v2.9.1

What's new in 2.9.1: fights across the whole wide view, and Bare Knuckle III DX's music

Fixed:

• Widescreen: no hits past the original 4:3 edges (#27). All three games still treated the wide part of the view as off screen. Enemies there wouldn't attack, and a hit on a fighter there didn't count. Anything in the wide view now fights as it would inside 4:3, except where a room is held to 4:3.
  • Streets of Rage 3: enemies next to a player at the far right now attack (16 hits in a test, none before), and the player's hits land.
  • Streets of Rage: enemies walking in through the wide view can be hit (21 hits past the old edges in a test run, 3 before).
  • Streets of Rage 2: the enemies' "is my target on screen" check is widened the same way as in Streets of Rage 3.
• Bare Knuckle III DX: your own music files, and the launcher's music (#26). The hack's sound driver sits at a different address from the cartridge's, so music files were ignored and the launcher's music player was silent. Both work now.

Checked, not changed:

• In widescreen, all three games still finish every fight and move on through the rounds. With widescreen off, every game and edition still matches the interpreter frame for frame.
• Bare Knuckle III DX's 7A scenery matches the hack's own since 2.8.3 (#25).

Not fixed yet:

• Sprites flickering in 7A's robot factory when it's crowded (#21).
• A light black flicker with high frame rate (Streets of Rage 2), round 6's screen unlock glitch (#20, the other parts) and the background jitter at the start of a level (#17).

Everything from 2.9 is in this release. If you have 2.9, the collection offers this update when it opens.

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Download Streets-of-Rage-Collection-Setup-v2.9.1.exe below and run it.

Setup asks where to install (your user's Programs folder by default, no administrator rights needed), then for your own ROMs: Streets of Rage (World), Streets of Rage 2 (USA) and Streets of Rage 3 (USA), with optional rows under it for Bare Knuckle III (Japan), its English patch and the Bare Knuckle III DX patch (Bare Knuckle III is built on the USA ROM, so pick that one too). Each is checked as you pick it; skip any you do not have and add it later by running Setup again (Settings > Apps > Streets of Rage Collection > Modify).

It then downloads the build tools it needs (Node.js, CMake, Ninja and LLVM-MinGW, about 260 MB, from their publishers, checked against pinned SHA-256s) into the install folder, builds each game from its ROM (a few minutes), and adds the collection to the Start menu.

No part of any game is included in this release. You need your own copies of the cartridges.