hyper is now "Pipe Slam", where Max jumps and swings a pipe downwards in a wide arc.

E. Lv.3 Hyper is now "Katana Slash", which is a simple but powerful slash while sliding forwards.
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Dr.Zan
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1. Position of "Electric Reach" adjusted, giving the move more range.

2. "Electric Body" now hits just once instead of up to 4 times. Damage increased.

3. "Electric Reach" now hits 3 times instead of 4.

4. Some moves have been changed, just like Max's moves. Sprites from Street of Rage Remake:
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A. Lv.2 Blitz is now "Dashing Electric Reach", which is simply a moving, non-invincible version of "Electric Reach".

B. Lv.3 Blitz is now "Extended Dashing Electric Reach", which is almost exactly the same as the above move, except Dr.Zan slides forward
further.

C. Zan's fireball projectile hyper is now a "Y" special attack (Command: Down,Down-Forwards,Forwards,Y).
Unlike the other "Y" moves, it doesn't grant invincibility.

D. Zan's "b" action when holding an enemy from the front is now a kick, while the 'c' action is now the downwards swipe action. This is just a visual change; the damage these actions did before the animation change is the same.

E. Lv.1 Hyper is now "V-Slash", which has Dr.Zan swing a knife that causes a trail in a "V" shape. Has a very large area of effect around Zan.

F. Lv.2 Hyper is now "Windmill Pipe", which has Zan slide forward while spining a pipe in front of him. Zan is invincible for the whole attack.

G. Lv.3 Hyper is now "Flying Stab". After a brief delay, Zan flys forward with a knife. The slash he does just before he starts flying has a huge range.


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Mr.X
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1. Walk speed reduced. Run speed slightly reduced.

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Shiva/Ultra Shiva
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1. Proper Crouch Guard & Air Guard sprites added.
2. Offset of some sprites adjusted. Had a similar problem to Roo.
3. Folder names changed to "SoR2Shiva" and "SoR2UltraShiva", to avoid potential problems with other characters named Shiva. (Be sure to update the names in your select file if you already have Shiva/Ultra Shiva in your Roster!)

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Ultra Shiva
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1. New secondary palette added. Palettes that were for normal Shiva removed.

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Yamato
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1. Life value increased to 3600, but defense set to 100, and now the first two Yamato take 50% more damage. This is a reference to SoR3 in which the last Yamato had more life than the other 2.

;Reset Stun System vs. SoR2 Bonus Game
[State -2, reset]
type = VarSet
trigger1 = NumEnemy > 0
trigger1 = Enemy(0), Name = "SoR2"
trigger1 = Enemy(0), Var(28) = [1,3]
var(10) = 0
ignorehitpause = 1

1. Fixed Antonio having a giant CLSN2 box on the second element of his kick animation.
2. Fixed the 25% total point lost effect being applied after being KO'd at 1 life, not only at 0 lives. Fixed by making the point loss on KO apply after your character hits the ground, not when they respawn. Also added a "hit-the-ground" sound effect when KO'd.

3. Enemy block system change (Only if Enemy Block Type is set to 4)
-When playing in Simul mode against the Bonus Game, enemies that can block are now immune to crouching attacks when they are blocking high (State 130) and immune to air attacks when they are blocking low (State 131). This prevents a team from using a combination of crouching & aerial attacks to bypass guards. Also, when not in Simul mode against the Bonus Game, blocking enemies get the same crouching/aerial attack immunity for half a second after blocking a hit; this is because the guard states seem to sometimes not work properly with helpers, especially with multi-hit attacks or when switching between high and low attacks quickly.

This doesn't affect Shiva, who uses a different kind of blocking system.

4. Onihime & Yasha are now completely invincible during their backflip action.
5. Mr.X now gains the ability to block once his life drops to 1000 or less. His Rifle smack attack can't be avoiding by crouching anymore.

6. Small fixes to Shiva's AI. He also can now perform a special non-damaging grab to escape being stuck in a corner, similar to Onihime & Yasha.
7. When fighting Zamza and Jet together in the second round, they have -20% max life.
8. Max damage Bosses and Mini-bosses can take before being thrown into their invincible state reduced.
9. Added a special system against ohgaki's to reset the stun meters of those characters (requires this code to be added to those character's -2 state)

;Reset Stun System vs. SoR2 Bonus Game
[State -2, reset]
type = VarSet
trigger1 = NumEnemy > 0
trigger1 = Enemy(0), Name = "SoR2"
trigger1 = Enemy(0), Var(28) = [1,3]
var(10) = 0
ignorehitpause = 1

...To be honest, Streets of Rage 4 doesn't appeal to me. The art style is overrated, I hate Axel and Blaze's re-design, the game over-does it with the "ultra-super-difficult enemies/bosses and Ultra-hard+++ mode" (from what I've read), classic characters can't be played as except in their original sprite form that clashes with the new art style of the game, Shiva is ruined, and the game is apparently very short. I'll stick with Streets of Rage Remake. Maybe I'll try to make Ash or Rudra soon.

I hope you do, I'm pretty sure there is no good version of them.