Art of Fighting 2 (UE) / Ryuuko no Ken 2 (J)
System: Neo Geo
Publisher: SNK
Release date: 1994-02-03
Version | Date | Author | Description |
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1.00 | 2013-05-02 | The Golden Horse | Initial release. |
1.01 | 2014-05-11 | The Golden Horse | Fixed the filenames of tracks 02 and 03 for consistency with their names everywhere else, and fixed this text file's track listing for track 36 so it matches the track's English tags. |
[Source] Ryuuko no Ken 2 / Shinsekai Gakkyou Zatsugidan Pony Canyon / Scitron PCCB-00144 Feb 18, 1994 (Corroborated by its entry in 2012-04-22 version of the BridgeM1 List Pack) Generated using M1 0.7.9a1 (modded by Valley Bell). The second game in the Art of Fighting series improves on the visuals and gameplay of the original game significantly; now things aren't as clunky as last time. You can play everyone this time; they all have full move sets; everyone has their own dialogue when facing each other; and there's even a secret opponent, a young Geese Howard (from Fatal Fury), who you can fight only if you finish the game without losing a round. As if to compensate, though, the AI is so relentless that few people will make it even halfway through without pumping in quarters, and even fewer will make it to Geese. If you can get a friend to play it with you, though, it just might be a blast. The soundtrack is miles above the first game's, too. Not only are the samples of higher quality than the previous game's, the compositions are, too. There's some information I'll need to share about it: * The music is credited to "YAMAPY 1," "JOJOUHA KITAPY," "MARIKO," and "YASSUN." We know who three of these people are: YAMAPY 1 is Yasumasa Yamada, JOJOUHA KITAPY is Yoshihiko Kitamura, and YASSUN is Yasuhiro Naka. We do not, however, know who MARIKO is. Anyone who knows who she is should let us know! * Moreover, while MARIKO and Naka are each credited for one song, Kitamura is credited for five songs... but we don't know which ones they are. For now, he is credited alongside Yamada in the tags for the rest of the soundtrack. * In a Japanese Twitter message from last year (https://twitter.com/yashio_z80/status/ 195366780900884480), Yasuhiro Naka revealed that Yasumasa Yamada (referred to as YAMAPY-1) composed the music that plays over the Neo Geo logo! I have thus tagged it with his name, and all future Neo Geo VGM packs I make will credit him for it as well. * The bonus stages, surprisingly enough, mostly use ambient music. Vgmlpfnd could not find the loops for any of these tracks, so I found them the "old fashioned" way by recording WAVs of them and looking at the sample numbers in Audacity. Yes, the bird tweet track played in the Spirit Training stage ("Nature") really does last for a full minute before looping. * I used the track title translations found on VGMdb.net, except in some cases where I felt a different translation meant the same thing but sounded better ("The Horse and I" as opposed to ("Horse and Me"), or when their translation is clearly in error (the VGMdb tracklist mistranslates "100 Man Kumite" as "100 Wooden Man," when "Kumite" refers to a specific concept in karate). * The loop point for "Kiss for Geese -Cyber Edit-" is placed later than where vgmlpfnd says it is, because otherwise, the last note of the lead will get abruptly cut off. Enjoy!
Source: VGMRips
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