
STREETS OF RAGE  FAQ/Walkthrough v Final

Console: Sega Gamegear
Author: Gamer003
Date: 8/24/00
Version: 4.01
Rating: Ages 8 and up

<gamer003@hotmail.com>

Starting Up
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1. Set up your Sega Game Gear system as described in its instruction
manual. For two-player games, use the Gear-to-Gear cable to connect the
Game Gear units.

2. Make sure the power switch is OFF. Then insert the Streets Of Rage
Cartridge into the Sega Game Gear unit.

3. Turn the power switch ON. In a few moments, the Streets Of Rage title
screen will appear.

4. If the title screen doesn't appear, turn the power switch off. Make sure
your system is set up correctly and the cartridge in properly inserted. Then
turn the power switch ON again. When using the Gear-to-Gear cable, turn both
systems on simultaneously.

FAQ HISTORY
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1/23/00 - Created the FAQ, started out with level descriptions, but not
walkthroughs, it had all the basics and some codes.

3/27/00 - I added two actual walkthoughs and some extra info to the basics
section. I plan on lots more to come for this FAQ, so be ready.

8/18/00 - I have decided to close this FAQ, because it is basically done
anyways and there is nothing more I can do to it that really matter.

8/24/00 - Decided there was some stuff I could do to it!

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 Table of Contents
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1). Introduction
2). Game Story
3). Modes-Options
4). Attack List-Controls
5). Items + Walkthrough
6). Game Genie codes
7). Credits
8). Copyright
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1). Introduction

  - This game was one of the very first beat me ups to come out on the Sega
Gamegear. This same game also was a big hit on the Sega Genesis. So this game
had a lot to live up to.
  - I decided to do this FAQ, because I think that a lot off older games are
getting neglected and forgotten, just because the new graphics are better, when
in fact, a lot of the older games are better.
Yes, I am asking you to pull out the Gamegear from the basement, and actually
wipe the dust off and play it. You'll soon remember what I am talking about,
its just really fun to play......Isn't it?!

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2). Game Story

  - " On a city that was once peaceful and productive. It fell completely
apart, victimized by a massive crime organization, Looting,
random violence, destruction of property- no one who left the sanctity of his
home was safe. Corruption had spread like wild fire throught the police
station, all the way to the top. Even the city government was on the pay roll
of the syndicate overlord, who's identity had somehow been kept secret.

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3). Modes-Options

Mode Selection:

Choose between one or two players, or go to the options menu.

Options Menu:

Sound Test = Check any of the backround music or effects used in the game.
Press the D-pad left or right to change the number, and press the
2 button to hear the music or effect.

Level =
Play on easy or hard difficulty settings.

Exit: Move here and press 2 to exit the menu screen.

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4). Moves & Controls

  Controls
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D-pad:
* Move highlighter in selection screens.
* Move your fighter in any direction.
* Use in sequences for various attacks.

Start Button:
* Skip through introductory scenes.
* Press to start game.
* Press to pause, and then resume action.

Button 1:
* Press to punch (Axel) or chop (Blaze).
* Press repeatedly for rapid attack.
* Press to use weapon in fighters possession.
* Press in mid air to perform flying attacks.

Button 2:
* Press to confirm selections.
* Press to jump.

  Move Listings
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Normal Attacks -

Blaze
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Button 1 = Punch

Axel
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Button 2 = Chop

Rapid Attacks -

Blaze
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Press button 1 repeatedly = Chop/kick combo + backflip

Axel
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Press button 1 repeatedly = Punch/Kick combo

Jumping Attacks -

Blaze
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Press 2 to jump + Button 1 in mid air = Knee butt

Axel
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Press 2 to jump + button 1 in mid air = Snap kick

Throwing Attacks -

Blaze
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Grab an enemy in the front, then press the direction the enemy is facing on the
D-pad and press button 1. = Leg toss

Axel
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Same sequence as above = Shoulder toss

Back Drop -

Both
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Grab an enemy and press 2 to for a suplex type back drop
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5). Items + Walkthrough

Lead Pipe - Hit your enemy with it.

Knife - Throw it at, or stab your enemies.

Paper Shaker - Hit your enemy with it.

Apple - Regain a little bit of energy.

Beef - Get back a large amount of energy.

Special - Destroy all enemies on screen.

Coin - 1,000 point bonus.

Gold Bars - 5,000 point bonus.

