SHMUPS in MUGEN!

[EddyMRA]

I found some shmup characters for MUGEN, a 2D fighting game engine.

I found them here: http://16x16.port5.com/m.u.g.e.n/mugen.html

The shmup ships I found are the Vic Viper, the Styx from Thunder Force III, the R-9, and the Opa Opa. There are two bosses there too, Big Core and King Fossil from Darius, but they don't work properly in WinMUGEN.

I made some movies showing these SHMUP characters in action in MUGEN, and they are very close to their real counterparts.

Super R-Type Bros.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rI34Tg6aDg
Contradius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fM6jkJg3M
Thunder Force III vs. Duck Hunt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPbLhjSeys
Team SHMUPS vs. Final Bosses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PiwDV02j3A

[Kiken]

I found some shmup characters for MUGEN, a 2D fighting game engine.

MUGEN's original intent was as a shmup creation program.

[Shatterhand]

Ok, how the heck do you play Super Mario Bros and Contra on Mugen ?

[EddyMRA]

MUGEN's original intent was as a shmup creation program.

Source of this information, please. I'm quite new to MUGEN (only got into it two months ago), so anything regarding MUGEN before that is unknown to me.

@Shatterhand: Someone named Bane84 made those stages from those games as MUGEN levels. Go here: http://www.mugenguild.net/~bane84/

Pretty damn good job of creating them too.

[Kiken]

MUGEN's original intent was as a shmup creation program.

Source of this information, please. I'm quite new to MUGEN (only got into it two months ago), so anything regarding MUGEN before that is unknown to me.

"Mugen" in Japanese means "infinite", therefore the latter would be the suggested pronunciation. However, M.U.G.E.N is a forgotten acronym, referring to the days when the engine was meant to emulate shooting games as opposed to fighting games as stated by Elecbyte, therefore the real meaning of M.U.G.E.N is and always will be unknown.

[Edge]

Awesome.

[Icarus]

Ahh, I see you found them. The R-9 and the Styx were found by a forum user a very long time ago, but I lost the original source of the files. Good find, Alluro. ^_^

[EddyMRA]

It was fun. Fighting Master Hand and Super Metroid using the R-9 was just like playing against an intense actual shmup boss!

[Icarus]

How easy do you think it'd be to make more shmup ships for MUGEN in a similar manner? There are a ton of horzies out there just begging for a VS addition (like Postman's Polygenesis joke a while back), stuff like the Dino 246 (Pulstar), R-9 LEO, Rynex...

[gameoverDude]

Nice, Alluro. I was also thinking of that Polygenesis joke myself- and Super R-Type Bros. reminded me of that one other game Maridius.

MUGEN's original intent was as a shmup creation program.

Sure seems like it to me. A real Polygenesis would be a natural for this thing.

[Shatterhand]

ACtually, me and Akira talked about making Polygenesis with Mugen. This was like.. oh, 4 years ago?

[Dale]

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow Alluro were did you find these?