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All Characters (except Yamato)
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1. Fixed: Some incorrect information in the info files.
2. Fixed: Lv.3 Hypers not granting Super Armor against most attacks.

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Axel
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1. Fixed: AI not being able to use fast version of "Force Bolt" in a combo.
2. X-Zone Hyper: Cross Points gained no longer reduced when at or above 100 Cross Points.

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Skate
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1. "360 Spin" Lv.2 Hyper starts up faster.

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Dr.Zan
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1. "Windmill Pipe" Lv.2 Hyper travel distance increased a bit.

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Shiva/Ultra Shiva
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1. Fixed: AI not being coded to use the "S.Recover" technique.
2. "Jumping Reverse Kick" and "Jumping Reverse Kick+" now have much faster start-up times (previously was 21 frame start-up time! Is now 7 frames).
3. Fixed: "Axe Kick" had different pausetime for Shiva when used to break out of attacks.
4. "Air Axe Kick" starts up slightly faster.
5. Fixed: There was a very small window in which an opponent blocking "Jumping Reverse Kick" or the first half of "Jumping Reverse Kick+" could attack.
6. Fixed: Shiva's position during his vault action being too low, looking really odd.
7. Afterimage effect added to Lv.3 Hyper.

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Ultra Shiva
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1. NERF: Slighty increased damage scaling effect, making combos a little weaker.
2. BUFF: After "Final Crash" or "Final Crash+", Ultra Shiva moves backwards much further than before, making it harder to just block and counter-attack.
3. NERF: Guard damage of all attacks reduced by 50%

~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.

~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.

1. Adjusted enemy attack rates; stronger enemies attack more often now, especially bosses.
2. In Ranked mode, after ranking up while in *-rank, timer gets +30 seconds and stops decreasing until enemies appear again.
3. Fixed problem with enemies in Ranked mode having normal stats after reaching *-Rank.
4. Enemies in Ranked mode now have more life each rank, but the amount of KOs needed to Rank up has been decreased by half.
5. Added option in Config file to have to mode of the Bonus Game be different if fought in Arcade mode (using "MatchNo > 1"). Default is 3 (Traditional mode).
6. Fixed issue with Rocket not able to 'KO' with his grab/slam when you no lives remaining.
7. Fixed issue with some enemy throws not dealing 50% less damage in Ranked mode.
8. Fixed issue with Jet MKII having a rather low attack rate.

9. Lifebars for enemies with 1000+ life changed; instead of multiple layered lifebars of different colors, '#x' appears next to the enemy lifebar to show how many lifebars remain beyond the current lifebar (# = number from 1 to 9), and a blue bar is used  to track current life for that lifebar. This is the same way lifebars were shown for enemies in Streets of Rage 3 that had more than 1 bar worth of life.

There is 1 exception: if an enemy manages to get more than 10000 life, the same dark gray bar from previous versions of the Bonus Game is used to show the excess life remaining, and '?x' appears next to the enemy lifebar.

Another change is if you stock more than 9 lives, instead of 'x9' next to your lifebar you'll now see 'x?'.

The number that indicates the lifebars remaining is blue. The number for player lives remaining has also been changed to blue. The lifebars of enemies also now start at the correct value when enemies spawn, instead of quickly filling up to the correct value like before.

10. Updated the info file to account for various changes in this update and the previous one.

1. Vehelits takes +30 damage from all attacks. Helps prevent characters without strong single-hit attacks from taking too long to defeat it.
2. Damage before mini-bosses go flying in an invincible state increased.
3. Fixed issue with some enemies attempting grabs from too far away.
4. Rocket and Jet MKII flicker when getting ready to attack. Flicking speeds up when ready or almost ready to attack.
5. Barbon's & Jet's Base Life +250.
6. Modified how the Enemy extra life setting works.
7. Jet moves faster.
8. All bosses that previously didn't have any defense boosting effects now take 20% less damage when air-juggled, or hit while on the ground.
9. Control panel in the Bonus Area is now animated, shakes when hit, and has explosions emit from it when hit.
10. (With "Enemy Item Pick-Up" option on) Fixed problem with enemies trying to pick-up items that were still 'in' the object that fell into the stage.