1 Up - Gain an extra life.

  Walkthrough
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Round 1 - Downtown Streets
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Right at the beginning of the stage you will have to fight three, normal street
thug enemies. Just use lots of jump kicks and toss's to get rid of them
quicker. Then another guy like them will show up, and you do the same to him
too. Now, you will meet a new enemy, these are wearing green suits, and are a
step up in difficulty from the street tough's. Use more jump kicks, to avoid
the damage of missing a toss attempt. There will be two of them so be careful.
After you defeat them, you will be attacked by three more regular street
tough's, use the same attacks as before. Two guys, one will have a knife, and
one will have a metal pipe. Kill them using a lot of jump kicks, while avoiding
being hit, and then use the pipe on the other enemies. By now you should be up
to a garage door. A guy will attack you, and then two guys will come out of the
garage. Use toss's and the basic punches, you should have some time now, so you
can sorta slow down. Now, three new enemies will try to assault you, they are
gray, these are even tougher than the green guys, so watch out. Constantly use
jump kicks, because if you stay on the ground they will swarm you and toss you
around. And then just to annoy you, a normal street thug will attack after you
are done with these guys. Now you will be confronted by a series of attacks,
nonstop. First it will be two normal guys, followed by three gray guys. If you
get by these, which you should use toss's and kicks, do not try to punch, it is
to slow. Then there will be two gray ones, followed by two street thugs,
followed by another group of street thugs. If you manage to kill all of them,
buy do I have a surprise for you, another green one! Ok, now there is another
type enemy, a red ninja guy. He is really tough, he is way better then the
green. Use jump kick, and then do it right after he gets up again, it should
usually take three or four to kill him. Now after him, there will be two thugs,
which you know how to defeat. Then after them, there will be three, yes THREE!
Red ones! I would suggest that you move around a lot while you fight them, kind
of like, kick-run away, kick- runaway. That sort of thing. After them you will
be confronted and attacked by four street thugs, which should be no problem by
now. Then yes, I hate to say it 5 REDS! And to make it worse, you fight a boss
right after them. These guys will just keep coming because of their endurance,
so just keep jump kicking, with the occasional toss, but do not stop moving, or
they will swarm and beat you. Now for the boss. He isn't that hard compared to
some of the ones to come. He is a really big guy, with blond hair, and he has a
big knife. You will have fifty seconds to defeat him. Just keep jump kicking
him, and if you were lucky enough to still have a pipe or knife, it will help a
lot. When he is down to one fourth of his energy, start doing as many toss's as
you can, this will defeat him quickly. However, do not try to punch him, he'll
knock you into next week.


Round 2 - Bridge
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Right at the beginning you are going to be confronted by two normal street
thugs with weapons. After you defeat them, two more will come and attack you.
They will also be joined by two girl cop characters, who are a little tougher
than they are so be careful. Another one will come at you after you kill the
other two, and then three street thugs accompanied by a cop will come at you.
Use jump kicks on the thugs, and if you still have the weapon from the very
beginning, use it on the cop. If you happen to run out of time, you can fall
into the crack at the bottom, but you shouldn't have to do that, its not really
that hard to get to the check point. Now you are getting to the annoying part
of the stage, you are going to have to fight countless waves of thugs, often
more than two at a time. Here is how they will come. First, it will be two
normal street thugs, just use normal moves on then, but keep moving so they
don't gang up on you. Then two more will come out, and the second one should
have a weapon. It is very important to kill the first one quickly so that you
can concentrate on getting the weapon right when it falls. Now here comes the
tricky part. You will now face 5 at a time, all in one big wave of guys. One of
them will have a pipe, and one of them will have a knife. Kill the guy with the
knife first, and then use the knife on all the other guys. But make sure you
kill the pipe guy last, so you will be able to pick it up in time. Now use the
pipe on the next group of thugs, which is three, and then they will be followed
by another pair of them, one which has a knife. Save the knife, cause next you
have to fight a red guy. Use the knife on him, and then do a jump kick if that
doesn't kill him. Another thug will come out, and then while you are fighting
him, two more red guys will attack you. This is a pretty tough spot. If you
manage to kill them, you are confronted by another red guy, who is followed by
three thugs, and one of them has a knife. Another red comes once you kill them,
so make sure that you save the knife so you can use it on him. Two red guys
will come out next, followed by a thug, use the knife as much as you can if you
still have it, if not, just use a lot jump kicks and back suplex's. After they
are gone, a thug with a knife will attack you, hit him with a quick jump kick,
and then save the knife for the on coming enemies. Which, you guessed it, its
two more red guys, luckily this will be the last time they attack you for this
level. Kill them and three purple ladies will come out, and they are really
hard, so you may run out of time. Use jump kicks, and never let them all gang
up on you or they'll just swarm and beat you till your dead. After they are
gone, 5 thugs will come out, they are easy for you by now, right? They will be
followed by another thug, and then six, yes six pink ladies, which are very
hard to kill, always keep moving, and use suplexs a lot. Be careful then you
grab them cause they reverse a lot. Then after they are dead, two thugs come
out, who should be no problem. Now you are going to fight the boss. He is a
huge guy, with this torch thing that sticks out, and he runs at you and tries
to get you with it. Try to avoid it at all costs, and use your punches and
kicks a lot, because they kind of stun him when he gets hit. When his energy is
below half, use jump kicks and suplexs constantly, he may run around so you
might have to kind of catch him. This guy is big, but h isn't that tough. If
you made it this far you shouldn't have a problem with him.


