Could you imagine if Sega of America and Netherrealm Studios teamed up to bring this game back? I personally think that Eternal Champions deserves a second chance.
@@iwanttocomplain It had two and it was overall well received but Sega of Japan was all "We don't want to deal with two fighting game franchises so we're gonna go with the more original Virtua Fighter than the MK clone that westerners seem to like but we don't".
It was only underrated because single player was impossible and boss sucked - just a transparent geese howard. I mean compare him to M.Bison, or the first time you took on Goro....
I actually played this before Mortal Kombat so those finishing moves on this game was mind blowing! The music was intense even the ending theme for bad ending was good! Sonic had some good one’s spring yard zone, marble zone and almost all of the songs from Sonic 2. Street fighter 2 themes: Guile, Ryu, Balrog, Vega, Ken, and Zangief. Honorable mention: the first few minutes of Jungle Hijinx from Donkey kong Country
This is the only genesis soundtrack I come back to and just give a listen. I'm a composer and producer with over 20 years of experience, and this is absolute gold.
@@_CaliDre100 so hard to choose one overall favourite soundtrack, there were so many good ones! I totally agree with the ones you mentioned (I am 5 years late lol 🤣)
Happy 30th anniversary to Eternal Champions and while it uses the standard GEMS instrumentation, this soundtrack has amazing compositions and I can’t help but love this soundtrack.
Yeah Man! SEGA renewed their trademark (or patent or something) for EC, I'm hoping we see a new EC in 2024! Or at least a cameo of some of the characters in one of SEGA's other new games coming out.
The Bio's theme capture the tragedy of these characters perfectly. You can imagine everything in more detail as you read how each one of these fighters died mostly because of this track.
Yes it is! I played it for weeks on end as a kid and FINALLY beat it one day. But I could never finish it again. The Eternal Champion is a real pain...
@@bluebillygrit1 OMG this game drove me nuts on the genesis when i was a kid! First it was Jetta but I eventually figured out how to beat her. I could never beat the eternal no matter how many times I played this game over and over again. Once I came very close and beat his first 3 forms but I just couldn't get him on the last one, it was so deflating to get that close and not be able to finish it lol.
Yep, I was only able to consistently beat it with Shadow and that was only because I would abuse her “shadow mode” move where she goes dark and becomes invulnerable.
Xavier will always remain my favorite Eternal Champion, though Midnight and Larcen come close. Also, something about Xavier's theme still gives me a bit of a rush when I hear those first few notes. I love the Bad Ending, Character Bios, Larcen's and Shadow's themes as well. And, of course, the Main Theme. :)
I wonder who won the actual tournament as there was only one winner apparently. Probably Blade or Shadow as they had the most worthy causes (preventing 95% of humanity from being wiped out is pretty important I think regarding Blade). Trident was my fave. I was only 4 so could be forgiven for spamming his fire move over and over as it was the only way i could beat the eternal champion (multiple times). The only other character I ever beat the EC with was Slash once I remember which was a fluke. I reached him with Jetta to but lost. Everyone else i couldn't even win a fight with pretty much
I still think it's creepy but cool in each stage is some really fucked up was to die...in Blade's zone you get kicked into the fan, Shadow's you get pushed into the neon sign and get electrocuted, Rax's you get frozen then shattered, Xavier's you're burn at the stake, Jetta's you fall into the earth, Slash, you get eaten by a t rex, Midnight's you die from a bomb dropped from a helicopter, Larcen's a drive by, and Trident's you get pulled under water by plants.
+Crystal Nibarger Everyone was freaking out over Mortal Kombat at the time and Eternal Champions kind of went under the radar. The Sega CD remake/sequel to the game has some absolutely disgusting fatalities that sort of went unnoticed. Eternal Champions' were a lot more creative too.
I have a very big love/hate relationship with this game. I think that as a fighter its mediocre at best. But I love the story, the characters are all pretty great and the music is pretty darn awesome. Alot of the music gives me chills.
The game was so clunky and the Chi system was cheap. Like w SF charge character not needing to charge to do special moves cheap. But I agree. I loved it. The E.C. was too damn hard. Only beat him twice and one of the those was cheesing it using Slash's toss throw over and over.
Larcen’s theme was so dope with that vicious Dragnet sample. I’m here because I listened to an old dragnet radio episode from like the 50’s last night and it reminded me of Larcens stage music..
