In case you missed it... Neo Geo is getting a homebrew remake of Double Dragon!

[_MADrigal]

Project page: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/01/double-dragon-gets-a-new-fan-made-port-for-neo-geo

And on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzV2UVenic

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF1YfvE165w

 

...maybe on RAINE one day?

[Tux]

There is already a double dragon for neogeo, short name doubledr, apparently the only difference would be graphics taken from the ios version ?

I didn't even know the ios version had better graphics !

All this doesn't sound super interesting !

[Robert]

There's a golden axe conversion happening too.

[_MADrigal]

The official Double Dragon for Neo-geo is a one-one-one fighting game, based on the movie.

It is a sequel to the old game from 1987 - which is a scrolling fighting game.

This homebrew version is a remake of the 1987 game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVB2tR8CXc

Edited January 26 by _MADrigal

[Tux]

Ah ok, so it's not just the sprites which are different !

We'll see then... !

[_MADrigal]

13 hours ago, Robert said:

There's a golden axe conversion happening too.

And it is progressing quite fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASo9UisNr1M

[Tux]

1 hour ago, _MADrigal said:

And it is progressing quite fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASo9UisNr1M

I was almost sure there was a golden axe in raine, but it's warrior blade, which is a kind of clone on some big screen, at least it gains a bigger resolution this way.

The game is not identical neither, but there are big similarities anyway.

Golden axe is on sega system 16 hardware, finally nobody had enough motivation to add the emulation of sega hardware to raine !

In the emulator it's of course much easier to add a neogeo version than a whole new driver, especially sega which was full of tricks and custom chips, which is probably why nobody was motivated enough to emulate it.

[_MADrigal]

15 hours ago, Tux said:

I was almost sure there was a golden axe in raine, but it's warrior blade, which is a kind of clone on some big screen, at least it gains a bigger resolution this way.

The game is not identical neither, but there are big similarities anyway.

Golden axe is on sega system 16 hardware, finally nobody had enough motivation to add the emulation of sega hardware to raine !

In the emulator it's of course much easier to add a neogeo version than a whole new driver, especially sega which was full of tricks and custom chips, which is probably why nobody was motivated enough to emulate it.

Basically the same work done for Shinobi is now being done for Golden Axe by the same person.

I would not be surprised to see more Sega System 16 games added to the Neogeo game list in the future.

Edited January 28 by _MADrigal

[Tux]

7 hours ago, _MADrigal said:

Basically the same work done for Shinobi is now being done for Golden Axe by the same person.

I would not be surprised to see more Sega System 16 games added to the Neogeo game list in the future.

And it's a good news for the lazy people who don't want to emulate directly the sega driver !

[Robert]

I got hold of the "Double Dragon One" demo and added it to hbmame. It looks a little bit like the Taito version, but not really.

I also got the Shadow Gang demo, but it's a disappointment. You only get a few seconds play before being killed. When that happens the screen goes black and the sound stops, and it seems to be game over.