Batman Returns MD - Sega Genesis Demo

[@GameSack]

I thought this was a great proof of concept. I kinda wish they didn't take music from Dragon's Curse and the laugh from Streets of Rage 2 though. Also that boss fight goes on for what feels like forever. And they really need to tone down the amount of enemies onscreen at once. I actually lose my character as he disappears in the flicker.

[@gamerxt333]

Think of it more like a tech demo I guess. Like I'm sure they'd reduce the sprites for a completed port, even if some emulators could remove the flicker.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

I doubt this would be finished mind.

[@ptakleo]

You're the architect of my dreams man

[@shenglongisback4688]

​@@gamerxt333 it is a test for future projects maybe a new Beat em up. Pyron said he has no intention to finish this.

[@HoroJoga]

did you just say tits?

[@jessragan6714]

One thing that Pyron does really well is make the most of the limited color palette of the Sega Genesis. Who wants a bright purple Batman, anyway?

[@Super_Croptendo]

The snes graphics were too colorful, and the music was too whimsical, it was for them fairy boy gamer's who like to twirl 🧚

[@shenglongisback4688]

Pyron got it locked down. Pigsy SOTN port with Pyron help EMac.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

When he isn't busy crushing the Darkstalkers, hes crushing the design template.

[@enforcer0175]

I just want to say thank you for making the content you do. I was an SNES kid growing up, when these consoles were current. Sure I played the genesis at friends houses but I never owned one until now. A few years back I ordered a Genesis mini on a whim and got hooked. Your content makes it easy to know what I should seek out, both with official games, and modern projects worth taking a look at. Its much appreciated! Please keep it up!

[@BigSnipp]

This is a positive channel. All fans are welcome.

[@cd5sircoupe]

I was the exact opposite growing up, I had a Genesis and later a Playstation, only Nintendo stuff I had was an NES & a Gameboy Pocket. Funny thing about your comment is that I started messing with my Genesis Mini again on Xmas when I was bored, think I have something like 500 games on there now including a bunch of Snes titles and rom hacks.

[@AshleysBallistics]

The Mega Drive was the gift that kept on giving 😯

[@midwestmonster9886]

I applaud what these programmers are doing. Had this actually been released on Genesis back in the day, it would have had half of the bosses and half of the megabytes. And two of the levels would have been replaced with originals (likely TMNT rehashes) due to Nintendo's contract at the time preventing the exact same game from appearing on the Genesis.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

This is very impressive, I wish we got this instead of Sega of Americas Batman Returns

[@chumorgan443]

I swear , PYRON keeps getting more and more colours out of the Genesis with each project they works on.

[@ANIMALCRACKERS85]

Wish Pyron had been more clear in the trailer that it was just a tech demo... still a great achievement for one programmer and one artist.

[@chrislaustin]

Agreed, as I thought it was going to be a full release on Christmas day, it was still a gift, just not the one I originally anticipated.

[@cliffchampion5501]

I remember at 9 years old I developed a crush on cat woman. She was my first real crush. I was a crazy kid back then

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

Trust me, you are not the only one that fancied Catwoman, she was sexy AF to a 13-year-old me.

[@mjdf122]

Happy Holidays Sega Lord X and Batman

[@stonerdemon]

Love the SNES game, but this is really impressive stuff. Batman's proportions look way better.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

No crop

[@nicotoscani1707]

@@stonerdemon it's cos the megadrive resolution is higher than snes and slightly wider than a crt tv's width.. so when it's displayed on these old tube tvs, the megadrive graphics look slightly squashed... opposite effect on the snes cos the resolution is narrower than a tube tv .. which is why batman sprite looks wide on snes

[@paulj5336]

When i play this on the snes, you better believe that every breakable surface has a combo finish that way. No benches or windows survive!

[@metalex165]

Only way to play the game!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

If you want to see a port that the author is actually intent on finishing, turn your attention to Sonic Robo Blast 2 for the 32X. It has one of the original developers on board, and he's stated on the download page that the aim is to port the entire thing.

