Features missing in Mugen

[Jelux Da Casual]

You know what I JUST realized are an option? Scanlines.

That's subconsciously been bugging me in the back of my mind for YEARS, but I haven't been able to reach that conclusion until now.

That's what made arcades look great back in the day, the designers played the strength of scanlines. A prime example of that is Metal Slug. Metal's slugs sprites with scanlines look really rough.

Wait, DOES mugen have an options for scanlines and I've just never known about it?!

[mulambo]

Connect your PC to an old television, and you got your scanlines. 
or you can try Retroarch (didn't tried it myself) https://www.retroarch.com/ and see if that CRT shader is true (or just google "crt shader" on google, if that helps)

Anyway, I think MUGEN has a lot more stuffs to include:
- platforms.
- beat'em'up mode
- videos (not just frame-by-frame intros)
- a proper, not hacked, tag system
- customizable story mode (or "arcade order") for each char
- 3d backgrounds (so some people won't waste their brain into tweaking the impossible)
- a decent pause mode, with editable command list
- the g*ddamn Alt+Enter button enabled
- graphic settings into options, not in mugen.cfg (or a GUI configurator)
- open source (so anything of the above will be achieved)
- a more secure system that doesn't allow smart people to break other people's pc's through their chars
- a character/stage encription so all those flamewars between communities will end
- 16 million colors stages / effects (I'm not saying chars because 256 colors are enough, I guess, for 2d)

and I would go on... but I would also prefer Elecbyte to officially announce they're NEVER going back to updating MUGEN... so at least some saints will start reverse-engineering it to provide an open-source version, but I know I'm dreaming. Either Elecbyte is scared of updating or they enjoy their users drowning in the current situation.