Double Dragon Advance, Super & Collection Announced For Switch

No Double Dragon Zeebo? Not interested.

All right! Gaiden and now this. More Double Dragon is always good I suppose. (Kind of a big middle finger up in the faces of the ones who bought DD IV as a stand-alone release though). No DD Zeebo hurts this too. Wasted opportunity to finally get this version out of the virtual limbo set by Tec Toy. Oh well, it will be nice to go "punch punch, (move in a little) and uppercut / kick" in DD Advance once again.

Edit: I just realized these are not the arcade versions for I-II-III but rather the NES ones (already part of the Kunio-Kun bundle) making it a DD Nintendo collection (lacking V / DD and Battletoads) with IV. This is just lazy! (Abo)booooo!

aren't these just the DOUBLE DRAGON & Kunio-kun Retro Brawler Bundle games they sold separately?

Double Dragon Reloaded is still the best because of the Hulkster brother!

DD 1-3 seems to be the ones already on the eshop, which are available both via the Kunio Kun Collection and standalone.

And I hope they add the ability to select the Japanese versions, because the Return of Double Dragon is far superior than Super Double Dragon.

Double Dragon Advance, that’s what I want right there.

Thanks for the comments confirming that they are the NES games, I can just get the new ports then. Seems like Arcade Archives aren't interested in DD3 which I know is, er, not that good, but would be nice for completeness.

Sweet! I can sell my SNES one now.

"The long-awaited Double Dragon Advance and Super Double Dragon are making a double comeback this year! After 20 years, the first official ports for both games will be making their way to modern consoles on November 9, 2023."

Huh? Super Double Dragon was officially released on the Technos Collection for Evercade in 2020. but maybe that is no „modern“ console 😄

I'm glad they're available separately. I'll probably just get Super Double Dragon. As others stated, the first three NES titles are already in the Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle collection.

Advance is meh, and IV is trash.

@Tasuki someone is looking out for me. 😂

@JohnnyMind it was a favorite GBA of mine back in the day. When it comes out again I hope you enjoy it.

I was about to pay a ridiculous price for an original copy of DD Advance on eBay but this has made me sense.

Super DD was awesome, still need to get round to completing it one day

Still waiting on that Rage of the Dragons re-release 🥲

So. The Evercade cartridge of Super Double Dragon doesn’t count?

Anyways, I’ll be very curious to pick up Double Dragon Advance.

This is great, I've always wanted to play Double Dragon Advance. I suppose I could have imported it, but it was never released in Europe. The best thing is that you can actually download it. I haven't used Virtual Console since it went streaming/subscription.

@CharlieGirl Me too... Maybe, they will release it in 2024, at least...

I loved Super Double Dragon back in the day, so this definitely has my interest.

I hope Super comes with the Japanese version, regarded as better, too. Advance is great to have as the original is way too expensive.

Collection including the four numbered ones and the aforementioned two is also great news. But I already own those four, three of them inside the Kunio-kun collection on Switch, so I'll be watching it and if the extras are good enough I'll semi-double dip. If not, I'll have to settle for Super and Advance on digital sadly.

By the sounds of it, I already own most of the games from a previous collection on Switch. Maybe the new additions will be available as standalones?

No Double dragon Neon? Lame.

@w00dm4n yeah had double dragon 1-3 and the kunio games and their variants. what wasn't on there was the advance game and the snes game. double dragon 4 is also released already on the switch. probably why they are releasing DDA &SDD as stand alone releases as well. hopefully the collection will have some extras and overlays etc.

@ChessboardMan yeah the OP stated that in the first paragraph. so that's good if you already own the retro brawler collection.

@juliobrand yeah they really should make a battle toads collection for switch.

Advance with an actual PAL release is good. I imported the game from the US back at release and still have my boxed cartridge. It is one of those games where the colour looked a little off on the Game Boy player, like they'd adjusted it for the GBA front lit screen. Hopefully the emulation is NSO standard, its a great game in my opinion.

Hope this compilation releases in the U.S.!

Nice to see Advance making a comeback.

Nice! I haven't played Super Double Dragon in a LONG time.

This could be fun. I have a really limited experience with the series, so I’m down to experience more.

2 great games but advance is the one I really want, limited run or a similar company need to give us some physical releases though and I'll happily shell out

I can still remember playing the opening stage of Double Dragon on my Master System for the very first time, some 35 years ago.

@MontyCircus

Advance is awesome, by far the best of the bunch.

I was one paycheck away from buying DDIV (even though I've heard it sucks), so glad to hear of a physical collection coming ! And I never played the Advance games, though they are loaded on my emu machine, so glad they'll be on the physical too. I'm assuming it'll have English support.

Wasn't there a Double Dragon fighting game on the Neo Geo? Be nice to have that too, I've always wanted to play it.

@LikeWhoa that you for telling me about this. How that I'm playing DD Gaiden I have to check this out too. I didn't even know it was a thing

I said it before, Double Dragon Advance is PEAK Double Dragon. I missed out on it until I had a chance to play it a few years ago, and, just as a friend of mine told me, it's fantastic. It has the look and feel of the original arcade game, but with lots of gameplay enhancements that take it to the next level. I'd rather see new Double Dragon games build on Advance rather than trying to re-invent things.

