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Mugen FAQ by SSJ Hibiki

Alright, first up is the FAQ. I'll put the most common questions here, and any others that come up will be answered and added to this post.

Q: What is MUGEN?
A: It's a customizable fighting game. Anything and everything (well, maybe not 3D characters, not done good anyway...) you could ever want to make for a fighting game can be done with some time, effort, photoshop skills, and sprite editing/ripping skills.

Q: Where can I get characters, stages and addons?
A. Go to www.mgbr.net Yes, it's in Portuguese, but you'll get by. The vast majority of the good MUGEN creators are hosted there, including Reu's Evil Ken and Ryu, 2 of the most popular and well-done MUGEN characters ever. Also, Josh-TheFunkDOC found AOAO's site, and a really good link page, almost as good as Oolong's site. 
AOAO: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown...5831/index.html
Link Site: http://shinmugen.planetemu.net/lcreateurs.htm

Q: How do I get the game?
A: Elecbyte doesn't support or give out the DOS version anymore, so you'll have to head to MGBR again. It's under Downloads, so just click on that and then click on MUGEN 2001.4.14 from there.

Q: How do I add characters/stages/addons?
A: I'm not even going to bother trying to explain this the manual way, as there are tons of places where you can mess up. Instead, go to MGBR again (hey, it's the best MUGEN site now that Mugen4Ever has been dead for over 2 years now), find "ByteZero's site" on the sidebar, and download Mugen Windows Configurator. Be sure to get the english .ini too. It should be pretty self-explanitory from there. Just point MWC to your mugen.exe and you're set!

Q: I can't figure out how to get MWC working!
A: Bang your head on the wall a couple of times and see if that helps. If you can't get MWC working, you probably could use some.

Q: How do I make chars/stages/addons?
A: This is the question I can't answer. But, some searching on Google should bring up some tutorials to get you started at least.

Q: Why won't this work on Windows XP?
A: Since this is the DOS version, and since XP pretty much got rid of what little DOS program compatibility was in 98, you're going to just have to mess around with the game and hope for the best. If you do get the game working and it asks you if you want to put the game in a little window on the screen because it can't do it in the normal resolution, go into the data folder of the game, look for mugen.cfg, make it open in Notepad when prompted, and scroll down until you see a resolution section. Change "stretch" so it reads "stretch=1". This should make the game fullscreen but beware, this can sometimes make the game run slow, especially with characters that take up lots of RAM like Sol and Evil Ken/Ryu.

Q: Why do my aircombos start whiffing no matter what I do?
A: This is called "jugglecheck". The creators of the characters use this feature to make sure you don't just launch your opponent until they die, as well as stopping you from using anti-air moves over and over. If you want to cheat or just want to be able to do some crazy combos, open your character's .def file in Notepad, and change the jugglecheck section to "jugglecheck=99999999". That gives you exactly 99,999,999 hits before your moves start whiffing.

Q: I am looking for (insert character/stage/addon name here). Can you give it to me?
A: You may remember my old thread, and that I gave out characters over AIM and e-mail. Unfortunately, around the SRK crash, my hard drive crashed, so all 450 characters and 200+ stages are gone forever. But, I did manage to salvage a few from my Geoshitties 15 minute site. A few rare characters like Mario from Super Mario World and Strider Hiryu are there, along with a few others. Like I said, I did the site in 15 minutes (including uploads), so some of the links are broken. A search on Google will most likely help you find what you want, along with the Mugen Fighter's Guild at http://mugenguild.cjb.net .

Q: How the hell do I make my gamepad work?
A: Go to Options, Gamepad, and set it to Auto. Then go to where it lets you map the buttons, and press them in this order... (This FAQ assumes you have a Gravis Gamepad Pro. If you don't have one, just get one, ok? ) Up, Down, Left, Right, X, Circle, R1, Square, Triangle, L1. If you don't understand that, then press the buttons by color: Up, Down, Left, Right, Yellow, Green, second Purple Button, Red, Blue, first Purple button.