11. In the bonus area, the damage to the gas meter when playing solo against the bouns game increased.
12. When playing in Simul mode against the bonus game, Boss max life bonus reduced from +50% to +25% (same bonus mini-bosses get), and attack rate increased.
13. Mr.X Gun hit attack slowed a bit.
14. Fixed problem with Roo's Grab attacks not giving power when dealing damage.
15. Abadede won't pick-up items while running anymore (if option is on). Suplex slightly weakened, and Pummel attack (from grab) speed reduced.
16. Onihime & Yasha damage dealt reduced by 25%.
17. R.Bear's pummel attack weakened.
18. Roo's Special attacks weakened.
19. Guard damage of all enemy attacks reduced.
20. Akaiho's Reversal move now uses a HitOverride instead of a ReversalDef. Stop Akaiho from being able to protect other enemies.

21. Fixed problem with some of Mona's/Lisa's attacks not being able to (fake) KO Players.
22. Big-Ben's speed during his fire breath attack is no longer affected by the difficulty setting.
23. Various other enemy attacks deal slightly less damage.
24. Zamza's, Abadede's, and Ash's suplex attack modifed to look more like the suplex performed by other characters.
25. Removed the setting to make enemies take less damage when they are hit enough times or take a certain amount of damage.
26. Fixed problem with Big-Ben falling through the floor when using his BodySlam attack.
27. Barbon's intro now has the background fade to black, then back to normal with him also fading to normal instead of the whole screen turning white then back.
28. Seeker's explosion damage is now affected by difficulty.
29. Difficulty levels below 'Very Easy' removed. 'Very Easy' and 'Easy' now drop enemy stats more to make up for this.
30. Shiva and Abadede now can't be hit by projectiles during their dash/run.

31. Shiva's Final Crash now has higher guardstun and cause him to move backwards after it ends. Should make it harder to simply guard the attack, then counter-attack.
32. Shiva now always uses his Absolute Guard (no damage when blocking), even if playing solo against the bonus game (although the chance is reduced if so).
33. Player life bars are now 1 single yellow bar no matter their actual max life. 'Mid bar' also added that shows damage taken/recovered.
34. Mona & Lisa have slighty higher move speed during their 'jumping' team attack (where they jump forwards up to 3 times in random ways).
35. Zamza is overall much faster (falls faster, less delay after landing, faster attacks).
36. Abadede/Warrior Karate Chop attack is now an overhead (can't be blocked crouching).
37. Jet/Rocket can now fly to other side of screen to escape being stuck in a corner.
38. When Jet/Rocket/Jet MKII perform their special Air Recovery, they stay in that state slightly longer and can't attack right afterwards. Should help prevent successful hits against them from being countered anyway (usually by their grab).
39. Fixed problem with R.Bear's Pummel attack not giving Power (Super Energy) with each hit.
40. All throws by enemies now give a set amount of power depending on their base damage. Previously was affected by target's defense.

41. Projectiles created by enemies are no longer helper-type projectiles.
42. Characters under 1000 life no longer get set amount of life from healing items, instead gaining a percentage of life back like normal.
43. Fixed Harakiri's stand animation (his upper body wasn't aligned properly in 2 of the sprites).
44. Can now set Variable 48 (previously called "Item layer priority") in the Config file to 2 to hide the foreground parts of the stage so they don't hide items/objects.
45. Can now enable blocking enemies to use the default MUGEN guard system instead of the previous HitOverride blocking system.
46. Ranked mode added. See how high you can get your Rank with just 1 life and 80% weaker healing items. Enemies have -25% power and very low life, but as your Rank rises, stronger enemies start appearing and their life rises (but not their attack power).

47. New Enemy special effects added:
Stealth (Mostly invisible, Immune to normal attacks while invisible, deals big damage if attacking while invisible, -25% max life)
Buffer Armor (60% of damage taken is 'delayed', instead being dealt to the enemy at 15 Life per second. +50% max life) Enemy has pale yellow PalFX effect on them.
Sub-Elite (+25% max life, damage dealt +10%) 2 sliver stars are next to enemy lifebar.
Elite (+50% max life, damage dealt +20%, slightly increased attack rate) 3 gold stars are next to enemy lifebar.
Super Elite (+75% max life, damage dealt +30%, increased attack rate) 4 cyan stars are next to enemy lifebar.
You can set the enemy special effects option to "2" to make only the elite-class enemies appear

48. Added Poison status compatibility to enemies. If you have an character that causes (or is meant to cause) poison or any other damage-over-time effect with a custom state, use the following state controllers in the custom hit state of the attack to add the effect to an SoR enemy hit by said attack (Note that enemies can't be KO'd by poison damage):

