Way of the Warrior MOD by The Nomad

Original post by The Nomad*
NEW! Update for ver. 1.7 (2012/03/16)! Link below

The Nomad´s ART TECH Presents:

SoR Remake - Way of the Warrior (v1.7)



In this new mod, you will help our heroes Axel, Adam and Blaze
to chase their old nemesis, Mr.X, in a new exciting adventure,
that will travel from the United States to Japan!

Way of the Warrior Features:

- 4 different paths with different plot, stages, and cutscenes!

- New name and color scheme for the most part of the enemies!

- Totally new Soundtrack from classic SNES games to j-pop

- 4 unlockable secret bonus

- Different set of enemies for Easy, Normal, Very Hard
and 2 players mode

- New cutscenes that never seen before for all main stages

- 4 different endings!

- Meet Captain Sabawara, Dragon, Sakura and Hunter! Plus some easter eggs!

Warning! If you have created your own color pallete,
backup before install Way of the Warrior, because the Setup automaticaly
installs the Way of the Warrior pallete over SoRR palete folder (enemies
and playable characters).

Link to Way of the Warrior MOD v1.0 (226mb):

Code:

https://rapidshare.com/files/2805437646/Way_of_the_Warrior.zip

Update v1.5 (15mb):

Code:

http://www.4shared.com/file/ao1zEig1/Way_of_the_Warrior_Update_15_S.html

Update v1.7 (240kb):

Code:

http://www.4shared.com/rar/vGffN3sN/Way_of_the_Warrior_Update_17_S.html

Link to the MOD complete with all updates installed, and a separated pallete folder:

Code:

https://rapidshare.com/files/1736308285/Way_of_the_Warrior.7z

OR

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?hxc1enqa156chr7

Part 1

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?iica6laqk15z7lj

Part 2

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?64s5l11wqv2nd4i

Part 3

(links by Bazzza)

Installation order and compatibility:
1- Install Way of the Warrior.exe
2- Install 1.5 update (optional, don't require 1.7 update to work)
3- Install 1.7 update (optional, don't require 1.5 update to work)


1.7 Feature:
- Add a bonus life and more guns to problematic Stage 6, elevator section, and add a alternative route before the elevator section for the KANGAROO players (If you are playing with Kangaroo, you MUST take the alternative route, or you be stuck at the elevator section). The alternative Kangaroo route skip the elevator section (6b) and take you directly to the rooftop section (6c). But if you not playing with Kangaroo, you'll find a little gift in the elevator section (1up), to stimulate players to take the regular path.

1.5 Features:
- Now you find more food and less lives (prepare for the nightmare!)
- Less annoying knife guys
- More enemies on early stages
- Graphical tweaks in stage 1
- New set of enemies on easy mode
- Soundtrack volume correction (2 tracks)
- New name set to enemies
- Text correction by Elmo
- Some adjustments in weapons balance
- Path 1 ending reworked
- Intro advertising to set Weapons option "ON"

Screens:








Tips:

- The game was tested with SoR 3 exceptions OFF (see in the miscellaneous
options). I don´t know how the mod work with another configuration.

- Let the Weapons option ON, the MOD was designed to work
with weapons.

- Take advantage of police assistance, to spare your life: you
can miss those lives later.

- Look for hidden lives in stages.

- Take care of your ammo in elevator section, try to shot slowly,
if your ammo is over, depending of your character, you´ll be
forced to jump in the pit to select another character with long
range attack.

- Avoid characters like Roo, because of the elevator section,
where you are forced to shot unreachable enemies.

- The plot is about Axel, Adam and Blaze, but feel free to
use the overpower characters if you feel the game is too hard.

- You can find the Bonus Content files in the SoRRv5/mod/game/
Way of the Warrior/Bonus Content folder.

Bugs:

- In 2 player mode, the player two will be stuck in background, in the
elevator stage. Don´t worry, let the player one do the job. I decided to let
the stage this way, because the elevator stage fits better to one
player. Don´t blame me, it´s a small section, it´s not big deal.
After kill all enemies, the game proceed without a problem. You can ask
me why i keep the elevator section, if it has all those problems. I say that i
keep the stage because i like it a lot! And i think that you will like too!

