This one is a bit old but I'm going to bump it. I'm on my second copy now and it's doing the same thing. I cannot get them to work, with a crash in the same spot as 2DSkillz. The first one was beat up so I wrote it off to that. The new one I just got looks almost untouched.

I've wanted to play this thing for years now since I adore beat-em-ups and it's like a cruel joke at this point. I'm on a Sega CD 2 and beginning to wonder if that's not the issue.