;Set duration of poison effect here (in frames, 60 = 1 second)
[State 525, VarSet]
type = VarSet
trigger1 = IsHelper(200) || IsHelper(201) || IsHelper(202)
trigger1 = Var(41) = 470561329;Unique ID for SoR enemies
trigger1 = Time = 0
v = 22
value = 60;<-- Change
ignorehitpause = 1

;Set strength of poison effect here (Enemy life is a float value, damage is dealt every frame. Ex. 0.1 = 6 damage per second)
[State 525, VarSet]
type = VarSet
trigger1 = IsHelper(200) || IsHelper(201) || IsHelper(202)
trigger1 = Var(41) = 470561329;Unique ID for SoR enemies
trigger1 = Time = 0
fv = 27
value = 0.1;<-- Change
ignorehitpause = 1

49. Modified the way points are gained when hitting enemies~.
50. No longer possible to lose against the bonus game. Getting KO at 0 lives instead reduces current score by 25%. Score loss from KOs above 0 lives now reduce score by 3% instead of 5%^.

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1. Removed Tiger's reversal move; it made it rather diffcult to attack a group of enemies since Tiger could just deflect the attack and protect everyone.
2. An 'EVA' Akaiho's Flying Kick counter move is no longer a counter; he now simply rolls behind you (or away if you are close to the edge of the screen).
3. Screen-Shift ability removed from enemies that can use it (The ability where an enemy stuck in a corner walks offscreen, then reappears on the other side).

4. Base Max Life of the 4 mini-bosses at the beginning reduced to keep the battle from lasting too long.
5. Guard-Sparks no longer appear when enemies block attacks.
6. Ash's "Dash Run" Throw has a much quicker start-up time and heavily increased run speed.

7. Removed Fog's and Vice's 'Back Hold' grabs; they were supposed to hold a character so that other enemies could hit the held character, but it didn't work correctly.
8. Fixed issue with Zamza attempting his 'Slide Kick' attack when his opponent is clearly out of range.
9. When playing in Simul mode against the bonus game, if one character on the team gets KO'd for good, any bosses/mini-bosses fought afterwards no longer get increased life.

10. Also in Simul mode against the bonus game, the amount of starting lives is doubled (+1 if starting lives is 0). Helps make up for the fact that lives are shared.
11. Damage taken by blocking enemies is now affected by the Extra Damage Multiplier in the Config file.
12. Added option to randomly make normal enemies appear with more life than usual (Is on by default).

13. Added option to make bosses/mini-bosses appear with more life if the Damage Multiplier setting is set above 1, so that they aren't easily defeated because of that option.
14. Shiva takes 50% less damage when hit in the air or while lying on the ground. This makes it so that if people try to prevent his counter attack, and his ability to block attacks while being hit, by air-comboing or using OTG-combos on him, they won't get as good results (damage) as they would fighting him normally on the ground.
15. Shiva now gets a large attack/defense boost when his life hits 1000 or less, as well as increased speed and attack rate, similar to Mr.X

16. When respawning from a "Fake KO", player characters now jump to the spot where they were KO'd instead of always in the center of the screen.
17. New healing items can now be found in the objects that fall. Overall chance of finding a healing item is now slightly higher. *
18. Picking up healing items will now earn small amounts of points if you are missing less life than it heals.

19. Fixed problem with Garcia not stopping his Knife Run attack when he is close to you and you where already knocked down by another enemy.
20. Fixed major problem where you would fight a boss before the proper mini-boss if the enemy strength meter increased in any way.
21. Removed Big-Ben's "Jump Kick" attack; its now just his jump stance he goes into before using his "Body Slam" attack.

22. Abadede's anti-air punch now can hit for a brief momment when his arm is raised upwards. Makes the attack actually able to hit aerial opponents.
23. Proper explosion effects from SoR2 added.
24. Many non-projectile & non-air enemy attacks can now be avoided by crouching**.

25. In Speed Run Mode, the enemy strength meter is now set to 12000 instead of 15000.
26. Fixed problem with the shoulder throw technique not being able to be used against Roo.
27. When Electra uses her 'Electric Whip' attack, she can now hit with the whip itself instead of just the electric ball that appears.

