Best beat 'em up remixes/remakes??

[JazzFunk]

After seeing that cool-looking Streets Of Rage remix/remake drmick posted in the "1994-2005 game that most deserves a remake" thread, I was just wondering which of these remakes were actually worth downloading?

I've looked on YouTube, and there's loads of these variants, different versions of Double Dragon, Streets Of Rage and the like, all with sprites ripped from other games. Some, like the aforementioned SOR remake look great, very well-made with lots of attention to detail, whereas others look a little shonky with repetitive, amateurish backdrops and badly-ripped sprites. I've known about Beats Of Rage for years, but there seems to be millions of them now.

I mean, damn, I've had a PC since 2004, but have only just bought a gamepad for it(!), and all of my retro has been played either on original hardware or compilation packs on PS2/XBox etc. I'm not as restrictive in my attitude about things as I was, and there seems to be lots of interesting homebrew beat 'em ups out there right now, and I am so back in that zone right now, I'm fiending for fighters again.

So, what do you guys recommend?

[Yakumo]

Hmm, for me the Street of Rage Remake by the Brazilian team is the ultimate remake of any beat'em up. Everything is how it should be.

[J0e Musashi]

The Final Fight JAMMA hack. If you can find it.

[samanosuke]

The Final Fight JAMMA hack. If you can find it.

Apparently it's been dumped:

http://neosource.1emu.net/forums/index.php?topic=1267.0

Can't find it though

If anyone else manages to, do us a favour and drop me a PM

[JazzFunk]

Well, I'm deffo gonna DL that SOR remake.

As for the Final Fight hack, is that the one on YouTube, where you can play as Andore, Damnd etc.? Looks good, but it seems you can't pick up ingame objects such as food/weapons etc.(!)

Any of those Double Dragon hacks decent?

[nakamura]

I have the SoR remake. Its absolutely brilliant and I would have gladly paid 1200 points for it and I haven't downloaded 1 live arcade game yet.

[samanosuke]

Hang on a minute - I thought that the SoR remake you were referring to was Beats of Rage. Now I've had a little search and found that you were talking about a proper remake! I came in my pants when I saw the bulldozer bit here:

http://www.bombergames.net/sorr_project/

Is it actually finished or what? From what I can gather there is/will be a Wiz version. Having a look for it now...

[nakamura]

I think the newest was version 4.01 but don;t quote me. Its virtually done but you cannot save.

[^Katsu]

I just set up beats of rage Awesome tune and intro, will be pressing the start in a second!
Also found the FF H4ck but not working atm

[Shoju]

This version of Golden Axe looked really impressive. It's not complete yet but the ideas for the full game look really promising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5BIoPRMnPg

I think it just needs to be a bit less hectic.

[JazzFunk]

^That looks really cool. I never got on with Golden Axe: The Duel, but the artwork was excellent in it. Transposing it into a side-scroller seems to have worked out pretty well.

[m3evo]

has anyone been able to get BOR working on Vista?