Create greyish square. Tell mugen to reference an anim rather than a spr. Set up the anim with type A transparency. Thats group,image, x,y, time,,A

All i can think of there is a greyish transparent box that overlays the original sprite. Won't so much be greyed out as faded.

I tried that last night, was completely unsuccessful. In the end i just put them all into audacity at once and did a mass negative amplify.

Audacity is free. Get it. Very simple for sound editing. If you don't want to DL a err 5mb program (?) you can use sound recorder instead.

But no, the lower volume method fails. Raising it works far too well and causes cut out static at the higher volumes. Don't do this.

Now that I have gotten back into it, I am making my own screenpack and I find that it is very erratic, crashing when I try to open it (gives the Windows error) after adding new sprites into the SFF files - with the sprites all correctly palletted.

The strange thing is, one night I added a new sprite into the SFF file, and that made MUGEN crash upon load-up, so I gave up, switched off the comp and went to bed. Then when I woke up the next day I tried to run MUGEN again and shockingly this time it WORKED, whereas it didn't the day before, having changed nothing in the SFF file!

When it does crash I've tried to produce the sprite again in PSP8, even DELETING the current sprite file and replacing it (as opposed to just changing the sprite). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It's like the MUGEN has developed a 'maybe I will work or I may not work' rule!

I forget where it's written in Mugen's files, but it reads the font's colors from that end, unless you specify an offset that tells it to start reading the colors somewhere else.
This allows you to have multiple palettes for the same font, as you can include all the colors you want in the .pcx (ordered properly, in the same order as the default colors) then have it read colors at different places in the pcx' palette.

fight.def said:

; 3. font
;    Format: font = fontno, fontbank, alignmt
(...)
    fontbank is the color bank of the font to use. Refer to the font for what color banks it has.

Fontbank is like "palettes inside the palette". In your case, you set "Colors = 16", so fontbank=0 reads the first 16 colors, fontback=1 reads the next 16 (17-32) and so on.

All this goes in a [IIRC] [/IIRC]

You need to be really comfortable working with palettes to pull it off, though.

Well layerno is a valid addition in fight.def. It could be the same in a select screen. Best i can give you is give it a try.

p1.cursor.layerno = 1

Try it, but don't get your hopes up. Sometimes the fact that the bg is defined below this stuff can cause whatever you set to be overwritten.

I'm not totally sure, but isn't there a parameter telling that the icon must be sprite 9000,0 in the system.def of the screenpack.
If the answer is yes, change that number to something like 9000,156, so that you're sure that no character has this sprite. Therefore, Mugen will not display any icon.