Streets of Rage Remake taken down

by JC Fletcher on Apr 11th 2011 7:00PM

A week ago, we advised you to download Streets of Rage Remake as soon as possible. Over the weekend, developer Bomber Games removed the download for the expansive PC tribute, apparently at Sega's request, proving that we have incredible powers of foresight.

All download links have been removed from the website and forum, with moderator charco saying that " SEGA have contacted regarding the download hosted on this site," asking users not to upload the file elsewhere, and stating that the team won't discuss the issue further on the forums.

According to "Bomberlink," the team did attempt to square the game with Sega's legal department last year, well in advance of the release -- though it doesn't appear to have helped. We've put an inquiry in with Sega to find out the current status of the game. Will it be back on the streets, or should we begin raging now?

Via: Gaming Survival
Source: Bomber Games

Tags: bomber-games, pc, sega, streets-of-rage, streets-of-rage-remake

Reader Comments (60)

Low blow sega, low blow.

@Jawmuncher Yeah, it's such a low blow to have something taken down that's infringing on your copyrights...

@ShingoEX Streets of Rage Remake has been around for years. If big outlets such as Joystiq weren't bringing attention to it, Sega would never have cared or probably even known about it.

@ShingoEX

Despite the fact that they were not charging for it and that it had been around for years in various beta forms.

The only way this can become a positive is if Sega actually inked a deal with Bomber Games and will make this a legit downloadable release for PSN and XBLA. If not, it's just another bullet point on the long list of boners Sega has pulled in the last 10 years and another great opportunity for them to further alienate their fanbase.

@ancientflounder
Exactly. sure you can play the whole copyright game but in the end all they're doing is hurting the fanbase. If anything they should have came to some kind of agreement (which they tried to do), if sega wanted to shut it down they had a whole 8 years to do so. Even activision ended up agreeing for the fan made king quest games.

So my low blow comment still stands.

@ancientflounder

As much as it sucks, SEGA has to do this or risk losing their copyright for Streets of Rage and the associated characters. The laws are written in such a way that companies MUST do this to unauthorized fan projects. It's terrible and it will continue to happen every time a fan remake that infringes on someone's intellectual property.

The lesson, which we never seem to learn, is to not use other people's copyrighted creations. I'm sure if this were an original game instead of a "remake" it would still be avaliable for all to enjoy.

@ShingoEX

It was a free download that probably reignited a lot of people's interest in a franchise that's, more or less, dead.

If Sonic Team can appreciate and even biggup that Sonic Fan Remix that was demoed a while back, then why can't this Streets of Rage project live? Shit's bogus.

@AoE
SEGA should have done it years ago when the were contacted about the project. Letting the people put all that time into it and hard work thinking it was alright only to have it taken down is just a dick move.

@Jawmuncher
Hell I don't understand why they released it under Streets of Rage name anyways, other then to attract the remaints of it's fan base. They could've just released it with a new name and new characters. Could've been loosely based, stage wise, on the older streets of rage. All would've been fine then.

@darkfocus HEH welcome to the new SEGA, screwing their old fans since the day they wend out of consoles. They probably justify it by saying :"blablabla copy right blabla fanservice. HERE A game where Mario beats up Axl in MARIO AND AXL AT THE K1 TOURNAMENT!"

Good thing I took joystiq's advice.

@glemtvapen
Yeah, srsly. I made sure to check it out "with the quickness". Hopefully SEGA plays it cool PR-wise and offers the creators work on a possible XBLA/PSN version.

Inevitable, but still a disappointment. That remake was a labour of love. I'm just happy I picked it up when I could.

Sega should be happy that someone took the time & years to make a remake for a very overlooked series. He should be reearded

It's already out there, Sega.

Nothing you can do it about it.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Do it about it?

Yep, that's a fail.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Yeah I just downloaded it 30 seconds ago.

@Mr Hett Me downloading now too.

Well, no surprise here. Its just like every other fan game/remake. Get it when you can because the C&D inevitable.

good thing its already out there and there's more than just their site to download from.

i was worried for a bit.

Damn...that's 8 years of work too. They *could* have met 'em halfway at least.

The internet never forgets though.

Don't Sega know this is the internet and that even things that were uploaded and immediately taken down can be found in multiple places. If you look hard enough.

@Domino2097 You don't even have to look hard these days. Hell, you're likely to just find it without even looking for it.

