Tweaking Mugen

After recently pulling up an old mugen file from 2005-06 i thought I would explain this one. Mugen is built for windowed mode. If you can't run it in windowed mode, don't try full screen. However, if your pc is fast enough full-screen will allow a flawless performance on a low-grade scale. The trick is to have intros be timed. If you noticed the sound won't play every time. Well, in windowed mode it will just have the mp3 start after the frames. If you check out my mugen videos it will play 300 + characters flawlessly with screenpack tweaks. Given the nature of PCs nowadays, it will never crash.

:(I will upload the screenpack next month, the one on my website isnt ready yet.

Chkout my mugen videos updated. Mugen may crash, or sound may not be heard given the nature of mugen.

Testing DCvM screenpack. Back in the day, had problems with running mugen alot. What happened was it kept crashing but I took the music files and transfered them into ogg, then stepped down the fps in cfg. I then tweaked the game to run fluidly with options under misc. Basically I let the ram cache be 1 for all categories. Seemed to work great.

Running Mugen on your Slow PC

Here is what I had to say:

Mugen would crash if too many characters on screen, sometimes music would not run and it would close improperly. Managed to fix these tweaks using ccleaner, advanced systemcare 6, gamebooster and decreasing ati acceleration (optional for recording via hypercam). Best of all I'm using almost all of the 80gb on winxp 64bit. Solution to Gamers with Slow PCs: Tweaks ingame &specs Specs are custom mb 2.0 (2.9 equivalent) amd athlon 64 X2 3800, 64-bit architecture cpu, wide pipelines with ati 1370 onboard. This mb has slow down issues for programs, its not exactly a business machine basically. Meaning no 2 dvdroms, no etc usbs, no system fans. I fixed that though with this solution for those wide pipelines..Magnets! Why house hold magnets help circuit boards. Magnets aren't just used for atts, they can be used for Mobos. Here I tested recently household refrigerator magnets on my mother board, I lined a bunch up under it to see what would happen. Turns out I was just frustrated about ram issues, its a custom mb and slows down with ram, however it stopped doing that after I used this method. My mb can't use a system fan so I tried magnets instead. Weak magnets are safe, they create a small field to slow down electricity. When Electricity is slowed it is cooled. Magnets are like a very, very underpowered fan to each area of the circuitboard. Cools it completely.

We Rec@least a 64 bit processor &O/s or Custom tweak your mb if its 2002 era

The above system runs as well if not worst than my previous board which was a soyo mb@1.7ghz with some 1gig of 2700 ram. It was when I said since doing this from 1998-2007 to stop after my expensive ati videocard burnt out on the slot&i went ahead and got my second console ever after the dreamcast, xbox 360 (amd 64s changed everything from ram, to videocard slots to even pin connectors on harddrives during this time yet the performance was worst or more unstable imho). Am one of those cheap pc owners with a gameconsole. Xbox 360 beats my pc in games, yet i play it for cs source or maybe generals online and/or some 2002 era games. Even still play Q3, and UT on the servers sometimes, although i rec these games...they aren't as good as the rainbow six series or emulators imho. Games are for gameplay, not graphics and instability issues. Keep it simple. A 435 dollar pc is available, but its going to have issues...see the following. A 40 dollar Amd Asus&videocard priceless.

Why keep old emulators&games?

...after many years of playing this console i am one of those nerds whom wanted it online too! The fact is mugen is soo unstable, it can't play mp3s all the time without severly reducing the data (taking off video and sound accel, taking out the harddrive fast write options etc.), and even then it will not play on large screenpacks. Here we will config mugen to prove a good gaming setup isn't always about the graphics or the immersion, its about how well you can run programs on a mediocre pc.

I did a basic cfg config in the end@20 fps. with pageflip normal all in the lowest settings. Then I beefed up the speed in settings, 1000 characters should work fine then, but there may be an occasional ram build up if your pc doesnt have enough pipelines or is not too stable. Used with ordinary xbox 1 controllers via xbcd drivers and an hdmi converter for hd tv, youre all set to go. Mugen though is strictly a limited beta program of where it is code friendly, but unstable. So its not your pc if it crashes, its most likely a glitch in mugen. However we check the characters under winmugen_debug mode usually. Those were the summer days, building characters within a 3 week timeframe. Rec Fighter Factory Anniversary edition if you want to revisit the programing aspects of this brilliant engine. Does HD sound good? $$$Think about it, 400 dollars for a pc video card on games without problems or 300 dollars on a console. On top of that, you need to pay for upgrds every few years to keep a game running well because pcs are known to be unstable even with all the apps. It will blog you down, frame rate stutters etc.Keep a computer downgraded, buy an hdtv and console in the long run, you'll thank me.

download@marvelvsdcu.tripod.com. Download a new select file here (tweaked character order eg dark phoenix, cap atom were level 1s etc)