Q: What are some good characters for me to download, and where to I get them?
A: Here are 10 of my personal favorites...
Chipp from GG1 by Luvly Angel- MGBR
Baiken from GG1 by Luvly Angel- MGBR
Randy M. Green from Guardian Heroes by Splode- mrev.infara.net
Magneto by Sunboy- mrev.infara.net
Storm by Sunboy- mrev.infara.net
Sol by AOAO- Search on Google
Evil Ryu by MystikBlaze- MGBR
Mech Akuma by MystikBlaze- MGBR
Thanos by Splode and Clown Prince of Crime- Search on Google
Cody by GouSan- ma.mgbr.net

That should be enough to entertain you for a while at least. Most of the authors that I listed made many more characters of the same or close to the same quality, so check them out.

Q: Who is top tier in this game?
A: Umm, best character in the game is Psycho Shredder by far. He rules the MUGEN world with an iron fist. Why? I guess I'll have to make a list...

-Permanent Hyper armor (can't be put in hitstun)
-Super defense (each hit you do to him does 1 damage and he has 999 life)
-One button infinites (self-explanitory, just bang on the buttons and you'll get a 100+ hit combo and a double perfect)
-Super speed (think Red Venom on crack, he can walk from one end of the screen to the other in like half a second)
-Here's the big one.... YOUR OPPONENT GETS HURT WHEN THEY HIT YOU WHILE YOU'RE BLOCKING!

Honorable Mention goes to Mario from Super Mario World. He's got an easy auto-infinite (yes, an AUTO infinite), as well as the trademark 8 pixel height. To do the infinite, just get next to your opponent's legs and press qcf+mk. This will make Mario kick out a blue shell, that normally hits once and fades away. But, since you are right next to your opponent, the shell bounces back and forth between their hitboxes until they die! To kill them even faster, kick even more shells into them! The max is 20 IIRC.

Q: Are there any RPG, DBZ, MK, Metal Slug, and Rival Schools characters?
A: Yes, there are plenty of RPG characters, including CT ones. However, they are horribly unbalanced, since they are about 8 pixels tall. Even though most of them lack combos in any way, shape, or form, their small size makes it near impossible to hit them outside of crouching kicks and sweeps. Same goes for Metal Slug characters. I had this one Marle with cool spells though.

Stay away from DBZ characters. Here's a guideline for 99.99999% of them:
Move 1: Punch
Move 2: Kick
Move 3: Fly
Move 4: Beam
Move 5: Super Beam

There are only 2 good DBZ chars I know of, and they are Vegeta by Sunboy, and SSJ Goku by Ribiero. Vegeta can be found at mrev.infara.net and Goku can be found at MGBR.

Q: I've seen an evil Ken in some avatars here. Where is he from?
A: Evil Ken was created by Reu and Kingtigre about 2 years ago. He started off as your typical "Evil" version of a character, but evolved into one of the greatest sprite edits and MUGEN characters ever! Great special effects, a Vs. style combo system with some new goodies like CCs, super versions of your normal supers, super cancelling, and even super to super cancelling! He is also known for his crazy boss AI, which has gained a reputation for being hard to beat but also not cheap at the same time. He can be found at the Mugen Institute at www.mgbr.net .

Q: Why are there so few new character releases, with most of the new ones being different versions of characters already converted?
A: I guess this is kind of the Dark Age of MUGEN. The game was really slowing down about 2 years ago, but picked up after the CPS2 games and new NeoGeo games were dumped and available for emulation, but now, every single character from the versus games except for the new ones in MVC2 (too hard to rip, only Cable is available, and he was ripped from MPEGs of the game) and numerous versions of the KOF characters have been released, leaving the creators with not much to do except make perfect conversions of characters from their original game/s to MUGEN, completely original characters like Elque, and sprite edits like Insane Hiryu and Evil Ken. However, things are slowly heating up again now that CVS Pro has been released for PS1, and the char creators are now doing conversions for them. Also, the imminent dumping of KOF2k2 and Rage of the Dragons will provide them with lots of fresh meat, so it may be a little dry now, but in a few months it'll be really good again.

That's all for the FAQ for now. Coming later, tiers and combos.

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