iPlaySEGA!! How I long for a Fighters Megamix 2. Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, and Last Bronx characters plus other guest characters. I feel something like this would be so successful for Sega.
That 60 fps really makes a difference, especially after watching other fighting games of the 32/64-bit era. And kudos for playing on a real Saturn. The emulators still over-pixelate the image , making the graphics notably worse than they are in a real Saturn. And I'm always amazed by the lighting effects in Megamix. Sega really outdid themselves this time. It's worth owning a Saturn just for Sega's arcade brawlers.
Great post Boss!! I told a UA-cam Sega Saturn content creator I know he is using emulation for to his very reason. Poor graphics and No transparencies in games that did have real transparencies like Burning rangers. Models looking all barebones terrible.
@@ENFDOnah it definately 60fps.There is some slow down here n there.VF2, VF KIDS, FIGHTING VIPERS, FIGHTERS MEGAMIX AND LAST BRONX ARE ALL 60 FPS GAMES.
It's 2023 and I'm still hoping for Fighters Megamix 2. Imagine some of the possible bouts. It could have Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Kazuma Kiryu on the set of Space Channel 5, or Sakura Shinguji vs. Sarah Bryant in the Chemical Plant Zone.
Sega Saturn and Dreamcast games are very underrated to this day and I simply wished that Dreamcast 2 was finished and didn't get canceled because Dreamcast is my favorite console to this day
I'm sure I got my parents to buy me this from Dixons when I was about 10 years old. I think it was about £50, which was loads back then. This was such an entertaining game for me tho, many hours spent unlocking new characters and wondering who the hell half of them were as I'd only played Virtual Fighter.
That's right, it was THE first ever cross over fighter. Sega innovated so much of the way everyone plays games and basically everyone after Gen Y is woefully unaware.
@@Longlostpuss If there was no King of Fighters, there would be no Fighters Megamix. That claim of 'The 1st' is incorrect, and 'woefully unaware' very ironic.
@@FIXTREME Neo Geo games belonged to a very specific market (pretty much the rich boy's club) and I didn't know a single person who actually owned one in school (though there were many claims with no verification), so apologies if I never considered its contribution to gaming. When I'm talking about innovation, I'm talking about the mainstream platforms which were at least accessible in terms of pricing, the Neo Geo was not even a consideration because of this, so I just don't include it. I saw it as an arcade board, which is literally what it was, so it would be cheating to include it in the argument in my opinion. Of the mainstream home platforms, Sega bossed the innovation and had been doing so since the 80's.
Today is the birthday of this game on europe! great quality as usual! i would love to see another video of this game someday, maybe playing the survival mode!
I’d like to have a sequel for this game. Characters should be from Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, and Anarchy Reigns. Also Ulala from Space Channel 5 and Ryo from Shenmue. There should be super attacks and finishers as well. My team battle mode characters would consist of Sarah Bryant, Fei Rin, and Dural. Dural should be a sub-boss (using martial arts only) and the final boss is Dural in a much more powerful and intimidating form (one that can shoot projectiles and form weapons out of her hands).
Finally got a chance to play this game. Shines more as a Fighting Vipers game than a Virtua Fighter one. Lack of ringouts on VF stages kinda lets things down a bit.
Yeah, that's one of the downsides to this game. It would have been great to have the option to remove the walls from the Vipers stages. The music resetting after every round is also really annoying.
The tracks stop after about a minute or so anyway. It sucks, and was due to the sheer roster size, but what can you do? At least Rentahero's song was nice and long, and doesn't restart.
Could you uploade it for Mahlar vs Blue Honey?? I want to watch about Mahlar's various special move. Especially, Brain washer is so greatest technic!!!
I started playing Saturn in 2016 (was a PS1 kid) and prefer this game to VF2 personally - I just think it's more fun. I couldn't quite get into VF2 the same way, though I know lots of fans prefer it.