- The game was tested so many times, but unknown bugs can happen,
let me know if you find some.

Language:

- Only English. Because of my English limitations, there's a great
chance for the players laugh with my stupid English errors. Sorry,
and feel free to laugh and tell me what is wrong, I'm planning to
release updates to fix problems, text corrections and bugs included.

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Installation:

Way of the Warrior feature a auto installation file, please, set the
folder where your SoRR files are installed in the Way of the Warrior
Setup. If you set the wrong folder, go to the wrong folder, copy the
Way of the Warrior folder and Pallete folder, and paste the Way of
the Warrior folder to the mod/game folder in your SoRR remake
folder, and paste the Way of the Warrior Pallete folder over SoRRv5
Pallete folder.

The file has 226mb packed, and 607mb unpacked.
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Hope that all of you enjoy the mod, i had spent hours and hours
of hard work in that, trying to make something fun and enjoyable
for the great people of the sor community. Thanks for the help and
for teach me how to work with SoR Maker! Feel free to upload and
share in other places, to use my stages etc... if you feel right,
give me some credits, if you don´t, its ok too. Have a good
play!

One of the best mods released, and that was in the early days! All-beat 'em up fun, from start to end! The sceneries are colorful and vivid, and the enemies keep coming! Definitely, a mod to play over and over again!

Rating: (out of 5).

good mod for you,good play by me
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTIxMTcwNzcy.html

Hi guys! I'm back! Sad for the old site, but happy for the work that you made here, is just amazing! Let's keep the fire alive!

Hope that everyone from the old website register and come here...!

Best wishes for all of you!

PS: Thx Charco for bring the topic here!

PS2: Thx 6566328 for upload your playthrough, it is much appreciated!

ps3: Hi Lucas! How are you doing?

ps4: coming soon, start to save some money kids, so said sony!

Just finished Way of the Warrior. Great mod Nomad

thenomad wrote:
PS: Thx Charco for bring the topic here!

PS2: Thx 6566328 for upload your playthrough, it is much appreciated!

ps3: Hi Lucas! How are you doing?

ps4: coming soon, start to save some money kids, so said sony!

The second link of mediafire does not work. This look very interesting btw.

Xionix wrote:The second link of mediafire does not work. This look very interesting btw.

I have tested and the 3 mediafire links worked. Do you still needing the part 2 or you have downloaded in the other links?

It's just great mod! Must have!

Been playing this again recently, and it still amazes me how good it is - most of all the atmosphere and setting. I looked up the four Tokyo districts (that make up stage 4-5) and they're actually quite accurately represented in-game (Roppongi's nightlife, Asakusa's temple, Akihabara's shops/cafe's and Harajuku's park)...the only bad thing really is that the bullet train stage scrolls from left to right, while the train itself is travelling the opposite way.

That, combined with the music (one of the few mods where I think it has a real effect) makes it the best in this category IMO. (only Adam's Story and Fists of the Street come close IMO in terms of atmosphere and setting).

Kind words, thanks DarkThief! Indeed, Adams Story and Fists of Rage, along with H.U.N.T.E.R.S are in the amazing mods category!

Now this mod I strongly enjoyed. I like the crisp stages, the soundtrack to this mod and even how you can choose more than one path! The background characters look like they've been polished well to me unless copying and pasting was done. Nevertheless they still are fitting the stges to me. I'll definitely be playing this again!

This mod get me hard. This mod is great, well pitched difficulty, awesome music, outstanding enemy placement, great pallets well ripped stages and brilliantly animated and very well done cut scenes. Nice one Nomad.

Right another vid for this amazing mod this time the 3RD route taken. I still conceive with the exception of Fists of the street, H.U.N.T.E.R and and Adams Story this mod on a technical stand point is unsurpassed, this is just brilliant.

Thx Bazzza, awesome gameplay! You almost got stuck in stage 6, luckily you managed to kill the Haku-Yo!

thenomad wrote:Thx Bazzza, awesome gameplay! You almost got stuck in stage 6, luckily you managed to kill the Haku-Yo!

Yeah I thought shit I screwed up, it was the only thing I could do Kill the Hakuyo I did nearly rage quit. By the way do you have a track listing of the song you used for this mod please Nomad or anyone.

