Mon 18 Feb 2008
Yesterday, my brother re-introduced me to the wonderful world of MUGEN. I’ve seen some youtube MUGEN matchups before and did a little research to find out what it is, but I had never taken the time to actually download and try making my own fighting game.
You see, M.U.G.E.N is a freeware 2D fighting game engine that emulates Capcom’s Street Fighter and allows the creation and integration of customer characters, stages, game modes etc… Ever fancied pitting Peter Griffin against Homer Simpson? Or Spider-man vs Superman? Or Wolverine vs Batman? How about Mario vs Sonic? Ok, with the exception of the last one, no video game has ever allowed you to do the other match-ups before!
So I downloaded the software, dabbled with it, downloaded thousands (yes, thousands) of characters, and made my own version of MUGEN. Sure, it’ isn’t where I want it to be, but it’s a start! It might take me YEARS to get most of my favorite characters and stages in there but the creation of this game really is half the fun! I’m simply in love with MUGEN and am looking into getting TV-output for my computer and 2 PC Gamepads just so I can see it on my big screen and play it when people come over.
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March 18th, 2008 at 12:37 am
It isn’t freeware, it’s abandon ware – technically it isn’t even legal to distribute it anymore (although it seems that nobody really cares)
March 18th, 2008 at 6:09 am
You’re actually right. I looked it up again and it IS abandon ware. Man, I had just assumed it was freeware. My bad!
December 30th, 2008 at 4:23 am
it was freeware and open source before it was abandoned.
May 10th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Mugen is awesome- but it is such a pain- many characters dont work properly- and it seems like it would take forever to master how to create a custom made version of mugen (ive been downloading other peoples completed mugen games then tweaking which characters to put in etc)
But the posative is that Mugen is an awesoem achievment and is alot of fun to play.
P.S there is also a hi res version of mugen available called ‘Mugen Plus’ but standrad definition characters look bad when put in there.