Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Arcade)

OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED MARIAN! (It seems kidnapping her wasn't enough...)

More of a remix of the first arcade game than a completely new adventure, although this time Machine Gun Willy decides to make things way more personal for the Lee brothers. Also, there's no exploitable elbow this time, gotta take this game's sadistic difficulty head-on.

Unused Graphics#

With the exception of the Lee brothers, Jeff, and Willy, all of the returning characters from the first game were redesigned in some form or another. While there are some leftovers from the first game that were left unchanged, there are also redesigned sprites for this game that went unused as well.

	Marian's face on all of her walking animation frames was redrawn, but only her standing pose (the first frame) seen here is used. Unfortunately for her, she gets shot by Willy in the opening sequence before getting a chance to go anywhere.
	Williams sitting atop some higher ground. In the first game, he sat atop trees on Mission 3.
	Rowper's knife/dynamite throwing animation, an ability he had in the previous game but lost in this one.
	The square-haired strongman (named O'Hara in the Genesis version) never uses this double-hand slap technique, much like the bald Abobo from the first game.
	O'Hara breaking through a wall. His head-swapped counterpart, Bolo, uses this animation sequence at the beginning of Mission 2.
	Jumping animation frames for O'Hara and Bolo. In the first game, Abobo uses similar frames when he jumps down from a tree trunk in Mission 3.

Unused Music#

Regional Differences#

Region-Specific Screens#

Japan	US	Europe

Each version has its own region-specific screen:

• The Japanese version displays a standard export copyright notice on boot. The international versions don't have an equivalent notice, and instead go straight to the title screen.
• The US version displays the (blatantly obligatory) FBI's "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen common of the era, after the attract mode ends.
• The European version (called World by MAME's standards) displays a screen featuring five countries with their respective flags, after the attract mode ends.

Continue Text#

Japan	International

The flashing Continue text has a single palette on international versions, it cycles through 3 extra palettes only in the Japanese version.

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