Instead of adding all those goofy mascot characters, they should’ve added the Last Bronx fighters, levels, and music. It could’ve been Virtua Fighter versus Fighting Vipers versus Last Bronx!
@@kienhsi9522 I disagree with that: Last Bronx was released in May of 1996, while Fighters Megamix came out in December. Surely, there was enough time to tie the characters in. If we were to take into consideration Last Bronx being 'too new', Sonic the Fighters came out around the same time. So that point is moot. Also, the Streets of Rage crew would have been a better addition to, say, Deku or the AM2 palm tree
That's fucking ridiculous. This is a traditional 1v1 fighting game that plays and looks nothing like Smash Bros. The idea of doing crossovers is nothing original either: SNK did it years earlier with King of Fighters, which was the combination of Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting plus a few extra characters, some original and some adapted from previous SNK games.
@@gurriato It's not about the gameplay. The point is people act like Smash Bros invented crossover fighting games and are quick to call other games rip-offs when Smash itself is not even the first of its kind. SEGA and SNK did it before Nintendo, so it's not really fair to be calling games like PlayStation All-Stars a ripoff of Smash, unless they say Smash is a ripoff of Fighters Megamix or The King of Fighters.
Compare Megamix to VF2, all the characters are in totally different Texture Mapping method.This gouraud shading is common in PS1.This method with lighting effect looks much better than using texture mapping only.I really don't know why Resident Evil of Saturn version don't use this method.
Because all what Saturn draws via hardware acceleration is distorted sprites, quads, with special restrictions, but that could have tinted corners,making up for the lighting. Resident Evil was a PSX port, thus, it worked on PSX specs, which used triangles instead that had to be drawn in software mode. To reach interactive speeds, some sacrifices had to be made, for example, lighting. That's the largest gap on Saturn development compared to other machines, to achieve desirable efficiency, you had to use distorted sprites, and that required specific non standard tools designed for Saturn that nobody else had nor bothered to have, in many cases. Sounded reasonable to have quads, instead of triangles, 2 for the price of one and no perspective distortion as many PSX games had, but in the long run, resulted in a bad idea, as it was a highly limiting choice.
@@kienhsi9522 I think it's because when developing the Saturn Sega seemingly expected most home console games during this generation to use engines similar to Space Harrier or Outrun rather than Virtua Fighter 2 or Daytona USA. A big strategic mistake and ironic considering what their own AM divisions were pioneering at the time, but somewhat understandable without foresight.
Which 2 Characters are in the Japanese version which aren't in the North American release? Funny thing is the North American release sells for more online. I guess not everyone has Japanese Saturn, Modded Saturn, or one of those cartridges that allows to play the Japanese release. The price of North American Saturn games are ridiculous online. I think they were more scarce because in Japan the Saturn was a hit but in North America they only sold a weak 3 million Saturn Consoles. I believe Hero and the Arabic character was probably Japanese and UK exclusive characters the more I think about it.
Nope, all characters are available in each version. The only difference i can remember, there was a puzzle mini game in the japanese version and the song in the Rent-A-Hero stage had lyrics instead of a instumental track. Oh and iirc the US version had slightly less slow downs here and there.
To unlock most of the characters you just have to complete each of the single player arcade courses. Start the game up 30 times to unlock Mr Meat. Play for a total of 84 hours to unlock Palm Tree (you can just leave the game running on the menu screen).
They need to make a sequel and even a sonic and sega all stars racing 3 and take a break from sonic games for a little bit cause they are pretty much hit or miss
Oh ok for some reason I thought it was 30fps. I had VF2 but never bought Fighters Megamix. I remember at the time there was a lot of rumor and fan speculation that there was going to be a Racers Megamix too, that would of been great.
AFAIK the Saturn wasn't able to run Fighting Vipers in the same resolution as VF2 due to the armor-breaking system, and Megamix had to be able to support this as well.
