Could you imagine if Sega of America and Netherrealm Studios teamed up to bring this game back? I personally think that Eternal Champions deserves a second chance.
@@iwanttocomplain It had two and it was overall well received but Sega of Japan was all "We don't want to deal with two fighting game franchises so we're gonna go with the more original Virtua Fighter than the MK clone that westerners seem to like but we don't".
+MacKenzie McDermott When I heard it, I thought, it can't be....then I went to the sound test menu and played the E. 1999 tape...my little mind was blown. If I ever met them in person, my first question would be, "Have you ever played Eternal Champions for Sega Genesis??" I always thought it was hilarious though, that a gangster rap group like BTNH sampled a videogame sound byte. haha
ben owen i disagree Sf has like "iconic" moves and characters but i have to say no because i never played street fighter but i can say its too stereotipical and unoriginal and it has one of the worst characters ever created(Chun li)
Idk...its like music genres....bringing out the best using inspiration of others' ideas. Whether SF2 OR MK, seeing the creative aspect bringing new elements with some of the graphic and programming limits, these guys kinda opened the sky....
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun at least Eternal Champions was about a gazillion times better than Street Fighter 1. And call me an idiot, but I'd rank easily EC over SFIISCE due to the latter being a downgraded port with ugly colors, small sprites, and terrible, TERRIBLE voice samples.
Si este juego hubiera implementado un mejor sistema de combos (algo como Killer Instict) hubiera sido un juegazo, lamentablemente la jugabilidad es algo mala y le quita mucho al juego, aun así lo disfrute mucho en su tiempo.
It was only underrated because single player was impossible and boss sucked - just a transparent geese howard. I mean compare him to M.Bison, or the first time you took on Goro....
I actually played this before Mortal Kombat so those finishing moves on this game was mind blowing! The music was intense even the ending theme for bad ending was good! Sonic had some good one’s spring yard zone, marble zone and almost all of the songs from Sonic 2. Street fighter 2 themes: Guile, Ryu, Balrog, Vega, Ken, and Zangief. Honorable mention: the first few minutes of Jungle Hijinx from Donkey kong Country
This is the only genesis soundtrack I come back to and just give a listen. I'm a composer and producer with over 20 years of experience, and this is absolute gold.
@@_CaliDre100 so hard to choose one overall favourite soundtrack, there were so many good ones! I totally agree with the ones you mentioned (I am 5 years late lol 🤣)
Happy 30th anniversary to Eternal Champions and while it uses the standard GEMS instrumentation, this soundtrack has amazing compositions and I can’t help but love this soundtrack.
Yeah Man! SEGA renewed their trademark (or patent or something) for EC, I'm hoping we see a new EC in 2024! Or at least a cameo of some of the characters in one of SEGA's other new games coming out.
The Bio's theme capture the tragedy of these characters perfectly. You can imagine everything in more detail as you read how each one of these fighters died mostly because of this track.
Xavier will always remain my favorite Eternal Champion, though Midnight and Larcen come close. Also, something about Xavier's theme still gives me a bit of a rush when I hear those first few notes. I love the Bad Ending, Character Bios, Larcen's and Shadow's themes as well. And, of course, the Main Theme. :)
I wonder who won the actual tournament as there was only one winner apparently. Probably Blade or Shadow as they had the most worthy causes (preventing 95% of humanity from being wiped out is pretty important I think regarding Blade). Trident was my fave. I was only 4 so could be forgiven for spamming his fire move over and over as it was the only way i could beat the eternal champion (multiple times). The only other character I ever beat the EC with was Slash once I remember which was a fluke. I reached him with Jetta to but lost. Everyone else i couldn't even win a fight with pretty much
Yes it is! I played it for weeks on end as a kid and FINALLY beat it one day. But I could never finish it again. The Eternal Champion is a real pain...
@@bluebillygrit1 OMG this game drove me nuts on the genesis when i was a kid! First it was Jetta but I eventually figured out how to beat her. I could never beat the eternal no matter how many times I played this game over and over again. Once I came very close and beat his first 3 forms but I just couldn't get him on the last one, it was so deflating to get that close and not be able to finish it lol.