28. Seeker can't appear with special effects anymore if the setting is on. Fixes several problems related to the explods that appear when an enemy has a special effect.
29. Fixed a large amount of other problems related to enemy special effects.
30. Enemies with the 'Evasion' effect only have 1 transparent copy of themselves for the effect instead of 2. Reduces chance of lag.

31. Removed Roo's and Ash's ability to block attacks.
32. The 'electrified' sound effect from Electra/Particle/Molecule now won't won't be heard if you Parry the attack, or simply are hit while you have a hitoverride active.***
33. When Mr.X fires his gun (Tommy Gun attack), Garcia/Donovan can't spawn. Fixes an annoying problem where a spawning enemy would cause you to turn when guarding the attack.

34. The shuriken Kusanagi throws in his "Air Triple Shuriken Throw" attack don't cause knockdown anymore.
35. Adjusted Y.Signal's CLSN2 boxes to make it easier to hit him after launching him into the air; previously the CLSN2 boxes were positioned in a very odd way.
36. Bosses and Mini-Bosses that take too much damage in a combo are sent flying in an invincible state. Bosses will still get the usual invincibility after they get-up.

37. If you play with enemy special effects on, there is a new enemy effect, the "Barrier". Enemies with a Barrier have a light-blue/white animated bar covering their life bar in the custom HUD, as well as a 'barrier' around themselves. You have to destroy this barrier before the enemy can take damage normally (they'll still experience hitstun as normal). One thing to note is that the enemy barrier takes slightly less damage from all attacks. You won't notice with most attacks, unless the attack consists of many low damaging hits, in which case the damage will be reduced by quite a bit. Another thing to note is the Barrier Strength of the enemy is random each time an enemy appears with it.

38. The default values for some settings have been changed:
-Enemy Strength Meter is now 15000 instead of 10000.
-Enemy Defense Type is now 0 (Off) instead of 3.
-Extra damage mulitplier is now 2 instead of 1.

These new default values fix a problem I've noticed since the first version of the Bonus Game; it takes way too long to defeat normal enemies. The defense settings were added to prevent absurdly quick KOs of enemies, but I see now that KOing normal enemies quickly was sort of the point of the games. With the Defense setting off and the damage taken by enemies doubled, the bonus game feels more like Streets of Rage in that you are fighting multiple enemies at once, but you can take them down quickly. The Enemy Strength Meter being at 15000 is to make sure you actually do fight against multiple enemies before fighting a boss/mini-boss. The new random life bonus setting for enemies being on also makes sure that you fight against 'tough' enemies that don't go down with just 1 combo. Just remember that Bosses and Mini-Bosses have their life multipled by the Extra Damage Mulitplier (if its set above 1) in order to nullify the effect and not be easily KO'd like a normal enemy (If you want, you can disable this effect in the config file).

39. Mona/Lisa have had the following changes (to make them act more like they did in SoR3):
-They use their invincible backflip more often now.
-They will use team attacks much more often, and can now use team attacks even if the HitOverride option is on.
-The team attacks are now performed more like it was in SoR3; Mona stays still while Lisa quickly walks, invincible, to Mona.
-The flying kick attack (solo attack) now longer goes all the way across the screen. Instead, its movement is more like a standard hop.
-Since they're tougher to hit than before, they have 500 less base life.

40. New Game Mode added: "Traditional". "Traditional" has you fight only normal enemies each round until the enemy strength meter is 0; no bosses or mini-bosses appear, greatly reducing the length of the game.

* = You can now find a Soda, Pizza Slices, and a Medkit as healing items.
-The Soda is from Streets of Rage Remake and restores 16% of your max life, or 160 life if your max life is less than 1000.
-The Pizza Slices item restores 50% of your max life, or 500 life if your max life is less than 1000. This item is also from Streets of Rage Remake, and was originally 1 Pizza Slice that healed about the same as the apple item. I made it 3 Slices here so that it would actually be a different item than the apple.
-The Medkit item is custom made by me, and will restore 75% of your max life, or 750 life if your max life is less than 1000.

** = I debated for a long time whether I should add this, since it would mean many enemies would have few or no attacks to hit a crouching player, but after seeing just how absurd it was for a player's crouching sweep kick to lose against an enemy punch that clearly went over their head, I decided to add it. Most enemy punches can be avoiding by crouching, unless the punch hits 'lower' than usual (Ex. Fog's light punch and Barbon's punch). Most enemy 'anti-air' attacks (Such as Hakuyo's/Tiger's/Raven's high kick) can also be avoided by crouching. Basically, if the enemy attack goes over your character's head while you are crouching (assuming your character is of average height), it won't hit you while you are crouching.