Round 3 - Aboard Ship
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Right as you start the level you will be confronted by three normal street
thugs, and one of them will have a knife. Use a toss on the one, to kill him
quick so you can pick up the knife. Then use it on the other, to dispose of
them as quickly as possible. Because very soon, you are going to have a lot of
company. After those guys, five more thugs will come out, except they don't
have any weapons. Use jump kicks and suplexs, you don't have a lot of time.
After you have beaten up those guys, eight, ya eight! More thugs are going to
engage into combat with you. Three of them will have knives, and one of them
will have a pipe. Use the knives all up first, and then try to hang on to the
pipe as long as you can. Npw, two more groups of two thugs each will come out,
and each group will have one knife. Kill the guy with the knife and then use it
on the other guy. But make sure that you save the last knive so you can use it
on the upcoming enemies. Now, a thug accompanied by two cop ladies are going to
attack you. They are a lot harder than the normal thugs, thst why you want ot
save that knife. You may be getting pressed for time with this one, cause these
ladies are pretty fast. After you have killed htem with jum kicks, six more of
them are going to attack. Make sure that you keep moving, cause you should know
by now that if you stop, you will be swarmed and killed. After them you have
another little scuffle with seven more thugs, but they shouldn't be much of a
problem. But, they are followed by four more thugs, so you do need to kind of
watch your energy bar. Also, always make sure that you check pots and garbage
cans for helpful items like weapons and such. Now a grey gu, who is better than
the cop ladies will come out, and he will then be followed by four more of his
type. Do the best you can using jump kicks and suplexs, this is a pretty tough
fight. Then four thigs will come out, but hey don't have weapons so its no big
deal.
Now, from here on out you will kind of be facing a gauntlet type situation.
Meaning, constantly being attacked by more guys until the end of the stage. It
will start off with Four greys, who will be followed by three thugs, this is no
easy task, and then to make things worse, there are six more thugs on their
way, so just constantly keep doing jump kicks, its really all you can do
against that many guys. Now, there will be two really tough fighters, they are
those ladies with torches, and they are followed by two thugs. It will take a
few, but jump kicks should get the job done. Then you will be attacked by six
more torche ladies, in smaller groups. Use jump kicks, and look for items, but
I doubt you will find any this close to a boss. Then you will have to fight off
four thugs to make it to the extremely tough boos, or I should say bosses. They
are these two very fast, and always jumping at you ninja ladies, who will
probably expire our time atleast once. They are hard to jump kick because they
keep jumping, so try to use suplexs, and jump kicks when ever you can.


Round 4 - Factory

This level is even harder than the last. The gangsters become muck tougher, not
to mention that machinery is now a threat to you as well, like you needed
another one. At the end of this stage you will fight the fire guy from level 2.
I would suggest that you do whatever you did to beat him last time again.

Round 5 - Syndicate Headquarters

Yes you made it to the final level. But the enemy numbers increase
dramatically. You will have to face the rest of the gangsters in the whole
operation. If you live long enough to get there, once you make it out the
double doors at the end of the hallway you beat the game. I can only tell you
that throw downs are the quickest way to take out gangsters in this level, but
at least there isn't a boss.

Scoring:

Putting enemy thugs away adds to your score, so does collecting coins and
Gold bars.

Clear Bonus-   10,000 points/Round
Time Bonus--   100 points/Unit of time remaining
Level Bonus-   10,000 points/Round(Hard level only)


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6). Game Genie codes

Start with 2 lives - 027 3CF E66
Start with 5 lives - 057 3CF E66
Start with 8 lives - 087 3CF E66
Start on round:
2 - 677-CC9-913
3 - 677-CC9-913 + 027-CA9-E6E
4 - 677-CC9-913 + 037-CA9-E6E
5 - 677-CCD-913 + 047-CA9-E6E
Infinite Energy - 009-0A6-3B7
Infinite Lives - 008-DD6-19E
Infinite Time - 3A9-667-2A2

Bonus Cheat - At the options menu play sound test 11, then press buttons 1 and
2 to turn invincibility on or off, and level select.
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7). Credits


Jeff Veasey - The sole webmaster of Gamefaqs, he is a great writer aswell, and
he also manages those FAQs while he still keeps ususally atleast 7 updates
going a day. This guy is amazing, we should all thank him.

Dingo Jellybean - A very amazing writer aswell, he is the most prolific to
Gamefaqs ever, he is a very nice guy to, always willing to answer a question
and what not, also helped me out with txt. form when I was new.

Dallas - Another very prolific writer, also helped me out with txt. form when I
was new, as well as always being friendly to everyone on the MB.

Myself - I typed it.

Mike Mason - it was his game carttridge, and he helped me beat a couple of the
levels.




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8). Copyright

   This document may in no way be altered from its original form. It is for
your use only, therefore it may only be reproduced electronically. It may not
be distributed or posted at any website or page without the expressed written
consent of the author.

WEBMASTERS BEWARE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   This document may not be posted without my expressed wriiten consent. It may
only be posted on non-profit sites, and full credit must be given to the
author, plus it may not be altered one bit.

(c)2000 THIS DOCUMENT; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. M.HULBERT.

Handling This Cartridge
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* This cartridge is intended for Sega-Game-Gear only.

* Do not bend, crush or submerge in liquids.

* Do not leave in direct sunlight or near a radiator or any other direct
  heat source.

* Be sure to take occasional recess' during extended play.