[@ItsPaybackTime89]

The 32X was a commercial flop, no one even owns one. No point in making new game's for that. The standard genesis is good enough.

[@Shyning77]

@@ItsPaybackTime89 You know that emulators like Kega Fusion exist, right ? It's not mandatory to play on the actual original hardware to enjoy a game and see the achievement.

[@DavidJohnson-td5ic]

I've never been so elated and disappointed with a Christmas gift in all my life! The demo is absolutely mind blowing! I was smiling through the whole playthrough, reliving feelings of playing games like Bloodlines, Rocket Knight, Hard Corps and Gunstar Heroes in the days of yore. In my rush to support and download the demo, I failed to read the part that said they basically just wanted to prove that it could be done, with no plans to actually finish it! Bummer! Ah well, thankful for this wonderful product anyway! Well done! Can't wait to see what you guys do in the future!

[@The_Texorcist]

That looks pretty dang good. If only we could get a full game, but oh well.

[@Metallic-Sun]

I wish stage 1 of Pyron's Sunset Riders would have been released to the public.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Pyron and Gasega68k are trying to see who can put out the highest number of incomplete projects.

[@hpickettz34]

​@SomeOrangeCat well, they can do whatever they want since no one is paying them.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@hpickettz34 Not to mention that if it's someone else's IP, the copyright holder can shut their project down at any time. I'd rather have them make their own IP.

[@cajampa]

​@@KasumiKenshirouTo copy someone else's art is infinitely easier than creating something great original from scratch. I bet these dudes are great coders but maybe not as good graphical artists. So it would be way easier for them to follow and improve on a path already taken to improve their skills, like they did.

[@minimobilereview6570]

There is only one SegaLord

[@alexelectricx]

Merry Xmas & Happy New Year Sega Lord X!

[@TheGamingLich]

Yes, this may look, play, sound, and follow the film better than the 1992 Sega Genesis version, but where is the sense of existential despair one gets from suffering through the original game?

[@evilash570]

They probably won’t develop it beyond a demo due to licensing, the team should re-use the engine and re-skin it into a new beat em up

[@dragonchaserkev]

With the right programmers it seems almost anything is possible on any hardware. Huge props to people who do fan made stuff like this. I am looking to hire some programmers to make a game I have in mind but whenever I try to contact some I get no reply...

[@Nightwing978]

Can't wait for the full game and I love the SNES version

[@willrobinson7599]

Great tech demo on the humble megadrive . Maybe I'd of sacrificed a couple less enemies to fight rather than the sprite flicker

[@Kevinwoolford123]

I finished the snes one the other night and im thankful it didnt have more enemies lol this is impressive

[@Akiga_games]

This was another great episode! Great content man!

[@Sandlot1992]

Happy Holidays Sega Lord X!

[@jonathanlisowski5618]

I'm just gonna ask to give us more than a taste of Batman Returns MD.

[@ricardobarros1090]

Thanks to Brazilians Sega Lovers for development ❤

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

You just gotta admire the attention to detail from Pyron on the graphics and overall proof that the MD could and should have done a very good port of the SNES version of Batman Returns which so happens to be one of my favourite movies of all time.

[@nightshadehelis9821]

I always find myself coming back to this channel. Amazing content as usual. Hope you had a great Christmas.

[@DeludedOne]

Shoutout to the Big Ben laugh from Streets of Rage 2 for the Strongman boss. Oh and it's interesting that enemies actually hit each other with their own jabs. Usually enemy on enemy damage is limited to throws and some special cases limited mostly to boss type enemies. But it looks like friendly fire is fully on for enemies in this demo.

[@markula_4040]

I actually don't like that. Using assets from other non-Batman games makes it feel cheap. There is a real chance to make it feel authentic if a full version is ever completed.

[@justinlink1616]

Wow ... just wow. I am amazed that this could turn out this well. Very impressive.

[@Idelacio]

Hopefully they go on to make something greater than a port.

