What’s up, guys?

I made a trip thru memory lane. I posted Ash’s Palette Template back in January 2021. I also posted Dudley’s Template in June 2022. The original Ryu Project took three to four tries, with the first version being turned into Gouken, and I think the second version being scrapped due SF6 to announcement. But now all of those projects are out and I feel that there’s a chip off my shoulder. While those three characters still have meaningful updates incoming, I’m glad I can say I got them out, mostly because for the first time in like 3 years I feel like I don’t have major pending projects completely frozen.

But it also opens up the question of what is next? And the most honest answer I can give you is that I don’t know.
 
I made a post back in April specifying in what state all of my characters are, and little has changed. For which character’s issues I’ll address first, I’m not entirely sure, but I’m still inclined to work on Angel and Haohmaru first. Then I think I’d go with Blanka or Rose, as I’m waiting for something big to update Genjuro. All in all, my character vault is now very extensive (18 characters!), so taking all of my previous releases to my current standards will take some time.

Another thing that I’d like work on is an update for Ryu that adds either Kage or SF6 Mode. It’d be Kage first as there’s still not a CvS Ryu animation for Hashogeki.

Finally, for new projects, there’s a lot of characters I would like to work on. So many that it’s a bit sad that I won’t be able to do all of them.
Ideally my next two characters would be SNK characters, to have 10 Capcom/10 SNK distribution on my character vault. But which characters?
The three characters I’d like to code the most from SNK are Leona, Kasumi and Chizuru.

Sadly these characters don’t have serviceable CvS sets to work on. Dampir’s Leona is close enough but still has the animation issues that I discussed previously in this topic. Rapper’s Kasumi is a great effort but its too recycled, and Dampir’s Chizuru simply I don’t like.

For SNK characters that do have serviceable sprites, I definitely want to do something with VioFitz’s Mina and Dampir’s K’, but not sure if I want to work with them now. I also want to work with FeLo’s Shiki.

I have been reading the SaltyPedia author wikis and I have noticed that there is a classification of active and retired authors, but there are many authors who appear "Active" but as far as I know they are not very present in the community today.

When is an author considered active or retired in mugen?

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(also im aware that DOS Mugen and LinMUGEN exist although they maybe dont work at all)

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Congrats KarmaCharmeleon for one more CotM trophy!

sup three p-chans (duck king's duck) in the background 

I'll bet Billy has a history with Rock with Geese mentioning him from time to time. He might even ask him to follow in his footsteps but Rock refuses since he disowned him and went with Terry. Ultimately, he was corrupted with power, which brought Geese to his demise. Also, he has a beef with Joe for dating his sister.

When the big WinMUGEN -> 1.0 switchover happened, I just plowed through and overwrote the original Win versions, not bothering to keep a backup. This was not specifically on purpose, but it was also not not on purpose, I guess?

Anyways I will try to remember to keep the old versions stashed somewhere but it's personally not a huge priority to me, so caveat emptor.

I'll be doing Vice and Geese. Might update Geese's projectile code while I'm at it.

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I dont know what got them to change their mind but heihachi is back now.

Fun for All Into the Future