Awesome Sega Genesis Hacks and Translations - Part 3

More hacks and translations than we deserve! Here I focus on a batch of games for your Sega Genesis or Mega Drive.
Where to go to get the hack or translation you want:
1. SHADOW DANCER 3 HIT HACK
elektropage.ru/publ/khaki/smd/...
2. LORD MONARCH TRANSLATION
www.romhacking.net/translatio...
3. GOLDEN AXE PLUS
www.romhacking.net/hacks/6949/
4. NHL 94 2022 UPDATE
www.romhacking.net/hacks/6929/
5. MK ARCADE EDITION ENHANCED
www.romhacking.net/hacks/6558/
6. ULTIMATE CHAKAN
www.romhacking.net/hacks/5928/
7. MAGICAL HAT'S TURBO FLYING ADVENTURE
www.romhacking.net/translatio...
8. PRETTY SOLDIER SAILOR MOON
www.romhacking.net/translatio...
9. PSY-O-BLADE TRANSLATION
www.romhacking.net/translatio...
10. ULTIMATE MK TRILOGY
www.romhacking.net/hacks/1059/
11. FINAL FIGHT ULTIMATE
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12. ONLINE PATCHING UTILITY
www.romhacking.net/patch/
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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By: Jan Neves
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured from the Mega SG.
2. Be sure to read the page where you downloaded the hack. You absolutely MUST HAVE the proper ROM.
3. Check out parts 1 and 2!
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4. I had a world of trouble with my new microphone in this episode. I kept getting feedback I couldn't get rid of. Eventually, I found my Cloudlifter was picking up WiFi interference. The two mistakes in this episode(UMK Trilogy and System 16/18) were forcefully kept because I couldn't re-record the segments without the new interference.

[@BillyTime]

Glad you liked Ultimate Chakan! I had fun working on it. I hope to work on some more mediocre to bad games once myself and the team are done with Ghostbusters. :)

[@SegaLordX]

It really was a solid hack. It rebalances a game that desperately needed it.

[@48hourrecordsteam45]

Loved Chakan😮 well loved trying overcome a challenge . It was our devil mar cry 😂.

[@thecunninlynguist]

God bless the fans who do this

[@SegaLordX]

Without them the retro scene would be a much less interesting place.

[@chrisr529]

Yes, I hope they all live long and prosperous lives .

[@xavierborges4808]

Become one pls

[@Metal-Josh]

Right makes those foreign games finally worth trying

[@danielblake1537]

I love your track with Apathy & Celph Titled "Hot" it's cool to see you commenting on a Sega Lord X video!

[@EventHorizon_Alex]

Great to see that these legacy systems are still getting a lot of love and care from their fans.

[@rael_gc]

OMG, really thanks for the mention in the MK hack improvements. You've nailed to describe the improvements. I've spent several days just to make the selection screen and player sprites and colors match the arcade as much as possible (and fixed a lot of the issues with the new Sub-Zero sprites).

[@SegaLordX]

No problem. The work is really appreciated.

[@adamokon358]

I thought i´ll never see a part 3. Wonderful how much love still exist for the MEGA DRIVE / GENESIS.

[@SegaLordX]

I hope it was worth the wait.

[@adamokon358]

@@SegaLordX OF COURSE IT WAS. Now i´m hungry to play Chakan, Lord Monarch and Psy-O-Blade in their new versions. I´m looking forward for your next video to catch me.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

there's tons of hacks and trans for multiple consoles, so there can easily be more, the trick is finding diversity because a lot of hacks on genesis are tied to Sonic or Streets of Rage 2.

[@adamokon358]

@@UltimateGamerCC I know that but i mean that the love exists till today. For examble the translation from Lord Monarch has the date 2020 or that the game Dynamate Headdy has an exclusive japanese story now translated in English.

[@seantaft3853]

Fun fact: I'm friends with Robert Kraus, the creator of Chakan: The Forever Man. In all fairness, I've never asked him his thoughts on the Genesis game (usually because we're too busy talking Martial Arts). If I remember to, I should ask him about it and then show him the hack for his thoughts.

