How to Make Your Own Custom Fighting Video Games?

Answer 1

Whether it was going through piles of quarters at the local arcade or fighting your friends on your home console, we’ve all had fun playing fighting Video Games. What you may not know is you can build your own customizable fighting game with a freeware program named MUGEN.

First you will need to download the MUGEN software. You can download the latest version at elecbyte.com. Simply download the file for the program and then unzip that file onto your hard-drive.

Secondly, you’ll want to find characters. MUGEN only comes with one character, but you can add an infinite amount. Simply search online for mugen character downloads. You’ll find plenty of websites with hundreds of characters to add to your game, including old favorites from games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

The third step is adding the characters to your game. Open the folder for MUGEN on your hard-drive that was extracted from the zip file. You will find a folder there named chars. All you have to do is drag and drop the folder for each character from the files you downloaded into this folder.

The fourth step is to edit the select.def file. You can find this file in the data folder. Open this file in a text editor program, add the name of the character as it appears in the folder name in chars under the section for characters, and then save the changes to select.def.

The last step is adding new character backgrounds or stages. Adding stages is very similar to adding characters. Simply search for mugen stage downloads. Some stages for characters even come in the same zip download as the character files.

Stages come with both a .def and a .sff file. Simply copy these files into the folder named stages. Next open up the select.def file again. Next to the character name you need to add a comma, a space, the word stages, a backslash, and the name of the .def file. The entire entry should appear as character1, stages/stage1.def. Save the changes, and you’re done.

Follow these steps and you’ll soon be on your way to making your own custom fighting game.