Gene Worm

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.

Me and some others have been looking for this character called Metal Rugal, allegedly made by Fe according to a blog article it appeared in. It is for sure not an edit of Crazy Rugal. If anyone has a link to this character, it would be greatly appreciated. This is the only video I could find it in:

I'm looking for this old character from circa 2009. I know it's rather an odd thing, but it's very old and I would appreciate having it. It was originally hosted here, however, the archives were captured after the domain was taken down: https://web.archive.org/web/20110408204710/www.freewebs.com/monkey-mugen/The Throwinatr.rar

Hello! I guess this will be the first question to go here now, so I hope it's done right. Anyways, I would like to know if anyone has or could obtain the "B" and "C" voice sets for Faust from Guilty Gear XX#Reload for me? I would really like to use them for Muteki's Faust (he only has the "A" voice set) and I only managed to find the Accent Core and Xrd voice lines. I'd like for them to be of the same or similar volume and quality as the ones used for Muteki's. Any help would be appreciated!

Aw man, this kind of thread is right up my alley. My intention is to be informative, so hopefully this isn't considered "bashing". Pico by Oohwap/Christopher Moore: It's mostly about three or four still images that have crazy collisions and the attacks can instant K.O. There's different versions of the character, including one with a Hadouken, but sadly, the only one that's still online is the one with an opaque background. Sonso (as well as its variations: Sonso Big, Sonso Invisible, and Cojudin) by Smoke: This is a slightly well-remembered classic from back in the old days. It's a very bizarre Kung Fu Man edit made with random scribbled drawings and some very low quality voice clips. It also sports an OHKO special attack. Lol Wut by Cadavelico: It's an old KFM edit with random sounds taken from TN's Rare Akuma soundpack, and is based off of that old meme taken from "The Biting Pear of Salamanca". It frequently bugs out in battle, often clipping through the floor or getting stuck during an attack. It makes for a very interesting novelty character. WIP Diddy by Ravenboy9 (wish I had the thing): Sadly, it's currently offline still, but it's one of the most bizarre edits of Omega Tiger Woods that I have ever seen (it's also not a work-in-progress and has no relation to Diddy Kong). It's a little MS Paint robot thing with random sounds taken from other characters, and along with some oddly changed attacks, can clone itself which was apparently completely intended despite usually being a sign of flawed programming. Anything by Actarus: He's mostly known for his lovely Peter and Bender characters which have broken palettes, overpowered stats, etc., but he has a bunch of other magnificent wonders, most without the palette issues, but still with most of the other problems. Anything by GM/Denmou: This is the author responsible for characters like Eraser, Moon Face, Black Pet, etc. The majority of his characters are crazy Kung Fu Man edits, such as MEKA KFM that runs back and forth at mach speed, and Devil KFM which clones itself. His creations are actually pretty fun to mess around with if you are into those types of characters. Anything by D10D10D10: His characters are absolutely insane, and to be honest, I personally find them to be pretty amusing. His characters mainly include different forms of Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin (e.g. Walrus Homer, Beaver Homer, Barfing Peter, Diaper Peter, etc.) and they all have incredibly overpowered stats which make them as ridiculous and annoying to fight as possible. One of his characters "Cosmic World" is literally just a still image of space that has a massive number of HP (it actually can attack though, so it isn't a punching bag). Biscuit by SuperJoshua19: This one's kind of an oddball, and is only good if you like insanely cheap characters (God Adon and Nightmare Broly-level cheap). It's a few crudely cropped images of a drawn dog (not sure if it's supposed to be from something) that can defeat some enemies in an instant hit and can pull off some crazy strong hypers. Don't mess with Biscuit. Hack Jack by Servious: A lot of people seem to know this character somehow, but I'm personally not too sure of its history. It's a Kung Fu Man edit with an odd-looking drawn.... pigeon head? I'm honestly not sure what it's supposed to be, and it also turns into random drawn phrases, and I think sometimes stick figures in some of its sprites. Very similar to Sonso, but not quite as popular. Samson by Cloudius: A strange MS Paint animal with a triangle face that's also an edit of KFM. Its attacks consist of biting, farting, or turning into KFM himself due to unchanged sprites. The author isn't really known for creations like this, and it isn't hosted on the site he hosts his characters on, so I'm guessing it's a first creation of sorts. I only found it from an ancient mega-pack from Arcadboy (same with HJ, Sonso, Lol Wut, and plenty of others) Retarded Luigi and Retarded Wario by idiot: These were the first of their kind, and although most people hate them, I find them to be interesting novelty characters (the first versions, anyway). For those who don't know, they're spriteswaps of different characters that use a broken palette and an abundance of sprites and sounds taken from other characters. The author made a bunch of updates to these as well as a bunch of other "Retarded" characters, but to me, they aren't the same. Other people, such as Pgrs111MAGEN hopped on the train with those sorts of edits and essentially sucked them dry, which is when it started to get old.

Has anyone heard of a character called "Tah Ryoo"? I don't know remember who the author is (it might have been nesmario123, but I'm not sure), but it was in a now deleted video that was made somewhere around 2011. It was basically a palette swap of IronTube's "Teh Ryu" (which was an edit of HeartlessMushroom's Bob character) that mainly replaced the white with a teal-like color. I'm not sure if there were any audio differences in the character or not, because I don't think the video he was in was very high in quality. So yeah, has anyone heard of this or is it just another lost and unheard of obscurity?

Hello, everyone! I am obviously new to this site, however, I have been playing with the MUGEN engine since around 2008 and have recently taken interest in this community. Personally, I'm not hugely interesting; I like B-rated monster movies, and collect old amateur MUGEN characters for some reason. That's really about it. But anyways, I hope I can be at least somewhat of service to this seemingly civil and charming community. I wish a good day to you all, and a belated happy new year!