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Look I drink ...
... and from time to time this makes me a little late on trends in the world. M.U.G.E.N. is something that I have totally missed the bus on ... by eight full years. No, I am not talking about Honda's tuning division, I am talking about the game engine. Wikipedia describes it as such:
"M.U.G.E.N is a free 2D fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C with the Allegro library. The engine allows for anyone to create characters, background stages and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilation."
Now, I may not have any idea what that means, but I want it bad. A special thanks goes out to JudgeSpear for giving us great video footage. Be sure to check out our previous coverage and find out just how dumb and out of the loop I am. Here, here, and here, over here, and man do I feel dumb.

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joepekula's Avatar
joepekula at 04/27/2007 14:53
Why does chugging the DUFF take away Homer's life?
heroclixer87's Avatar
heroclixer87 at 04/27/2007 14:59
I would pay for a game like that. The quagmire jumping out and defiling homer was genius.
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar
Hamza CTZ Aziz at 04/27/2007 14:59
Family FTW
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Hamza CTZ Aziz at 04/27/2007 15:00
Family *Guy*, damn it.
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free touch at 04/27/2007 15:01
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free touch at 04/27/2007 15:02
I used to be into mugen. Hell, there's a metric-eff ton of characters to pick from, its completely customizable, blah blah blah. The problem I had is it just seems to stop working everyonce and a while.
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ShinAmano at 04/27/2007 15:03
Awesome...I would buy it...they just need to work on the backgrounds as that one did not fit at all.
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velcroman at 04/27/2007 15:03
MUGEN is how i found Dtoid last summer. I was just wondering if more stuff cool stuff being made for it.
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Toneman at 04/27/2007 15:06
My friend made a MUGEN game. If anyone wants to snag it, click here and then here. It's about 550 megs because we're dumb and don't know how to shrink it. Just extract all those files into a folder and run winmugen.exe. Oh, and we put our voices into it. You can play as me!
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DoctorEuphony at 04/27/2007 15:06
fucking amazing.
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galagabug at 04/27/2007 15:09
MUGEN is like crack. i think my character list is up to about 800, which makes selection really really difficult.

if you're interested in getting started, check out mugen infantry.

then say goodbye to your loved ones.
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kawaiizilla at 04/27/2007 15:26
You know you're old school when... you saw the MUGEN article Niero posted waaay back in Dtoid history (pre-Summa and pre-Faith Naked times).

Still.. MUGEN RAWKZ!111
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RskimB at 04/27/2007 15:54
i havent played MUGEN since like 8th grade
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 04/27/2007 16:18
Wow, I remember vaguely from way back, but never tried it out. I should probably correct that.
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Cheesyhoboe at 04/27/2007 16:55
MUGEN is fun when you're adding characters to your roster, but once you actually play the game after the whole 'OMG IS THAT RYU VS KEN VS SOL BAD GUY VS GOKU VS PIKACHU VS GREEN POWER RANGER' stage you realize that it's not actually that fun to play due to imbalances in the game.
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fearian at 04/27/2007 18:08
freakin awesome. brilliant video. would never play it though, I just dont get fighting games...
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tim at 04/27/2007 18:48
I liked the Quagmire thing but Homer should've won.
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Necros at 04/27/2007 19:36
That chicken fight in the last five seconds made the whole thing worth it. Totally not expecting that.
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Paul Soth at 04/27/2007 21:50
Needs more Yaranaika:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g_jcW3QTbPQ
trunxkam45's Avatar
trunxkam45 at 04/28/2007 01:19
Needs more shingo.
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar
s0lesurviv0r at 04/28/2007 01:22
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Gamechamp at 04/28/2007 01:34
I got real interested a while back, but I wanted to start from scratch and work my way up adding characters and stuff with just a basic little set.

Thing is, the moron who made the basic little set didn't include any instructions to anything other than adding characters, so the game screen is about about 1 inch big.

I really need to figure out how to get it full screen.
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Kif at 04/28/2007 14:08
I remember MUGEN on Dtoid. I think it was the M Bison run on Super Mario world 1-1. God that was a long time ago.
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Venomex at 04/29/2007 12:04
was it just me, or did Peter have only 3 moves.
michiyoyoshiku's Avatar
michiyoyoshiku at 04/29/2007 12:18
The Mugen community are the biggest assholes on the internet.

VERY selfish people I hate them with a passion
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Confused_soul at 07/15/2007 07:11
Where the hell is the button that says download?
Fading Star's Avatar
Fading Star at 02/09/2008 09:59
Awesome.
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 03/12/2008 16:27
somebody should make a MR DESTRUCTOID fighter

and tell me where to download him
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