Talk:M.U.G.E.N/Archive 1

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The author of this article states that there are MUGEN clones that are not publicised. Does anyone know more information about that.

No clue, but did edit one mistake. Open MUGEN is under the GPL and does have some source code on their site --vincent404

I think it's purely speculation and probably doesn't belong in a wikipedia article. 24.7.231.250 10:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow, this site is great... I took a stub from Mugen and created a M.U.G.E.N page (my first time editing), and the next day someone comes through and improves both of them. It's like being in a writing class. --D70306

Even cooler, someone deleted my image without explanation. And left an arbitrary statement without classification as seen above. Its like being on a playground. user:marvelvsdc

Probably because the user at ip; 172.211.41.217 thought the image was illegal since the license expired. Well as it stands the image is still illegal because it doesn't have a

Image copyright tag. - UnlimitedAccess

03:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Can any one offer any evidence that it is illegal to make freely distributed games based on the MUGEN engine? If not I will revert 172.211.41.217 changes. - UnlimitedAccess 03:19, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

I removed the tidbit on rom sites and mame sites. --69.149.79.28 22:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

It is illegal to distribute MUGEN itself. 172.211.41.217 also removed links to sites that distributed MUGEN, but left a site that links to sites that distribute MUGEN (MUGEN Fighter's Guild), interestingly, so he is probably some douche bag from that community that thinks he's actually morally better than other people and is doing the bidding of Elecbyte. Any game project that doesn't actually distribute MUGEN along with it, but requires that MUGEN be obtained elsewhere isn't violating Elecbyte's license agreement. The problem though, is that there is no Elecbyte, and distributing MUGEN doesn't hurt anyone. I think Elecbyte would rather see MUGEN be pirated than non-existent, but I would like to hear their current thoughts. --D70306

I removed this controversial and unsourced line (this line: "though the use of MUGEN is now forbidden by the license Elecbyte hasn't renewed") until someone gives an adequate explanation. I also reverted User:172.211.41.217 unnecessary removals. --Carioca 06:15, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

That line is correct according to section 4 of the MUGEN license:

"4. Agreement to this license grants you the right to use the MUGEN environment, version 2002.04.14, until and not beyond 12:01 AM (Greenwich Mean Time) on June 1, 2002. After this time, Elecbyte may, at its sole discretion, choose to offer, or not to offer, a new public license. If a new license is offered, its terms shall govern any continued use of the MUGEN 2002.04.14 beta. If no new license is offered, all use of the 2002.04.14 beta must cease."

--Vermilion 11:35, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

I restored this line, but, maybe an entire section about this would be better. --Carioca 19:06, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

I added a legality section to clear up the issue. It is indeed a violation of Elecbyte's license agreement to use or distribute MUGEN, but I don't know if such an agreement is legal or should be upheld in this case. --D70306 04:24, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I read it. It is good. --Carioca 02:03, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

The whole idea behind not distributing Mugen games with the executable served a few purposes. It would first disassociate (not entirely mind you) content created with illegally obtained material away from the Mugen program. And it probably was to provide some legal protection against the creation of full games for profit.

I think the "forced" phasing out of Mugen versions via license dates was to encourage upgrading to the latest version. Though there isn't much reason why you'd opt out of certain features being implemented. 23:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

That question begs to be addressed by this article, even if the answer is "No one apparently knows what M.U.G.E.N is an acronym of, if anything.". - ZM Zotmeister 22:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

If someone wants to help, a copy of the readme file can be found here. Carioca 22:56, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

According to Elecbyte, M.U.G.E.N. is in fact an acronym for something. However, the developers forgot what exactly it did stand for. I wish I had the file that confirms this though, sorry. Manmonk 02:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I believe it stood for something back when the initial concept was not that of a fighting game engine.