[@SegaLordX]

I'd like to know what he thinks, myself.

[@BillyTime]

I also would love to see his reply. :D

[@notsyzagts7967]

Can we please stop keeping the "fun fact" meme alive? It's almost as meaningless as lol.

[@Gatorade69]

@@notsyzagts7967 lol u angry.

[@happyspaceinvader508]

@@notsyzagts7967 Fun Fact: “Fun Fact” is not a meme… and neither is “lol”. Unless you’re using the original Richard Dawkins meaning… in which case almost every idiomatic expression is a “meme”.

[@thesubinion]

Man, seeing Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy again after so many years feels incredibly nostalgic. It was basically my first ever experience with a fanmade romhack, absolutely loved the ungodly amount of finishers it added.

[@jessragan6714]

Glad Final Fight Ultimate has caught your attention. I don't know why, but I am so looking forward to this port of a game I've played on a half dozen formats. It's just a thrill to see the Genesis punching at that weight class. It's also interesting how simply rebalancing a game like Chakan can dramatically improve it.

[@rustymixer2886]

Indeed

[@Patsfan1987]

Absolute classic games that deserve all the attention and work to make these! Love hacks and games I’ve never played before

[@SegaLordX]

Yup. Kudos to the folks that put in the hard work.

[@Gatorade69]

The Romhacking scene is really the best. I wish I had gotten in on it back when. I feel (especially with some games) that there's more tools and It's a bit easier to get started now. Big thanks to anyone who romhacks.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

indeed i'd say the scene is way better than it was back then, even us newbies who cant code can still mod many games and add our own flavor.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

i'll never get enough seeing vids on hacks and translations, i'm especially fond of anything that gives more Characters, Stages and/or Gameplay.

[@Waifu4Life]

As someone who owns almost every physical Sailor Moon games (I draw the line at Pico and Playdia), I can say that the Genesis version is the best beat 'em up out of all of them. It's actually very deep with different moves for all of the Sailor Senshis. That being said, it could have use a 2 player mode, so let's hope for a future mod 🤞

[@Zahir658]

I played it too and it's great.

[@tomek2736]

Would you say that the Genesis port is better than the arcade? Haven't played that one. I too would love a 2 player Genesis mod! This version outclassed SNES in every department except the lack of Coop, which would make it truly definitive 😔

[@Zahir658]

@@tomek2736 Well the arcade one was kinda half finished so the Genesis does tell the complete story but in a different timeline though and yeah, a 2 player would be great.

[@Waifu4Life]

@@tomek2736 Didn't really like the Arcade game, so I didn't bother finishing it. I played and finished all of the ones on SFC, the one on MD, the Fighting game on PSX and Saturn and the one GG. The Mega Drive version is up there with the best along with Another Story and Fuwa Fuwa Panic 2.

[@mojibake.]

i love the fact that you acknowledge the creators, these true heroes not always get all the praise they deserve

[@SegaLordX]

I felt I didn't do it well in parts one and two. Here I remedied that.

[@LeUberTroll]

Gilius Thunderhead’s roll attack alone destroys the game, let alone having the most powerful magic in the game as well. What a combo. Thanks for highlighting something cool for my weekend

[@dukkemonterier3429]

Gillius Firehead?

[@MrStabby19812]

There's a patch to make his axe golden like the arcade I wonder if both will work together.

[@LeUberTroll]

@@MrStabby19812 considering it would only alter texture data I imagine it could

[@roberto1519]

Since you covered Ultimate Chakan, I'm not sure if you already checked similar improvements/fixes for games like Robocop vs. Terminator (removes the top black bar), Superman Redux, X-Men Redux, Gargoyles Redux and many more which offer simple tweaks to make those games more balanced, specially since developers had to do that in order to keep expected sales, so doing many games harder, kids wouldn't just breeze through them in a weekend rental.

[@stoganlephens7946]

Hopefully Princess Crown for Saturn gets translated soon.

[@viewtifuljoe99]

That ultimate Chakan hack looks really good! Giving that a shot tonight, thanks!

[@legendodinson7082]

Shadow dancer was actually my favorite shinobi game on genesis as a kid.