@@RainWalker24c I think I got a couple of stage fatalities too when I was only 5 or 6. I definitely remember Larcen's, Blade's and Rex's. So yeah, there goes my innocence.
omg thanks u so much for posting this soundtrack!! Memories...when my dad choose again and again the prehistoric guy (dont know his name), and fight my brothers...This game is awesome, i want to play it again:
I definitely see some classic Heavy Metal influences here. Got some Iron Maiden in Blade's theme, some Judas Priest in several other themes, a bit of Black Sabbath somewhere, some hard rock, AC/DC, possibly some Van Halen there?
33:08 Where you from nigga? Straight from the motherfucking land ah the heartless Five true thugs from the double glock Ready ta pop to the dome, eternally it's on. That say's it all. Classic
+MacKenzie McDermott When I heard it, I thought, it can't be....then I went to the sound test menu and played the E. 1999 tape...my little mind was blown. If I ever met them in person, my first question would be, "Have you ever played Eternal Champions for Sega Genesis??" I always thought it was hilarious though, that a gangster rap group like BTNH sampled a videogame sound byte. haha
The music at 33.08 was used in american rap group bone thugs in harmonys song eternal.. their dj, dj u neek was a big fan of this game.. there goes a fun fact for everyone
Once I got good with Rax and Trident I was unstoppable lol! I remember trying so hard to do the damn stage fatalities, "stand there!" "here?" "no more more" *hit*... nothing happens.....so pissed
It could be done but I think (just guessing) they did it with the noise snares because of the game's PCM sound effects. They would fight with each other
I'd love to see an Eternal Champions vs Killer Instinct crossover fighting game w some of the Altered Beast Characters as like bonus characters or unlockables.
i loved and i still love this game. very easy to me this game using Rax. i still have this game in my megadrive/genesis collection. to me this game is a masterpiece.
DJ U-Neek and Tony C. Produced the album E. 1999 Eternal by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. They used two samples from Eternal Champions. One was bad ending for crossroads, not a coincidence. The song eternal used character bios. Eternal Champions didn't create Bone Thugs N Harmony. FOH.
The Eternal Champion himself was brutal; I don't think I completed this game with everyone back in the day, just the characters I was best with. RAX, Midnight and Jetta I do remember doing it with, but can't remember others. I was absolute balls with Blade, that much I remember.
The only thing I really hated about this game was the brutal difficulty and cheap gameplay. Other than that this game was amazing. The graphics, the characters, the storyline, and damn sure the music was just epic and very different and aged very well. I really liked the fact the fighters have real life fighting styles which was really new for fighting games at that time. My favorite songs was Shadow's theme and Larcen's theme. RAX's theme reminds me of Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport
I never played this before, but I started on Regen and I have to say, this is definitely unique from any 90's fighter (or really any other fighter in general) I've ever played, and I mean that in a good way. The color usage is really my only complaint, it looks really poor next to even other Genesis games. It's a minor complaint though, as this is actually a really cool game that deserves a modern sequel, or at the very least, an HD remake. However, being that Sega is pretty much dissolved now, I doubt that will ever happen unless someone else acquires the rights to this game.
The graphics actually suffer from being too well done in my opinion. They're very intricate and (conceptually) colorful; the problem is there just aren't enough colors to do the art justice. The sprites look OK but the backgrounds really suffer. At the time the game's graphics were impressive for the comparatively huge sprites, at least compared to other 90s home-conversions of arcade fighters. Gameplay still stands up, at least in 2 player mode. The CPU characters obviously cheat--the yin-yang symbol next to the life bar is a special move meter; the CPU controlled characters can spam moves without it decreasing. It's infuriating how obvious it is. It looks slightly better on a blurry TV/emulator filter set to blur, but that's entirely subjective to whether you prefer grainy or blurry.
Chibi Romano The palette in my opinion was the only real flaw of the Genesis taken into account the era it was built. Even by 1989 standards the palette was pretty limited. I have been messing around with making some sprite art & backgrounds for my Genesis homebrew stuff and 9-bit depth is super limited and biased toward extremes of hue, subtle colors are nearly impossible and the entire palette has a blue/purple tint over half of it. 512 colors is nowhere near as many as it sounds like when you can count the number of usable flesh tones, or shades of yellow or red on one hand. A lot of people think the Genesis' main limitation is number of simultaneous onscreen colors; I personally think it suffers more from having a relatively poor selection of them. Bright color selections look good, like the Sonic games and some others but subtle "realistic" colors don't work and you end up with muddy bluegrayish Eternal Champions. The worst part is it wouldn't have taken much more memory to at least have access to a larger color palette. A real shame.
DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL Yes, totally agree. The color palette is the Genesis's flaw, while the SNES is that ridiculously slow processor. Both of which are unexcusable. The Genesis was built at a time where, like you said, the technology was there to use. The SNES being so slow is something I don't get, as it was built a year or two AFTER the Genesis, so you think in that time they could address such an issue. I mean, it was stellar in every area except the processor, which affected gameplay significantly.
Chibi Romano I've heard in the case of the SNES there were likely 2 factors. First, depending on who you ask, they either wanted object-code compatibility with the NES (so they could have some kind of possibility of backward compatibility) OR they simply wanted to stay within the same CPU family as the NES as a concession to developers, to ease the transition. I have also heard that they planned from the start for game cartridges to have their own optional CPU/hardware and there certainly were more than a few special SNES cartridges so there might be some truth to that. Either way the 65816 is absolutely stone-age compared to the 68000.
The lead part to Blade's theme totally melted my face as a kid, and was the reason I was determined to git gud with him! A shame they made his theme on the SegaCD version so bland in comparison.
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side for the Sega CD is WAY more intense than this game. On a scale of 1 to 10 for the blood and gore, that game is a 20.
27:38 for me its always got to be the Atlantis stage , I will always look back on this as the best fighter ever made cause its the only one I could ever get into . 1 Cyborg guy 2 cave man 3 future black dude were the best in my opinion
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Could you imagine if Sega of America and Netherrealm Studios teamed up to bring this game back? I personally think that Eternal Champions deserves a second chance.
YES
That'd be awesome. Or hell, maybe give us a EC character and pull a Tekken 7 and have them be part of the Mortal Kombat lore?
@@dnmstarsi I've always love the idea of an Eternal Champions/Mortal Kombat crossover!
It has two chances and both were stinky.
@@iwanttocomplain It had two and it was overall well received but Sega of Japan was all "We don't want to deal with two fighting game franchises so we're gonna go with the more original Virtua Fighter than the MK clone that westerners seem to like but we don't".
The music to this sooo underrated. Used to love this game growing up.
i had the activator was so cool no controller you can move to play the game best idea and it worked really good
It was only underrated because single player was impossible and boss sucked - just a transparent geese howard. I mean compare him to M.Bison, or the first time you took on Goro....
I actually played this before Mortal Kombat so those finishing moves on this game was mind blowing! The music was intense even the ending theme for bad ending was good! Sonic had some good one’s spring yard zone, marble zone and almost all of the songs from Sonic 2. Street fighter 2 themes: Guile, Ryu, Balrog, Vega, Ken, and Zangief. Honorable mention: the first few minutes of Jungle Hijinx from Donkey kong Country
This is the only genesis soundtrack I come back to and just give a listen. I'm a composer and producer with over 20 years of experience, and this is absolute gold.
@@_CaliDre100 so hard to choose one overall favourite soundtrack, there were so many good ones! I totally agree with the ones you mentioned (I am 5 years late lol 🤣)
Happy 30th anniversary to Eternal Champions and while it uses the standard GEMS instrumentation, this soundtrack has amazing compositions and I can’t help but love this soundtrack.
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Yeah Man! SEGA renewed their trademark (or patent or something) for EC, I'm hoping we see a new EC in 2024! Or at least a cameo of some of the characters in one of SEGA's other new games coming out.
Who ever created all the 90s video game soundtrack is just so awsome and need recognition for it
Ikr 😂 SHEEEESH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✅💪
The Bio's theme capture the tragedy of these characters perfectly. You can imagine everything in more detail as you read how each one of these fighters died mostly because of this track.
Thank you for that encapsulates the depth of this game perfectly
Been looking for years for the Bio theme it’s so mysterious isn’t it it draws you In
agreed
One of the best games on Sega Genesis
Now THIS was a hard game!