@WaveBoy I grew up with Double Dragon on the Master System, so I still have fondness for that, so I get your feeling for the NES counterpart. But as for DD2, it's a bit of a mess. I don't know if you'd like it, but I think the best version of DD2 is the PC Engine CD version. Would be cool if that was made available too.

@OorWullie It's a nice version on Master System, especially after I had previously played the C64 version, which has to be one of the worst computer games I've ever played. I only realised years later the MS version also has a nice FM soundtrack, if you have the means to enable it.

Are they going to fix double dragon 4?

Nicee, double dragon advance is the best double dragon since double dragon 2 on nes

Not interested on the other titles besides double dragon snes though, already have double dragon nes titles, and I don't like dd 4 since it's not good.

@Gamepro500 I think they try to forget that that game even exists...

Ah, Double Dragon Advance. The original version of DD seared into my mind's eye. Good times.

I'm actually only interested in Advance tbh

While nice they could had included a lot more games. Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team, the two Double Dragon fighting games (The Shadow Falls and the NeoGeo game), and Double Dragon Neon included would had been great additions to the collection.

All I know is I want to play the Japanese version of Super Double Dragon, the way it was supposed to have been in the west. Still glad for this direct and focused collection of home Double Dragon games. Even though I'll be double dipping on a lot of stuff I think I will pick it up.

Double Dragon Neon or bust.

@vanYth how's the dpad on those things?

@juliobrand tbf, DDIV was a middle finger to the people who purchased DDIV.

No NEO•GEO Double Dragon – no buy.

I enjoyed DD Advance and still have it for my GBA

I assume Neon isn't included because its publishing rights were owned by Majesco, whereas Arc System Works didn't the rights to DD until 2015.

@LikelySatan The Evercade d-pads are really nice. They are inspired by the MegaDrive/Genesis and are mostly praised.
More of a problem could be that the Technos Collection is out of production, so the prices are going up now.

I'm glad that they're selling these both as a bundle and individually. That way people, like me, who already picked up the Double Dragon & Kunio-Kun collection and/or Double Dragon IV won't have to double dip to get Advance and Super.

Double Dragon is one of those games I played a lot and have great memories of especially playing with my son. Replaying it recently reinforced those memories but the replay value is not enough I would spend money on another collection. The Contra collection and the Castlevania collection were well worth it though as they still hold up.

Never been a fan of the DD games but the movie! Now that’s a different story!

@juliobrand In the case of II, I know the NES version is vastly preferred to the arcade version. My favorite streamer dedicated to finishing arcade games on one credit said the final level is impossible to finish on the default settings without saving the one permitted death for the final level, and that he has to specifically lose it to the timer.

Would be nice if there are regional variants of the game. I hear the Japanese versions of III and Super are just somewhat more polished than the English versions (I think III is still regarded as terrible, maybe the difference between Super and Return was more significant).
Which of course brings to arcade III, where the English version gained notoriety as one of the earliest microtransaction games. Insert more coins to get more health and moves, dude!
Said streamer almost certainly played the Japanese version (which lacks that feature) but I don't think they regarded it as a masterpiece (apparently it wasn't even developed by Technos themselves, they contracted that game to another dev).

I only played the Master System version.

I still remember that to jump, you need to press 1 + 2.

@LikeWhoa :0

This is very cool.

Incredibly disappointing that we're getting the NES versions of the original Double Dragon trilogy... AGAIN.

It would have been awesome to have a physical copy of the arcade remakes/versions (I already downloaded the Hamster ports of the first two games).

I already have two copies of the original trilogy via the original Japanese/Asian Kunio-kun World Collection release, and LRG's subsequent release of the international release of said collection (with official localisations of the other 11 ROMs for the very first time).

And I already have LRG's overpriced physical copy of IV.

So I'm essentially buying this solely for Super and Advance. Good thing that it's a budget-priced release though (which takes the sting out just a little).

@hel105 Indeed it does.

I thought they already released something like this...

Witness the pinnacle of the Double Dragon series! The first game!
Lolol.

Double Dragon Advance is the truth.

Just finished playing double dragon advance a couple of days ago on my analogue pocket, yup the game is still great, the best double dragon game along with double dragon 2 on nes 😃

I've never played Super DD but have a tiny bit of DD Adv

Buying this for Super Double Dragon and Double Dragon Advance alone.

@LadyCharlie

Did you change your name, or do we have multiple people using that pic?

This time I'll have to go with the individual releases, which I salute for a change, because the collection severely overlaps with other releases such as the aforementioned Kunio-kun: The World Classics Collection.

I'll have to think about Super Double Dragon, because I have it on the Evercade (and that one is the better Japanese version surprisingly), but Double Dragon Advance is a no brainer: too expensive in its original format, this will be my first time with it.

I like me some Double Dragon but to play all those in a collection I'm not so sure about.

Then again, I loved Super, Advance and Gaiden and never really paid a lot of attention to the others. Super and Advance were the ones I played for the longest I think.

@LikeWhoa "Watcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you, Lee brother!"

@juliobrand You said what I was thinking. This is a lazy cash grab. I already have the other collection, see no need for this. This should have been DLC for someone that already has the other collection.

That's a fun collection.