The great retro videogame graphics styles of Technōs Japan for Flux! This does multiple styles inspired by various games, like the River City Ransom/Downtown Nekketsu series, Renegade, Double Dragon, Mat Mania, WWF WrestleFest, etc. Particularly good with the original "Hot-Blooded Tough Guy Kunio." The catalog/rights are all currently owned by Arc System Works and going strong, so buy their games.

It also allows you to create photos and other styles where subjects and scenes are laid out like Double Dragon IRL. Seriously, this is the greatest unintentional LoRA simulating The Warriors when prompted correctly.

To use, start at strength around .7-.8 (.7 if using the optional main training tag below, .8 if not). Very flexible though you need to “steer” it a bit…

…Flux LoRA’s are akin to pointing Flux to a page or two in its existing dictionary/inventory of images, so this was hand-tagged in natural language with very little punctuation accordingly, taking advantage of what Flux already knows. A lot of the helpful supporting tags were not used in training at all, in fact, but are often critical. Play with strength as needed once you start getting fancy with styles.

TL;DR use

Nekketsu chibi or Technos brawler

Then videogame related terms.

Primary Tags

Prefix Styles

A {prefix style of your choice} image/scene/depiction/etc.

There are two main trained prefix styles from tagging (you can also use these at the end as suffixes or adjectives, but for ease, I am sticking with the term prefix)

A Nekketsu chibi

A Technos brawler

Respectively, these will put you in the range of River City/Kunio Nekketsu games, or Renegade/Double Dragon/Wrestling. Supporting tags steer from there. Brawler in particular needs them.

Example use:

A Nekketsu chibi image of a man with a pistol standing in the grass.

A Technos brawler pixelated  portrait showing a woman with a mohawk walking in an alley.

Other prefixes that work in testing with varying degrees of impact (Make them up- you are honing in on specific parts of Flux’s “brain” and things nearby that weren’t trained are enhanced!): Technos, brawler, chibi, beat-em-up brawler, etc.

Scanline Overlay

Simply add with scanlines and you are good to go.

Older pixel sprite-based games were designed for CRT monitors with scanlines, slot mask filters, etc. As such, when developers programmed games, these are factored into sprite design and color palettes. As such, pixel art and old videogames can look weird on HD TVs, especially mushy faces and blotchy looking spots. This LoRA fully exposes this. If your results are a mushy mess, it is b/c this is old pixel art. Use scanlines!

Main training tag (optional)

r1v3rc1t4y

Get it? “River City “(“Citay” so I could make the term a little weirder in l33t).

Can increase prompt accuracy for busier images, and sometimes helps with steerable character sprites (see below), but may cause the main styles to bleed a little but not too much. Sometimes makes the LoRA work better at lower strength.

Supporting Tags

See sample images for specifics, but these terms at various places are all helpful in “steering” the style.

Generally helpful: pixel art, pixelated, screenshot, videogame, digital illustration, pixelized, wrestling, beat 'em up

These sorts of terms steer outputs toward 1980s console/arcade generations: 8-bit, flat, minimalist, simple, limited color palette, blocky, etc.

These sorts of terms steer outputs toward 1990s console/arcade generations: textured, 16-bit, pixel-shaded/shading, highly detailed, Sega Genesis, Double Dragon style, etc.

“Steerable” Character Sprites

In chibi prompts

Kunio (Nekketsu)/Alex (River City)- Kunio

Supporting terms to coax him out: in white, in white and red, with black hair, -Kun

Riki (Nekketsu)/Ryan (River City)- Riki

Supporting terms to coax him out: with blue hair, in blue, in a blue suit, blue and white.

In some prompts using brawler style, it will make Renegade Kunio, speaking of…

In brawler prompts

Kunio- mister white coat and white pants

Riki- mister blue coat and blue pants

US Renegade guy- mister black vest and brown pants

Supporting terms for these three- black hair, brown hair, red hair, blue hair, etc. martial artist/martial arts white coat and white pants can help too. Also, karate.

Billy/Jimmy Lee from Double Dragon (fickle)- Billy-Lee in blue

Can change colors but blue works best. Red for Jimmy. Responds to hair color

Ripped WWF Superstars Andre the Giant (fickle)- Andre the Giant in a black one-shoulder wrestling singlet