Yep, I was only able to consistently beat it with Shadow and that was only because I would abuse her “shadow mode” move where she goes dark and becomes invulnerable.
I have a very big love/hate relationship with this game. I think that as a fighter its mediocre at best. But I love the story, the characters are all pretty great and the music is pretty darn awesome. Alot of the music gives me chills.
The game was so clunky and the Chi system was cheap. Like w SF charge character not needing to charge to do special moves cheap. But I agree. I loved it. The E.C. was too damn hard. Only beat him twice and one of the those was cheesing it using Slash's toss throw over and over.
I still think it's creepy but cool in each stage is some really fucked up was to die...in Blade's zone you get kicked into the fan, Shadow's you get pushed into the neon sign and get electrocuted, Rax's you get frozen then shattered, Xavier's you're burn at the stake, Jetta's you fall into the earth, Slash, you get eaten by a t rex, Midnight's you die from a bomb dropped from a helicopter, Larcen's a drive by, and Trident's you get pulled under water by plants.
+Crystal Nibarger Everyone was freaking out over Mortal Kombat at the time and Eternal Champions kind of went under the radar. The Sega CD remake/sequel to the game has some absolutely disgusting fatalities that sort of went unnoticed. Eternal Champions' were a lot more creative too.
It could be done but I think (just guessing) they did it with the noise snares because of the game's PCM sound effects. They would fight with each other
The only thing I really hated about this game was the brutal difficulty and cheap gameplay. Other than that this game was amazing. The graphics, the characters, the storyline, and damn sure the music was just epic and very different and aged very well. I really liked the fact the fighters have real life fighting styles which was really new for fighting games at that time. My favorite songs was Shadow's theme and Larcen's theme. RAX's theme reminds me of Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport
33:08 Where you from nigga? Straight from the motherfucking land ah the heartless Five true thugs from the double glock Ready ta pop to the dome, eternally it's on. That say's it all. Classic
The music at 33.08 was used in american rap group bone thugs in harmonys song eternal.. their dj, dj u neek was a big fan of this game.. there goes a fun fact for everyone
DJ U-Neek and Tony C. Produced the album E. 1999 Eternal by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. They used two samples from Eternal Champions. One was bad ending for crossroads, not a coincidence. The song eternal used character bios. Eternal Champions didn't create Bone Thugs N Harmony. FOH.
Larcen’s theme was so dope with that vicious Dragnet sample. I’m here because I listened to an old dragnet radio episode from like the 50’s last night and it reminded me of Larcens stage music..
@@RainWalker24c I think I got a couple of stage fatalities too when I was only 5 or 6. I definitely remember Larcen's, Blade's and Rex's. So yeah, there goes my innocence.
I definitely see some classic Heavy Metal influences here. Got some Iron Maiden in Blade's theme, some Judas Priest in several other themes, a bit of Black Sabbath somewhere, some hard rock, AC/DC, possibly some Van Halen there?
The lead part to Blade's theme totally melted my face as a kid, and was the reason I was determined to git gud with him! A shame they made his theme on the SegaCD version so bland in comparison.
I'd love to see an Eternal Champions vs Killer Instinct crossover fighting game w some of the Altered Beast Characters as like bonus characters or unlockables.
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side for the Sega CD is WAY more intense than this game. On a scale of 1 to 10 for the blood and gore, that game is a 20.
I never played this before, but I started on Regen and I have to say, this is definitely unique from any 90's fighter (or really any other fighter in general) I've ever played, and I mean that in a good way. The color usage is really my only complaint, it looks really poor next to even other Genesis games. It's a minor complaint though, as this is actually a really cool game that deserves a modern sequel, or at the very least, an HD remake. However, being that Sega is pretty much dissolved now, I doubt that will ever happen unless someone else acquires the rights to this game.