[@AI_Gaming_and_Technology]

My goodness, assembly is very difficult to program in!!! Well done to the programmer!!! I'm using SGDK and C to program Super Street Fighter 2 turbo for sega megadrive.....its not going well at all as I'm not a videogame programmer but a database programmer. Gamedevboss is also making SSF2T for Megadrive called Omega, his version is infinitely better than mine. This Batman demo looks amazing, seriously it cant be understated...making this in assembly rather than C is astounding.

[@tomevil6]

Awesome! Great video as always!

[@michaelpaoletti8588]

This should have been the Sega CD version with CD soundtrack. Bummer!

[@agamaz5650]

Agreed

[@megamario77]

And the 3D stages with the batmobile

[@willholland8124]

I was so excited for this and the youtube ad looked like the whole game was to be released on xmas. I then found the demo a few days b4 that so really thought it was gonna be the full game. I saw the "wont complete it" but figured they changednthere mind because if the demo.was out what was coming on xmas? It really is an amazing demo only hurt by the total disappointment of realizing it really is just going to stay that one level. Truely a great demo tho.

[@dad7275]

Mo finished project?? Aww man! Id sure like to have a finished game in physical form. Looks and sounds great (minus the flicker)!

[@danielrecommends]

I downloaded and played through the demo and loved it. I never got to play the SNES version but I loved the sound effects and music in this. Its very disappointing the developers aren't going to finish this. I say create a Kickstarter campaign and see if enough people are willing to fork over money to see this finished.

[@maximpact24]

Was fun while it lasted, I was hooked and then it was over. Too bad we couldn't even get a couple of levels to play. But the team did a fantastic job. Would be great if they would continue it though!

[@arcticridge]

Let the team know we'd be happy to donate to have this completed!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Good demo, but that boss battle though... woof... took me like 10 minutes to beat him and his constant stream of minions...

[@SENTRYXX]

The music Is from BATMAN animated from the snes versión 😂 thats Is the reason sound diferent

[@Boogie_the_cat]

I saw this announced a few days ago. I rented the crappy Sega of America Batman Returns as a young teen and hated it. A real disappointment. This looks like a cool project. Happy New Year, Sega Lord X and hope ya had a nice Christmas. Best luck in 2025 for your channel.

[@FrancoAlmiron-f6o]

It might be a tech demo, but Pyron truly shows that a Genesis port can be amazing!

[@f.k.b.16]

I like the way this game plays because Batman looks like a powerhouse of a man only to get overwhelmed by shear number.

[@Banderpop]

In an ideal world, we'd have a Sega CD version with the Danny Eflman movie soundtrack, the Sega CD driving sections, and Pyron-ported beat-em-up stages from the Konami game. And some sound and voice samples from the movie would be nice. Sega Europe promoted the CD game with a promotional video tape that had voice clips from Penguin and Catwoman playing over footage of the driving, and it was a shame to find that the final game didn't have anything like that.

[@registereduser]

I forgot back in the day how much I wanted Batman Returns for the SNES.

[@PhilBaxter]

The 256 to 320 pixel thing is interesting. It looks like some of the art was never really authored for those non-square 256 wide pixel screen modes, and so look better with the square pixels of 320 wide, but some things are clearly too narrow at 320. I wonder what Konami's process was back then. Conversion looks great though, aside from the massive amounts of sprite flicker.

[@pipikakachu]

I’m happy and disappointed that this exists because I want/need the full game. I think it’s great but I prefer the SNES sound. Also, I wish the second character was Catwoman or Alfred at least.

[@GenesisStillDoes]

The snes sound was muffled, just hear the difference when a enemy is thrown into the glass, the snes version is muffled glass breaking, while the genesis version sounds like actual glass breaking.

[@pipikakachu]

@ I know but the instruments sound better on SNES. It’s just my opinion

[@Thewickedjon]

i played the demo and it's awesome. I'd love a full game, but also can't wait to see what these devs are gonna work on next.

[@kevinramsey417]

This looks as good as the SNES version. Hell it looks BETTER than the SNES version. I just wish the 2nd player was a Robin that bore a suspicious resemblance to Marlon Wayans in a shoutout to the Robin that was originally going to be in Tim Burton's Batman sequel. I do love that the TAS theme is in this.