[@Philroq7]

Damn that Final Fight game on Genesis looks mighty fine. Can’t wait for the final result.

[@willrobinson7599]

Amazing that these classic 16 bit systems still have people polishing amd improving the games we enjoyed back in the day

[@glenngratz4077]

Man I really REALLY want to see a Translation hack for SegaCD Shadowrun. That'd be the holy grail right now.

[@SegaLordX]

I'd like to see that as well.

[@bonesjackson81]

Love seeing sports games with roster updates. I rock the nfl2k5 updates but nhl 94 I gotta stay with my 94 Red Wings.

[@philmason9653]

Number of days since Shadow Dancer bridge scene has appeared on SLX: 0

[@arcticridge]

you need to do more of these, I love learning about new versions of my favorite games

[@iCABALi]

Speaking of Sailor Moon, it was the original fan translation of Another Story on the SNES that got me into discovering fan translations and hacks (although I had dabbled in a couple of the earlier Sonic hacks). This led me into finding a lot of anime games that had been fan translated in recent years. The newer translation of it is a lot more accurate to the source material (though I do still appreciate the original efforts), and is definitely worth a look for Sailor Moon fans. I didn't need the easy mode hack on top, but I think casual RPG players would appreciate it. The Phantasy Star hacks are definitely worth a look at too. The original with FM sound as well as increases XP/Meseta rates makes it a quicker playthrough (there's hacks for the other Phantasy Stars that do that to cut grinding too). That said, for II/IV there are also hacks that do the reverse, and provide MORE challenge. Definitely worth checking out for subsequent playthroughs.

[@tomek2736]

Absolutely right. 'Another Story' has also received another mod/ hack recently, upgrading music to CD quality. It brings a smile to my face that these classic video games are kept alive and upgraded by modders.

[@happyspaceinvader508]

For Greendog, a rom patch won’t be enough. What you need is a very large hot fire to throw the cartridge into.

[@PrimeStarStudios]

The Genesis is the gift that keeps on giving! Keep it up, man!

[@SegaLordX]

Yes! Thank you!

[@PrimeStarStudios]

@@SegaLordX No problem!

[@dsgitlin]

I’m so excited for that Final Fight…

[@BryanTruong]

Thanks for this video! Especially excited to learn about the Shadow Dancer hit points hack!

[@davidtran9444]

The shadow dancer ost needs more love.

[@cireza_]

Lord Monarch was an absolute blast and the translation is of professional quality. Great recommendations !

[@mattb6522]

Great video! This is a great collection of hacks and translations! The hack and modding community is quite amazing! I never liked Chakan, so knowing there is an improvement patch might actually make me try it again! It is a shame that Final Fight never got a home port to the Genesis/Mega Drive (not counting the Sega CD), but that is quite astounding there are dedicated fans making it happen! That Golden Axe patch looks great, too! That is a nice twist to mix and match your play options!

[@oddojaggins]

Thanks to you I've found a few great patches for games I love or wanted to be able to play. I really loved Sword of Vermilion as a kid so I wanted to try rent a hero so being able to translate it is awesome. I also did th patch to Jewel Master so if you lose all continues you start at the beginning of the stage you were on with all the rings you've collected so far. I can't wait to try more of these hacks and fixes

[@WalrusFPGA]

Great video! Thanks for sharing some hacks you've enjoyed here.

[@darktetsuya]

some of these look really cool! definitely looking forward to genesis final fight that one's definitely looking to be a damn close arcade port, for sure!!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Yay. I loved magical hat more than decapattack so I'm Happy about this

[@MXRetroDev]

Thank you so much for showing Final Fight Ultimate. I'm your fan and it was a pleasant surprise to see the game on your channel.

[@SegaLordX]

No problem, man. It's looking like a killer game. You have a huge amount of fans super excited for the final product.

[@Zahir658]

Those are an amazing collection of the hacks and translations :) But my jaws dropped on the floor at 17:36 when I saw Metal Slug port for Genesis! This has got to be the most ambitious project ever given it showed what the Neo-Geo was capable of. I am looking forward to that project.

