How the FUCK am I supposed to get good at the Streets of Rage games on the Genesis?

Played 4, replay it a lot, fucking love it. Went back to the old games and while I can beat it I have to use continues and I am getting rekt.

The first one is easy once you learn how to hit a couple times without finishing your combo, and walk up and grab enemies while they're stunned. Then you can suplex or throw them into other enemies.

You can also keep up an infinite combo easily if you just tap steadily without ever tapping fast enough to do the full combo. Combine that with walking up and grabbing and you're good.

You can also grab, hit a couple times, turn around and back again to re-grab. This is a good way to deal with the fat guys who you can't throw, or anyone you want to keep trapped.

Then you just have to worry about bosses. In general, just learn their patterns and use the mentioned techniques.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZeLD5KtBrY
Solid guide here to give you details on stuff, including how to easily beat the harder bosses like the ninja chicks.

Pretty soon you'll be able to beat it on the hardest difficulty fairly easily.

>hit once
>rapidly turn around and to face the enemy again
>repeat

That's about it.

>>11850419 (OP)
For 1 just learn the boss loops. None of them are too bad except Mr. X, and if you're good enough at the boss loops you should get to him with enough lives to just tank him. The main way to control crowds is to just tap jab and mash left and right really fast to attack both sides at once. Blaze is the best character.

For most of the bosses you can just grab them as they come on screen, knee them twce, move away then towards them really fast to regrab them, repeat until they're dead.

>>11850434
thanks for the video anon, I fucking hated the ninja chicked

I did figure out how to basically stun loop most normal enemies

Why do the black whip chicks sometimes take a knee though? Also, why do they give me a boner.

>>11850437
Here's a video I made of me doing the grab loop on the last boss forever ago, too. Basicially when you're doing the knee attack during the grab, you're invincible, so if the Galsia is coming up behind you, he won't detect a hittable target, so he'll give up and try to get around behind you. You just have to learn to manipulate turning the boss around while kneeing him to time it so that you're kneeing him just as the Galsia is close to you. It takes some practice and you don't even really need to do it if you're just trying for a 1CC, but it's good if you ever want to try deathless.

>>11850439
>Why do the black whip chicks sometimes take a knee though?
That's just their thing, they're the most annoying enemy in the game because they waste your time. I forget the best way of dealing with them honestly, maybe it was just suplexing to maximize damage so they die as quickly as possible. For the boat level, that video suggests getting a bunch of them on screen at once so you can use the special to wipe them all out.
>Also, why do they give me a boner.
Either because they're dominatrix girls with whips or because you're into girls screaming.
>>11850454
Sweet, that's way easier that how I used to do it.

>>11850419 (OP)
Get drunk and play it with a friend (preferably also drunk) on easy a couple times.

>>11850434
This is the comfiest retro gaming channel on Youtube. It legit feels like a throwback to better days.

>>11850454
hot

>>11850419 (OP)

Just learn the bosses.

>>11850464
Here's an easy loop for the two claw guys too.

>console bmups

>>11850419 (OP)
mr X is the big sticking point. learn him. hes a real bastard.
just learn his patterns/moves and pray
other than that, the twin blaze fight is the other one that will make you eat continues till you git gud. dont let em start hopping around too much or that fight can turn into a real mess.
iirc, they give you an extra screen clear special on the boat level, so use it. it knocks down both of them and can help give you some breathing room

biggest thing to learn is throws and suplexes and how to use them defensively/for crowd control. you can knock down whole lines of dudes if you grab them from the front and throw them behind you. the behind the back suplexes also have a hitbox for the guy that gets thrown, but it really only hits directly behind you. still worth using/abusing tho since theyre the best damage you can get at least it is for blaze. cant remember the others
like the other guy said, dont finish the whole punch combo. just hit them up until the end of the combo, and while theyre stunned, move in for a throw. perfect if youve got a bunch of dudes creeping up behind you

also
hold up+C when you get thrown and youll land on your feet/take no damage
rly useful

I just save every few seconds

I imagine that playing the game helps

>>11850434
>>11850454
This is crazy good advice, thanks, anons!

>>11850419 (OP)
You get a friend to play co-op with you. It's much easier with two fighters.

>>11856434
No problem, you'll be 1CCing the game in no time. And don't forget what >>11852007 said,
>hold up+C when you get thrown and youll land on your feet/take no damage
Super useful

>>11850419 (OP)
are you saying you played SoR 4 before ever playing the originals? wtf is wrong with you?

>>11856458
It works in SoR2. Maybe it's just me but I always found it a little less reliable in 1 for some reason. Might actually have to time it? I dunno.

>>11856471
To be fair I played Mario bros on the nes and have yet to play the og arcade Mario.

>>11856531

>>11851952
Neat

Is SOR3 (US version) a good game?
I beat it but I'm not sure I liked it.

>>11861616
its my fav gameplay wise
imo it might be the best beat em up ever made in terms of actual gameplay mechanics.
>unique moves for each character
>unique weapon moves for each character
>6-button controller actually useful for once
>command input specials
>fun cheats
>dodging
>running
>special isnt just a flat health loss so long as you dont spam it
it solved MOST of the problems that had begun to plague the genre by that point. and then it was all for nothing cuz the genre died immediately afterwards. and worse, the new one they made 20yrs later just went back to being slow SoR2 gameplay which, as much as i love(d) 2, is just a fucking crime. same problem with those new(er) megamans where its just MM2 again, and all the later games improvements are just gone. why?

its got some weird music i rly like motohiros songs in 3 desu. yuzos suck pretty bad tho legendary balance issues, and some questionable LOL TEH BUILDING EXPLODED AND DA COP DIED CUZ U TOOK THE WRONG ELEVATOR LOLE HERES THE SHIT ENDING retardation in it
but underneath all that i still think its as good as it ever got mechanically

kudos on you for actually beating the real™ version tho
thats a TOUGH game
ppl always say to play BK3, but its just laughably easy and no fun at all thanks to how powerful you actually are with all the new moves

>>11856486
nah
just hold up+C at any point during or after the throw, straight through until you would normally hit the ground, and youll land on your feet. it just has to be before you land
it doesnt work if you get just knocked back/down
its only for those guys that throw you specifically

>>11861962
I admit I played as Shiva during the last level, but played as Axel otherwise.
Tried a lot of times to beat it with Axel but the Jet boss fight is just too much.

>>11861962
Calling SOR2 slow is so weird when it had Max and his slide, which was a lot more fun than SOR3's run. 3 also had all those terrible gimmick stages like the one where you have to sit and wait for a little train car to drive by over and over. I hated that 3 brought back not being able to throw fat guys too, just made them slightly more tedious to deal with.

3 also has the worst last boss I think I've ever seen in a beat em up, since he's literally just designed to waste your time.

People do complain about the game's soundtrack too much though.

>>11861616

Not really.