Amazing how well this game has aged in the past 31 years. Just like a fine wine.

That X68000 port is stunning. I was always fascinated by near-arcade perfect ports as a kid and had no idea about this one. For me, the Sega CD/MegaDrive CD was as close as it got until MAME came along.

Living in foster care my mom came one Christmas, I had told her about this great arcade game that was possible to play on my Amiga 500. My foster parents drove us to a shop called space world. Up until then, all my games were copies so this was my first original amiga game costing 60$. I remember living in denial about how bad the port was because my mom bought it. When my friends began to share the copy in the schoolyard, I felt I wasted my dear mom's money. May she rest in peace

This game is definitely like a fine wine (especially the arcade & mega cd ports) that just get better with age! Awesome remastered botp video Mark!

Final Fight CD is still one of my favorite games for the Mega CD

The Mega CD version is my favorite because of the music which is fantastic. I even prefer it to the original arcade version. Too bad its soundtrack wasn't used on the recent console port

Street Fighter '89? That's like when Shenmue was almost called Virtua Fighter RPG.

Mega Final Fight on the Mega Drive looks amazing.

Final Fight Double Impact (Xbox 360, Ps3) is the ultimate vesion: Arcade quality and best remix songs!!!!

Wow I'm big surprised to see my version on oficial retrocore release, thanks for the honor and for enjoy my stuff.

Final Fight One is the best for me. It has the most added content and plenty of replay value with different colored character pallets, two additional characters, saving and plenty of on screen enemies like the arcade game.

I always adored Capcom's CPS1 music. It was harsh, sure, but in a tasteful way. In a way that doesn't sound tinny, or like straight up noise (unlike, ahem. GEMS.) It sounds loud, punchy, and even quite impressive in some regards (That FM brass in particular is very well made). In my opinion, CPS1 has the best soundtrack, with Double Impact just behind it.

I remember playing this game thanks to the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 in 2016. Yes I met this classic later. I really like Final Fight but my heart belongs to Captain Commando.

One of my all time favourite games. It has aged really well. 30 damn years!

Awesome game. One of my favourites!! However... It's no Streets of Rage 2.

These remasters are f'ing brilliant thanks Mark! What a game this was in the arcades, my favourite setup was a sit-down cab in a awesome arcade in Hull city centre called Sunspot. They got all the decent releases and was very competitive for the hi scores. It has to be that Mega CD version for the home, I was starved for new software like everyone else importing games at the time so when this was delivered it was solid gold, amazing soundtrack and a fully complete conversion, apart from the weird colours and sprite flicker for me it was perfect.

Another masterpiece remade. Thanks for the effort, Mark.

Mighty Final Fight on the Spectrum shows that it is possible to do this game justice on the whipping boy machine. Small sprites but great gameplay.

Thank you Mark for this remastered video.First port I played was the SFC one altough it was very dissapointing having in mind the arcade version.

I used to have the Sega CD version of the game. That soundtrack is part of my childhood!

Best Major simulator of all time. Why waste your time in boring meetings with the councils when you can directly make a suplex to the problems??? Mega CD version on fire!

I had no idea that the Double Impact version censored the intro. Turns out it's this way on the Arcade 1up version too. Sega CD version ftw.

An Amiga remake enhanced exists now. Has smooth scrolling, great frame rate, music AND sound effects at the same time, two fire buttons and you can also select Maki as a playable charachter.

One of the best in-depth documentaries about Final Fight!! I guarantee this since I'm a huge FF fan! Keep up the good work, man! These videos should really be broadcast on TV instead of all the crap stuff we're used to today

Another great remastered BotP! Man, I used to absolutely adore Final Fight. I still love it, but I have to admit that I don't play it nearly as often these days as Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, TMNT, etc. Still, I played the arcade version every time I got a chance, and a friend got the SNES game just after its release (I didn't get a SNES until later). Even being slightly irked at having to take turns, we played so much of that version too. The SNES original release was not perfect but was still fun. Final Fight 3 was by far my favorite of the series on the SNES, but I don't dislike the SNES port of FF 1. Final Fight CD on the other hand was a system seller in my opinion: it's just simply an all around great port. It did so many things right: good graphics, sound, music, speed, and lovely 2-player action. And, Pyron's color hack is great too. Makes me wish Punisher had got this kind of love. I also picked up Final Fight One on GBA on its release. I remember having a lot of fun with that at the time, but, to be honest, I haven't played the GBA version in a looong time. I've never played any of the other ports. No matter the quality of any of the ports, Final Fight, along with Phoenix, Street Fighter 2 and Alpha 2, Virtua Fighter 1&2, Ms. Pac Man, Operation Wolf, Double Dragon 1, X-Men, and a few others are arcade cabinets that I simply do not have enough will power to walk by and not drop a few credits in and play.

