Mugen Quasar - Update

I have to apologize. Quasar isn't public yet, and until bdcirck is ready to release it. I originally did not intend to put any references on this blog but I had forgotten and I would ask that bdcirck would forgive my oversight and anyone who is waiting for this character. I hope that it will be released soon and from now on there will be no more videos on this blog featuring this character. I'm sorry for any confusion I have caused.

New MUGEN Blog

Please check out the following blog: LATVERIA MUGEN. It is shaping up! It's awesome. It is in Spanish but use Google Translate to translate the page into your favorite language. Just put the url into Google Translate. On the left are the WIP that will soon be offered! Go visit the blog!

Announcement: All Mugen

Frequent readers of this blog may have noticed that I I usually pit all things of interest to me in terms of fiction on this blog. I've come to realize that I need to focus more on smaller topics to be of the most benefit to the readers and supporters. Therefore from now on Favorite Fiction will be an all MUGEN blog. It will continue to be for reviews, demos, announcements, and interviews but nowe only dealing with the Mugen community. I will now be maintaining 4 blogs.

1. Favorite Fiction will house all my Mugen related activities.
2. What Had Happened Was... will be for all the things I like to study: Theology, Science, Politics, News, Technology, and History.
3. Favorite Media will cover movies, television, YouTube, comic books, and music.
4 Favorite Gadgets will be used for field testing new web technology and widgets.

Please feel free to visit any of these blogs at any time and leave comments on any of them blogs or e-mail me. Thanks for your support

Scruffy Dragon Anniversary Summary

Over at Scruffy Dragon, Magus has done us all a favor in summarizing what happened during April's Scruffyversary. It was awesome.

Week 0
-Treasure Hunt winner amarillo002
-ScruffyDragon 2009 Begins
-Zero Released By ArielAlexCo
-Pocket World Cards Marvel series by Arque

Contests
-Design a Stage for Parasite winner Gate
-Design an amalgam for Sandman/plasticman winner Hobgoblin
-Evil Character sprite edit winner Amon-Ra
-Champions premiation

Hall of Dragons Class 2009
-SyousJC
-Hannibal
-Loganir
-WarmachineX

Parasite Week
-Kickoff video
-Power Management
-Stolen power cavalcade
-Final Tease
-Parasite Released by Buyog and update

Amalgam Sic Graphics Week
-Ferroman 2.0 by Sic-1
-Thanoseid Teaser video by tenchimuyo4ever
-Realm of Dr Stangefate Stage by Sic-1
-A.O.S. Intro by twinimage
-A.O.S Beta ScreenPack Release! by Sic-1
-Thanoseid 0.8 character release by rozeros
-Iron Lantern Released by tenchimuyo4ever

Villain Week
-Dr Doom and Lobo stages released! by Magus
-Elektra beta by Buyog
-Pocket Joker by Sic-1 and Magus
-Characters Testing Video by Magus & McCready
-Sinestro Alpha 2 by Buyog and Larramones
-Savage Hulk Beta 2 released by Buyog and BobStarsky
-The Joker beta released by Larramones, Jeff & Magus

ScruffyDragon Creators Week
Kickoff Black Spider-man tease video by Seth Zankuten
Starfire Update by Hyper Combination Finish
Pocket Octagon by Lumina and Magus
Green Lantern Remix by Buyog, Arque and Enzo
Alkali Cataracts stage by Magus and Watchtower stage by McCready
Crystal Update by Magus, Smoggy and Jeff
Ice Update by Buyog and Sei
Captain America Bucky video tease by Alienmorph, Verz and Magus
Batman Released by Alucard


If you missed anything, get over to Scruffy Dragon as fast as you can.

Announcing a brand new Mugen team with a unique vision to integrate new Mugen characters from:
- Marvel comic universe
- DC comic universe
- Image comic universe
- Video Game Iconic characters

You can watch the premiere video for their website here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsixenOF4iU




When you take this link: http://cvgunited.com/index.php
You will see character WIPs for:
- Two unique versions of Spawn different from ER's edition
- Toxin
- Hyperion
- Hellboy
- Dr. Strange
- Spider Carnage
- Shocker
- Dr. Manhattan
- Samus Aran
- Quasar
...And this is just the beginning.

Team CVG consists of:
- Spooky77: Webmaster, founder, coding, and sprite editing
- Fallen_Angel: Lead programmer
- bdcirck: Coding
- Fredgerd: Sprite editing
- shinrahunter: Graphics lead
- Hollow Boy: Graphics
- Dragonesku: Screenpack and stages
- Hyperion76: Coding and sprite editing
- Thunder Wolf: Sprite editing
- BiGPiMP: Sprite editing
- Nameless: Sprite editing
- Electro: Sprite editing
- Black Ops: Sprite editing
- Amon-Ra: Sprite editing
- Rod: Coding
- Master Yoda: Stages

There is a fully integrated chat system attached, as well as plans for incorporating a video game community through Xbox Live, PSN and things along those lines.