The graphics actually suffer from being too well done in my opinion. They're very intricate and (conceptually) colorful; the problem is there just aren't enough colors to do the art justice. The sprites look OK but the backgrounds really suffer. At the time the game's graphics were impressive for the comparatively huge sprites, at least compared to other 90s home-conversions of arcade fighters. Gameplay still stands up, at least in 2 player mode. The CPU characters obviously cheat--the yin-yang symbol next to the life bar is a special move meter; the CPU controlled characters can spam moves without it decreasing. It's infuriating how obvious it is. It looks slightly better on a blurry TV/emulator filter set to blur, but that's entirely subjective to whether you prefer grainy or blurry.
Chibi Romano The palette in my opinion was the only real flaw of the Genesis taken into account the era it was built. Even by 1989 standards the palette was pretty limited. I have been messing around with making some sprite art & backgrounds for my Genesis homebrew stuff and 9-bit depth is super limited and biased toward extremes of hue, subtle colors are nearly impossible and the entire palette has a blue/purple tint over half of it. 512 colors is nowhere near as many as it sounds like when you can count the number of usable flesh tones, or shades of yellow or red on one hand. A lot of people think the Genesis' main limitation is number of simultaneous onscreen colors; I personally think it suffers more from having a relatively poor selection of them. Bright color selections look good, like the Sonic games and some others but subtle "realistic" colors don't work and you end up with muddy bluegrayish Eternal Champions. The worst part is it wouldn't have taken much more memory to at least have access to a larger color palette. A real shame.
DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL Yes, totally agree. The color palette is the Genesis's flaw, while the SNES is that ridiculously slow processor. Both of which are unexcusable. The Genesis was built at a time where, like you said, the technology was there to use. The SNES being so slow is something I don't get, as it was built a year or two AFTER the Genesis, so you think in that time they could address such an issue. I mean, it was stellar in every area except the processor, which affected gameplay significantly.
Chibi Romano I've heard in the case of the SNES there were likely 2 factors. First, depending on who you ask, they either wanted object-code compatibility with the NES (so they could have some kind of possibility of backward compatibility) OR they simply wanted to stay within the same CPU family as the NES as a concession to developers, to ease the transition. I have also heard that they planned from the start for game cartridges to have their own optional CPU/hardware and there certainly were more than a few special SNES cartridges so there might be some truth to that. Either way the 65816 is absolutely stone-age compared to the 68000.
Once I got good with Rax and Trident I was unstoppable lol! I remember trying so hard to do the damn stage fatalities, "stand there!" "here?" "no more more" *hit*... nothing happens.....so pissed
omg thanks u so much for posting this soundtrack!! Memories...when my dad choose again and again the prehistoric guy (dont know his name), and fight my brothers...This game is awesome, i want to play it again:
Bad ending ain’t nothing but the original version of crossroads beat and the song after is another song on east 1999 song call Eternal song. Number 4 same beat and everything 😂😂
I’ve always wondered ever since I heard the last two songs on this game when I was a little kid if they were from bone thugz. So did bone thugz get these Melodies from this game or did they get them from bone thugz ?
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Who ever created all the 90s video game soundtrack is just so awsome and need recognition for it
Ikr 😂 SHEEEESH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✅💪
Could you imagine if Sega of America and Netherrealm Studios teamed up to bring this game back? I personally think that Eternal Champions deserves a second chance.
YES
That'd be awesome. Or hell, maybe give us a EC character and pull a Tekken 7 and have them be part of the Mortal Kombat lore?
@@dnmstarsi I've always love the idea of an Eternal Champions/Mortal Kombat crossover!
It has two chances and both were stinky.
@@iwanttocomplain It had two and it was overall well received but Sega of Japan was all "We don't want to deal with two fighting game franchises so we're gonna go with the more original Virtua Fighter than the MK clone that westerners seem to like but we don't".
Blade theme by far is the best track in this game and one of the best tracks in all games of all systems, I listen to that in my car for some time now
I smoke while playing blade's theme sometimes!
Hell yeah! Ima hit the reefer vape & put it on.
I think Xavier's stage is the best song theme.