Nice vidéo. X68000 is the best version for me but it is not arcade perfect thought, and this should have been mentioned I think. - Less ennemies on the screen - The light does not flickering in the 1st stage (while it does on Mega-CD) - No other train passing by when you are yourself in the train (it is in the mega-cd) - Some sounds effects were removed (no crowd noise against Sodom, no fire noise in stage 4) Etc, etc. It is still better than Mega-cd that is coming close second since it gives the closest arcade feeling in my opinion...

This is one of those games that just didn't belong on the micro computers.

the dreamcast mod sounds like the sound effects came from the street fighter series on the SNES

In my honest opinion, this game has aged far better than Double Dragon.

Oh wow the Amiga/Atari versions! The Atari’s music kind of reminds me of Shinobi

i bought for dirt cheap the japanese mega cd version, never regreted it.

25:05 Mobile port is the only one which didn't play the intro amongst all of the ports

I remember playing this game in Capcom Classic Collection Vol. 1 and really hating the music. I thought "I remember this game having awesome music, WTF?" Year laters, I play the Sega CD version and realize that was the version with the good music in it.

Thanks for not being too hard on the SFC ports, I’ve always rather liked Final Fight Guy. I’ve always felt it had the potential to be pretty good if Capcom had spent a bit more time and hadn’t cheaped out on a smaller cartridge. Like you mentioned, there’s loads of unfinished stuff in the ROM including the basics of a two-player mode and the missing factory level. I’m not totally surprised the 360 game isn’t a port. I’m pretty sure when Capcom made the classics collection for the PSP they built easily portable versions of the game, as the same versions of SFII and Final Fight from that collection ended up on iOS. So it could well be the same code used again for the Xbox.

Wow, this is a big coincidence. I've had the Belt Action Collection for a while now sitting sealed, because my slim ps4 does not like to provide audio to my tv, so I ordered an hdmi audio extractor, which I installed today. It works luckily. So literally today one hour ago I opened up the collection with the 7 poster and ran the disc in my ps4. I played a few second of Final Fight too and now a remastered edition of Final Fight BOTP. I love these remastered versions of your videos! Amiga version is running in 50hz, should be 60hz. The music is way too slow. Not that it would be much better. All games should run in 60hz. All those computers ports were done always by one guy in maybe 2 weeks. So they're most likely always crap. They were never meant to be any good. Just trying to make some profit. Focus was on nice arcade artwork on the box, heck perhaps even put on some arcade screenshots. The Amiga was just the worst, the only arcade ports that were ever decent were one screen games like Rod.Land. The music on the Amiga though was usually excellent. Wow, the GBA port sounds horrible, some notes seem to be off key. I don't understand what is going on, but it's really rubbish Cool that you put the BOR Dreamcast version in there and the pyron color hack of the mega cd version I was jamming out to the outro! What a wonderful video! There's also a 3 player hack in the works for real hardware! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8p9nLBiptypZo0.html

The most censored video game of all time. But a great game nonetheless Mark. Best port, the Sega CD version of Final Fight. That custom soundtrack is so memorable, that I purchase the CD collection from a Japanese seller from Japan. Still play it in my house and car. 8^) Anthony..

I love Mega CD Version

The Sharp X68000 looks basically arcade perfect, however there are fewer thugs on screen at once compared to the arcade. The CPS-1 sprite hardware is very similar to X68000's "Cynthia" sprite controller chip, but CPS-1 can handle 256 16x16 pixel sprites simultaneously, while the X68000 can only handle 128.

Meat from the trash eh? :) Probably still more sanitary than eating meat that was hidden in castle walls for who knows how long. Another great remastered BOTP!

I still own Final Fight CD, and it’s one of my top games along w/Streets of Rage 2, and TMNT: Turtles in Time.

14:50 I'm sorry, WHAT!?

I like the Mega CD the best as the music is much improved however I was impressed with the GBA version back in the day.

^_^ hi Mark, for the history, i would note that during these recent years someone worked on an Experimental "2 Players" Patch for FF Guy. even added Cody to it, a must seen : lot of flickering when too much sprites on the same lines & some slowdowns as expected but hey ! fully enjoyable, played it with my bro to the end without crashing on the original hardware ;D

The Mega CD version is the best port...period!!