And did I mention prizes? Spooky77 has plans to figure out a way where forum members can win prizes worth $10. This will happen with various things, whether it be in regards to leading up to planned releases, or through contests he has planned.

Hope to see you at http://cvgunited.com/index.php soon!

Announcement: New Features

I have added a couple of new things to this blog, Favorite Fiction:
1. Search Engine for searching for keywords in each of my three blogs using Google's technology.
2. Answer.com feature for looking up the meaning of words in the blogs. Just double click the word.

Mugen Announcements!

I have two announcements from the geniuses at Scruffy Dragon.


1. An Amalgam screen pack!
2. Buyog has released an updated Parasite!

Announcement: Here's the Skinny on the "Favorite Fiction" Blog

I thank everyone who has read and supported this blog, especially Volzzilla for his help with generating great content. I wanted to let everyone know that I may be out of contact for a time because my wife is scheduled to go into labor soon. It's a boy! I've got some articles and posts already set to come out but for new breaking stuff may come out later than I normally will post them. I'm gonna be kinda busy doing husband and daddy stuff and I thank God. Thank you all for your support and readership.

New Chat Tool

I've decided to take the plunge and put a Live, Online chat tool on the blog. Anyone can join. Use the information on the left. Read about the technology at this post. I'm going to add an option soon for multi-language support.

Justice League Mugen Announcement

Jhonny DC has made a special announcement (pictures are listed in order they are listed in the poll:

Vote today! See the new survey group Justiceleaguemugen:

What character from DC's comic you like to see in MUGEN?

or Maxima
or General Glory



or Black Vulcan
or Enlogated Man
or Blue Beetle
or Manitou Dawn
or The Ray
or Blue Jay
or Vixen
or Red Rocket

To vote, visit:

http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/Justiceleaguemugen/polls



Note: No reply to this message. The votes of the survey is not
met through email. To vote, you must go to the site
Web Yahoo! Groups mentioned above.

Thanks!

I would like to add that everyone should go and vote because if you have seen any of the characters that Jhonny DC has worked on then you know he does awesome work. I want to also point out that the yahoo group is in Spanish. But if you don't speak Spanish don't let that stop you. You can still read it using Google Translate. I have written some information on it in the following post. If you have a question about how to use it, leave a comment or send an e-mail to me.

March Updates and Releases

Volzzilla has again put together a lot of research for what was released and updated in the MUGEN community during the month of March. Here is what he has shared.

Stages

Stage for Mr. Sinister

http://www.mediafire.com/?yqq1m2mnl2i

To see in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNpls_L5-V8

http://www.mediafire.com/?nnmydmimuoz

To see in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOmXFHHavVw

Nightcrawler’s Cathedral

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tdgm2tmmyzj
To see in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtTKtFVkBuw

Apocalypse themed Stage

http://www.mediafire.com/?utjwzkuwmqz
To see in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXaItCzMouc

Operation Genosha

http://www.4shared.com/file/93477806/2c4bd1f1/stage_Operation_genosha_by_Master_Yoda.html

To see in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-v2lJdu8o

Character updates

Empawk updated Symbiote Spider-man

http://www.freewebs.com/empawk

Rorschach by SeanAltly, updated AI patch by kamekaze

http://mugenguild.com/seanaltly

Character release

And finally, what is obviously the biggest release of the month, Nightcrawler by Twinimage, plus corresponding stage.

Fantastice release of a character that might be one of the most comic authentic Mugen characters ever with how he moves in general, sound, special moves, everything. To learn more, check our review here:

http://mmcelhaney-fiction.blogspot.com/2009/03/mugen-nightcrawler.html

http://host-a.net/twinimage/Nightcrawler.zip

April Teasers

Too many to list, but keep an eye out here as we will bring you everything Scruffy Dragon Productions, Infinity Mugen Team, SGM’s Amalgam Project, and anything else from the community has to offer as soon as we know!

Announcment: Mugen Reviews

From Time-To-Time I'd like to mix things up a little bit by comparing different versions of mugen characters against one-another. For example there are different versions of Hulk, Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Goku, Iron Man, War Machine, and others. Which one is the best one? I propose to judge them by the following criteria:

1. Which one looks the coolest and why?
2. Which one has the most interesting moves and supers?
3. Which one wins against the same opponent - computer controlled?
4. In a computer-controlled fight one-on-one, which wins?
5. Documentation?
6. Smooth Animation?

Then I will give each a rating on a scale of 1 to 10 and tell the reader where they may find the characters for download.