Yes it is! I played it for weeks on end as a kid and FINALLY beat it one day. But I could never finish it again. The Eternal Champion is a real pain...
Hell yeah that last dude was a bitch
@@bluebillygrit1 OMG this game drove me nuts on the genesis when i was a kid! First it was Jetta but I eventually figured out how to beat her. I could never beat the eternal no matter how many times I played this game over and over again. Once I came very close and beat his first 3 forms but I just couldn't get him on the last one, it was so deflating to get that close and not be able to finish it lol.
Yep, I was only able to consistently beat it with Shadow and that was only because I would abuse her “shadow mode” move where she goes dark and becomes invulnerable.
Happy birthday 🎂
Main theme at 29:20 is one of my favorite tracks from the 16 bit era.
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Hell ya me too. I was like 8 jamming this shit in my room on a small ass tV lol.
Xavier will always remain my favorite Eternal Champion, though Midnight and Larcen come close. Also, something about Xavier's theme still gives me a bit of a rush when I hear those first few notes. I love the Bad Ending, Character Bios, Larcen's and Shadow's themes as well.
And, of course, the Main Theme. :)
Damn, I share this opinion 100%
I wonder who won the actual tournament as there was only one winner apparently. Probably Blade or Shadow as they had the most worthy causes (preventing 95% of humanity from being wiped out is pretty important I think regarding Blade). Trident was my fave. I was only 4 so could be forgiven for spamming his fire move over and over as it was the only way i could beat the eternal champion (multiple times). The only other character I ever beat the EC with was Slash once I remember which was a fluke. I reached him with Jetta to but lost. Everyone else i couldn't even win a fight with pretty much
Blade for me!
Xaviers theme is a creepy“Tubular Bells” cover. Still awesome
Slash is my favourite character because I can actually progress with him lol.
30:56 - Bone Thugs N Harmony - Crossroads (The Original Crossroads, not the Hit one)
33:09 Bone Thugs N Harmony - Eternal
My guy
At min 10 is another bone thugs jam
Jetta's stage music is the best!!! Soo badass!!!
Still love Julie Bell’s art for the front cover of this game. Great artist. Great game and the ost was top notch.
This and Comix Zone made the Genesis the best console to ever grace our mortal hands, suck it Nintendo
Wulfsmasher NICE PROFILE PIC.
+Wulfsmasher Well, this game. I never cared for Howard Drossin's soundtrack for Comix Zone since it is rock-a-billy.
Speaking of both, I can't help but notice Sketch and MidKnight's fashion sense is similar.
What's the matter, Sketch? Gettin' chicken?
Nope, have another try
33:07 this song haunts my memory once per month since the 90s.
Happy birthday 🎂
I think Xavier's stage is the best song theme.
I still think it's creepy but cool in each stage is some really fucked up was to die...in Blade's zone you get kicked into the fan, Shadow's you get pushed into the neon sign and get electrocuted, Rax's you get frozen then shattered, Xavier's you're burn at the stake, Jetta's you fall into the earth, Slash, you get eaten by a t rex, Midnight's you die from a bomb dropped from a helicopter, Larcen's a drive by, and Trident's you get pulled under water by plants.
+Crystal Nibarger Everyone was freaking out over Mortal Kombat at the time and Eternal Champions kind of went under the radar. The Sega CD remake/sequel to the game has some absolutely disgusting fatalities that sort of went unnoticed. Eternal Champions' were a lot more creative too.
+DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL I agree they were more creative...there's also Street Fighter unless they came before
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Crystal Nibarger I think Xavier's and Slashs' music creeped me out the most. Larcen's music was just the coolest. 😎
I have a very big love/hate relationship with this game. I think that as a fighter its mediocre at best. But I love the story, the characters are all pretty great and the music is pretty darn awesome. Alot of the music gives me chills.
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun Come on! If my 12 year old self was able to do it...
The game was so clunky and the Chi system was cheap. Like w SF charge character not needing to charge to do special moves cheap. But I agree. I loved it. The E.C. was too damn hard. Only beat him twice and one of the those was cheesing it using Slash's toss throw over and over.
@@alwaysxnever I know Ive beaten him a few times with a few characters (Xavier, Midnight, and Trident i think) but i had to use the save states.
Underrated soundtrack. Some bad ass tunes here
Happy birthday 🎂
This might sound crazy, but I get a bit of a Soundgarden vibe from Midnight's theme. Something about those progressions.