[@Mikewee777]

Lando was supposed to be two-face . The fuzzy haired goth movie producer is a coward .

[@KimonoFlareonGX]

Hearing that Genesis arrangement of Amused to Death from Konami’s Adventures of Batman and Robin on SNES makes me pine for a Genesis port of that game.

[@captainblackheart999]

Simply amazing what these programmers are capable of doing with the Genesis these days We get the ports of our childhooddreams Hopefully someone will take on the torch on this port

[@MintythecatIsABeast]

It looks and plays really well. Hopefully this will inspire a team to push the MD further.

[@starlightrevenant]

'I'm seeing double! Two Batmans!' I hope the full version has Batgirl playable.

[@videogameobsession]

There won't be a full version. Just this tech demo.

[@pharotman2311]

There is no batgirl in Batman returns.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@pharotman2311 They actually cast Marlon Wayans to play Robin in Batman Returns. His role was cut out of the script at the last minute, and they still had to pay Wayans. That's who I would've put in as the second player.

[@shaylanmackay3930]

This is an awesome Tech demo for the Genesis 8-)

[@BALDOGON]

Omg, what we would've had back then. Sega programmers slacked on the systems hardware. Shows you there's better developers out there that gives the genesis justice it still deserves. I pray this gets finished. Thumbs up to the team that made this😃👍👍🤟🤘🤙💯💯💯💫💫

[@Choralone422]

I'm sure licensing is going to be a huge reason this game may never see a full release or any sort of "official" release anyway. Looks like the team did a great job of porting the SNES game and tweaking it in meaningful ways along the way!

[@Oysterblade84]

These fan games always make it clear that they're made for free download as passion projects and not to be sold by pirates on the Asian market. Master Linkuei made a Star Wars Holiday game and in it's opening screen it clearly states that it's a passion project not to be sold on a cartridge and it mentions Sega, Disney and Lucasfilms on the screen. Licensing should not be a problem as long as these games and demos remain unsold.

[@volvoguy804]

But can you hit the other player? Batman vs. Batman the true battle!

[@datassetteuser356]

I was already amazed and then came the two player option 🤩👍 What a fine piece of game of the awesomest!

[@Dmar-ih7kr]

SRB2 for the 32X tho…

[@hammerheadms]

I am gutted to find out this will never get a full release.

[@AFourEyedGeek]

I'd like it if they had less enemies on the screen at once. Perhaps when the boss first appears, he could be higher up and drawn as a tile layer then, when you defeat enough enemies switches to sprites and become an enemy you can fight. Then reduce the total number of enemies on the screen to reduce sprite flicker, or perhaps have the boss retreat back, become tiles again waiting for you to defeat enough minions again.

[@laccess911]

The Genesis never dies!

[@Gaming_since_the_eighties]

Batman Returns is still the best Batman game ever made.

[@TheFunkMonke]

Got here before 100 views. That doesn't happen that often lol.

[@Koexistence13]

Ya baby!

[@hdrgb]

Dude, this sounds like SEGA fans are trying to make Batman Great Again. I love it. Cheers from the HDRGB Regime Family.

[@mikef8846]

Surprisingly, I like the color and graphics on the MD even more than the SNES in some parts.

[@jbmaru]

It would be interesting to see how much of this the team could recreate with the Scorpion Engine, and what the loss of performance would be like. And if it works well, I guess the game could be extended without the kind of effort taken to code in ASM.

[@roberthunter7247]

Thank You for inspiring me to plug in my rg35xxsp & play snes batman returns with the 8bitdo Sega genesis controller.

[@schooltrashers]

I played it. I wish there was a full version and less enemies.

[@46Arkie]

Excellent vid

[@Riz2336]

That's pretty cool, that's too bad they don't intend on finishing it

[@gilpederiva]

Guys you need to thank Brazilians guys because we love mega drive/genesis and nowadays a lot of games have been released to it.

[@dejongejohan]

*Darth Vader Voice*: IMPRESSIVE

[@richardslotboom9250]

I actually like the Batman Returns version on the Megadrive. I like the dark atmosphere

[@Marsa-d1q]

Sega Lord x please do a review of nes Nightshade?

