Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Arcade)

Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Developer: Technos Japan Publisher: Technos Japan Platform: Arcade (Double Dragon hardware) Released in JP: March 1989 Released in US: 1988 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

To do: Acknowledge Japanese version differences, such as flashing continue screen, now that the rom is playable.

OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED MARIAN!

More of a remix of the first Double Dragon arcade game than a completely new adventure, although in this version of the game Machine Gun Willy decides to make things more personal for the Lee brothers by gunning down Marian rather than just kidnapping her, which is where "The Revenge" part of the title comes into play.

Unused Graphics

With the exception of the Lee brothers, Jeff and Willy, all of the returning characters from the first game were redesigned in some form or another. While there are some leftovers from the first game that were left unchanged, there are also redesigned sprites for this game that went unused as well.

	Marian's face on all of her walking animation frames was redrawn, but she only uses her standing pose (the first frame) in the game. Unfortunately for her, she gets shot by Willy in the opening sequence before getting a chance to go anywhere.
	Williams sitting atop some sort of higher ground. In the first game, he sat atop trees during Mission 3.
	Rowper's knife/dynamite throwing animation, an ability he lost in this game.
	This square-haired strongman (named O'Hara in the Mega Drive version) never actually uses this double hand slap technique, much like the bald Abobo from the first game.
	O'Hara breaking through a wall, which he never actually does in the game. His head-swapped counterpart, Bolo, uses this animation sequence in the beginning of Mission 2.
	Jumping animation frames for the two strongman in the game (Bolo and O'Hara), which they never get the opportunity to use. In the first game, Abobo uses similar frames when he jumps down from a tree trunk in Mission 3.

Unused Music

ID#	Track	Notes
05		Located between the Missions 3 and 4 themes. Due to its infinite looping, perhaps this was unused stage music.
0E		A short jingle perhaps intended for a Game Over theme, or perhaps after you defeated the final boss, judging from its happy-sounding tone.
0F		Another short music track. Possibly intended for after the final boss fades away upon defeat.
58		The intro cutscene for the final fight plays this eerie ambient track, which is programmed to run for just over 4 minutes (when every audio channel syncs up). However, only the first 10 seconds are heard in actual gameplay before the cutscene ends, leaving the rest of the track unused.