[@steelzepplin2012]

love your Sega content, liked and subbed, best sega channel on youtube!

[@mtshark7]

Awesome episode man! Wow that final fight game tho😍

[@JoeBee9]

Magical Hat's Turbo Flying Adventure reminds me of Kid Kool on NES in multiple ways including how you can jump on enemies to gradually bury them in the ground and picking up a buddy item to throw at enemies. Only this game controls waaaaay better and you can slowly descend for long jumps like in Mario 3 with the racoon suit.

[@DreamcastQ]

I love seeing stuff for the first time !

[@WWammyy]

Final Fight is looking fantastic.

[@MagillanicaLouM]

Very cool sounding Golden Axe hack

[@silentfanatic]

Holy hell, that’s a lot of good stuff in one episode!

[@andrewdowell6474]

Can't wait to see a video of the new Mini 2 games that got announced today!

[@novelezra]

Dude, keep these up. Along with SNESDRUNK; I adore these videos covering improvement hacks and translations. It's just so awesome to be able to see a presentation on them that breaks down why you might want to try them. Love ya.

[@budrip3479]

Love these episodes thanks

[@Oysterblade84]

Really appreciate the recommendations in this one Sega Lord X. I've already downloaded, extracted and put several of these into my EverDrive X7. Looking forward to playing Golden Axe Plus, Shadow Dancer Hitpoint Edition and the MK hack of an already MK Arcade Edition hack. That patching utility app in your description is really useful! Was a bit lost when I got to patching the MK patch as it was in BPS and that utility app in your description fixed it. Thank you. Just out of curiousity, I wish someone would finish off that Shinobi hack for the Genesis/Mega Drive from a few years ago, I believe only a few levels were ever playable in the latest demo.

[@psykomatik]

2:09 R.I.P wolfie 😢 2:12 Hey you're back!

[@rustymixer2886]

Love these kind of vids

[@PatricKerr]

Thanks for show casing these. I have to check these out. I have Play some nes and snes. Don't know why I didn't think to check them out on this system too.

[@yosoynacho]

wow thanks for the mention man!

[@SegaLordX]

No problem 👍

[@MasaCheez]

8:29 awe man, SLX you missed a great opportunity to use a cheesy line and say "a flawless victory" 🤣 Superb video as always dude!

[@SegaLordX]

Next time!

[@DaveVoyles]

Love these episodes

[@Dorelaxen]

Greendog? I think you mean GREEEENDAAAAWG!

[@sergiocecilio5938]

Great days for the good old Genesis! It's amazing how much the love of enthusiasts with great patience and very capable programming skills, can put those big companies releasing the games for these systems back in the day, to shame!

[@fabienandreadigiuseppe7805]

always liked the dark fantasy tone of Chakan, but with no surprise always felt repelled by the rough gameplay wich incrase the difficulty to frustrating levels. glad to see someone fix the issues. gonna try it.

[@SegaLordX]

That's always been the great irritation with Chakan. The premise is great. It's the execution that always sucked to high heaven.

[@MrStabby19812]

Fantastic. Giving them all a try.

[@SegaLordX]

Please do!

[@streetmagik3105]

What!? Greendog is a perfect masterpiece. Just ask Joe from GameSack.

[@ghostofsparta291]

Love your content sir 💪

[@malcolmar]

Simply awesome! Thank you for sharing.

[@SegaLordX]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@cidraman]

One day there will be a translation for "Ninja Burai Densetsu". And this day will be glorious.

[@jasonz7788]

Great work Sir thank you

[@darthkobe73]

Excellent stuff! Still love my Saturn ❤️

[@leoneisilvadacosta4513]

New Blaze and Hamoopig engines were created for Sega Genesis by GameDevBoss, and are amazing. RheoGamer is making an amazing port of Real Bout Fatal Fury for Genesis with the Engine Hamoopig SG

[@honved_77]

Lord Monarch is amazing. Looking forward to the English translation for "The Hybrid Front" now.

[@SegaLordX]

I've been really enjoying Lord Monarch. It's quite the fun little strategy game. Very different from the usual stuff at the time.

