I wasn't quite satisfied with the results either, which is why this piece was gathering dust in my drive since 2015 (the black bars are cool tho!).

Now that Ikemen's attached char is a thing, and interactive stages aren't a pain in the ass to implement anymore, the plan for the next version is to make the corners interactive objects so the stage can have normal camera boundaries, plus adding other cool things, like a bouncy mat and making the crowd react to KOs.

This is great.   I think calling it a stage is almost underestimating it because it changes the way Ikemen itself is played.

Some things from a little bit of testing:

- I'm using Ikemen Go 0.98 and had to remove some palfx code from line 589 of the attached char for it to work. Is a new version out?
- If the last hits before a dizzy are a jab combo, the infinite prevention NotHitBy will be active during the dizzy
- Back dashes that don't hop off the ground (like Ryu's) don't work properly against the ropes
- Could use a "boing" sound for the ropes
- I think the infinite prevention code should reset immediately if p2movetype!=H because sometimes it lingers a bit too long and your attacks miss even outside a combo. For that matter what's the rule there? I can sometimes get 3 hits before they miss, sometimes 4 or 5. Time? Damage?

- You can bounce off from the ropes of the stage.
- You can trigger a special ko using special/super grabs.
- The crowd will react to the fight.

-IKEMEN Go 0.98.2 included the option of having PalFX applied to explods, please update yer engine version.