Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team Playthrough (Actual SNES Capture)

This is a capture of me playing through Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team for the SNES. This is not an emulator. This footage was recorded directly from my Super Nintendo using an actual Battletoads & Double Dragon cartridge. I'm playing through the game using Jimmy Lee.

I have been a huge Double Dragon fan since I received the original NES game around 1989. Although I enjoyed the first game quite a bit, I was an even bigger fan of the two sequels on the NES and would specifically rent Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones whenever I could. I just loved everything about that game. Double Dragon II: The Revenge was also amazing. Both sequels convinced me that two-player gaming was king on the NES.

Some time around 1994 or so I visited a friend's house and saw that he had rented Battletoads & Double Dragon for the SNES. When I played it for the first time I was instantly disappointed by how different it was from the NES Double Dragon games that I had grown up with. The overall style was different and there was only one attack button. I had never played a Battletoads game before, so this left me completely bewildered. Based on that experience, I figured I would never enjoy the game.

However, by the middle of my high school years (around 2000) I started buying old games from Ebay and Funcoland, and I decided to get all of the Double Dragon games that were released for Nintendo systems. I picked up a used copy of Battletoads & Double Dragon for my SNES and gave the game another shot.

Although it didn't play like a true Double Dragon game, Battletoads & Double Dragon was a fun beat 'em up in its own right, and it had excellent music too. Unfortunately, the game was pretty damn hard and perhaps even broken because of its flawed two-player continue system which caused each player to reset to the same point if one player had to continue. Even though I beat the game shortly after I bought it, to this date I still have not beaten the game in two-player mode. Despite my attempts to record a two-player playthrough during the past few years, I just haven't succeeded, and I don't think it's possible without an expert player.

At this point I'll just have to settle for a single-player playthrough. Just like I do with most of the Double Dragon games, I'm playing through this one with a turbo controller because it makes the game easier and more enjoyable. It's also one of the benefits of using original hardware.

I died several times during this playthrough, but I did manage to beat the game without using any continues. I hope you enjoy the footage.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official SNES S-video cable at 60 frames per second. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the SNES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a Super Advantage joystick.