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O Ilusionista

Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#1  December 17, 2024, 10:17:40 pm
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Not even in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that I would reach this milestone: 25 years working with Mugen!

Unless I'm mistaken, today I'm the oldest programmer on the engine who is still active. Or at least among the 3 oldest, for sure.

I started in December 1999 (the engine was released in the middle of the same year), I saw many sites/forums/communities come and go - MugenBR, Pão de Mugen, MugenNow, TESTP, Charasoon, Oolong Mugen Bookmark... I miss old friends like Bea, Carnificina, Ex-Inferis, Juan Carlos (RIP) and some I still talk to today, like RyounWin... the list is huge and my memory is no longer the same ;)

Wow, the first community I joined was the Mugen channel on IRC!

Things that didn't exist in 1999:
Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Streaming, Wikipedia, Alexa, iPhone, broadband Internet in Brazil, Google was only 1 year old.

Famous things in 1999:
IRC, Blackberry, RealJukebox, Winamp, ICQ

Things were definitely different than they are today, both in Mugen and in real life. In a few years, I'll be 50 years old and I don't know if I'll still be here, but as long as I'm having fun with it and have the health to do it, I'll be here :)

Thank you very much to all of you who have followed me so far!

And to celebrate this milestone, I'm updating my favorite Mugen work: Battle Stormer Classics.




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Version 2.5 contains:
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• New mechanic: Invincible recovery time. After the player is knocked down, he becomes invincible for a few seconds, giving him more time to escape the enemy - except for Super Man and Hulk

• 26 playable characters with 3 new:
 Snake, from P.O.W (Arcade)
 BRW-9, from Contra Rebirth (Wii)

• 37+ bosses / non-playable characters with 6 new:
- Archers (King of Dragons / SNES),
- Ograoum Papas and Little Clown (Mr. Nutz / SNES),
- Bib Fortuna (Super Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi / SNES),
- Boba Fett (Super Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back / SNES)
- James (Demon Hunter Legend / Mobile)
- Elephant Dragon (Skyblazer / SNES)
- Mecha Kangaroo (Super Turrican / SNES)
- Eborsisk (Willow / Arcade)

• 49+ stages, with 5 new
Mr Nutz Cloud, Mr Nutz Circus, Super Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi Tatooine,
Demon Junker Legend original stage
Stage 2 (Hagane/SNES)
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Forgotten City (DS)

Download: http://www.brazilmugenteam.com

Momotaro

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#2  December 17, 2024, 11:58:42 pm
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Thanks for this update and for beeing still rocking!
I have been in Mugen since the early days.
Without internet at home, using floppy disks to gather characters and sp and updates of DOS Mugen builds from places with internet, so I can play at home.
And some of my best early memories of Mugen quality content was O Ilusionista.
With many other "classic" creators, when POTS style was not even a thing.

Actually I heard of a game with Megaman against Mario against Chun-Li around 97, but never had the chance to see it.
People saying it was an indie game engine project... perhaps just a fake.

End of memories.

I'm glad to see such high quality (and still refreshing) project in the community having an update.
I'm proud to see this progress. Really. :)

MGMURROW

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#3  December 18, 2024, 12:13:34 am
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Congratulations O!! You are the reason i got into MUGEN in 2004. So I guess I'm celebrating my 20 years in MUGEN, at 51 I'm most likely one of the oldest still around also (don't know if that is good or bad). I still plan on completing my full game if God allows me to. Enough about me.

Still one of the greatest to ever do it O!! And thank you for everything!!

MGMURROW

Kasasagi

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#4  December 18, 2024, 12:31:03 am
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Congratulations!

SwordmasterZack

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#5  December 18, 2024, 12:42:03 am
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Congrats, thou I did said on the Discord for this here Guild that Death Egg Robot is on Silver Sonic/Mecha Sonic Mark I's arena and not his

O Ilusionista

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#6  December 18, 2024, 12:45:11 am
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Thanks guys!