The Sonic characters were created by Sonic Team, and while they agreed to allow AM2 to make Sonic The Fighters, they didn't want the Sonic storyline crossing over into the Virtua universe. AM2 therefore could not use them in this, they could only use Bean and Bark (who were created by them for Sonic The Fighters).
VF (1 & Remix) run at 30 FPS. VF2 was the first with 60 FPS. Fighting Vipers has way more slow-downs than Megamix. BTW: The US version of Megamix had some framerate fixes here and there. The JP version is uncensored but has indeed some framerate issues in some areas.
![Saturn Longplay [131] Fighters Megamix (US)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GaOCCZLwykw/mqdefault.jpg)
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Fighters Megamix!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
iPlaySEGA!! How I long for a Fighters Megamix 2. Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, and Last Bronx characters plus other guest characters. I feel something like this would be so successful for Sega.
100% even if they remastered this version with some addded extras I would be happy with that.
@@bartdude82 a sequel should add Sonic, Beat (JSR), NIGHTS, Bayonetta and Gilius Thunderhead.
Maybe even Michael Jackson :)
That 60 fps really makes a difference, especially after watching other fighting games of the 32/64-bit era. And kudos for playing on a real Saturn. The emulators still over-pixelate the image , making the graphics notably worse than they are in a real Saturn. And I'm always amazed by the lighting effects in Megamix. Sega really outdid themselves this time. It's worth owning a Saturn just for Sega's arcade brawlers.
Saturn versión works at 30fps but with shades.
Its excellent
@@ENFDO This video is from a real Saturn, it's 60fps.
@@DenkyManner hi mate. VF Megamix was 30 fps. VF2 was 60 fps.
Great post Boss!! I told a UA-cam Sega Saturn content creator I know he is using emulation for to his very reason. Poor graphics and No transparencies in games that did have real transparencies like Burning rangers. Models looking all barebones terrible.
@@ENFDOnah it definately 60fps.There is some slow down here n there.VF2, VF KIDS, FIGHTING VIPERS, FIGHTERS MEGAMIX AND LAST BRONX ARE ALL 60 FPS GAMES.
Love this masterpiece!
The image quality of the video is stunning, great job iPlaySEGA!
Thanks, it's the RGB signal! ☺
結局最後まで観てしまった…。
しかし懐かしく、忘れてたのもあった。
思い出させてくれて有り難う、いい動画だったよ。
It's 2023 and I'm still hoping for Fighters Megamix 2. Imagine some of the possible bouts. It could have Sonic the Hedgehog vs. Kazuma Kiryu on the set of Space Channel 5, or Sakura Shinguji vs. Sarah Bryant in the Chemical Plant Zone.
Congratulations on the game and you beat them all. I had fun watching your video and you remembered me when I was playing Fighter Megamix too.
Sega Saturn and Dreamcast games are very underrated to this day and I simply wished that Dreamcast 2 was finished and didn't get canceled because Dreamcast is my favorite console to this day
Dreamcast 2 was never even started.
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i remember renting this game and having so much fun
this had the potential to be fe a franchise! its so sad we are left with just only one entry
before smash bros. ultimate, there was this mega crossover. FIGHTERS MEGAMIX!
I'm sure I got my parents to buy me this from Dixons when I was about 10 years old. I think it was about £50, which was loads back then. This was such an entertaining game for me tho, many hours spent unlocking new characters and wondering who the hell half of them were as I'd only played Virtual Fighter.
Arguably the greatest fighting game of all time. So much content.
the only place you can see Jotaro fighting a humanoid car. Oh wait.
ZZ Top wants a Rematch for the Humiliating he was given.
Sega's Super Smash Bros.
And the best part is this game is create in 1996 and smash in 1999
Before Marvel vs Capcom 2, Before Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, & Before the Tekken Tag Series, there was Fighters Megamix.
That's right, it was THE first ever cross over fighter.
Sega innovated so much of the way everyone plays games and basically everyone after Gen Y is woefully unaware.