Lets go (following the order in the MOD folder):

1- Fullbore (Killer Instinct)
2- Trailblazer (Killer Instinct)
3- Dark Combat (Perfect Dark)
4- Controlling Transmission (Killer Instinct)
5- Fear Factory (Donkey Kong Country)
6- All Night Long - Karaoke Ver. (Ami Suzuki)
7- Do It Now! (Killer Instinct)
8- The Way U Move (Killer Instinct)
9- Training Room (Perfect Dark)
10 - Dragon Blade (Guitar Freaks)
11- K.I. Feeling (Killer Instinct)
12- Rose Stage (Street Fighter Alpha 3)
13- After Burner (Bayonetta OST)
14- Big Blue (F-Zero GX)
15- Jago (Killer Instinct Gold)
16- Defection X (Perfect Dark)
17- High-Tech Density (Phoenix, by me ^^)
18- End Credits (Perfect Dark)
19- Temperantia - In Foregoing Pleasures (Bayonetta OST)
20- Fortitudo - In Labors and Danger (Bayonetta OST)
21- Deep Sea: Nullify Threat (Perfect Dark)
22- Treasured Memories (Kingdom Hearts)
63- An Intense Situation (Kingdom Hearts)

thenomad wrote:Lets go (following the order in the MOD folder):

1- Fullbore (Killer Instinct)
2- Trailblazer (Killer Instinct)
3- Dark Combat (Perfect Dark)
4- Controlling Transmission (Killer Instinct)
5- Fear Factory (Donkey Kong Country)
6- All Night Long - Karaoke Ver. (Ami Suzuki)
7- Do It Now! (Killer Instinct)
8- The Way U Move (Killer Instinct)
9- Training Room (Perfect Dark)
10 - Dragon Blade (Guitar Freaks)
11- K.I. Feeling (Killer Instinct)
12- Rose Stage (Street Fighter Alpha 3)
13- After Burner (Bayonetta OST)
14- Big Blue (F-Zero GX)
15- Jago (Killer Instinct Gold)
16- Defection X (Perfect Dark)
17- High-Tech Density (Phoenix, by me ^^)
18- End Credits (Perfect Dark)
19- Temperantia - In Foregoing Pleasures (Bayonetta OST)
20- Fortitudo - In Labors and Danger (Bayonetta OST)
21- Deep Sea: Nullify Threat (Perfect Dark)
22- Treasured Memories (Kingdom Hearts)
63- An Intense Situation (Kingdom Hearts)

You brilliant brilliant man thank you very much

My personal favorite! From the soundtrack used to the new palettes... The routes, the endings... I got seriously stuck in this one and i wasn't bored for a minute! Final battles with Mr.X were a work of art, as well as his customized appearance.

Charco wrote:

- Let the Weapons option ON, the MOD was designed to work
with weapons.

You got that right! I turned this into a Metal Slug/Contra style shoot em up.



This is one crazy fun mod. Played both the 'old fashioned' way using just fists & feet to beat the game & my preferred way: shoot em up style. Despite all the praise I have for this mod, there was just 1 thing that I didn't quite like: Level 1.

I thought the first level started out way too intensely, so I wasn't quite used to that. Traps, bombs, crazy motorcycles coming at you from everywhere. I think that would have made a good level 6 or 7 but it was way too intense of a first level for me. Going at it again in 2 player co-op mode with guns blazing.

Too bad you didn't use the palettes of the mod...

Requesting any fresh link from this mod. I realized that, for some reason, I don't have it anymore so, if someone could hook me up with a link from the latest version of this game, I'd be forever thankful.

Thanks.

So here's a couple of runs.
The second path is here. It was as the last time I played the mod, which was in v5.0. So, the ending was still limited.





And this is the first path of Way of the Warrior. God, this mod is hard, I couldn't get the 1cc and had to use a continue...
Edited the ending to have a proper scroll and end with proper credits in the end. Now it has v5.1 ending.



Will do runs of the other paths tomorrow maybe and now with a proper ending all of them that don't need to pause/quit the game.

One more link for the 1.7 version (Final):

https://mega.nz/#!5I8DkYLD!ht4ODYopiYRuR9jgaQ7whQkhAwj3R3DTDNuBwyzratY