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Hi TaiToaplan,
re: Vs. Hot Smash
This game works best with a mouse or a spinner:
A slow movement moves the paddle left/right, a fast movement does the smashing effect.
With a gamepad's analog stick it doesn't translate very well.  small movement on the stick will move it left/right, big movement will smash, but it's a little glitchy.  If it won't do the smashing effect, or does it too much, adjust the analog sensitivity to 250%. (or a little more/little less)

best regards,
- dink

I think I brought up this hack here before, but I'm not sure. It's Streets of Rage Plus (Genesis / Mega Drive).

It's a collection of extras seen in other SoR hacks, such as a different color palette, bad ending in single player, 6-button pad support, difficulty randomizer, etc.

Information and download here.

Unfortunately, I ran into yet another problem related to Sonic 2. Unless there was an option that I didn't notice, it seems that the record avi feature does not handle the resolution changes in multiplayer, so instead of starting a new video, it just ends the recording completely.