go into config.json and look for

Code:

"PngSpriteFilter" :

and make sure that it says true after, that could help as well

here's a pic of my select screen with it set to "true"

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and here it is with it set to "false"

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Sorry, it took me a while to get back to this thread.

I don't know anything about Ikemen Go because I've never bothered with trying it, but it is possible to use hardware scaling in Mugen 1.1 OpenGL mode.  This can regain some (not all) image quality.  How you want to do this exactly will depend on your current screenpack and monitor, so I will only provide an example based on what I do.  Your results will vary.

Step 1: Configure Mugen for your screenpack
In my case, I use a 640x480 screenpack.  Mugen can be run in whole multiples of the screenpack size, so I choose x3.

Code:

[config]
GameWidth = 1920
GameHeight = 1440

Step 2: Hardware scaling
Now I am going to scale that down to my monitor size (1920x1200).  Since my screenpack is 4:3, this will result in a 1920x1200 window with vertical black bars on the side (1600x1200).  There are some settings further in the video section for managing that behavior if desired.

Code:

[video]
Width  = 1920
Height = 1200

Result?  I have way more pixels available than normal, and I'm using the video card to hide the evidence when I scale something.  That means I can scale any of my characters to an appropriate size and they won't look ugly.  Pretty cool trick.

Making the portrait bigger and scaling it later will not make it look better. The ideal scenario would be not scaling it at all, make it 1:1.
Or, if you're working on a hires screenpack but lowres characters (screenpack uses localcoord = 640,480 and characters use 320,240), you can scale it to .5 and it will look good.

Ok. 

320 / 427 = 0.749~~ (less than 75%).  And then you are scaling it another 33%.  That is a gigantic amount of scaling.  So if the original resolution was 200px wide, it is now 49.461~~.  A very unclean number, and less than 25% of its original size.  So unless you are running Mugen in a resolution with a vertical of 1920px (2560x1920), you are going to lose a huge amount of quality.

Making the portrait bigger and scaling it later will not make it look better. The ideal scenario would be not scaling it at all, make it 1:1.
Or, if you're working on a hires screenpack but lowres characters (screenpack uses localcoord = 640,480 and characters use 320,240), you can scale it to .5 and it will look good.

Ok. 

320 / 427 = 0.749~~ (less than 75%).  And then you are scaling it another 33%.  That is a gigantic amount of scaling.  So if the original resolution was 200px wide, it is now 49.461~~.  A very unclean number, and less than 25% of its original size.  So unless you are running Mugen in a resolution with a vertical of 1920px (2560x1920), you are going to lose a huge amount of quality.

great work as always Muttley Creations

... wait wasn't this already posted the other day?

Looks pretty cool dude, reminds me of a alternate reality where the team that the original Terrordrome game made a sequel to it instead of making a whole new game. Also I like the inclusion of the most iconic Universal Monster, Dr. Frankenstein's jigsaw puzzle of a reanimated corpse, The Creature/ The Monster, based on his portrayal by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film by James Whales. Also I like how the random character portrait looks like a classic "stranger danger" image that you see on signs in little neighborhoods but a modernized version of it. So what inspired you to make this game and you plan on adding anymore characters from different series that weren't included in the original Terrordrome game, like the Universal Monsters, Aliens, Predator or The Terminator, or more horror heroes like Major Alan Dutch, Ellen Ripley, John and Sarah Connor, R.J MacReady, Sidney PreScott, Laurie Shrode, Shaun from Shaun Of The Dead, Tommy Jarvis, Nancy Thompson, Barbara and Peter Washington from the Living Dead film series. Also the reason why I mentioned some survivors from the Living Dead films is because in the screenshot that has the character select screen has a portrait showcasing a ghoulish figure simply called "Dead" and I thought if we gonna have some undead zombie character, we might as well have some classic zombie survivor heroes in the mix as well, if you want them in your game.

Steel Komodo said, March 16, 2022, 10:38:41 pm

I think there's a movelist inconsistency with Saito. One of his moves is listed as QCB2xK when it's actually QCB2xP. I tried getting it out with K multiple times before I found out it was actually P. Either the command needs changing to match the movelist or the other way around, but that really threw me.

Other than that, really enjoying the update! Did an arcade run with Bryce some time ago, and I think he, Atleif and Quavon are becoming my favourites so far.

Ahhhh whoops, I will fix that and update it, thanks!

duduleonel said, March 16, 2022, 11:18:13 pm

Good my friend. Your game is perfect. I follow his work and was looking forward to the release. I would like to ask a question: How do you create the picture frame (9000.1). What format do you save and have to index colors? I'm asking this because I saw that the image of the char is sharp and with vivid colors. When I do this in my project, it seems like it loses resolution/sharpness. I save in png normally, without indexing colors or saving in pcx.

Not really sure, I made the full character art with colors and everything, then sent them to Mordecool as .png files and he did the rest, so he may have done something to them.