Before Fighters Megamix there was X-Men vs. Street Fighter and The King of Fighters.
@@Longlostpuss If there was no King of Fighters, there would be no Fighters Megamix. That claim of 'The 1st' is incorrect, and 'woefully unaware' very ironic.
@@FIXTREME Neo Geo games belonged to a very specific market (pretty much the rich boy's club) and I didn't know a single person who actually owned one in school (though there were many claims with no verification), so apologies if I never considered its contribution to gaming.
When I'm talking about innovation, I'm talking about the mainstream platforms which were at least accessible in terms of pricing, the Neo Geo was not even a consideration because of this, so I just don't include it. I saw it as an arcade board, which is literally what it was, so it would be cheating to include it in the argument in my opinion.
Of the mainstream home platforms, Sega bossed the innovation and had been doing so since the 80's.
@@technicalmachine1671 Wait, didn't X-Men vs Street Fighter and Fighters Megamix came out the same year?
Palm Tree best final boss ever XD 49:28
_"This is no car accident!"_
- after losing to Hornet
God I love old school sega..
We need a sequel or a remake... damn this game is so funny and so good.
Funny? Look yourself in the mirror, bruh
@@katharsis3754 I am indeed funny
that desert stage has same intro music for Virtua fighter 3
We need a sequel to this game!
Some VF3 moves I can see. Interesting!
Every vf3 moves except wall interaction
And Janet is just Aoi with a gun.
Today is the birthday of this game on europe! great quality as usual! i would love to see another video of this game someday, maybe playing the survival mode!
We want the Streets Of Rage great in the Fighters Megamix sequel.
I’d like to have a sequel for this game.
Characters should be from Virtua Fighter, Fighting Vipers, and Anarchy Reigns.
Also Ulala from Space Channel 5 and Ryo from Shenmue.
There should be super attacks and finishers as well.
My team battle mode characters would consist of Sarah Bryant, Fei Rin, and Dural.
Dural should be a sub-boss (using martial arts only) and the final boss is Dural in a much more powerful and intimidating form (one that can shoot projectiles and form weapons out of her hands).
You forgot Kazuma Kiryu from Yakyza XD it would be awesome SEGA brought back this game indeed...
awesome graphics
Lower than Virtua Fighter 2 !
yes but fighters megamix has better lightning effects
Dinosaurs For in fact better. Replaced textures for gourad shading
I can't believe I got to fight Jotaro!
Bean Da Duk bahn: sheeh.....that guy sure is famous af.......
This game was definitely a classic
Gosh, I hope SEGA make another crossover fighting game! This time, with an all-star cast. It's long overdue.
Superb video upload. Really enjoyed watching this. You have a new sub :)
Also the ending sounds like a prototype Shenmue track!
THX & welcome!
Finally got a chance to play this game. Shines more as a Fighting Vipers game than a Virtua Fighter one. Lack of ringouts on VF stages kinda lets things down a bit.
Yeah, that's one of the downsides to this game. It would have been great to have the option to remove the walls from the Vipers stages. The music resetting after every round is also really annoying.
The game restarts the stage music each time between Rounds? Strange stylistic choice. It kept on playing in VF2.
It had nothing to do with stylistic. It had to do with limited storage. The game has many tracks and are stored uncompressed on the disc.
@@iPlaySEGA Ah, thanks for the info. Too bad, some themes are awesome later in the track.
The tracks stop after about a minute or so anyway. It sucks, and was due to the sheer roster size, but what can you do? At least Rentahero's song was nice and long, and doesn't restart.
@@iPlaySEGA we need sound effects and voice clips please
God what a great looking game
28:14 this round was like a Tekken 7 match. Had to rewind this!
12:44 Ouch! Picky ate that concrete!!
My childhood video games
このタイプのパイや影は打撃受けた時頭の飾り取れない😲
eu jogava muito esse jogo quando eu tinha 9 anos de idade agora estou com 26 anos lembrancas agente não esquece RS!
