Primal Rage 2 (Unreleased Arcade game) playable in PC since 2017

[Ro Magnus Larsson]

You all sure knew Primal Rage in the 90's but the second part was in development too and it was never released:

I knew Primal Rage 2 was in existance but not as a playable game anywhere, it was an Atari arcade game that was never released in the 90's. We all know the first game Primal Rage in SEGA 16 bit version. The PR 2 game is fully playable since 2017 thanks to a development in MAME emulator specially designed for this game: It was called MAME4RAGE.

You can see a playthrough here from the game, it looks great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viI6mO2PAxo

The main and only web page for th game https://gruntzilla94.neocities.org/UrthRage/mame4rage2.html publish the specificatiosn to play the game and how it was "ported" to be played. The game looks goods and it would be nice to see it some day in Dreamcast platform..

[dark]

It's a neat game, but I don't see this being emulated on the DC anytime soon. The DC has the rough specs of a PC of circa 1999, limited ram and no HDD. Even with my relatively modern PC that's 10,000 times more powerful than the dreamcast, Primal Rage 2 doesn't run/emulate perfectly. I think you'd need someone to completely remake the game from the ground up for the DC to get a smooth port, which of course, would be a massive undertaking.

Best option to see the graphics from the game moving around on the dreamcast in the near future would be to rip sprites for Beats of Rage or Dolmexica engine.