*** = I found it wrong how the 'electrified' sound still plays when a character gets 'hit' by the attack but isn't actually sent into the electrified state because of a HitOverride. This fixes that.
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7/30/2017
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---All characters, except Yamato
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-Fixed problem where characters would start with no blitz stars or grip meter when appearing in Turns mode.

-Fixed problem where some characters would retain a small amount of Grip after using a throw action that should deplete the remaining Grip.

-When fighting Yamato, characters can hold Yamato from behind without him being able to escape through the Shoulder Throw escape mechanic. However, Yamato will now auto-escape from grabs after 1.25 seconds of being held without being hit/thrown, and the Grip meter now drops twice as fast after grabbing Yamato. (The point of this is to mimic boss behavior to grabs in the SoR games.)

-Hyper Attacks are now less affected by the Damage Dampener. Makes comboing into them actually worth the Power cost.

-Offset of characters while performing a vault changed.

-When fighting the SoR Bonus Game, the character's Defensive Special (the 'Combo Breaker' one) no longer loses 50% of its power when used to break out of enemy attacks.

-When holding someone from behind, either from grabbing them from behind or by performing a vault, there is a very brief moment at the start of the state where the person that was grabbed can't attempt the Shoulder Throw Technique. Should make it much easier to actually perform all character's Back Grab attacks, especially against AI-controlled characters since they seem to be able to start the Shoulder Throw attempt as soon as they are held from behind by a SoR Character. This doesn't stop the attempt of the Shoulder Throw Technique; if the target presses the 'A' button early and the attacker doesn't throw in time, the target still goes into the first part of the Shoulder Throw Technique.

-Power of all hits of "Basic Combo" becomes extremely low if used to juggle opponent (Opponent hitcount is 6 or higher). Since its very easy to juggle an opponent with the "Basic Combo", especially if they are stuck in a corner, this power drop should discourage that 'tactic'.

-All characters (except Mr.X) can now combo into Hyper attacks from there "Forward+Y" attacks. Because of the fact that Roo's and Max's "Forward+Y" specials can cause them to go through their opponents, they'll auto-turn to face their opponents if they combo into a hyper attack from their "Forward+Y" special.

-"Forward+Y" special no longer triggers the Hit Limit system.

-Its now possible to combo from a character's Lv.0 or Lv.1 Blitz attack into their Lv.2 or Lv.3 Blitz attack. When doing so, the hit limit system is disabled for the  Lv.2/Lv.3 Blitz attack until the attack ends. Your target is also forced to appear in front of you standing (and in a dizzy state), ensuring your attack hits. However, other SoR characters will be able to break out of this state with their Defensive Special. For Skate, he'll also auto-turn to face his opponents since his Lv.0 and Lv.1 Blitz attacks pass through opponents.

-Opponents that are forced into the 'invincible' state after being hit too many times in a combo have their player push disabled while in that state.

-All character's red grip meter completely recovers at the start of a round, which in turn allows the yellow meter (your actual current grip), to recover quickly.

-All character's crouching attacks have faster start-up. Since its way too easy to avoid many of the SoR character's attacks by crouching, they're getting a big crouching attack speed boost to help them deal with those crouching opponents. Only exception is Mr.X, who does not have any crouching attacks.

-After grabbing and throwing an opponent, or using an ender attack, all characters are invincible for a bit afterwards. Stops character from being cheap-shotted by a waiting enemy partner in Simul mode.

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---Yamato
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-Opponents hit by Teleport Slash fall faster, reducing chance of Yamato being able to land more hits right afterwards.
-Last hit of Punch Combo no longer causes knockdown. It only knocks targets away now.

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---Axel
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-Enemy "Block Gauge" (if the X-Zone Hyper is enabled) drops 25% faster when blocking Axel's attacks outside of the X-Zone hyper.
-The X-Zone Hyper is now disabled by default in the Config file.
-Reduced frame disadvantage when "Bare Knuckle" and "Bare Knuckle+" are blocked.

