Apparently Patriot is an original char (edited from chars from SFA series) according to one person, and it seems like it was released in 2004, then converted with Dos2Win in 2008. I'm trying to find more information about this char to no avail. Can't find him in Most Mysterious's old site(s) too, or release thread. Whoever backed up didn't backup his sff files, so the original released 2004 Patriot is missing atm.
Post Update 3/23/2024:
I think I know where this char came from. This char came from an original full game called Cruel Fate made by Most Mysterious and Smogon. It was released in November, 2004 at studiosmh dot com aka Studios Mugen Hispania and hosted there. Then in 2005, the site got a complete makeover, and it is unknown if you could navigate to the download page for Cruel Fate in 2005. In late 2005, the site moved to Neomugen, and Neomugen did not carry over the chars, stages, full games, etc., so the time Cruel Fate stayed up is very short, maybe just a few months if in 2005 you couldn't download it. Then in 2006, Most Mysterious's HDD crashed, so he lost the full game files, except for sprites which he saved in his mailbox.
Download page for the full game Cruel Fate: https://web.archive.org/web/20041208021903/http://www.studiosmh.com/ind_con/download.php?id=6
File is: Cruel_Fate.rar
Description of game:
"As you can see there are 3 bars power bar , life bar and a new feature rage bar when you get hit the rage bar grows but when you are the one attacking or you are defending the rage bar gets lower when rage bar reaches maximum your character explodes with rage."
If you look at Patriot's cns file, you can see the:
";var(12) = rage mode
;var(13) = rage bar"
So Patriot was made for the full game. You can see fightfx.air and sff in the Patriot folder which originally belonged in the data folder of Cruel Fate.
I also found Smogon's site. It did not do better, and by late 2003 it was, "under construction" up to 2005 when it was shutdown and never completed.
Site: https://web.archive.org/web/20031016043958/http://smogon.fm.interia.pl/
Studiosmh linked a screenshot of the full game in 2004 hosted from Smogon's site, so the site probably wasn't completely down, but the full game was never archived in Smogon's site and it is unknown if Smogon ever uploaded it in his site. Mugen Hispania did not host the game either. Well, there you go, that's why this char Patriot is so rare and obscure, and barely anybody knew about it. As of now, the full game Cruel Fate and the original unedited Patriot is missing. I suspect how we got this Patriot ver. is that Electrocaid managed to download it, and somebody requested it from Electrocaid and reuploaded it somewhere. However, a YouTube user by the name of Theendgamelv3 managed to get a different ver. and make a youtube video of him in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkV3wF7UAa4 , so it is possible somebody else reuploaded Patriot somewhere, or possible the full game got reuploaded somewhere. It means Electrocaid wasn't the only person to download and save the full game, so someone else might have the full game and the original unedited Patriot char to this day.
Of all the reasons to hate that godawful website, you decide this is your time to rant about how they had the temerity to memorialize a person who killed himself after years of struggling with mental illness. Because you think he's "boring" and an "attention seeker" (which i'm sure he was, it kind of seemed like a feature of his illness) and because they didn't memorialize the people you personally liked. And then you compare him to a literal brick.
Literally what kind of disgusting sociopathic subhuman are you? I can't believe nobody else is bringing this up. Imagine shitting all over a mentally ill person who committed suicide and thinking you're in the right. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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