Recent content by strygo

rc4 is out. The HP and HK colors now stay on through intros, special moves and hypers, instead of switching to the Kick colors. A minor improvement: on the first stage, your team is back on screen for the opponent reveal. Both builds have new checksums, so rebuild them with the rc4 kit. The...

Final Fight EX rc3 is out, in its own thread. It adds a hidden stage select: hold attack and jump and press Start on the title screen. Link: arcadepatches.com/final-fight-ex

Download and instructions at arcadepatches.com Current version: rc3 (October 10, 2026) The 1993 Sega CD port of Final Fight replaced the arcade's brief story block with a fully animated opening. Final Fight EX puts that cutscene on the arcade game, running as native CPS-1 graphics through a new...

Yes it can. I was experimenting with it here, but if people like it, I'll add it to the backlog. I'll look into this in the near future.

Thanks. Confirmed and reproduced: Arrange plays two rounds per match, and from round 2 the top HUD (health bars, timer, names) fails to appear, so it looks like the match keeps going. The round counting itself is correct. A fix is in the works for the next release.

Here is fine. Screenshots or photos help - was this on MiSTER or HBMAME? 1 or 2 player?

Download and instructions at arcadepatches.com Current version: 1.1 (October 9, 2026), 25 games When Neo Geo games came to the Neo Geo CD, many of them got new soundtracks recorded for CD audio. The CD versions paid for it, with long loads and, in some games, animation trimmed to fit the...

rc6 is out. EX CONFIGURATION has a third ARTWORK choice, ULTRA SF2, with Ultra Street Fighter II's stage art. That's its runway emblem and a gold can on Guile's stage, Chun-Li's storefront without its signs, a red sun on E. Honda's bathhouse mural and a plain floor on Zangief's stage. The 30th...

Any other features you'd like to see in that? Possibly. Just so you could skip ahead?

I'm investigating it - it's a little more challenging since the VS and VS2 engines aren't identical.

It should, but I haven’t tested it yet. I need to open mine up so I can confirm. I have local changes I need to test to output games in the DarkSoft format. I hope to get this out soon.

What changes does the hack do?

What are they? It might, or it might fail spectularly depending on what was edited.

Download and instructions at arcadepatches.com Current version: rc1 (October 7, 2026) Night Warriors 2 Arrange (Vampire Hunter 2 Arrange in Japan) is one of the arranged editions in Capcom's 2005 PlayStation 2 Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection. It never had an arcade release. This backport...

Download and instructions at arcadepatches.com Current version: rc1 (October 7, 2026) Vampire Savior 2 Arrange is one of the arranged editions in Capcom's 2005 PlayStation 2 Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection. It never had an arcade release. This backport rebuilds it as a CPS-2 game. Back in...