Blade theme by far is the best track in this game and one of the best tracks in all games of all systems, I listen to that in my car for some time now
I smoke while playing blade's theme sometimes!
Hell yeah! Ima hit the reefer vape & put it on.
Larcen’s theme was so dope with that vicious Dragnet sample. I’m here because I listened to an old dragnet radio episode from like the 50’s last night and it reminded me of Larcens stage music..
I was just thinking this! How people haven't given enough credit to this. Good call bud!
one of the most beautiful colors I've seen on the sega genesis. That game was my bday gift back when it was released.
Eternal Champions vs. Mortal Kombat
This game was HARD!! Never rage quit so much on another game but lots of fun!
Rax's stage soundtrack is insane! There was a whimsy and a talent in this era that's hard to find even these days.
Great game! Loved the music and storyline too! Was super hard though!
Xavier´s theme: the most amazing creepy music theme of all.
I was 5yrs old, that stage freaked me out. I dropped the controller when I accidentally triggered the stage "Fatality" 🤣
@@RainWalker24c I think I got a couple of stage fatalities too when I was only 5 or 6. I definitely remember Larcen's, Blade's and Rex's. So yeah, there goes my innocence.
Some great artwork for these oldskool video-games of the 80s and 90s.Very creative and unique
this is one of my favorites OSTs ever!
The character bios track has haunted me in a very pleasant way since the first time I heard it.
Listen to Eternal by Bone thugs now.
@@johnh6689 Oh that was awesome!
Midknight's Stage and Character bios are the best themes in this game.
Jetta's stage
Agree, definitely Jetta's stage
TheLegendofRenegade best stage music in the game
The theme of the Midnight's stage is really cool!
Shadow's Stage is fucking awesome
C'mon it's Shadow's Stage that is rockin'
33:07 Oh god, the feels. The feels.
Damn, same.
Nostalgia bomb-in-a-half right there.
btnh brought me here lol
Bone thugz!!
@@cpade838 Because? Where?
it's a shame Joe Delia didn't make more video game music, he sounded unique. Comix Zone's music style seems influenced by Midknight's theme too
Sketch's design seems influenced by MidKnight, too.
The song at 31:00 (Bad ending) was sampled by bonethugs for their song crossroad the orginal version not The crossroads listen to it
one of my favorite games...I like shadow
@ 0:01 I can hear Blade wrist bands☀️
They need to remaster this game with updated graphics and keep everything the same for PS5, I would buy it ✅
So dope! Thanks for this! They were jamming! You know that shit was heavy ☺️
If there was an eternal champs cover band i'd follow them
omg thanks u so much for posting this soundtrack!!
Memories...when my dad choose again and again the prehistoric guy (dont know his name), and fight my brothers...This game is awesome, i want to play it again:
+Virka57 His name is Slash (prehistoric guy)
My favourite is Larsen, btw (criminal)
You meant Slash who according to his story was quite advanced for a caveman.
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
There's a pretty cool remix of the Bios theme at OCRemix; that was how I first heard of this OST.
These were some high quality themes! So many memories playing this when I was a kid
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Amazing soundtrack.
I definitely see some classic Heavy Metal influences here. Got some Iron Maiden in Blade's theme, some Judas Priest in several other themes, a bit of Black Sabbath somewhere, some hard rock, AC/DC, possibly some Van Halen there?
33:08 Where you from nigga?
Straight from the motherfucking land ah the heartless
Five true thugs from the double glock
Ready ta pop to the dome, eternally it's on. That say's it all. Classic
Thanks for bringing this up....that's remind me when I use to play this game's when I was a childhood.....thanks.
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Smart man putting Blades first. Fun song to train up your whistling skill... yes the solo
I'm loving the box art for the game
One of my favorite games of Mega Drive era
they could remake the game today, but have various characters from other fighting games as either a combination of DLC or hidden characters.
That would be so damn cool if they did. Hopefully that would happen. I mean, they already made Streets Of Rage 4, so why not this?
You lost me at DLC.
Bone thugs N Harmony
Hell yes! Eternal was totally sampled from the song @33:09 Mad props for calling it out!
