YMMV / Burning Rival

• Narm: In the original release, the final part of a character's ending has a fully colored image of where that character is now and how they're doing, akin to what Super Street Fighter II Turbo would later do for its character endings. The "English" version of the game plasterers already broken English text over them instead of in the previous monochrome and black scenes where the original Japanese text was.
• Obvious Beta: While clearly playable, the game is severely unpolished. Some examples include the character select and versus screens, and the end credits looking very unorganized and unfinished and many of the fonts look bulky, ill-fitting and ugly. This isn't even including the botched translation of the English version. Jackson's KO voice clip is also mixed with his normal hit voice clip unless his KO is a slamming grab.
  • In terms of gameplay, a lot of the mechanics are bugged. An example is characters having a tendency to make their opponents swiftly fly on the other side playfield, sometimes either off camera or out of bounds, only pop right back on camera.
  • Whenever you enter a Mirror Match, which is usually the semi-final opponent, the game switches over the opponent's colors for the remainder of the game. When you start the game, your upcoming opponent will always be revealed, and if you choose your character's first battle to be a mirror match, this makes all of the remaining opponents use their mirror match colors throughout the game, including Shingen who is fought twice no matter who you play as. He appears once as a normal fighter and the next time as the Final Boss, sometimes leading to an immediate rematch or a Book Ends scenario. The final boss version of him is nothing more than his alternate mirror match color with presumably a slightly higher difficulty, meaning that there's a chance (guaranteed when playing as him) that he will appear with this palette twice.
  • Even worse is when the game is played through emulators like MAME, as most of them can't run the game properly and can potentially create even more bugs that make you wonder if they are supposed to be a part of the game or not. Here's a properly-running version and a flawed emulation of the game for reference.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Longtime Sega employees Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (aka the "voice" of Sega) and Toshihiro Nagoshi (producer of the Super Monkey Ball and Yakuza series) respectively voiced Bill and Jackson.
  • Greg Irwin, the voice of Santana, would become much well-known as the announcer for Street Fighter Alpha 3.