I really liked the SNES port. The graphics looked great thanks to the large color palette. I didn't care too much about the lack of 2 player mode since my brother didn't care about beat em ups, so I always played those single player. The censorship amused me. The "Oh my car" is still one of my favorite game samples. I'm not sure I get the console port battle between the Sega CD (Mega CD) & SNES (SFC) though. Sure the Sega CD port had 2 player, and Redbook audio, but you had to take a few things into consideration: 1. It required a Genesis AND a $400 Sega CD. 2. You had to wait another 2 years after the SNES Final Fight release. 3. The colors are extremely dithered and garish looking when compared to the SNES color palette. Of course there would be even better options later on, such as the Capcom collections. Final Fight Double Impact on the PS3 is one of my favorite ways to play it now. With it's remixed OST option, drop in/drop out online co-op, and more.

An Famicom or NES Known in the West or in USA is known as Mighty Final Fight is to Collect EXP Points i guess was a Enhanced version

Love the Mega CD version

Epic episode. Whets my appetite for the MiSTer CPS-1 beta being released today

I love Final fight, its one of my most played street brawlers. First played this in the Arcades then on Atari Ste then Amiga.

Aos 16:00 min matamos a saudade da melhor e maior homenagem a franquia, versão em Mega CD, recheada de cuts scenes, músicas e lindos gráficos.

What happened to the Capcom classics collection vol. 1 and remixed ports for the ps2 and psp? I think you've missed them!

Mega-CD and X68000 for the win! The huge difference though is that a Mega-CD cost about $400 back then whereas a X68000 cost $3000 😁 And I'd still favor the Mega-CD version because it has some exclusive content (expanded intro; time attack mode...) and phenomenal CD remixes of the arcade OST!

Nothing beats the CPS-1.

alright!!! Let's do this!!

That's a lot of ports of 1 Game!

Richard Aplin is certainly a strange figure. Seems like a fun bloke, though.

The first time I played this game was via a CPS1 DOS-based emulator named CALLUS on PC around 20 years ago. Final Fight & Street of Rage are definitely my fav. 2D beat'em up games. Final Fight CD (Japanese version) on Mega CD is still the best version to play.

All the enemies names (or most of them) are heavy metal musicians....

Awesome battle of the ports...nice vid Retro Core' I♡beat em ups especially these ones N' the SORs 😁🎮🕹

Timeless classic

A special note: Exists 2 romhacks, one completed and working and other in development The 1st is Final fight 30th anniversary, a incredible version for 3 players on screen, with adjustable difficult, selection of same character and more hard, this is for arcade The other is for snes and adds the 2nd player, this continue in development and looks great

This vid makes me REALLY want to play the Final Fight 30th anniversary hack.

Final Fight Best Graphics Version #1.Arcade #2.Sega CD , X360 & PS3 #3.X68000 #4.Dreamcast #5.GBA #6.Snes

High five for showing the Pyron Sega CD color hack. He really did an outstanding job with it considering the limitations he is under, not being able to completely recolor the game. Are there any other Pyron color hacks you especially like?

That ST segment almost caused me to smash my phone up

I played the arcade version so much back in 1990, love this brawler. They shouldn't have even attempted to port it to the ZX Spectrum...

No wonder game consoles got popular over home micros. You could actually play your favorite arcade games on them and get a reasonable facsimile.

I actually thought the Amiga version was pretty good, especially if you play it with the Powerplay cruiser joystick.

For straight up Final fight action, get the MAME version. Followed by the 360.

11:55 - So true, in 2018, we had fan conversion of Mighty Final Fight, with is fantastic, and even back in 1991, devs like The Sales Curve showed, you can make fantastic ports on 8 bit computers, if you are competent. Makes me wonder, why Richard Aplin was given this task, if he clearly hated arcade original, it is shame, as he did lots of great arcade conversions for Amstrad.

The Sega CD US release cut a lot of the content from the Japan version such as reduce animation in the Intro and the ending that missing one of the sequence

Streets of Fire was the inspiration!? Holy shit I love that movie, and it makes perfect sense!

Wow very thorough port video good job on the video. First time i ever played this game was on Capcom Collection Volume 1 for Play Station 2. I now have the game on Switch on a digital Capcom Beat 'Em Up collection.

I still play the hell out of Double Impact for the 360, and people are still online playing co-op.