Some great artwork for these oldskool video-games of the 80s and 90s.Very creative and unique
This might sound crazy, but I get a bit of a Soundgarden vibe from Midnight's theme. Something about those progressions.
Bone thugs N Harmony
Hell yes! Eternal was totally sampled from the song @33:09 Mad props for calling it out!
Fisnik Zumberi yup! I was shocked when I first heard it lol
+MacKenzie McDermott When I heard it, I thought, it can't be....then I went to the sound test menu and played the E. 1999 tape...my little mind was blown. If I ever met them in person, my first question would be, "Have you ever played Eternal Champions for Sega Genesis??" I always thought it was hilarious though, that a gangster rap group like BTNH sampled a videogame sound byte. haha
Fisnik Zumberi haha hell yeah they are awesome
31:00- Bone Thugs Crossroads original version as well
The first song is really relaxing!
Xavier’s theme goes just as hard as ever
From 31:02 until 35:57 of the vid, it's Bone Thugs N Harmony
This is without question the best music in a video game ever.
DeuceBooty streets of rage disagree
@@mikrokosmiko1 SoR2 obviously has a close to an argument as possible but not beating this for me
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun lol. Well said. But agree to disagree
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
So Bone Thugs in Harmony Sampled 33:16? That's crazy. "Keepin em on the run wit me shotgun."
33:08 Bone sampled that to make “Eternal”
Maintheme one of the best evaaaaaaaaaaaa!
This game was WAY better than any Street fighter that time
ben owen i disagree Sf has like "iconic" moves and characters but i have to say no because i never played street fighter but i can say its too stereotipical and unoriginal and it has one of the worst characters ever created(Chun li)
Idk...its like music genres....bringing out the best using inspiration of others' ideas. Whether SF2 OR MK, seeing the creative aspect bringing new elements with some of the graphic and programming limits, these guys kinda opened the sky....
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun at least Eternal Champions was about a gazillion times better than Street Fighter 1.
And call me an idiot, but I'd rank easily EC over SFIISCE due to the latter being a downgraded port with ugly colors, small sprites, and terrible, TERRIBLE voice samples.
"LOSER!"
one of my favorite games from the past. Too bad I tossed out my genesis...
2019
Imagine if this had become the 3d hit that MK did...
Wish they'd bring it back.
We maybe could've gotten an Eternal Champions vs Mortal Kombat crossover game had Eternal had a little more longevity.
Si este juego hubiera implementado un mejor sistema de combos (algo como Killer Instict) hubiera sido un juegazo, lamentablemente la jugabilidad es algo mala y le quita mucho al juego, aun así lo disfrute mucho en su tiempo.
hate this they never made a number 3 nor continue like wtf? I am mad at the game player continue this it was awesome game.
Just awful.
The music to this sooo underrated. Used to love this game growing up.
i had the activator was so cool no controller you can move to play the game best idea and it worked really good
It was only underrated because single player was impossible and boss sucked - just a transparent geese howard. I mean compare him to M.Bison, or the first time you took on Goro....
I actually played this before Mortal Kombat so those finishing moves on this game was mind blowing! The music was intense even the ending theme for bad ending was good! Sonic had some good one’s spring yard zone, marble zone and almost all of the songs from Sonic 2. Street fighter 2 themes: Guile, Ryu, Balrog, Vega, Ken, and Zangief. Honorable mention: the first few minutes of Jungle Hijinx from Donkey kong Country
This is the only genesis soundtrack I come back to and just give a listen. I'm a composer and producer with over 20 years of experience, and this is absolute gold.
@@_CaliDre100 so hard to choose one overall favourite soundtrack, there were so many good ones! I totally agree with the ones you mentioned (I am 5 years late lol 🤣)
Happy 30th anniversary to Eternal Champions and while it uses the standard GEMS instrumentation, this soundtrack has amazing compositions and I can’t help but love this soundtrack.
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Yeah Man! SEGA renewed their trademark (or patent or something) for EC, I'm hoping we see a new EC in 2024! Or at least a cameo of some of the characters in one of SEGA's other new games coming out.
