The screenpack that I am using and will use for this instructable is IMT (Blue) by user Acey. The characters and stages are their own separate files, so we will get to those later. All the menus, the character select and more. A screenpack is MUGEN term for the whole system. This boring screenpack will not do for us. Very bland, gray and has two characters with 12 slots for more characters. This is the basic MUGEN that most people start out with. Once you download it, unzip it using whatever program you wish, I use 7Zip. “Under this license, permission is granted to use the M.U.G.E.N Environment free of charge for non-commercial purposes… Elecbyte provides a M.U.G.E.N redistributable package, containing a minimal M.U.G.E.N Environment, that may be included with third party content for redistribution.”įirst step is to download MUGEN. These full games are available at a variety of quality levels and are released under the general M.U.G.E.N. authors will often collaborate to produce a full game using the engine. Each person is encouraged to download their own copy of the game engine and to create or add content to match their personal preference. Many websites exist to showcase and disperse the developed content and forms what is often referred to as the “Mugen Community”.ĭue to the customizable nature of the game engine, no two versions of M.U.G.E.N. Many authors will also create original content.

Often authors will port popular characters from 2D fighting engines such as the Street Fighter series, or create characters from scratch based on TV and book series such as The Simpsons and Sailor Moon.

These authors create customized content such as characters, stages and screen packs/skins. Users who develop content for the game engine are commonly referred to as authors. The latest versions of the engine now use the SDL library. It is written in C and originally used the Allegro library. Content is created by the community, and thousands of fighters, both original and from popular fiction, have been created. M.U.G.E.N (also known simply as MUGEN) is a freeware 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte.

Mugen sailor moon stage