Yes it would.

Green and yellow are clsndefaults. In mugen they'll be red and blue. Normally you wouldn't place blue on a beam attack, but we can probably deal with that later once things are working.

Things you can check. When your hitdef occurs, whether the clsn's actually overlap the opponent, movetype = A Also that the animation with the clsn's is actually the animation called and doing the hitting.

[mcode][State 3123, Explod]
type = Explod
trigger1 = AnimElem = 3, = 0
anim = 3003
sprpriority = 2
postype = p1
pos = -24,-41
bindtime = -1
name = "HyperSolarBeamExplod"
id = 3001
ownpal = 1
[State 3123, Explod]
type = Explod
trigger1 = AnimElem = 3, = 0
anim = 3004
sprpriority = 2
postype = p1
pos = -24,-41
bindtime = -1
name = "HyperSolarBeamExplod"
id = 3001
ownpal = 1[/mcode]
Those are your beam sprites. Explods can't hit anything or be made to hit anything.

[mcode][State 3123, Helper]
type = Helper
trigger1 = AnimElem = 3, = 0
stateno = 13000
postype = p1
pos = -24,-41
ownpal = 1
name = "HyperSolarBeamAttackingBeam"
id = 13000
[/mcode]
Is the bit that's going to do the damage cos that's where the (very badly formatted) hitdefs are.

Getting state 13000 set up with actual clsn's might help. Also, i think, although am not sure, that your hitdefs are going to be too messy to work and you're probably going to get either 1000's or hits, or none whatsoever, or at least not in the way you intend.

There's a couple of other improvements that could be made in here.

Clsndefault is to say "be on this frame and all those afterwards unless otherwise specified" FF marks them different colours to identify them. Sadly people use them without actually understanding how they work.

Did you actually write all that yourself or copy it from somewhere? I find it odd that you'd have that much complex code but not know why you can't hit. If you DID copy it, please just keep the absolute essentials, say, the super FX bit, and delete the rest. We'll have it work and make sense rather than trying to develop someone else's code to work with your animations.

That really makes things more difficult for you. Not only do you have to make the attack work in the first place, you have to adapt what you have to something you don't understand.

By the looks of things, the one you've copied isn't doing top/bottom hits. Just the whole beam. If you wish to achieve top/bottom hits, you will have to start from the ground up. What's there isn't entirely functional for what you're after.

If you combine your 2 explods together and have them as one animation and add that to state 13000 you'll have something that works. It probably won't act the way you wish though.