Could you uploade it for Mahlar vs Blue Honey?? I want to watch about Mahlar's various special move. Especially, Brain washer is so greatest technic!!!
quite simply, stunning. 😀 👍 👍 👍
I started playing Saturn in 2016 (was a PS1 kid) and prefer this game to VF2 personally - I just think it's more fun. I couldn't quite get into VF2 the same way, though I know lots of fans prefer it.
We need
SEGA (in Panzer Dragon OP Logos) as the boss
Temjin (Virtual-On)
Instead of adding all those goofy mascot characters, they should’ve added the Last Bronx fighters, levels, and music. It could’ve been Virtua Fighter versus Fighting Vipers versus Last Bronx!
Last Bronx was too recent for it to be megamixed, kinda it had to fly solo for a while before getting into a mash up of fighters.
>not wanting Hornet
Imagine being wrong on everything you said
@@kienhsi9522 I disagree with that: Last Bronx was released in May of 1996, while Fighters Megamix came out in December. Surely, there was enough time to tie the characters in.
If we were to take into consideration Last Bronx being 'too new', Sonic the Fighters came out around the same time. So that point is moot. Also, the Streets of Rage crew would have been a better addition to, say, Deku or the AM2 palm tree
This game only focused on AM2 characters and The Last Bronx was not made by AM2.
Thanks for the video. Why has this game not been ported onto to modern consoles or even Steam???
Saturn games are notoriously difficult to port/emulate.
@@Rocket1377 The fact that they brought out Panzer Dragoon on modern systems gives me hope. If not a perfect port, I would love an enhanced remake.
Time to bring out the Virtua Stick!
You saved the best one for last :)
Still bummed I never got to play this.
I'd love to play an HD update
Is this the pal version forced in 60hz or is this the us standard version ?
This was the Super Smash Bro back then, and people like to say PlayStation all star is a ripoff. I'll tell them to look at this.
That's fucking ridiculous. This is a traditional 1v1 fighting game that plays and looks nothing like Smash Bros. The idea of doing crossovers is nothing original either: SNK did it years earlier with King of Fighters, which was the combination of Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting plus a few extra characters, some original and some adapted from previous SNK games.
@@gurriato It's not about the gameplay. The point is people act like Smash Bros invented crossover fighting games and are quick to call other games rip-offs when Smash itself is not even the first of its kind. SEGA and SNK did it before Nintendo, so it's not really fair to be calling games like PlayStation All-Stars a ripoff of Smash, unless they say Smash is a ripoff of Fighters Megamix or The King of Fighters.
Best Graphics!!!!
Compare Megamix to VF2, all the characters are in totally different Texture Mapping method.This gouraud shading is common in PS1.This method with lighting effect looks much better than using texture mapping only.I really don't know why Resident Evil of Saturn version don't use this method.
Because all what Saturn draws via hardware acceleration is distorted sprites, quads, with special restrictions, but that could have tinted corners,making up for the lighting. Resident Evil was a PSX port, thus, it worked on PSX specs, which used triangles instead that had to be drawn in software mode. To reach interactive speeds, some sacrifices had to be made, for example, lighting.
That's the largest gap on Saturn development compared to other machines, to achieve desirable efficiency, you had to use distorted sprites, and that required specific non standard tools designed for Saturn that nobody else had nor bothered to have, in many cases.
Sounded reasonable to have quads, instead of triangles, 2 for the price of one and no perspective distortion as many PSX games had, but in the long run, resulted in a bad idea, as it was a highly limiting choice.
@@kienhsi9522 I think it's because when developing the Saturn Sega seemingly expected most home console games during this generation to use engines similar to Space Harrier or Outrun rather than Virtua Fighter 2 or Daytona USA. A big strategic mistake and ironic considering what their own AM divisions were pioneering at the time, but somewhat understandable without foresight.
4:09
Sarah has a Deathfist ? Lol
how do I get all characters? is there a video or guide for it?
gamefaqs is probably your best bet.
