Trying to Reduce Load-time...

[Captain Commando]

I'm using Necro_RK's "Neon" Screenpack in Mugen 1.0, and I noticed that it takes a long time to load. Then I took a look at the status log file discovered the issue; my Mugen was trying to load all of the empty character slots as if they were actual characters, like so:

Error reading character file: chars/-----BLANK-----/-----BLANK-----.def

Now, my question is, is there any way to write an empty slot so that Mugen recognizes it as that and doesn't try to load it as a character? I'm sure that would reduce my initial load-time by a ton.

[C.R.O.M. - Shadaloo Lives!]

Just type "blank" or "empty" that's what I do.

[Captain Commando]

Just type "blank" or "empty" that's what I do.

It's not working. I tried both "blank" and "empty", and Mugen still tries to load them as characters.
It might've worked if I was using Winmugen, but I'm using Mugen 1.0. Looks like I might have to just live with it.

Thanks anyway, though.

[C.R.O.M. - Shadaloo Lives!]

I could have sworn it worked with 1.0 too.

[Acey]

I could have sworn it worked with 1.0 too.

It works, mugen still works but he's having problem with load time, not broken stuff.

SO did you know that when you type in "blank" mugen actually looks for a character called blank and since it doesn't find one 'it leaves the slot empty, that's what he's trying to find a solution to.

I don't know of one but I also never heard of blank names causing load time to jump up. Maybe there is a different reason, so...

1) What type of computer are you running (memory, processor, etc...)
2) Are you just waiting at a black screen or a mugen load screen?

[C.R.O.M. - Shadaloo Lives!]

Oh, no I knew that, I just read his question wrong.