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| | | | There are at least two versions of the cart, a black seal and a white seal. Black seal supposedly older. TCRF lists no revision differences so theoretically it's just the packaging. The black version label art also has motion lines around the foreground character's chain weapon and debris on the ground below the platform (lower right corner), details missing in the white label version. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/nes/comments/1psrv36/i_love_renegade_i_noticed_these_2_copies_have/ ) |
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| | | https://gamehacking.org/game/30667
Infinite lives by Galoob: SXUIOTVG |
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| | | | ^ Oh yeah so might need to use the Infinite Health cheat since you restart the stage when you die. 'p' (These cheats are both in Mesen's built-in cheat library.) |
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| | | | The J version is "Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-Kun"--not to be confused with GB "Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-Kun: Bangai Rantou Hen" (see entry 884), later converted to GB "Double Dragon II" (see entry 886). |
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| | | There's a maze on last stage to may want to use inf time cheat 0472:59 (this and inf lives are in Mesen cheat lib).
Maze varies by difficulty level (A/B on title screen to change difficulty); difficulty level also affects enemy health & biker speed, says Kunio fandom wiki.
From https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/587564-renegade/faqs/28603
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4b. How to find the last boss - Difficulty Setting 3
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After killing the punks on the main level of stage 4, proceed in the
following order to get to the last boss:
1. Take the Right Door - Enemies: Four Street Thugs w/sticks
(two at a time)
2. Take the Left Door - Enemies: Three Kims (two at a time)
3. Take the Right Door - Enemies: 6 Motorcycle riders (one at a time)
4. Take the 2nd Left Door - Enemies: Six Joels (three at a time)
5. Take the Left Door - Enemies: Nine Angry Japanese School Girls
(three at a time)
6. Take the Right Door - Enemies: Three Jacks (three at a time)
7. Take the Right Door - Enemies: Seven Motorcycle Riders (one at a time)
8. Take the Left Door - Enemies: Six Jacks (three at a time)
9. Take the Middle Door - Enemies: SABU!* |
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| | | My YouTube music counter-copyright claim (see following video description for the claimant info):
"The claimed segment is me playing an NES game by Technos Japan; the game was published in 1988. It is being claimed to infringe upon a 2025 music track that plays what sounds like a sample of the audio from this same old game. The audio in my video is NOT sampled from that 2025 album; the specified music in my video is recorded directly from the 1988 video game as I play the game." |
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| | | Updated it slightly before sending it to mention my voiceover too:
"The claimed segment is me playing an NES game by Technos Japan; the game was published in 1988. It is being claimed to infringe upon a 2025 music track that plays what sounds like a sample of the audio from this same old game. The audio in my video is NOT sampled from that 2025 album; the specified music in my video is recorded directly from the 1988 video game as I play and talk about the game." |
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In Mesen on HARD difficulty 3, with infinite lives & time cheats, & sometimes the enemies-have-no-health & infinite health cheats--& save scumming! Then accidentally playing through EASY difficulty 1 w/ no cheats. ; D
9:01 - difficulty 3
25:37 - motorcycling 'p'
43:26 - wrong turn in 1st maze room 'ppp'
1:15:50 - back on track
1:26:35 - boss & "twins"
1:31:58 - credits
1:38:28 - difficulty 1
1:45:37 - P
1:48:45 - easy maze
Weird, pretty busted port with bizarre changes made by the same developers--at least the director and one of the programmers; haven't checked the others--who had made the much-better-thought-out arcade version!
Difficulty 1 maze guide, short version (boiled down from https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/587564-renegade/faqs/23660 ):
Outside, R, 3 punks, L, 2 Jacks, L, bikers, M, bikers, R, boss
Difficulty 1 is actually a fast and easy clear--spamming the standing jump kick, with the running wall kick for the bikers.
Unfortunately the move balance in this version--as opposed to the very well-balanced-feeling (if very difficult) arcade version--is busted: punches don't cut it vs any but the weakest Difficulty 1 goons, but jump kicks work way too well.
Difficulty 3 is just goofy: every enemy has way more health, there are way more enemy waves throughout, and the final maze is particularly ridiculous, with more rooms, of like seven bosses each--oh and the last is you face the final boss...and then his two identical twins. ; D Not great. 'ppp'
On Difficulty 3 I was using Mesen's infinite lives & time cheats. In the Difficulty 3 maze I eventually got sick of save scumming--& being lost, 'cause the walkthrough I was reading was written--...well, I read it wrong let's say ; P--& used the enemies-have-no-health & infinite health cheats to get through the maze. Then I found I had to disable cheats before the end because it crashed with them on. ; D
And then I forgot to turn off the cheat disabling & accidentally played through Difficulty 1 with no cheats 1st try. ; D
This port is just really badly balanced.
I probably should sell it since you can just spam jump-kick for 15 minutes to clear default Difficulty 1--well except for that not so great motorcycling segment (spam kick, spam turbo), or the few times you pick up the mysterious P powerup in Difficulty 1 (I didn't see one in Difficulty 3), at which point you spam the attack button for a few seconds to punch opponents into the opposite ceiling corner. = P It's sort of a fun Technos Japan artifact & the cart sticker IS cool but...
I don't think P is in the arcade version--didn't see it on my Easy Difficulty playthrough of the PS2 Hamster Corp port of the Japanese arcade version, anyway (Oretachi Game Center Zoku: Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-Kun - https://youtu.be/0dKQeDnrgyw ). Bigger changes, aside from the street punk graphical makeover from the original Japanese high school students, which was also done for the western arcade version, also called Renegade--include the console version's broken move balance, its breaking up of the arcade version's big gang fight melees into several much smaller encounters & solo boss encounters, & its replacement of the arcade version's last two stages (4 & 5, which like all the arcade version's stages are single-wide-room gang fights) with the motorcycling segment & repetitive maze (which on Difficulty 3 will teleport you back to the start; I've read it doesn't do that on Difficulty 1, but I still didn't feel like wandering around all the rooms--even though the FAQ says they seem to remember stumbling across a room containing a guy with a bazooka, but that sounds kind of iffy 'p').
The music in the subway train area in my Difficulty 1 playthrough (1.41.12 - 1.41.45) got a copyright claim by "RouteNote," who are claiming "on behalf of Meltem Records" that it infringes on the track "Tren Garı" by self-proclaimed "adapter" of 8-bit chiptunes Hakan Ayaş, on their 2025 album "START Tuşuna Bas!"; the 2025 track in question contains what appears to be a brief sample from this 1988 game. ; P I've disputed the claim, pointing out the temporal discrepancy and claiming fair use; in YouTube's system, in the past it has seemed that a claimant can simply stick to their claim over any objection and win out, in which case I'll have to cut that segment from the video--if that happens, it will definitely make me more likely to want to sell the cartridge. ; P Sheesh, YouTube. |
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| | | | This is also in DOUBLE DRAGON & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle (PS4/Switch) (Japanese PSN Store title: Kunio-kun: The World Classics Collection--see entry 1363.) |
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| | | | Email from YouTube: "Good news! After reviewing your dispute, RouteNote has decided to release their copyright claim on your YouTube video." 'p' |
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