According to the readme, "MUGEN is also an acroymn for something, but we forgot what it is. :)." I would have no idea what it would mean in terms of an acronym but I know that the word Mugen means "infinity" or something to that matter. The Mugen Motorsports Wikipedia page states that Mugen means "Without Limit." It could be pointing to the idea that there can be infinite combinations of this game but that is just speculation on my part.--Lonewolf26X 22:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Speculation that it is formed like the U.N.I.T.E.D acronym. Where the D is just a spare letter in the whole acronym. I find it most likely then that the M.U.G.E.N acronym's last three letters stand for Game EngiNe. The first two are more up in the air however, I think they stand for Multiple Universe as it points to a reason that they have conveniently "forgotten" what the acronym stood for. Messatsu 11:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

To whoever wants to censor this article: you should probably give some good reasons for doing that. --D70306 21:09, 31 July 2005 (UTC) sorry about reverting vandalisme back in, saved instead of previewed, all good now tho---Happyhaydn 02:57, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Just because th user community black-lists a popular site, doesn't make it irrelavant for Wiki users. If it makes it back in I sy let it stay. Apparently this article is becomming a political battle ground which will require a lock on it if people see fit to treat it as their own forum. 01:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I have seen this site, and I do not see why the link has to be removed. Personally, I think it is has a much more happier atmosphere than the others listed. Keep it there. Blacklist 03:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Except for the fact that they are blacklisted by the entire community, continually vandalise this page to remove/edit links from sites they are at "war" with, and are general flakes. ElNinoPinto 01:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I have yet to understand as to why that site is blacklisted from the others, and maybe if MFG or RS would leave them alone, then they would leave the article alone. Blacklist 21:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

They were blacklisted for leaking private betas and for warehousing works when the creators explicitely stated otherwise. And Guild and RS have left them alone since the blacklisting. Just take a look at the Random Insanity forum on MI. Most of the trouble in the conflict starts and has started with them.ElNinoPinto 06:52 21:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I have heard of this leak, but I personally haven't seen any proof. Got a link?

Plus, I can see that MI is not at all happy with the way MFG/RS is ran. Fine. They can do whatever they want. MFG or RS isn't anybody's boss as far as I know, as with any other website that "controls" another. Blacklist 23:33, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

The former webmaster and some affiliated with the site have implicated them and this was published publicly. Regardless, I'm not here to remove the link, just state that someone there is very much guilty of the crime.

Okay. That's fine. Until I see some sort of proof, I will take this under consideration and keep the MI link up. Blacklist 02:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I wanted to bring up Mugen Infantry is apparently innocent of all issues relating to this event...the people actually responsible have since left the site, but the issue won't be pursued further to prevent headaches. Sorry for the hassle. Kung Fu Man 17:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Why was Mugen Infantry removed? I was just browsing that web page today and they got a database now too. It seems like a helpful site.

Because we must restrict the amount of links to the strict necessary, discussion about it is in the designated weblinks discussion thread. --151.41.11.75 03:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

The whole "M.U.G.E.N. Community Code of Ethics" subsection reeks of vanity article material. Unless someone can explain to me why it belongs on this article I shall remove it.SoNick Belmont 22:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

• Edit: Ah...my apologies; in my haste, forgot to sign my comment. SoNick Belmont 22:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • It's actually there more for folks interested in taking part in the community but don't know about it yet. Basically it's so someone doesn't do something like, take someone's work, modify it, and repost it, thinking the community forums would accept in gladly (when in truth there'd be one heckuva lashback), and also to inform folks that do want to butt up against them that pretty much almost every angle was thought out. In the end it was just here so folks would know when they join what the major rules are and what they're up against, though maybe the name could use some changes...Kung Fu Man 8:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • "lashback?" "butt up" WHAT!?Utils 17:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
  • This also follows a large group of the English speaking community's rules and ethics. Hence why it may be here instead of on every other language's version of the M.U.G.E.N article.2D Mirage 14:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Here is a quote from Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not "Wikipedia is not a soapbox or a vehicle for propaganda and advertising" Sonic Hog 21:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Look you fucking moron, this is a code of ethics for a mojority of the English speaking community who actually create things for the MUGEN engine(This code is also included in other non-English speaking communities also). Because you are offended in some minute way doesn't mean that everyone else is. Also, I see no mention of "propaganda" or "advertising" in the Ethical code article. Lurk more.2D Mirage 14:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• That article you linked to is about a band, also please read
  Personal_attacksSonic Hog
  22:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • The level of maturity MUGEN fans are showing when editing this article and the talk page is rather staggering. BlazeHedgehog 22:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Gentlemen and women, lets try to act mature over this and refrain from curse words. They don't solve the problem in any way shape or form.
      