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---Blaze
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-All Blitz attacks have slightly faster start-up time. Makes it easier to combo into from "Basic Combo".
-The sliding part of Blaze's Lv.3 Blitz attack can now hit opponents lying on the ground. Prevents attack from missing if opponent somehow hits ground before Blaze slides.
-Fixed issue with Blaze flying upwards when comboing into her Lv.1 or Lv.2 hyper attack from a Lv.0 or Lv.1 Blitz Attack.
-Fixed issue with the last hit of Blaze's Blitz attacks giving more Power (Super Energy) than they should have.
-Extra CLSN1 hitbox added to 2 frames of the Lv.2 Hyper "Knife Frenzy". Should allow Blaze to hit with the entire attack more easily.
-Animation of "Suplex" changed slightly; the start-up takes a bit longer, but the end is shorter. This makes the attack look less weird at the end where Blaze is just holding her target over the ground instead of actually slamming them to the ground. This doesn't affect anything else about the attack.

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---Max
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-Changed Life from 1050 to 1000. Changed defense from 105 to 110.
-"Lightning Tackle" no longer uses a custom state for the 'electrified' state.
-All attacks in 'Basic Combo' have faster start-up time. (Even though Max is slow overall, this attack was way too slow to hit with before; first hit had 12 frame start-up!)
-"Slide", "Slide+", and the Slide attack of the Lv.2 Blitz Attack no longer trigger the Hit Limit system on hit 3 or higher. (Was there to prevent infinite combos, but the hitdefs have been changed so that is no longer possible).
-Animation of "Brain Buster" and "Suplex" changed so that the end is slightly shorter. Reason is the same as Blaze's Suplex animation change.

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---Skate
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-Fixed problem with the "Migraine" back hold attack not being able to KO opponents.
-"360 Spin" has faster start-up.
-Increased the pausetime of the first hits of "360 Spin" so that the opponent does not fall to the ground or move too far away before the attack can actually hit.
-Animation used for "Dynamite Headbutt" and "Dashing Headbutt" has slightly larger Red (CLSN1) hit-boxes.
-When Skate hits with "Dynamite Headbutt" or "Dashing Headbutt", his X-Velocity is reduced by 50%. This ensures the 'rolling' part of the attack actually hits.
-Last attack of "Basic Combo" ends faster.

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---Dr.Zan
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-"Electric Body" attack hits faster (less time between hits), and no longer gives large frame advantage if blocked.
-"Electric Reach" also has less time between hits.
-"Electric Body" and "Electric Reach" no longer use a custom state for the 'electrified' state.
-Last hit of "Basic Combo" has less end time.

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---Adam
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-Changed Life from 1100 to 1000.
-Blitz Attacks no longer give large frame advantages if blocked. Fixes problem with Adam being able to easily lock his opponents in guardstun with repeated Blitz attacks.
-All hyper attacks are now his weapon attacks from Streets of Rage Remake. (Note: these weapon attack sprites are from Streets of Rage Remake, but the other sprites are not. As a result, you'll most likely notice a change in appearance of the style of the sprites when using the new hyper attacks. I know it doesn't look good, but I didn't like how Adam's hyper attacks were pretty much the same as each other, so I changed them.)
-Start-up speed of "Slam Knuckle" increased.

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---Roo
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-"Tail Spin" (ground version) max hits increased from 7 to 8.
-"Kick Flip" is now performed faster and has less start-up and ending time.
-"Drop Kick" starts up faster.
-"Tornado Kick" causes knockdown on some more hits torwards the end of the attack. Prevents issue where Roo's opponent wouldn't get knockdown when this attack was used at extremely close range.

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---Shiva/Ultra Shiva
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-First 2 attacks of the Basic Combo now have half the pausetime. Speeds up the attack.
-Last hit of Basic Combo now has higher knockback against aerial opponents that block it. Helps prevent an exploit (mostly against the AI) where the last hit could be blocked, and because of the low knockback & guardstun, any character could counter-attack almost instantly. This exploit could be used to jump kick Ultra Shiva until he is KO'd with little risk, despite his complex AI.
-At the end of a Lv.0 or Lv.1 Blitz attack (Final Crash), Shiva now moves backwards a bit during the flip, similar to the attack in the SoR games.
-"Side Slash" Lv.3 Hyper has slightly faster start-up.

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---Ultra Shiva
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-NEW ATTACK: "Swift Jumping Reverse Kick" - A 'Jumping Reverse Kick' that cost 4 Blitz Stars, but launches Ultra Shiva right to his opponent, even if they are all the way across the screen, has higher power, and gives Ultra Shiva immunity to projectiles, making it the ultimate counter to projectile users.
-Ultra AI is now the default AI for Ultra Shiva; it can't be toggled in the Config file anymore (otherwise this would just be normal Shiva with a few more moves.)