[@AliFOJ5]

Review the first Batman game for Sega Genesis as well as other Batman games

[@streetmagik3105]

Everybody seems to have been talking about this recently, but I was honestly more curious of your thoughts. Edit: It's unfortunate that it may not get completed. It looks pretty great.

[@markula_4040]

One one hand, making this 2 players is great but I wonder what that means for the Batmobile level in the future. Does it get cut? Does it only allow one player for that stage? Do both players get a vehicle? (that would be hilarious)

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

Enjoyed the SFC game a lot

[@777ONESIX.]

MY FAVORITE SCENE IS WHEN PENGUIN 🐧 BITES THE GUYS NOSE 👃🏻 LOL 😆 I LOVE ❤️ YOUR VIDEOS OF NEW GENESIS GAMES 🎮 SEGA WAS MY FIRST 16 BIT SYSTEM

[@Vormund]

2nd Batman should be the blue and grey color scheme

[@nicotoscani1707]

cart memory size isn't a bottleneck anymore so the genesis can only do justice to these titles cos the developers don't have to cram anything into a tight space anymore!

[@Oysterblade84]

Not if the desire and passion isn't there by the developer. Won't see diddly-squat unless the devs decide to finish it.

[@gamerxt333]

That includes the music, since the Genesis can play higher quality using PSG with more space. Using a emulator is less of a deal though, since it could use a MSU1 patch.

[@turbinegraphics16]

But on the other hand back then it was a team of full time paid programmers working on it for a year. They could have made games for Sega CD if they wanted more space.

[@nicotoscani1707]

@@turbinegraphics16 sega cd RAM size is poor which would make these titles impossible to do with cd storage.. with fat neo-geo style cartridge sizes (which is what these genesis ports are comparable to size-wise), everything can be updated on screen very quickly on real hardware with a fat cartridge

[@mattlockwood6089]

So who's kidnapping them and making them finish it?

[@glenhayman8722]

First comment I always enjoy your work thank you

[@pipikakachu]

Little tip: you can remove flicker using emulators…

[@putridscene]

Maybe I missed something but it did not seem clear this was just a single level demo. Hopefully they do something original with all this work.

[@BashoftheMonth]

Sega Lady X ain't half bad at the game.

[@Guernicaman]

Wish this inspires someone to port the rest of the game over to the SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive. Perhaps even more faithful, w/all the moves, enemies & weapons from the SNES version from Konami. It would be tragic if the demo is left like this, especially when you have fans porting the entire Final Fight game (& adding extras) over to our favorite console.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I don't blame them for not wanting to complete the game, since it's based on a licensed property. WB could shut them down at any time. If they were to complete this, it would be cool to have the second player be Marlon Wayans as Robin. At the very least, the P2 Batman needs a new color palette that is less similar to P1. Maybe he could be blue.

[@777ONESIX.]

LOOKS REALLY GOOD 👍🏻 REMINDS ME OF THE PUNISHER ARCADE GAME 🎯, IM SURPRISED I NEVER PLAYED THIS,

[@merlijn2000]

Maybe they can go the Kickstarter route?

[@Shyning77]

Not with a licenced property like this.

[@nightshadehelis9821]

Also, have you reviewed toejam and earl yet? If not I'd love to see your review of it. It was one of my favorites, although I'm not sure if it's aged well.

[@Mankey619]

Again! Why didn't SEGA ported this Batman Returns, that Konami made on the SNES back then. It could've been a huge success for SEGA.

[@leonardork]

Dude, I like what they do now to show us what games looks like if the companies made it like it should, but today as a 42 year old guy, its not make senses anymore. I would like to played this versions in my youth. I still have my old consoles with everdrives and sh1t5, but I dont feel the hype anymore. Its like Real Bout MD, its great, a masterpiece of work on Genesis hardware, if was release in the 90s, Jesus Lord, will be made Sega greater than Nintendo, but today its just ok.

[@Mohammed1000real]

This port feels more arcade like more the SNES original.

[@jahdorose8659]

Cool