Personally, I don't think it's notable enough for this page. They're the ethics of only two sites I know of: Mugen Fighters Guild and Random Select. This is an encyclopedia, not your everyday message board. Now, if it were the ethics for all of the sites (as in, they posted and follow these ethics on their sites), then the ethics themselves would be notable. Blacklist 08:04, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

• Actually it is the ethics for all the legit sites in the community...to help prove that you'll find them now posted at MGBR and Mugen Infantry too at the very least, and we're working on getting them posted on other forums. Kung Fu Man 23:22, 20 July 2006

• Good point, KFM. After thinking about it, I personally agree that these ethics should be posted in one way, shape, or form, as the most-legit sites now follow these ethics. Does anyone have an arguement as to not post these? Blacklist 06:56, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• Why does a Wikipedia article need the rules of another site? As I said before it is very soapboxy, and I doubt KFM is fighting for it being in the article for purely research reasons. "it is the ethics for all the legit sites in the community" take this for example, it seems he thinks the only legit sites are those that follow these ethics/rules and he wants to push these beliefs onto others by having them in the article.Sonic Hog 11:12, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

• Actually it's two fold. First, this article is being used by many as their entry point into the community, and related websites. Yet when they first come to the community, they ask about these rules specifically, and some aren't even aware they're in place, and they catch grief from some of the more robust members when they inadvertently break them. The second reason is because these rules are not here, people are trying to use this article when they are going against said decisions on forums, noting that there is no mention of rules within. The "legit" comment is that you'll find not all sites respect these rules, such as the aptly named "Mugen Warehouse", because they'd rather go for bigger noteriety in site hits than actually respect someone else's hard work despite being informed of said issues. Those sites are generally cut off from the majority of the community, and forums will not permit linking to said sites...again though, people not aware of such complications can easily find themselves in a sticky situation on most Mugen forums if they link to said sites.

I'll agree maybe the lead-in wording isn't the best...given what's stated here, perhaps you Sonic Hog or Blacklist could reword it better to get the point across as to why they're here and important to take in? Oh...worth noting Sonic Hog that you edited out the protection bit and told me I shouldn't have put it up...problem is if you check the IP compared to mine, you'll find I hadn't: I simply petitioned for partial protection on the correct page. Just clearing that up. Kung Fu Man 17:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Funny how Sonic Hog doesn't seem to want to try and make the ethics section without POV statements, knowing that most of the active community now goes by them, but feels the need to delete it in every shape and form.

Why not leave this section as it should be, about the PROGRAM. And move all this vantiny and ethics blah blah to a NEW entry called M.U.G.E.N. Community. Simple, right? I might even do it my own self if you guys are still fighting over this tomorrow.Utils 18:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

In documentation, the executable title, etc., the final character, N, is not followed by a period. I'm suggesting to have it be moved back to M.U.G.E.N instead of the current position of M.U.G.E.N. and replacing all instances in the article to match the correct location. Messatsu 01:38, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Full text of reason why it was moved back (since Wikipedia leaves the form length undefined and later truncates it). There wasn't a reason to rename it M.U.G.E.N., in all documentation and program builds it is M.U.G.E.N <- no period. This is how it appears, so it is more appropriate even if it doesn't seem correct in being an acronym. Further evidence is the acronym U.N.I.T.E.D which is agreed by the majority of older M.U.G.E.N users that it was produced by Elecbyte members by their use and knowledge of features not yet documented. This acronym was known and appeared on a website as Unofficial New Invincible Testp EnhanceD. Please don't re-move. Messatsu 11:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

On July 14, 2006, several popular M.U.G.E.N sites took their databases offline due to an increase in what the community calls, "warehousing," which is an act of hosting M.U.G.E.N creations (primarily characters) on a website without first obtaining the original author's permission. The creators hoped that with their databases and sites offline, many (if not all) of the warehouses would cease to function. During the week of July 23rd, 2006, a few key sites went back on-line, namely "Random Select" and "M.U.G.E.N Infantry."

