For eight (probably has been eight. Might be more. I don't remember.) years I've had this shitheap on my storage. I've recently upgraded my maintained 8mugen collection to IKEMEN, and I've thrown a shitload of characters into it over the years. Most, if not all, of the original 8mugen collection is still there. (Second pic is the original screenpack pic to jog your memory.) It's fifteen gigabytes and about 479 characters big. This means sharing it will be a difficulty. Only would be worth it if there's interest or any anons around who actually remember this shit. I changed the skin because there was no Ikemen compatible version. Picrel is a bit outdated as some characters that have black slots are bugged and needed fixing. Has a bunch of hidden/ai characters. Latter is completely or mostly unplayable (for humans.) Former is compressed into other characters. (gotta use the 'd' and 'w' keybinds set in the options menu on certain characters to access them. Like Goku. Neat Ikemen feature.) Also, IKEMEN/Mugen thread I guess. Quick FAQ <OP Install specific >Is [Character] in your install? I dunno. Flip a coin. It's 479 characters. There's 21 slots left so there is space for more. But it's already fucking 15 gigabytes. Technically infinite AI-only slots and multi-character slots. But they're all bound to one character. So Saber has Saber and Saber Alter bound to her, for instance. >Why the fuck is [Character] and not [Character] in your install?! If it's a matter of taste, I don't give a shit. If you want to include a certain roster, feel free. If lots of additions are made I'll upgrade the screen to 704 characters. If certain characters are shittier than others, suggest/add the better versions to replace the old ones. >Does everything work? Good question. Most characters, yes. Most stages, yes. There are numerous characters with small bugs that require text file changes to fix. I'm not even aware of them all. >Why share this if you don't have a link for it? Fifteen gigabytes. My upload speed is dogshit so I'm not going to upload it if no anons give a shit. It will take all day for me to upload. >Why now? With this burst of activity, maybe someone will remember and will want to continue. >Could we shit out our own Saltybet? If I remember correctly, this was originally an attempt at doing so. >Multiplayer? Yes. Gotta use the same version of the game. I'm not privy to the details, but the same characters/stages are likely what needs to match. For update purposes I have a file structure going on inside the chars directory, separating up characters. No real rhyme or reason to this- but typically it terminates at 2.5 gigs or >50 characters. Whichever comes first. <General >What is MUGEN? MUGEN is a freeware proprietary 2d fighting game engine developed by Elecbyte. The engine is written in C and uses the SDL Library, and stages, characters, screenpacks, life bars, and even engine modifications have been made by the community. Although full games have been made in MUGEN, the engine has been widely used to make one's dream fighting game roster and make cartoons fight anime and shit like that. Most "recent" version is 1.1b. http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/download-mugen-latest-release-1-1-official-release-8613-105841.0.html If you've ever seen a shitty youtube clip of Peter Griffin beating the shit out of Mario in a fighting game setting, it was probably MUGEN. >What about online multiplayer? Although base MUGEN does not have online multiplayer, a fork of MUGEN called IKEMEN has implemented online multiplayer. (Both players have to have the same IKEMEN full game for online to work properly) >What is IKEMEN? IKEMEN is basically the same thing as MUGEN but built newer/open source. Use IKEMEN GO. It's a continuation of ol' Ikemen. >Cool, how do I set it up? There are thousands of guides on the internet on how to manually add characters, stages, and screenpacks (drag character folders into 'chars' folder, stage files into 'stages' folder ,screenpack files/folder into 'data' folder, etc.; then edit select.def), but if you want it to be done a bit easier, then use Vselect. >Does [Character] exist? Probably. Many, including most niche, anime characters are tiny sprite shitfests (called JUS for easy identification) because that's easy to draw. Gotta use your search engine skills for this one. >Links? Useful Links: http://pastebin.com/5D91040L IKEMEN GO: https://github.com/ikemen-engine/Ikemen-GO The original MUGEN site is gone. Gonna have to scour pages for it. Funnily enough the elecbyte documentation is still hosted. https://www.elecbyte.com/mugendocs/mugen.html Characters/Stages/etc: https://mugenfreeforall.com/ https://mugenarchive.com/ (AIDS alert. Site requires a login to download anything, and has daily bandwidth caps. Other drama exists but it's still unfortunately a rather extensive resource.)

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Old MUGEN Copypasta Pastebins: http://pastebin.com/JLv2TDsV http://pastebin.com/au1Hk9y3 http://pastebin.com/y4CNv02w I don't have a more recent version. Last time my copypasta txt was touched was ages ago.