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I only have the Playstation 1 Lord Monarch, but it's one of the many, many entries in the absurdly branching Dragon Slayer series (I believe the Lord Monarch games are part VI, after Sorcerian). I picked it up because there was a point in time that I was snagging up all things Falcom/Dragon Slayer that I could get my hands on. Lord Monarch was always one of the more obtuse games, so it'll be neat to try it in a language I can fully understand!

[@RaiZdbyDINGOES]

still think the best one is the simpsons streets of rage hack. That was just brilliant

[@darinherrick9224]

That sailor moon game looks AWESOME!!! XD

[@wetoutLL]

Great video

[@tomek2736]

I'm not gonna be in a majority here, but boy do I love 'Sailor Moon' beat'em-ups. Growing up watching the anime and having played Golden Axe and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs in the arcade there would be nothing I would dream of more than this game. Having discovered it's now one of the classics me and my friend often casually play through together. It might not be much more than a fairly standard beat-em in Sailor Moon universe, but then again, growing up as a Moonie that's all you'd ever want anyway. While SNES port is an obvious choice for coop due to 2-player mode, Mega Drive port ouclasses it in most every other department, with much better graphics and inclusion of cutscenes, so I would say it's definitive for single player. Either way, it's really cool to see even those more niche titles receive some care from modding community.

[@an0therdimensi0n99]

extremely good video

[@mscottjohnson3424]

For those with a Mega SD, there's a MD+ patch for MK1 that adds the arcade music. The patch also works with MK1 Arcade Edition hack, so you can get a MK1 that looks a lot like the arcade and sounds exactly like the arcade. I compared it to the Sega CD MK1 port and the Arcade Edition hack with MD+ arcade audio is definitely the better experience. Unfortunately, I think it only works with the Mega SD. There may be a Mega Everdrive Pro CD audio patch too, but I don't think it works on emulators.

[@RetroSegaDev]

Pigsy's Sega Genesis port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night would be worth a feature. I don't think it's been covered yet! Unless I've forgotten :)

[@adamofgrayskull7735]

I play golden axe ,streets of rage and shinobi 2 every saturday

[@dad7275]

Now id like Mortal kombat 2 get the "arcade addition" treatment !

[@evilash570]

The MK arcade edition is pretty incredible, and the ultimate looks amazing as well! It would be awesome if someone re-skinned SOR 2-3 into revenge of death adder or avp!

[@albey1816]

Yes AVP! - I would love to see that with Aliens as the enemies. All the sprites have already been ripped for AVP and available online.

[@ravagingwolverine]

Good stuff here. I've been playing with some hacks recently too. The hacking scene produced some cool stuff. I'm on my second run of Final Fantasy 1 on the NES with some bug fixes. That has led me to look into hacks for the early Dragon Quest games as well as the Phantasy Star games. I already played PS4 a bunch of times, but hacks might make the earlier games more fun. I was surprised how much I enjoyed Decap Attack when I played it about nine years ago for the first time, and Magical Hat always appealed to me visually, so I definitely need to give that a try. Chakan sounds like it may have some potential now, so I'll strongly consider that one. While I've played Shadow Dancer to death, and will continue to play it, a 3HP hack makes a lot of sense to make the game more accessible without killing the balance. Three hits is fair for those starting out. Though I should say the game is already rather fair and it's not too hard to deal with it the normal way so I do recommend working up to one-hit deaths and even raising the difficulty. Either way, I like the idea of that hack. Final Fight running on a Genesis is cool to see, though I'm not surprised by it. When I played the Sega CD one, I could see a good bit of minor sprite flicker, telling me that the game pushes the horizontal sprite limit, which I believe is the same for the base system, so that shouldn't be an issue. It's possible the Genesis may have some slowdown in spots due to the slower CPU compared to the Sega CD, but then there might be room to optimize it better. I do look forward to seeing how it turns out.

[@Gatorade69]

Don't play Phantasy Star 1. It is woke propaganda.

