Streets of Rage 2 (New Era)

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Streets of Rage 2 New Era: an unofficial port of the Mega Drive game, rewritten by hand in Unity by reverse engineering the original code, with no emulation. It takes the characters, music, voices, and sound effects from your own ROM; the download also includes stage backgrounds taken from the original game. It has a Classic mode that recreates the original 1:1 and a 30th Anniversary mode with widescreen, smoother controls, and bug fixes, plus a new single-player mode, Ninpo Kage Bunshin, and the Mania Plus and Megamania difficulties. Up to four players can play locally or online, and it has replays, save states, speedrun splits, online score leaderboards, and mod support. It’s a one-person project by Gil Costa (gsaurus), and its code isn’t public. Version 3.0.0 (January 1, 2026) made Shiva playable and redid the menus. Its author states that the menus’ art and music are AI-generated (the music with Suno), and the AI-made portraits can be turned off. The current version is 3.1.0, from January 2026, for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.

You needYour own Streets of Rage 2 Mega Drive / Genesis ROM; it finds the one from the Steam version on its own. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux; no further requirements are stated.

How it gets to PC

Fan reimplementation

Console

Sega Mega Drive / Genesis

Engine

Unity

Original studio

Ancient / Sega

Year

1992

Author

gsaurus

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