Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!

[O Ilusionista]

Not even in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that I would reach this milestone: 25 years working with Mugen!

Unless I'm mistaken, today I'm the oldest programmer on the engine who is still active. Or at least among the 3 oldest, for sure.

I started in December 1999 (the engine was released in the middle of the same year), I saw many sites/forums/communities come and go - MugenBR, Pão de Mugen, MugenNow, TESTP, Charasoon, Oolong Mugen Bookmark... I miss old friends like Bea, Carnificina, Ex-Inferis, Juan Carlos (RIP) and some I still talk to today, like RyounWin... the list is huge and my memory is no longer the same

Wow, the first community I joined was the Mugen channel on IRC!

Things that didn't exist in 1999:
Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Streaming, Wikipedia, Alexa, iPhone, broadband Internet in Brazil, Google was only 1 year old.

Famous things in 1999:
IRC, Blackberry, RealJukebox, Winamp, ICQ

Things were definitely different than they are today, both in Mugen and in real life. In a few years, I'll be 50 years old and I don't know if I'll still be here, but as long as I'm having fun with it and have the health to do it, I'll be here

Thank you very much to all of you who have followed me so far!

And to celebrate this milestone, I'm updating my favorite Mugen work: Battle Stormer Classics.

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Version 2.5 contains:
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• New mechanic: Invincible recovery time. After the player is knocked down, he becomes invincible for a few seconds, giving him more time to escape the enemy - except for Super Man and Hulk

• 26 playable characters with 3 new:
 Snake, from P.O.W (Arcade)
 BRW-9, from Contra Rebirth (Wii)

• 37+ bosses / non-playable characters with 6 new:
- Archers (King of Dragons / SNES),
- Ograoum Papas and Little Clown (Mr. Nutz / SNES),
- Bib Fortuna (Super Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi / SNES),
- Boba Fett (Super Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back / SNES)
- James (Demon Hunter Legend / Mobile)
- Elephant Dragon (Skyblazer / SNES)
- Mecha Kangaroo (Super Turrican / SNES)
- Eborsisk (Willow / Arcade)

• 49+ stages, with 5 new
Mr Nutz Cloud, Mr Nutz Circus, Super Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi Tatooine,
Demon Junker Legend original stage
Stage 2 (Hagane/SNES)
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Forgotten City (DS)

Download: http://www.brazilmugenteam.com

[O Ilusionista]

Btw, I've released a quick fix - When I removed the logo to record the screen, I forgot to enable it again

[O Ilusionista]

Added a little easter egg on The Master/God from Actraiser 2


And I am working on a hotfix, to upgrade the game to 2.6
If you haven't played Battle Stormer Classics yet, download it here

[O Ilusionista]

After releasing the 25th anniversary version of Mugen, I received feedback about some bugs and I'm releasing an update for Battle Stormer Classics.

But to avoid being just a hotfix, I added a new boss: Mecha Sonic (Sonic 2 - Genesis) and 1 new level - Final Zone part 2 (Sonic 2 - Genesis), totaling more than 38 bosses and 50 levels.

Improvements:
- BRW-9 no longer disappears in some moves and now her shots depend on Power to be used (which was supposed to happen before)

- Superman has been balanced. He is still much stronger than the other characters, but his aerial attack now has a longer activation time

- Hulk has been balanced - Power Stomp has a longer activation and recovery time

- Balanced the super armor code of some bosses, such as James, Rob Ot and the final boss with a longer delay, increasing the invincibility time between hits from 5 to 10 ticks

- James rebalanced, especially the damage that was too low.

- Better fall animations for Sheena

- General improvements to several characters (alignment, damage, file size reduction)

- Added new characters to the intro

And stay tuned to my channel: I should release another version, from another project, before the end of the year

DOWNLOAD (Windows only): https://gamejolt.com/games/battle-stormer-classics/14507

[DeleFresh]

Congratulations!  I wasn't playing when you started, but I've been watching for at least 15 years - and your works were always a highlight!

Hope you are still having fun making what we love playing!!

[SanjiSasuke]

Damn dude, I barely find time to play MUGEN anymore, amazing to continuously create for 25 years! (and I mean continuously, I JUST downloaded the last version and got the whole thing working on my CRT a few days ago  )

[O Ilusionista]

Damn dude, I barely find time to play MUGEN anymore, amazing to continuously create for 25 years! (and I mean continuously, I JUST downloaded the last version and got the whole thing working on my CRT a few days ago  )

Thanks buddy!

[LightFlare]

Keep rocking, Big O. You definitely are an inspiration. I've been around since 09', and by then you'd already been here for a decade. Red Cyclone is still in my top 5 favorite characters off all time. Even his old stage, ! Capcom added the announcer  to Zangief as part of his V-Trigger. Somebody at Capcom is a fan as well. Can't blame them. You've even when beyond mugen. You're legendary at this point.

Here's to keeping mugen alive