Which 2 Characters are in the Japanese version which aren't in the North American release? Funny thing is the North American release sells for more online. I guess not everyone has Japanese Saturn, Modded Saturn, or one of those cartridges that allows to play the Japanese release. The price of North American Saturn games are ridiculous online. I think they were more scarce because in Japan the Saturn was a hit but in North America they only sold a weak 3 million Saturn Consoles. I believe Hero and the Arabic character was probably Japanese and UK exclusive characters the more I think about it.
Nope, all characters are available in each version. The only difference i can remember, there was a puzzle mini game in the japanese version and the song in the Rent-A-Hero stage had lyrics instead of a instumental track. Oh and iirc the US version had slightly less slow downs here and there.
46:15 Well this is awkward...
How do you unlock all the characters?
To unlock most of the characters you just have to complete each of the single player arcade courses. Start the game up 30 times to unlock Mr Meat. Play for a total of 84 hours to unlock Palm Tree (you can just leave the game running on the menu screen).
Super video 🔥🔥🔥🔥😉😉😉😉
They need to make a sequel and even a sonic and sega all stars racing 3 and take a break from sonic games for a little bit cause they are pretty much hit or miss
I agree
@@thetruej7872 yeah because I feel that when Sega comes out with something other than sonic it turns out to be great
We can have Kiryu, or the Main Character from Judge Eye, & even Sonic, Amy, & Shadow as newcomers.
What kind of software did you use to capturing?
How did you get it to run in 60fps?
The game runs on any SEGA Saturn in 60 FPS.
Oh ok for some reason I thought it was 30fps. I had VF2 but never bought Fighters Megamix. I remember at the time there was a lot of rumor and fan speculation that there was going to be a Racers Megamix too, that would of been great.
Racers Megamix?! OMG this would be EPIC!!
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Yare Yare Da...
Shit, wrong character.
The game is cool, but the Virtua Fighter 2 graphic is a lot nicer. The CG of this Fighters Megamix has the graphics of VF3, but only the CGs.
Yeah, that's right but FMM had some extra effects like light sourcing etc.
iPlaySEGA!! What is the exact difference between VF and FV styled gameplay in the options?
AFAIK the Saturn wasn't able to run Fighting Vipers in the same resolution as VF2 due to the armor-breaking system, and Megamix had to be able to support this as well.
how come sonic isn’t a playable character?
The Sonic characters were created by Sonic Team, and while they agreed to allow AM2 to make Sonic The Fighters, they didn't want the Sonic storyline crossing over into the Virtua universe. AM2 therefore could not use them in this, they could only use Bean and Bark (who were created by them for Sonic The Fighters).
PALM TREEの存在だけ知らなかった。
私も肉と木は分かりませんでした♪熊とパンダの時があったり壊れるとどうなるのかな？
the only downside to this game was the VF2 stages not having actual rings, they're just generic Tekken-esque infinite stages.
That's the point.
I wish Sega port it on Steam, IOS, PS4, & Xbone.
bahn isnt jotaro
hes joseph joestar
Real hardware? This looks like it has texture filtering...
I own the game btw.
Yeah it was played on a Hitachi Saturn through RGB cable.
??????????Virtua Fighter 6????????????
VF or Vipers is a better choice. 60 fps awesomeness.
Megamix cannot keep steady framerate.
VF (1 & Remix) run at 30 FPS. VF2 was the first with 60 FPS.
Fighting Vipers has way more slow-downs than Megamix.
BTW: The US version of Megamix had some framerate fixes here and there. The JP version is uncensored but has indeed some framerate issues in some areas.
iPlaySEGA!!
Hm, you might be right.
After playing VF, Vipers, going to Megamix, it seems unplayable to me.
I blame my eyes.
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la fenme NIKKITA
Best fighting game with shitty character blance. I defintely burned my childhood it with
I feel like they were running out of ideas at the end...