[@loganjorgensen]

Fire up your emulators and flash carts, some excellent mods to some great games. :D Chakan:The Good Edition finally, did you just compared Chakan to Greendog? :P ^_^ Not that I disliked MK on Genesis but very nice to see them get finesses not possible under the original tight time schedules, yeah would love to see arcade life bars in MK1 too. ;) We are all quite privileged to get so many Sega related English translations, more localizers or better tools idk why so many lately. :D I think that is a great project, FF on Genesis, I think that's been on the mind of anyone that played Genesis but didn't take the SCD plunge. Really loving these new takes or retakes on arcade translation for GEN/MD and Amiga lately, so many great games each platform could do so well if given the chance.

[@peterchaseify]

NHL 94 Rewind, an official EA release for the 2020-2021 season, also understood how NHL 94 is a top tier NHL game, no matter how old it is.

[@mjdf122]

They released more games for the Sega genesis/mega drive 2 I know you’ll be releasing that video soon enough thanks Sega Lord X

[@SolarMoth]

so dope

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I have that Sailor Moon Mega Drive game on an original Japanese cart, and it's a shame it's only one player. It plays much more crisply than its Super Famicom counterpart, which is all kinds of sluggish. If it had the 2 player option it would be the clear cut better game. I have an original Psy-O-Blade as well, as it had super cool cover art, but have never made it far into it since I don't read the language. It'd be neat to give it a whirl in English!

[@AnthonyRiddle]

I wish the SNES Mortal Kombat game would get some ROM hacking love. I'd like to finally see blood and fatalities in the best looking home port of MK1

[@Retro_Royal]

Greendog is broken beyond salvation (Sorry Joe^^)

[@Gaming_since_the_eighties]

I would like to see, a hack of Battletoads in Battlemaniacs.

[@EtherBoo]

I'm surprised Joe isn't here questioning you for saying Greendog needs an improvement patch! Everyone knows the game is peak Genesis!

[@zero-theaveragegamer1159]

Imagine the ROM hacks that will be available 30 years from now for games like Elden ring

[@Soynereh]

Sailor Moon also needed coop and a bit of work on the gameplay.

[@SylveonTrapito]

There's also a Sonic Triple Trouble remake realeased a week ago or so. It's not a rom hack. It looks more like Sonic Mania.

[@acecarrera1]

Personally, I want to see Panorama cotton turned into Panzer Dragoon.That Final Fight project though, wow! With today's advanced programming, I can only imagine arcade perfect super scaler on Genesis.Outrunners, perhaps?

[@ChuckieV79]

I wish they'd update nhl 94 for the Sega cd!

[@maroon9273]

I wish mk aracade hack had enough space to add the flashing fight and finish him, arcade or amiga life bar, color sprite hack from MK revelations and goros lair where it is easier to update it to arcade like backgrounds. Maybe a 8 MB rom hack will fit everything. I'll love to MSU-MD and MD+ version of shadow dancer and Chakan for both hacks. Also check out tech demos and sprite/scrolling test with master Linkuei and genesis 8:14. More hacks from hacks games longplay channel. Also, check out mortal revalations which is hacked version of ultimate trilogy. It was better framerates and graphics mk1, mk2 characters and arenas.

[@stephandolby]

There must be a lot of work going into these. If somebody can port a game, perhaps somebody can fix the sound engine in both Altered Beast and Golden Axe so samples don't pause playback. Add a few extra effects like simulated sprite scaling, basically anything now that the 4Mbit cart size isn't the limiting factor, and the results should be even closer to the arcade originals (the soundtracks already were, aside of Altered Beast's difference in key and the loss of one or two instruments).

[@adamofgrayskull7735]

🤘😜🤘.I HAVE THE POWER

[@MultiPolarWorldCo-op]

Turtle power?

[@gustavonazareno4229]

11:10 That bridge looks suspicious.

[@raymxslappedyall1891]

so in golden axe does whipping bad guys with your mounted monster do more damage than your regular hit?

[@jagergerg9771]

These developers kick ass.

[@ilovemybeard3394]

Wait a minute? Towards the end of the Video that was Ermac, but it says Scorpion…on my MK Arcade Edition it says Ermac on the life bar…guessing there are different versions out there?

[@simon41978]

Is the Final Fight demo available for download? I can't find it.