So, I saw people were asking about me on discord.

In the middle of working on Sakura I noticed how well experienced other authors are and how little I know about FG compared to them, which made me have one of those existential crisis and I lost interest on continuing her. And, if that wasn't enough, I don't have as much free time as I had because I started a new job. I can't even sleep well anymore, and as y'all may know, making content for MUGEN takes time. That's why now I just comment in one topic or another and that's it.

tldr: i got tired of the mugen + work is killing me and now I have barely any free time.

About Sakura, I want to finish her, I want to make her unique. She is like 80% coded, just needed to add 2 or 3 supers and the finishing touches. However since I have almost no free time now, it's hard to get interested on continuing her. Who knows...

Momotaro said, August 08, 2022, 08:39:47 AM

Giving Kim his own Team would be a chance to see Jhun Hoon back... Perhaps...

It would definitely sound more interesting to have them in different teams even for SNK's buiness... (splitting them in 2 different DLC)

Maybe. They'll use Kim's old assets again from 14 and Shingo shares a lot of moves with Kyo so they'll have more resources to spare for new characters like "Jhun".
I wish Shingo comes back with Oswald, Shen Woo or Duo Lon while Kim brings back Jhun and May Lee (NOT Gang-il, Chang and Choi). But who knows.

Nah, I say Shingo and Kim will be in separate teams.

Reason 1, they only teased rough drafts of Shingo/Kim, meaning they haven't even finalized their 3d models yet.
Reason 2, they have 0 connection and have no agency in the storyline to be together (if DLC chars are canon as people told me).
Reason 3, SNK is literally reusing assets for Awakened Orochi team and SamSho team so they'll be making new assets for the next season.

I sometimes like the pleasure of spriting just for the Hell of it. Shiki is now having my short free time, and it's good to make stuff because potatoes.
ADA WONG: CSed, RE2 Remake, RE2 Classic, RE Damnation, RE 2 Remake(trench coat, no sunglasses)

Hey, happy to help.

For starters, "All right" is two separate words. The non-separate version would be "alright", but it's used in different contexts ("I'm doing alright").

Regarding the first arrow: It's "shooting AT the crowd". I'd change the whole thing to read: "We won't hesitate to shoot at the crowd, either!"

Second arrow: There's nothing wrong grammatically with this bubble, but using "whom" is a bit too fancy, I feel. They don't seem like the type of people to know when to use "who" vs. "whom" (that might be shallow of me to say, LOL. For all I know, they're very well-spoken and eloquent "thugs", LOL). Maybe something like "We're former martial artists who have been defeated by you in the past through cowardly methods".

Last arrow: I'd use "that" instead of "this" right before "cowardly method". Heck, just to not say "cowardly methods" twice, you could say "...I had to use those kinds of tactics".

Hope that helps!

I want to ask about this Abigail. Maybe could be just a Hugo spriteswap but I don't lose anything asking who made this and if it is online or not

Also, I keep my past question about which is the most famous Sakura out there, maybe it's POTS but I still read other opinions

Yup; I'm like 99% sure that both the 2000 and 2001 winposes are him singing lyrics to various anime OPs and/or EDs. I'm just not sure what they might be.

Here is a concept for the special intro vs Sakura I plan to add:

Nothing here is final, I might decide on something else, but I think this would work pretty well.

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I've been otherwise finishing up sorting through his various voice rips; I even figured out how to rip from Dreamcast games so that I could get rips of KOF 1999. No, not the first game in the NESTS saga, I'm of course talking about The King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999. Yes, Dreamcast has two games named KOF 99.

Anyways, I ripped those voices because they're much higher quality than the compressed and tinny-sounding sounds used in the Neo Geo versions. It's unfortunate that SNK didn't use any of the higher quality recordings featured in the console ports of this era for the UM games, but it's likely that they simply lost that data.

The 98 rips will be the primary source I'll be drawing voices from, but I'll also naturally have to use stuff from other games for moves/winposes/etc. that Shingo didn't have yet in 98. This lead me to checking out rips from KOF All Star (since Takehito Koyasu—Shingo's VA—is one of the very few VAs who was not purged and replaced by nuSNK for games starting with KOF XIV), and I found a really cool voice sample that is a really nice showcase of Koyasu's range.

I'd love to find some way to use it, but I don't actually know what he's saying, and there are unfortunately no translations of All Star dialogue that I could find. If anyone happens to be able to translate it, I'd really appreciate it.

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And on the topic of translation: did you know that Shingo has a bunch of references to mecha anime in his voice lines, beginning with KOF 99? I was able to recognize a few obvious ones, but I'm like 99% sure a few of his other voice lines are references to... something. I just don't know what. I'm planning on doing something a little special to celebrate these references in the character, so I want to make sure I'm getting everything.

winpose where he starts singing, KOF 2000 said:

拳にやどた、命の炎が...あいて、まだ終わってないて!
Kobushi ni yado ta, Inochi no honoo wo ga... Aite, mada owatenai te!
"The flame of life, enchanted by my fist... Wait, it's not over yet!"

winpose where he starts singing, KOF 2001 version said:

赤、青、黄色、紫の、拳にやどだ...あ、まだだのに。
Aka, ao, ki iro, murasaki no, kobushi ni yado ta, a, mada da no ni.
"Red, blue, yellow and purple, enchanted by my fists... Ah, not yet."

These are all sourced from the SNK wiki, and as such can't be relied upon as exact, correct transcriptions of the dialogue. An additional point of difficulty is that for the quotes I was able to recognize, Shingo's rendition is not 100% accurate to the original quote (for example, his NESTS saga taunt has him quoting First Gundam's famous "Brightslap" scene, but Shingo says "not even my parents ever hit me!", where Amuro instead says "not even my father ever hit me!").

These two reasons made it pretty impossible to just Google the phrase and do some digging, but hopefully someone out there is able to recognize what the two remaining things are quotes of. If they even are quoting something...