@Domino2097

You don't have to look very hard. Streets of Rage Remake 5.0. Google is your friend.

well it sucks hard for the ones that didnt take joystiqs advice i did and i love every minute of it, hell its better then the old school streets of rage and i know if sega did bring it back they would ruin it, hell look at what they have done with sonic.

i maybe the only one that dont want a new Streets of rage only because i know it will have some kind of crappy gimmick that would make me stare at sega and asking them whats wrong with them.

What would be better for Sega is to take this and make it into an official release. God knows they haven't done anything with it. XBLA and PSN releases? Hell yeah.

Between this and the fan made Sonic game Sega should just start hiring these people and putting money and staff behind a team that genuinely cares about the games and there quality.

@SgtDookie
SEGA does hire these types of people...they hired the guy that made a genesis emu for ds to port the sonic games for sonic classic collection....

I downloaded it...still havent installed it yet tho....

I didn't download it, how is it people?

@(Unverified)
Easily a commendable effort. Here's a quick list of the frackin' amazing stuff squished into this remake:

» Autosave savestates That allow you to continue the game from the Same point, exit windows, alt + x, etc.
» Over 30 configurable options & modes in the menu
» 6-button controller actions, wide range of support for different PC gamepads, including the wired/wireless(PC-version) X360 controller
» Multiple vehicle use (bikes, jet-skis)
» 103 STAGES (93 stages in story mode, 5 stages in extra modes, 5 stages in the Prototype mod in separate download)
» 19 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS based on SOR series, including new playables
» 64 ENEMIES from the series, including remastered versions
» 80+ BGM tracks & remixes

Honestly, this is a perfect example of how a remake or collection-game should be made and honored. If you're a fan of SOR or even beat'em-up side scroller games, this is a must play.

"I'm a (streets of) rageaholic!!! I'm addicted to rageahol!!!-Homer Simpson

And like an idiot I didn't take joystiqs advice...

Haha! Should have spent all those 5 years making their own game and not somebody elses.

Lesson learned.

damn I had an earlier copy and didn't think that this revised one would be out ever, honestly. I had just checked their site again maybe a month ago and there didn't seem to be any progress. I totally missed your post last week or I would've checked it out.

Can someone tell me if they added the Save feature that was so needed in their earlier build?

The worst part is Sega most likely will not ever revisit this series. So fans produce a labor of love and get shut down. Brilliant.

We should all count ourselves lucky that this managed to be released as a complete game. It's a testament to a bygone era. What was, and what may never be again. Download this game (make sure it's v. 5), play it, and relive one of the best beat-em-ups in history.

Come on, this is exactly like when Nintendo had those dudes take that Zelda movie down. Clearly they don't actually care, or they would have stopped it during the lsat 8 years. Why would they wait until it was finished? Once it's finished, it's on the internet forever.

This isn't that bad. It's not like Squenix waiting until that Chrono Trigger patch is almost done before being assholes and shutting it down. When a company waits until the fan work is actually finished before shutting it down, it's because they don't really care.

@Roto13

I don't think so. Unless any of those guys got clear legal consent to do these things, it should be pretty blatantly obvious that they're infringing on copyright. To assume they'll get the go-ahead is way beyond naive. These companies live and die by their IP, and goddamnit, they DO care about these things because that's how they make money. All these 'remake' 'tribute' people could go ahead and use their talent on original content, but they don't because it doesn't get them the internet exposure, the 15mins of fame, because then no one would care about what they made.

@Muu Then why would they wait until it's too late to mean anything?

@Roto13

I see what you're saying. Essentially, companies wait until there is a wide release, then shut the project down due to legal obligations, when really they're enjoying the publicity of the game which is already being swapped around the net?

Clever. Almost too clever for Sega.

hey i found this, idk if this is the newest version but just in case http://www.freegamesblog.org/streets-of-rage-remake/

@ShadowTigers

No, it isn't. 72 MB is way too small. Streets of Rage Remake 5.0 is what you need to search for.

@c0bra95

Yeah, it's about a 218mb file I believe.

I hope it's been taken down whilst Sega and Team Bomberlink sort out some kind of contract to get this on PSN/XBLA and Wii.

Now that it's finished and already been downloaded God-knows-how-many times, Sega have probably saw an opportunity to squeeze some cash out of this (and paying Team Bomberlink for their 8 years of hard work)

They'll probably buy it and sell it.

Oh snap! I want this, but how.........

@Marco le Polo

Just Google Streets of Rage Remake 5.0 and you'll probably find a copy. It's viral now, no way Sega's gonna take all of them down.

@Colin

Thanks! Even though I was joshing.

Here's hoping things turn out for the best...

Awesome game to bad sega had to take it down, It not like sega was going to use the ip.

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