The MEGA CD version played on a CRT TV is close to the arcade version

Very stylish game but it’s a repetitive button masher. The time attack in the sega cd version was a lot of fun. So many better beat em ups gameplay wise. It FF was one of the best in in art style. Great music and sound effects too.

its funny how final fight was a big exclusive for super nintendo and was a big selling for the point for the console yet a few years later it was released on almost everything in the world including nintendo's biggest competitor sega and it ended up being the best port of the game also there is another java version of the game for the "bigger screen sizes" and it's actually a lot better with improved graphics kinda resembling the original arcade version but that's just about it the gameplay and the music quality is the same and the game actually is still available to download on many sites last time i played it was probadly back in 2016 capcom released a lot of beat em up's for java phones there was final fight there was warriors of fate and there was also captain commando for the chinese mobile phones and there was also a non official probadly fan made port of cadilacs vs dinosaurs which i have actually made a video about on my channel

Always thought the GBA version was fun with the option to unlock the Street Fighter incarnations of Cody and Guy. The cutscenes also changed to reflect this, with Cody meeting Rolento, not recognising him and remarking he took a shortcut first time around! Also it's quite amusing how the Amiga/ST ports have some of the enemies walking around like Mr Benn.

That x6800 machine really is something special for its time...i mean it even does damn close jobs of sprite scalers!

Didn't think about it before, but the sounds of the Amiga port sound a bit like a Warzone.

Love the intro.

Well that was excellent. Final Fight has always been near and dear to my heart and a rather sensitive issue haha I never played or had seen the arcade version of the game so the SNES was my very first experience with it and it was a jaw dropping experience for someone like me. As years went by I learned how scaled back it actually was. In the mid 2000s I acquired a model 2 Sega Genesis+SCD and a little while later I scored a CIB North American version of FFCD. It has with out a doubt, the BEST sounding music of ANY VERSION. Played through a 5 channel stereo sound system with a subwoofer is stunning to hear. My hope is that someone or even Capcom themselves would make a new and proper port of the original SNES/SFC game utilizing an enhancement chip for better speed and fluid animation and of course cooperative play.

Andore, the totally original character, do not steal, always amuses me. Kinda curious, what the censorship things were, the opening scene is quite obvious, but Poison etc? Shall google. (Kinda strange that she is obviously held at an undisclosed location a the start, then shows up being carried away as the action starts...) Shall also check KZfaq for the Roland version of X68000 music. Love that Roland sound...

Only 3 credits available for the SEGA Mega CD soured it for me. I couldn't play Co-Op with a friend who was new to the game without them (and me!) dying off long before the ending. The Arcade _and_ the GBA remain the best versions.

Ah Mr Aplin... although his Double Dragon 2 port was actually pretty good.

20:45 (former J2ME game developer here) Japan had a much better Java profile on their carriers, allowing devlopers to aim at higher profiles. Given how conservative was the base profile (that you would need to adhere to and optionally, thru reflection, expand upon), this looks quite decent.

Mega CD fantastic music

It's a shame many of the home computer ports are so bad, but of course this was back when programmers were bragging about how they ported a game in just weeks. The publishers would likely have made a lot more money if they'd invested enough time and money in a proper port resulting in fun and playable game.

Still love this game! I had the mega cd version

I dont know.. Im not a expert but I think the collection launched from Capcom is Arcade perferct .. I was expecting you to talk about it. Same to street fighter 30 aniversary ... But purists aways find a Single pixel diferent to complaim .. ports or emulation ... Nowadays we can play (at least on PC) perfect or even better versions of the game .. great Channel by the way! I Just find out now ... You deserve more subscribers than you have. Sorry for the english, I understand perfectly but speak and write, thats hard for me!

Thanos dude! I love this!!!! 😭🥰

Video starts at 1:30

Shame the SNES version didnt get a larger cart size, would of improved it no end!! They had the chance to fix this in the Guy version, could of just called it Final Fight +, and added in the missing content

Excellent!

11:03 - man, put things into perspective. Coding for those 8-bit machines is incredibly hard. If anything, maybe this is something that should not have been attempted with the expectations of a perfect port. Maybe a spinoff with smaller scale and better gameplay? Hurts me a little when you call developers "incompetent". Been trying my hands at the Amstrad CPC and believe me - this port is no slouch.

the SNES music is so good!

My hat off to you Mark that had to play those awful conversion for the sake of us. Final fight is a great game and you should think a respectable game developer should never release crap just for the sake of a quick buck. Thank for a great video Mark 😊👍

Shouldve mentioned a whole lot more about the gba version

La version de Mega cd sigue siendo la mejor. . .

Isn't the Japanese version of the GBA game uncensored compared to the US version which is not?