The Bio's theme capture the tragedy of these characters perfectly. You can imagine everything in more detail as you read how each one of these fighters died mostly because of this track.
Thank you for that encapsulates the depth of this game perfectly
Been looking for years for the Bio theme it’s so mysterious isn’t it it draws you In
agreed
30:56 - Bone Thugs N Harmony - Crossroads (The Original Crossroads, not the Hit one)
33:09 Bone Thugs N Harmony - Eternal
My guy
At min 10 is another bone thugs jam
Xavier will always remain my favorite Eternal Champion, though Midnight and Larcen come close. Also, something about Xavier's theme still gives me a bit of a rush when I hear those first few notes. I love the Bad Ending, Character Bios, Larcen's and Shadow's themes as well.
And, of course, the Main Theme. :)
Damn, I share this opinion 100%
I wonder who won the actual tournament as there was only one winner apparently. Probably Blade or Shadow as they had the most worthy causes (preventing 95% of humanity from being wiped out is pretty important I think regarding Blade). Trident was my fave. I was only 4 so could be forgiven for spamming his fire move over and over as it was the only way i could beat the eternal champion (multiple times). The only other character I ever beat the EC with was Slash once I remember which was a fluke. I reached him with Jetta to but lost. Everyone else i couldn't even win a fight with pretty much
Blade for me!
Xaviers theme is a creepy“Tubular Bells” cover. Still awesome
Slash is my favourite character because I can actually progress with him lol.
Now THIS was a hard game!
Yes it is! I played it for weeks on end as a kid and FINALLY beat it one day. But I could never finish it again. The Eternal Champion is a real pain...
Hell yeah that last dude was a bitch
@@bluebillygrit1 OMG this game drove me nuts on the genesis when i was a kid! First it was Jetta but I eventually figured out how to beat her. I could never beat the eternal no matter how many times I played this game over and over again. Once I came very close and beat his first 3 forms but I just couldn't get him on the last one, it was so deflating to get that close and not be able to finish it lol.
Yep, I was only able to consistently beat it with Shadow and that was only because I would abuse her “shadow mode” move where she goes dark and becomes invulnerable.
Happy birthday 🎂
I have a very big love/hate relationship with this game. I think that as a fighter its mediocre at best. But I love the story, the characters are all pretty great and the music is pretty darn awesome. Alot of the music gives me chills.
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun Come on! If my 12 year old self was able to do it...
The game was so clunky and the Chi system was cheap. Like w SF charge character not needing to charge to do special moves cheap. But I agree. I loved it. The E.C. was too damn hard. Only beat him twice and one of the those was cheesing it using Slash's toss throw over and over.
@@alwaysxnever I know Ive beaten him a few times with a few characters (Xavier, Midnight, and Trident i think) but i had to use the save states.
Still love Julie Bell’s art for the front cover of this game. Great artist. Great game and the ost was top notch.
One of the best games on Sega Genesis
Main theme at 29:20 is one of my favorite tracks from the 16 bit era.
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Hell ya me too. I was like 8 jamming this shit in my room on a small ass tV lol.
I still think it's creepy but cool in each stage is some really fucked up was to die...in Blade's zone you get kicked into the fan, Shadow's you get pushed into the neon sign and get electrocuted, Rax's you get frozen then shattered, Xavier's you're burn at the stake, Jetta's you fall into the earth, Slash, you get eaten by a t rex, Midnight's you die from a bomb dropped from a helicopter, Larcen's a drive by, and Trident's you get pulled under water by plants.
+Crystal Nibarger Everyone was freaking out over Mortal Kombat at the time and Eternal Champions kind of went under the radar. The Sega CD remake/sequel to the game has some absolutely disgusting fatalities that sort of went unnoticed. Eternal Champions' were a lot more creative too.
+DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL I agree they were more creative...there's also Street Fighter unless they came before
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Crystal Nibarger I think Xavier's and Slashs' music creeped me out the most. Larcen's music was just the coolest. 😎
33:07 this song haunts my memory once per month since the 90s.
