Alucard
Still Fresh
This game plays perfect with DrMD except for one little annoying (and very weird) bug: when you do your first hit you magically gain exactly 10 lives - this makes the game too easy. The bug will also occur after you use a continue.
Usually I never use savestates, but in order to solve this problem I made an exception. Right at the beginning of the game I let the first appearing characters beat the crap out of me until I lost all continues. Then I hit just one of the guys once to gain the ten lives. After that I let them beat me up, again, until I had only 3 lives left. During all this I positioned myself in a way that prevented the screen from scrolling to the right - so I'm really still at the beginning. Now I paused the game and saved it. I did this for each of the four main characters on normal and hard difficulty plus Max and Axel on hardest difficulty - so that each of the ten savestate-slots is used.
Now I load a savestate in order to start a game without the feeling to cheat. Since there are no continues it certainly is a challenge...
Because it takes quite some time to do the "bugfix"
I described above, I made the savestates available for download HERE!
To use the savestates you just have to unpack them into your /GPMM/DRMD/ - folder and rename your "Streets of Rage 2" - rom to STROFRG2.smd.
Here's a list of the states I saved (you always start with 3 lives, 0 continues and one enemy took a one-hit damage already):
STROFRG2.SV0 -> Play as Axel on HARDEST
STROFRG2.SV1 -> Play as Max on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV2 -> Play as Axel on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV3 -> Play as Blaze on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV4 -> Play as Skate on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV5 -> Play as Max on HARD
STROFRG2.SV6 -> Play as Axel on HARD
STROFRG2.SV7 -> Play as Blaze on HARD
STROFRG2.SV8 -> Play as Skate on HARD
STROFRG2.SV9 -> Play as Max on HARDEST
~Alucard
Usually I never use savestates, but in order to solve this problem I made an exception. Right at the beginning of the game I let the first appearing characters beat the crap out of me until I lost all continues. Then I hit just one of the guys once to gain the ten lives. After that I let them beat me up, again, until I had only 3 lives left. During all this I positioned myself in a way that prevented the screen from scrolling to the right - so I'm really still at the beginning. Now I paused the game and saved it. I did this for each of the four main characters on normal and hard difficulty plus Max and Axel on hardest difficulty - so that each of the ten savestate-slots is used.
Now I load a savestate in order to start a game without the feeling to cheat. Since there are no continues it certainly is a challenge...
Because it takes quite some time to do the "bugfix"
To use the savestates you just have to unpack them into your /GPMM/DRMD/ - folder and rename your "Streets of Rage 2" - rom to STROFRG2.smd.
Here's a list of the states I saved (you always start with 3 lives, 0 continues and one enemy took a one-hit damage already):
STROFRG2.SV0 -> Play as Axel on HARDEST
STROFRG2.SV1 -> Play as Max on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV2 -> Play as Axel on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV3 -> Play as Blaze on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV4 -> Play as Skate on NORMAL
STROFRG2.SV5 -> Play as Max on HARD
STROFRG2.SV6 -> Play as Axel on HARD
STROFRG2.SV7 -> Play as Blaze on HARD
STROFRG2.SV8 -> Play as Skate on HARD
STROFRG2.SV9 -> Play as Max on HARDEST
~Alucard