-In Speed Run mode, your score is replaced with a light blue number that is always counting up as long as enemies are onscreen. Your goal is to finish the bonus game as fast as you can. There are some settings that are changed for Speed Run Mode:

--Enemy Strength Value Set to 15000
--Infinite Lives Mode is set to ON (although the "Infinite Lives Mode On" text doesn't appear)
--Damage multiplier set to 2 vs. normal enemies, 1.5 vs. mini-bosses, and 1 vs. bosses. ^^
--Defense booster is set to 0 (No def.boost) for normal enemies and mini-bosses and 3 (Tier Booster) for the main bosses.
--Special Effects for enemies are disabled if they were enabled in the config settings.
--The new "Quick KO-Recover" setting is set to On.

There are also some changes to the bonus game mechanics as well:

-1-Ups no longer appear. The number of lives remaining next to your life bar also doesn't appear (since there are infinite lives in Speed Run Mode).
-The Bag of Cash item gives 1000 Power (Super Energy) instead of points.
-The Gold Bars give 3000 Power instead of 5000 points.
-Cody no longer drops a 1-Up upon defeat. Because of this, he has lower stats than usual. He also doesn't have a delay before he can appear again.
-The area where you destroy a control panel to save the general is skipped.
-Getting KO'd adds 300* to the timer.
-Enemies appear faster.^

* = In the update history file, it says 120 is added. I forgot to change that.
^ = I also forgot to put this in the update history file.
^^ = Another thing I forgot to add: The damage multiplier for bosses is actually 1.25, but not for Shiva or Mr.X.

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---All characters, except Yamato
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-All characters are now immune to non-hyper attacks at the start of their Lv.3 Hyper Attack. Exact time varies for each character. (The sooner the
attack hits, the lower the invincible time)
-Fixed problem with characters almost never throwing opponents after grabbing them.

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---Axel
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-Various sounds and voices added to X-Zone Hyper attacks.
-Sound added when opponent hits the ground after being launched.
-Fixed minor issue where the "Cross-Attempt" attack damaged the block gauge before the attack actually hit.
-"Breaker Combo X" causes x5 more block gauge damage instead of just x3.5
-"XP Combo" now gains x3 XP per hit instead of just x2.
-Axel can now use the "Mirage Cancel" technique during the X-Zone Hyper. (It uses the B-button, which means that B can't be used to input basic attacks anymore instead of A)
-Power of "Damage Combo" and "Damage Combo X" now slightly less affected by the block gauge (damage decrease reduced from -15% per block charge to -12.5%)
-An AI-Controlled Axel can now use the X-Zone hyper.
-Axel gets slightly more invincible time after using "Dragon Smash". Fixes problem where he could be hit right after landing from the attack.

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---Blaze
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-Fixed problem with Blaze flying upwards when using her "Sword Charge" Hyper during her Lv.0 and Lv.1 Blitz attack.

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---Roo
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-Fixed some minor issues with his grabs.
-Afterimages added to Lv.3 hyper.
-Roo gets slightly more invincible time after using "TailSpin". Fixes same problem Axel had with his "Dragon Smash" attack.

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---Yamato
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-Invincible time after getting up increased a bit
-During "Decoy Slash", the fake that jumps away will no longer keep the camera from moving.
-After using "Dash Attack", there is now a brief moment where Yamato can't move or attack.

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---Shiva
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-"Axe Kick" is faster; now the same speed as his Ultra version's.

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---Shiva/Ultra Shiva
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-Get-up anim is slightly slower.

-"Absolute Guard" changed to be more balanced. Exact changes in spoiler:

-Absolute Guard now prevents all damage from attacks that deal 40 or less damage. (Previously was 35 or less)

-Damage reduction of Absolute Guard increased from 85% to 90%.

-Fixed minor issue with the wrong sprites being used for some hit animations.

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---Ultra Shiva
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-Special meter charge rate reduced by 33%. (To make it easier to land combos on Ultra Shiva without him breaking out of it).
-NEW ATTACK: "Sweep Counter" - A unique Counter Hyper that only counters crouching attacks. In exchange, the resulting counter attack is quite strong.
-NEW SKILL: "Acro-Escape" - At the cost of 2 bars of special meter, Shiva can flip away from his opponent after hitting with any of his air attacks, blocked or not.