Happy birthday 🎂
This and Comix Zone made the Genesis the best console to ever grace our mortal hands, suck it Nintendo
Wulfsmasher NICE PROFILE PIC.
+Wulfsmasher Well, this game. I never cared for Howard Drossin's soundtrack for Comix Zone since it is rock-a-billy.
Speaking of both, I can't help but notice Sketch and MidKnight's fashion sense is similar.
What's the matter, Sketch? Gettin' chicken?
Nope, have another try
Dustin, theres a way to easily hack those Noise Channels SNARE Drums to PCM Snare Drums?
Anyway this soundtrack is very good.
It could be done but I think (just guessing) they did it with the noise snares because of the game's PCM sound effects. They would fight with each other
Underrated soundtrack. Some bad ass tunes here
Happy birthday 🎂
Jetta's stage music is the best!!! Soo badass!!!
Eternal Champions vs. Mortal Kombat
it's a shame Joe Delia didn't make more video game music, he sounded unique. Comix Zone's music style seems influenced by Midknight's theme too
Sketch's design seems influenced by MidKnight, too.
Great game! Loved the music and storyline too! Was super hard though!
They need to remaster this game with updated graphics and keep everything the same for PS5, I would buy it ✅
Jetta's stage
Agree, definitely Jetta's stage
TheLegendofRenegade best stage music in the game
This game was HARD!! Never rage quit so much on another game but lots of fun!
33:07 bone thugs sampled that shit.03. Eternal - E
Yes sir. Eternal from E.1999!
I knew it ,I knew it I knew and all theses years I thought I was tripping
one of my favorite games...I like shadow
33:07 Oh god, the feels. The feels.
Damn, same.
Nostalgia bomb-in-a-half right there.
btnh brought me here lol
Bone thugz!!
@@cpade838 Because? Where?
Shadow's Stage is fucking awesome
The only thing I really hated about this game was the brutal difficulty and cheap gameplay. Other than that this game was amazing. The graphics, the characters, the storyline, and damn sure the music was just epic and very different and aged very well. I really liked the fact the fighters have real life fighting styles which was really new for fighting games at that time. My favorite songs was Shadow's theme and Larcen's theme. RAX's theme reminds me of Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
C'mon it's Shadow's Stage that is rockin'
thundercat brought me here
33:08 Where you from nigga?
Straight from the motherfucking land ah the heartless
Five true thugs from the double glock
Ready ta pop to the dome, eternally it's on. That say's it all. Classic
Bad Ending=Bone Thugs n harmony-Crossroads(original version)
Character Bio=Bone Thugs n Harmony-Eternal
Bone thugs instrumental @ 32 or 33 minutes for there east 99 song this is fucking amazing
Frank216DnaLevelC 30:56 is the original crossroads song that was on the first e.1999 release.
they could remake the game today, but have various characters from other fighting games as either a combination of DLC or hidden characters.
That would be so damn cool if they did. Hopefully that would happen. I mean, they already made Streets Of Rage 4, so why not this?
You lost me at DLC.
@ 0:01 I can hear Blade wrist bands☀️
The music at 33.08 was used in american rap group bone thugs in harmonys song eternal.. their dj, dj u neek was a big fan of this game.. there goes a fun fact for everyone
DJ U-Neek and Tony C. Produced the album E. 1999 Eternal by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. They used two samples from Eternal Champions. One was bad ending for crossroads, not a coincidence. The song eternal used character bios. Eternal Champions didn't create Bone Thugs N Harmony. FOH.
Soundtrack was so fire, even Bone Thugs uses some of these beats for their 2nd album!
🤣🤣🤣💯💯💯
Thought I was trippin.. Crossroads and Eternal E for sure sampled..
"Keepin em on the run wit me shotgun"
@@bumpyface228 They sing about the booth lady from Larcen's stage (CD version only)
Larcen’s theme was so dope with that vicious Dragnet sample. I’m here because I listened to an old dragnet radio episode from like the 50’s last night and it reminded me of Larcens stage music..