Fisnik Zumberi yup! I was shocked when I first heard it lol
+MacKenzie McDermott When I heard it, I thought, it can't be....then I went to the sound test menu and played the E. 1999 tape...my little mind was blown. If I ever met them in person, my first question would be, "Have you ever played Eternal Champions for Sega Genesis??" I always thought it was hilarious though, that a gangster rap group like BTNH sampled a videogame sound byte. haha
Fisnik Zumberi haha hell yeah they are awesome
31:00- Bone Thugs Crossroads original version as well
Bone thugs instrumental @ 32 or 33 minutes for there east 99 song this is fucking amazing
Frank216DnaLevelC 30:56 is the original crossroads song that was on the first e.1999 release.
One of my child hood favorite games legend
Bad Ending=Bone Thugs n harmony-Crossroads(original version)
Character Bio=Bone Thugs n Harmony-Eternal
Xavier’s theme goes just as hard as ever
The music at 33.08 was used in american rap group bone thugs in harmonys song eternal.. their dj, dj u neek was a big fan of this game.. there goes a fun fact for everyone
Once I got good with Rax and Trident I was unstoppable lol! I remember trying so hard to do the damn stage fatalities, "stand there!" "here?" "no more more" *hit*... nothing happens.....so pissed
Once I knew 3-button combos were a thing, I destroyed face with RAX as well; his giant chest lightning ball did outrageous damage if it connected.
it was a 2 button combo for this one :) (A+C)
Hidden attribute of that move, in addition, you were invincible too! Ever notice that?
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Character bios theme is used on bone thugs and harmony Land of the heartless, look it up, 100% accurate
You mean eternal not land of tha heartless
Dustin, theres a way to easily hack those Noise Channels SNARE Drums to PCM Snare Drums?
Anyway this soundtrack is very good.
It could be done but I think (just guessing) they did it with the noise snares because of the game's PCM sound effects. They would fight with each other
Should've started with the track at 20:59 . Cool though, thanks for putting this up!
Xavier's theme is terrific. Sounds like Carpenter or something
I've been listening to his "Lost Themes" releases lately and you're right. Would have been right at home in Halloween or The Fog.
SEGA needs a Eternal Champions Vs Altered Beasts fighting game crossover.
I'd love to see an Eternal Champions vs Killer Instinct crossover fighting game w some of the Altered Beast Characters as like bonus characters or unlockables.
holy shit thundercat was right that does sound like the menu theme
The first song is really relaxing!
My top 3 tracks:
1 - 12:22 Jetta's theme
2 - 23:43 Larcen's theme
3 - 03:02 Eternal Champion's theme
30:57-33:04 Is the shit! I love the harmony and beats . Miss my Sega Genesis days 🎮
i loved and i still love this game.
very easy to me this game using Rax.
i still have this game in my megadrive/genesis collection.
to me this game is a masterpiece.
And also great background storyline from each fighter
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
DJ U-Neek and Tony C. Produced the album E. 1999 Eternal by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. They used two samples from Eternal Champions. One was bad ending for crossroads, not a coincidence. The song eternal used character bios. Eternal Champions didn't create Bone Thugs N Harmony. FOH.
Bone thugs used the Character Bio track on the "Eternal" track for e.1999 album, thats so dope
This and Contra Hard Corps have a ost so good, I've made a small remix to the first stage theme on Contra #fangandbrownyforever
Completely underrated 🙏🏾
33:07 bone thugs sampled that shit.03. Eternal - E
Yes sir. Eternal from E.1999!
I knew it ,I knew it I knew and all theses years I thought I was tripping
Jett and midnight had the best music
The Eternal Champion himself was brutal; I don't think I completed this game with everyone back in the day, just the characters I was best with. RAX, Midnight and Jetta I do remember doing it with, but can't remember others. I was absolute balls with Blade, that much I remember.
Xavier theme is my favorite 😍🧙🏻♂️
thundercat brought me here
The only thing I really hated about this game was the brutal difficulty and cheap gameplay. Other than that this game was amazing. The graphics, the characters, the storyline, and damn sure the music was just epic and very different and aged very well. I really liked the fact the fighters have real life fighting styles which was really new for fighting games at that time. My favorite songs was Shadow's theme and Larcen's theme. RAX's theme reminds me of Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Trident's theme is next level
Mom wouldn’t let me get Mortal Kombat back then. But she didn’t hear about Eternal Champions!
