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Hey everyone! That specific version of KOFZ featuring the lifebar with KOF 2000-style portraits was successfully found by my friend Rawk Klark! It doesn't include the full roster, but it's definitely a solid start.     DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.mediafire.com/file/2pa9ldgnfv002ld/KOFZ_MK1_Ver_B.rar/file   I took advantage of the situation to dig through the Wayback Machine links for Mugen China and downloaded everything that was still available. After piecing together a timeline, here is what I gathered: the version I found previously was released back in 2005, while this alternative lifebar version was an update rolled out during 2006.    The thing is that KOFZ was updated in parts rather than the whole game at once. For example, if there was an improvement for the SP or a specific character, you would just download it from their forum and replace the old file in your game folder, which unfortunately makes it the perfect recipe to become lost media years later, exactly how it ended up happening.   https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mugenchina.org/kofz/* https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bbs.mugenchina.net/kofz/*     Starting in January 2007, the MK2 version (the one showcased below) became the new standard release of the game, featuring completely redesigned menus and lifebars. That means all characters dated December 2006 and earlier belong to the 2005 and 2006 builds.   Based on combo videos I've watched on YouTube, this 2006 iteration features quite a few more characters that appear compatible with the 2006 SP (such as Alfred and Kula). Because of this, my deduction is that the 20-part split archive of KOFZ found on the Wayback Machine (which is currently missing multiple parts) is actually this larger-roster 2006 combo-video version.    If you happen to have another 2006 version with a larger character roster than the one shown at the top of the post, please let me know! Let's unearth this lost media from the MUGEN community.    

Figured I should put this somewhere because I think it's a neat trick and really helpful, although it does require knowledge of hex editing.   Don't you hate it that MUGEN caps the combo counter at 999? Well, Japanese MUGEN users have found a way around that (although it requires hex-editing). All you have to do is edit a few bytes of your MUGEN's exe file (but make sure you do it right and save a copy of the original first because crashes and malfunctions can happen if mistakes are made).   The bytes that have to be edited are different between MUGEN versions, so make sure you know what version you have. If your MUGEN version isn't listed below, then this will not work for you unless you are able to find the bytes manually.   These are the ones currently known so far:       To use this, find the line in your mugen executable that matches the value to the left of the colon. Then locate the bytes on said line that match the set on the left side of the arrow. Change the specified bytes to match the set on the right side of the arrow.   This is used often in god tournaments for Winmugen.   Thanks and credits go to bluesura (https://bluesura.github.io/MUGEN/document/Lifebar/) for the information and Shade for sharing the 1.1b1 bytes.

Hello, everyone. I just wanted to provide an overview for features in archive.org that I found useful and didn't think was common knowledge. My favorite trick is being able to view every page under a specific prefix. Instead of using the sitemap which I personally find rather painful or trying to haphazardly navigate through the website archive itself, you can put an asterisk on the front and end of the URL you want to search for. The first asterisk needs to sandwiched between two forward-slashes. Note that this function is limited up to 10,000 results. For example, here's the link for the list of every archived page of the author Nobuyuki's old website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://getterth.hp.infoseek.co.jp:80/mugen* I do want to mention that, unfortunately, Web Archive does not prioritize download links due to the sheer size associated with preserving every file uploaded to the internet. This means that, while amazing things can be and have been found on Archive.org, there's a lot of luck involved. Furthermore, there's a more advanced function to archive.org: The Wayback CDX Server. https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/wayback-cdx-server  This is basically what I described above but turned to the extreme. Among other things, this allows you to call for a page that lists archived URLs under many specific conditions. I recommend learning regex to get the best use of its filter function. https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=*.big.freett.com&fl=original&collapse=urlkey&filter=statuscode:200&filter=original:.*\.(zip|rar)$ Here URL crawls every zip and rar file uploaded to the old site "big.freett" (a Japanese hosting site). I'll dissect it a little bit: - With url=, asterisks can be used to denote prefix or suffix (prefix, domain, etc. can be specified explicitly with matchType as well). - fl= is Field Order. Determines if you get additional info like time archived and whatnot. - collapse=urlkey does what you probably think. Instead of getting this massive line of information, this narrows it down to just the link you want. - filter=statuscode:200 is an important filter that should hopefully mean you only get working links and not some redirect. - filter= is where you can add all the various regex and name conditions. All this does in my link above is look for URLs ending in zip or rar. This can bypass the 10,000 results search limit, but a browser can still only handle a certain extent. The "pages" feature can be used to help with that, but that still can't capture the full scope of truly enormous domains. I hope this comes in handy to fellow preservationists and anyone interested in the endeavor.