I was just thinking this! How people haven't given enough credit to this. Good call bud!
If there was an eternal champs cover band i'd follow them
Xavier´s theme: the most amazing creepy music theme of all.
I was 5yrs old, that stage freaked me out. I dropped the controller when I accidentally triggered the stage "Fatality" 🤣
@@RainWalker24c I think I got a couple of stage fatalities too when I was only 5 or 6. I definitely remember Larcen's, Blade's and Rex's. So yeah, there goes my innocence.
I definitely see some classic Heavy Metal influences here. Got some Iron Maiden in Blade's theme, some Judas Priest in several other themes, a bit of Black Sabbath somewhere, some hard rock, AC/DC, possibly some Van Halen there?
this is one of my favorites OSTs ever!
The character bios track has haunted me in a very pleasant way since the first time I heard it.
Listen to Eternal by Bone thugs now.
@@johnh6689 Oh that was awesome!
Amazing soundtrack.
one of the most beautiful colors I've seen on the sega genesis. That game was my bday gift back when it was released.
Amazing story, music, characters, design but the gameplay was kinda sloppy IMO... Still have the catridge on my Genesis colection.
Midknight's Stage and Character bios are the best themes in this game.
The lead part to Blade's theme totally melted my face as a kid, and was the reason I was determined to git gud with him! A shame they made his theme on the SegaCD version so bland in comparison.
SEGA needs a Eternal Champions Vs Altered Beasts fighting game crossover.
I'd love to see an Eternal Champions vs Killer Instinct crossover fighting game w some of the Altered Beast Characters as like bonus characters or unlockables.
There's a pretty cool remix of the Bios theme at OCRemix; that was how I first heard of this OST.
Xavier's theme is terrific. Sounds like Carpenter or something
I've been listening to his "Lost Themes" releases lately and you're right. Would have been right at home in Halloween or The Fog.
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side for the Sega CD is WAY more intense than this game. On a scale of 1 to 10 for the blood and gore, that game is a 20.
I never played this before, but I started on Regen and I have to say, this is definitely unique from any 90's fighter (or really any other fighter in general) I've ever played, and I mean that in a good way.
The color usage is really my only complaint, it looks really poor next to even other Genesis games.
It's a minor complaint though, as this is actually a really cool game that deserves a modern sequel, or at the very least, an HD remake. However, being that Sega is pretty much dissolved now, I doubt that will ever happen unless someone else acquires the rights to this game.
The graphics actually suffer from being too well done in my opinion. They're very intricate and (conceptually) colorful; the problem is there just aren't enough colors to do the art justice. The sprites look OK but the backgrounds really suffer. At the time the game's graphics were impressive for the comparatively huge sprites, at least compared to other 90s home-conversions of arcade fighters. Gameplay still stands up, at least in 2 player mode. The CPU characters obviously cheat--the yin-yang symbol next to the life bar is a special move meter; the CPU controlled characters can spam moves without it decreasing. It's infuriating how obvious it is.
It looks slightly better on a blurry TV/emulator filter set to blur, but that's entirely subjective to whether you prefer grainy or blurry.
DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL I'll take grainy over blurry, just saying that the Genesis color palette doesn't work well here.
Chibi Romano The palette in my opinion was the only real flaw of the Genesis taken into account the era it was built. Even by 1989 standards the palette was pretty limited. I have been messing around with making some sprite art & backgrounds for my Genesis homebrew stuff and 9-bit depth is super limited and biased toward extremes of hue, subtle colors are nearly impossible and the entire palette has a blue/purple tint over half of it. 512 colors is nowhere near as many as it sounds like when you can count the number of usable flesh tones, or shades of yellow or red on one hand. A lot of people think the Genesis' main limitation is number of simultaneous onscreen colors; I personally think it suffers more from having a relatively poor selection of them. Bright color selections look good, like the Sonic games and some others but subtle "realistic" colors don't work and you end up with muddy bluegrayish Eternal Champions.
The worst part is it wouldn't have taken much more memory to at least have access to a larger color palette. A real shame.