I think this entire quoted portion should be removed since there have been several events that were more significant and are not mentioned. There's no reason to catalogue daily events from within the community. Messatsu 11:35, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't really see why this needs to be mentioned here. Though some made a big fuss about it, there are no consequences coming from this at all, really. It's more of a daily happening than a significant event, and compared to other incidents (like the controversities when winmugen first came up), it's hardly noteworthy. --84.133.99.1 00:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

The link section was removed simply because there a ton of links. Plus, it is said in the Wikipedia rules that Wikipedia is not a link repository. A recommended number of links is about three or four, max. What sites should be listed, based on mainly popularity and usefulness? Blacklist

WP:EL and m:When should I link externally provide some useful tips for this. Beats of Rage has a load of sites and complete games, but external links have been kept to a reasonable number. --Jtalledo (talk)

04:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

External links look good now. --Jtalledo (talk) 04:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Might be worth removing openMugen. It's far from complete, not set up to be a true 'clone', and just one of many clone projects. Including it is sorta...moot Kung Fu Man

OpenMugen should still be mentioned in the article if they end up getting removed from the external links. elecbyte.com should stay since it's the site of origin and so should mugenguild.com since it's the largest English-speaking site. Messatsu 13:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

RandomSelect's the biggest online host for content for it with a database, though I'll be quick to point out that even the biggest site isn't the best to direct people to for more information. Kung Fu Man 9:39 AM, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• Can someone please explain to me why"MUGEN Warriors Union" keeps getting removed, it appears to be as legitimate as the other links currently listed, and please don't say "this isn't a link archive" I feel that there is more to it than that.Sonic Hog 20:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'd say it's more an issue of why it keeps getting readded--it's relatively new (not even three months old) and has little to no unique information. The site is just not established and isn't worth adding at this time... unless the list is to convey all known M.U.G.E.N sites. Messatsu 23:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Elecbyte: needed, for obvious reasons; Mugen Fighters Guild: the biggest english/international forum out there; RandomSelect: holds a lot of useful tutorials from authors who disappeared and is also the official/most reliable host for tools designed for mugen; MugenBR: this one could go, but it hosts a lot of people, including the author of one of the most used tools for mugen (MCM); StreetMugen: mirrors tutorials and chars, but it's still quite pointless, IMO it could go as well; Every other webpage: nothing peculiar to add, they suit better in a personal page if they are full games.--151.37.24.130 02:39, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

If they must be internal links, creating articles here and interlinking them with this article might be a possibility. Spec Ops already has it's own article for example. Messatsu 14:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

What bit of it do you exactly feel is POV SonicHog, given I did keep it as neutral as possible: the only benefits to the practice are one stop shopping and hits for whatever site is hosting the stuff. Also curious what sources you exactly have in mind as needing to be cited. Kung Fu Man 20:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Wreaks of vanity.

It needs some sort of referenced proof, KFM. We know it's there, but it heeds to be held up with facts found online. Sorry. Blacklist 17:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

proofs of what? the creators spend hours creating code and sometimes sprites as well, this is called intellectual work (and/or artistic work, the gameplay as well is design, thus intellectual work), this is protected by the copyright, since it's intellectual property, I'm shocked you people ask for this.

Still, the work is copyrighted, therefore distribution or alteration of it are prohibited. --151.37.24.130 19:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Once again your soapboxing preaching the evils of "warehousing", if you believe your being ripped off why don't you actually take legal action instead of closing down your site and complaining about it on the Internet, or do you know that it is not worth the time and resources fighting them? Let me point out that for every truly original hand made creation for MUGEN there are dozens of unauthorized recreations of characters from games, I don't think "Yeah I used unedited sprites and material from (Capcom/Sega/ETC) but the code is mine" would hold up very well in court. The coining of "warehouse" makes it seem that the majority of your community seem to believe they are the only ones suffering from people redistributing their file without permission, what do you think of the distribution of ROMS nearly all the resources used for MUGEN creations come from them?Sonic Hog 21:26, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

How many mugen sites do you see promoting rom sharing wise guy? You'll find almost all, save for MGBR but that's another issue, will object to it hands down out of respect for the companies. Also might I point out that the fuss is solely over code or original content: if someone were to post only ripped sprites and sound from a character that would be another issue entirely.

