Problems making characters work?

[peterpunkass]

When I first got into mugen I had a bunch of characters that didn't seem to wanna work and it really made me boiling mad. But heres the thing for people beginning in mugen.

 

• When you download a character, do not just send it to your mugen chars folder. First, make sure you explore the folder and see if there is another folder with the same name as the one you just opened. If so, thats the folder you put in the chars folder.
• Test your mugen game after you encrypt the folder names into the select.def file in the data folder. if they are not showing up, try this trick. Make sure the folder, DEF file and the name in the DEF file are the same. 

Hopefully this trick works and is understandable. If it doesn't work then that character may not work all together or may not be compatible with the version you are using.

[Ryon]

Im sorry, I gotta move to this dicussions.

Its not really a tutorial.

 

I've got this mostly covered in "select.def" topic.

[NotAGoodName]

Umm...yeah.  Testing characters is a pretty fundamental component to installing them.  I don't know about anyone else here, but my Mugen takes like 5 minutes to start.  I test every character long before they even go in my select.def.

[GohanSSM2]

Same here, I just expand it bit by bit and test along the way. Nothing worse than 500 characters that work amd ONE character that crashes the whole thing while in demo mode. You leave it on as a screen saver and come back to NO SCREEN SAVER RUNNING. Also double check stages too for the same reason.

[Neo_Fire_Sonic]

this is why i have multiple mugens.

[柊 明]

I convert the characters, or I change something in the cns file/s. I haven't seen many characters that doesn't work in my M.U.G.E.N, anyway.

[Werewood]

Some times I have to rename some files with un-read-able file names because of invalid system locale....

 

For example: ｯ}ｨｾ-S.cns

[柊 明]

Some times I have to rename some files with un-read-able file names because of invalid system locale....

 

For example: ｯ}ｨｾ-S.cns

Not only that. Sometimes there are Unicode characters in the files.

[Mister Fael]

Some times I have to rename some files with un-read-able file names because of invalid system locale....

 

For example: ｯ}ｨｾ-S.cns

I do that sometimes as well, though i haven't had problems with unicode before.

[柊 明]

I do that sometimes as well, though i haven't had problems with unicode before.

But there are computers that can't read Unicode characters.