openMUGEN

openMUGEN - a free open source version of the famed (but dead) fighting engine known as M.U.G.E.N. has slowly but surely made some amazing progress. Its not ready for a portage yet.. but its somthing to keep in mind :) . It seems to be written in SDL and is much improved graphically over the origonal MUGEN. It seems to be able to use the old character formatts from the commercial MUGEN (at least with once character). Download the Demo and play around with it.

the source is located somewhere around here.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openmugen/

enjoy their site here.
http://openmugen.sourceforge.net/main_new.html

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Jul 11th 2005:
New Demo for linux and Windows out!!!
+Go and get the new demo with a lot of updates here a list
+Added TargetBind,TargetState, SelfState, Turn , TargetFacing controller
+Added IsBound Trigger
+Added Costume change states in hitdef controller
+Collision detection is now better
+Fixed Successive direction symbol reading and interpreting bug
+Added GuardHandling
+Added BindObject class for binding controllers
+Added Targets of the player
KFM can perform all his attacks now!!!!!!!!!!
Try his throw by getting near to his opponent and press F + y

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I don't understand, =| this is a good new, but the mugen can't go in the DREAMCAST, for problems of RAM. =| i think if DC had more RAM cuold made of all, patience. =|.

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Originally Posted by DARKGATE

I don't understand, =| this is a good new, but the mugen can't go in the DREAMCAST, for problems of RAM. =| i think if DC had more RAM cuold made of all, patience. =|.

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it has should be able to make it on the DC just fine. A dumbed down version might need to be created.. but the DC should have plenty of ram to support some build of this.

Mugen never made it to the dreamcast before because the source wasnt availible.. thats the only reason really.

The OpenMugen team released a video sep 18th.

It appears that all movement, special moves, etc are working for kfm. In the video the background isnt displayed nor is the health bar.. but it appears that player health is working.

dl the video here
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/o...t.avi?download

He is right about the ram thats why no one wants to complete the project. I forget what the amount is i think 6 and the Dreamcast has less then that.

the dc has 16mb of ram

N64:4 Megabytes (36 megabits) total RAM

info found at allgame.com

but, the n64 uses carts, and that has to be loaded into the dreamcast RAM as well!

To load two character animation sets with sounds and a background, I would think that 16 megs of ram would be enough. You know.. Capcom did it alot with streetfighter games.. why couldnt Mugen do it? and hell Capcom Vs Marvel 2 had about 50 characters and 3d models in its stages backgrounds.. So im pretty sure openMugen wouldnt take up too much RAM If someone ported it properly. I know its wrong to compare homebrew with a commercial release.. but I think that comparison is actually good.

Another movie which was released (yesterday) Nov 19th is between some KOF character and (my personal favorite x-men character) Gambit! It seems that the KOF character is screwed up, but it could just be a poorly made character. Also it seems that there are some transparancy issues. Anyways It looks as though open mugen is making great progress!

Check out the new movie here (56k beware!) 12 megs
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/o...m.avi?download