DUSTINODELLOFFICIAL Yes, totally agree. The color palette is the Genesis's flaw, while the SNES is that ridiculously slow processor. Both of which are unexcusable.
The Genesis was built at a time where, like you said, the technology was there to use.
The SNES being so slow is something I don't get, as it was built a year or two AFTER the Genesis, so you think in that time they could address such an issue. I mean, it was stellar in every area except the processor, which affected gameplay significantly.
Chibi Romano I've heard in the case of the SNES there were likely 2 factors. First, depending on who you ask, they either wanted object-code compatibility with the NES (so they could have some kind of possibility of backward compatibility) OR they simply wanted to stay within the same CPU family as the NES as a concession to developers, to ease the transition. I have also heard that they planned from the start for game cartridges to have their own optional CPU/hardware and there certainly were more than a few special SNES cartridges so there might be some truth to that. Either way the 65816 is absolutely stone-age compared to the 68000.
The theme of the Midnight's stage is really cool!
Character bios theme is used on bone thugs and harmony Land of the heartless, look it up, 100% accurate
You mean eternal not land of tha heartless
Once I got good with Rax and Trident I was unstoppable lol! I remember trying so hard to do the damn stage fatalities, "stand there!" "here?" "no more more" *hit*... nothing happens.....so pissed
Once I knew 3-button combos were a thing, I destroyed face with RAX as well; his giant chest lightning ball did outrageous damage if it connected.
it was a 2 button combo for this one :) (A+C)
Hidden attribute of that move, in addition, you were invincible too! Ever notice that?
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Thanks for bringing this up....that's remind me when I use to play this game's when I was a childhood.....thanks.
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
So dope! Thanks for this! They were jamming! You know that shit was heavy ☺️
Childhood triggered
Best GEMS soundtrack along with Comix Zone? Most GEMS games feel like they lack instruments in most songs and sound flat as a result, but not this!
I just recently learned Bone thugs n harmony sampled a few songs from this game. So crazy
Mom wouldn’t let me get Mortal Kombat back then. But she didn’t hear about Eternal Champions!
I'm loving the box art for the game
I was so disappointed to try the Sega CD version after all these years only to make sure that the Mega Drive soundtrack is way better!
I know i know all the popular votes but please give credit to Trident's theme.. that theme was other worldly!
omg thanks u so much for posting this soundtrack!!
Memories...when my dad choose again and again the prehistoric guy (dont know his name), and fight my brothers...This game is awesome, i want to play it again:
+Virka57 His name is Slash (prehistoric guy)
My favourite is Larsen, btw (criminal)
You meant Slash who according to his story was quite advanced for a caveman.
I've just uploaded a brand new cover of the "Eternal Champions" end theme to my channel. Come check it out. I think you'll enjoy it!
Bad ending ain’t nothing but the original version of crossroads beat and the song after is another song on east 1999 song call Eternal song. Number 4 same beat and everything 😂😂
Best soundtrack, great graphics, cool storyline and characters....but to dam hard lol
I’ve always wondered ever since I heard the last two songs on this game when I was a little kid if they were from bone thugz. So did bone thugz get these Melodies from this game or did they get them from bone thugz ?
Bone thugs used the Character Bio track on the "Eternal" track for e.1999 album, thats so dope
at 30:55 theme bone thugs N harmony copied this theme. this was 95 the the bone thugs copied this onto their song called crossroads you'll see.
The song at 31:00 (Bad ending) was sampled by bonethugs for their song crossroad the orginal version not The crossroads listen to it
holy shit thundercat was right that does sound like the menu theme
One of my child hood favorite games legend
Music was in my brain somehow...thought I'd reminisce here.
Zzz oh.
Bone thugs n harmony used bad ending as the beat for the original crossroads. Wavy. Shout out to BTNH
Bone Thugs N Harmony Eternal sampled over the Bad Ending?
Yep and original crossroads at 31:00
Rax's stage soundtrack is insane! There was a whimsy and a talent in this era that's hard to find even these days.