From 31:02 until 35:57 of the vid, it's Bone Thugs N Harmony
I like doing training with playing this video.
Now that's f***ing AWESOME!
gosh I love this game when I was a little girl my mains were Shadow Jetta Johnathan Blade and midknight
Being a eternal noob at shooters and fighting games i missed oiut some great music
trident song is so good and so creepy.
Character bios bone thugs 🔥🔥
Childhood triggered
I never played this before, but I started on Regen and I have to say, this is definitely unique from any 90's fighter (or really any other fighter in general) I've ever played, and I mean that in a good way.
The color usage is really my only complaint, it looks really poor next to even other Genesis games.
It's a minor complaint though, as this is actually a really cool game that deserves a modern sequel, or at the very least, an HD remake. However, being that Sega is pretty much dissolved now, I doubt that will ever happen unless someone else acquires the rights to this game.
The graphics actually suffer from being too well done in my opinion. They're very intricate and (conceptually) colorful; the problem is there just aren't enough colors to do the art justice. The sprites look OK but the backgrounds really suffer. At the time the game's graphics were impressive for the comparatively huge sprites, at least compared to other 90s home-conversions of arcade fighters. Gameplay still stands up, at least in 2 player mode. The CPU characters obviously cheat--the yin-yang symbol next to the life bar is a special move meter; the CPU controlled characters can spam moves without it decreasing. It's infuriating how obvious it is.
It looks slightly better on a blurry TV/emulator filter set to blur, but that's entirely subjective to whether you prefer grainy or blurry.
DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL I'll take grainy over blurry, just saying that the Genesis color palette doesn't work well here.
Chibi Romano The palette in my opinion was the only real flaw of the Genesis taken into account the era it was built. Even by 1989 standards the palette was pretty limited. I have been messing around with making some sprite art & backgrounds for my Genesis homebrew stuff and 9-bit depth is super limited and biased toward extremes of hue, subtle colors are nearly impossible and the entire palette has a blue/purple tint over half of it. 512 colors is nowhere near as many as it sounds like when you can count the number of usable flesh tones, or shades of yellow or red on one hand. A lot of people think the Genesis' main limitation is number of simultaneous onscreen colors; I personally think it suffers more from having a relatively poor selection of them. Bright color selections look good, like the Sonic games and some others but subtle "realistic" colors don't work and you end up with muddy bluegrayish Eternal Champions.
The worst part is it wouldn't have taken much more memory to at least have access to a larger color palette. A real shame.
DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL Yes, totally agree. The color palette is the Genesis's flaw, while the SNES is that ridiculously slow processor. Both of which are unexcusable.
The Genesis was built at a time where, like you said, the technology was there to use.
The SNES being so slow is something I don't get, as it was built a year or two AFTER the Genesis, so you think in that time they could address such an issue. I mean, it was stellar in every area except the processor, which affected gameplay significantly.
Chibi Romano I've heard in the case of the SNES there were likely 2 factors. First, depending on who you ask, they either wanted object-code compatibility with the NES (so they could have some kind of possibility of backward compatibility) OR they simply wanted to stay within the same CPU family as the NES as a concession to developers, to ease the transition. I have also heard that they planned from the start for game cartridges to have their own optional CPU/hardware and there certainly were more than a few special SNES cartridges so there might be some truth to that. Either way the 65816 is absolutely stone-age compared to the 68000.
I'm amazed that none of Shadow, Trident or Xavier got into Smash Bros
This game was too extreme for Smash Bros in the same way MK is.
Trying to play blade's theme on guitar is savage.
Bone Thugs N Harmony Eternal sampled over the Bad Ending?
Yep and original crossroads at 31:00
The lead part to Blade's theme totally melted my face as a kid, and was the reason I was determined to git gud with him! A shame they made his theme on the SegaCD version so bland in comparison.
that rating tho
Best GEMS soundtrack along with Comix Zone? Most GEMS games feel like they lack instruments in most songs and sound flat as a result, but not this!
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side for the Sega CD is WAY more intense than this game. On a scale of 1 to 10 for the blood and gore, that game is a 20.
27:38 for me its always got to be the Atlantis stage , I will always look back on this as the best fighter ever made cause its the only one I could ever get into . 1 Cyborg guy 2 cave man 3 future black dude were the best in my opinion