MGMURROW said, December 18, 2024, 12:13:34 am
Congratulations O!! You are the reason i got into MUGEN in 2004. So I guess I'm celebrating my 20 years in MUGEN, at 51 I'm most likely one of the oldest still around also (don't know if that is good or bad). I still plan on completing my full game if God allows me to. Enough about me.
MGMURROW

Oh I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing this history with me :)

Colobucci

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#7  December 18, 2024, 01:31:20 am
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It is incredible that we still have users as old in the MUGEN Community as you, and that they are still active! It is an honor to see the celebration of an author who has worked for so long at Mugen.

O Ilusionista

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#8  December 18, 2024, 02:42:36 am
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Colobucci said, December 18, 2024, 01:31:20 am
It is incredible that we still have users as old in the MUGEN Community as you, and that they are still active! It is an honor to see the celebration of an author who has worked for so long at Mugen.


Thanks for the nice words buddy :)

Bane84

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#9  December 18, 2024, 02:45:53 am
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Congratulations!  I started with Mugen in 2001 on MugenDev and just turned 40 this year.  Thought I was pretty old myself. :P 

O Ilusionista

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#10  December 18, 2024, 02:47:10 am
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Bane84 said, December 18, 2024, 02:45:53 am
Congratulations!  I started with Mugen in 2001 on MugenDev and just turned 40 this year.  Thought I was pretty old myself. :P 

Oh another dinossaur! I remember you since the early days :)

DeluxeGamer705

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#11  December 18, 2024, 06:47:39 am
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Wow, congrats for lasting this long! Usually when it comes to an author who started Mugen a long time ago, they would eventually retire after some time (NeoKamek for example, started in 2000 before retiring in 2009), or sadly pass away (I'm sure you know one example). But seeing a creator still create Mugen content to this day even after starting just before the 21st century is something that is absolutely impressive. :yeses:

Hopefully your interest carries on for longer - maybe it'll even last for 30 years! Good luck! ;D


Also known as "BartekZioomPro" (crappy name, I know).
Playin' Mugen since 2017, creating content since 2022.

O Ilusionista

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#12  December 18, 2024, 03:06:07 pm
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  • A living Mugen dinossaur :)
  • 25 years of Mugen O_o
    • Brazil
    • www.brazilmugenteam.com
DeluxeGamer705 said, December 18, 2024, 06:47:39 am
Wow, congrats for lasting this long! Usually when it comes to an author who started Mugen a long time ago, they would eventually retire after some time (NeoKamek for example, started in 2000 before retiring in 2009), or sadly pass away (I'm sure you know one example). But seeing a creator still create Mugen content to this day even after starting just before the 21st century is something that is absolutely impressive. :yeses:

Hopefully your interest carries on for longer - maybe it'll even last for 30 years! Good luck! ;D

Thanks buddy! Yeah, saddly we lost some people down the road :(
Oh, Neo Kamek, I don't hear this name for ages...but I am using one of his characters on my other project, Robot Master Mayhem.

About the 30 years...who knows? :)

Btw, I've released a quick fix - When I removed the logo to record the screen, I forgot to enable it again :(

Gritsmaster

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#13  December 18, 2024, 11:35:02 pm
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Been messing with mugen since the early 2000s, your work was always a staple for as long as I can remember. Thanks for all your contributions! You rock ;)

FeLo_Llop

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#14  December 19, 2024, 12:25:17 am
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What more could I add?

You have been always one of the creators of reference, doing complete works that no one had planned of with your team, always inspiring and having good words(mostly) to anyone willing to learn. Even we haven't been never that close, I still remember the encouraging words when we worked together for Ooze. You were VERY constructive at those days and one of the reasons me and some others are still here, OBRIGADO, ILU!
I swear there was something cool here!!

Dai-Manji

Re: Celebrating 25 years working with MUGEN!
#15  December 19, 2024, 04:43:43 am
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As someone who has been part of MUGEN since the early days of WinMUGEN, you've definiely been an iconic individual and have made a name for yourself as being one of the people that others can look at as a good example of how to be a creator in the community.

Thank you for all the years and time you have put into this community, we are blessed to have you still around.
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