Besides the facts, the only problem with this article is it goes contrary against your way of thinking, so you remove it. Which is the worst use of point of view: the person who posts something everything agrees in, or the one that shoots it down simply because they feel personally it to be wrong? Might I also add that people did finally come to terms with the community rules bit here and you'd probably still gladly motivate against it if reposted? What saddens me is every point I'm making here will just be ignored by you, becuase it doesn't comply with your scope. Then again you're not the one over here in the foxhole having to deal with this stuff, as people ask what exactly a warehouse is and why many creators dislike them.

Is it an encyclopedia for the majority or just a few folks? Because like it or not that definition of warehousing would be one that anyone new to the community would be swiftly introduced to. Citing copyright laws should be enough here, and you know very well enough most folks couldn't afford to bring some fool to court over this. Kung Fu Man

• Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia for anyone to use not a soapbox to inform users that go to your message board. Believe it or not some people that use MUGEN don't want to be involved in your community, the article should be about the MUGEN game engine not the beliefs of message boards that create stuff for it. Ah the infamous "we don't promote roms" excuse you use roms them don't you, I don't think the sprites and sounds are magically willed into existence. If you respected the company you would ask permission to use their materials, strange how you think it's alright not to ask them permission but someone that rehosts your files without permission is a terrible lower than dirt criminal.Sonic Hog 23:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Let's not change subject, creating a character involves a huge amount of coding and information gathering (if it's a conversion from a game), that code, and those informations are protected by copyright (we could spread the sprites.txt file used for the spritesheet, and you would be able to see how sprite alignment IS information/data, also the air file contains more data about timings, collision boxes and whatnot) and thus only the COPYRIGHT HOLDER on the code produced and the data gathered can choose HOW to distribute it, if he forbids people from using it, they can't use it, period. --151.37.24.130 23:48, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: Capcom and SNK said they considered dojin chars as fan-work, and have nothing against it. Also, MUGEN is both and engine AND a community, you can accept it or hide your head underground and try not to hear anything, Wikipedia as ana Encyclopedia should store everything even remotely intresting about the subject, considering how heavily it affected the MUGEN community (not just randomselect, or mugenguild, I've been around since the first mugendevs), the warehouse effect IS important, most authors cite them in the readmes of their chars, thus you can't ignore it. --151.37.24.130 23:52, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

P.P.S.: Let's not talk anymore about Legal issues with fan fiction, there is already a page for that, maybe link it in the main article. --151.37.24.130 23:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

P.P.P.S: There is also a discussion about it in thr legal issues paragraph of

Fangame.--151.37.24.130

00:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Are you KFM, are you hiding behind an IP to hide the fact that you have no idea of proper etiquette and make it artificially seem that others share your

opinion, adding to your own comments using P.S. is rather annoying. "Capcom and SNK said they considered dojin chars as fan-work" where is the source for this again, the articles you linked have sources where are yours?Sonic Hog

00:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually I'm Madness on randomselect forums, and also on a bunch of others, my ip is my ip, no proxy or other things, yes, I'm Italian. Adding to my comments using post scriptums is actually an elegant way of typing, just like indenting things when replying. The statements for both companies come from official replies to mail some authors sent them, feel free to mail them yourself if you don't trust us. Even if Capcom and SNK (actually we should say SNK Playmore and not just SNK) didn't allow us for that sort of sprite usage, that won't allow warehousers to distribute our (now illicit) work. Warehousing is there, and it IS an issue, an issue mugeneers feel the need to share with players, why are you so opposed to this? Also, you're being very rude, to the point of being offensive, way to go on a place that is meant to be used as a knowledge base for everything. You should be ashamed of yourself. --151.37.24.130 02:32, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

And I'm KFM over here, just because I find it funny that you wanted to accuse me of stooping that low. Just for grins, this is being posted without being logged in so you can get a nice look at my IP. Though if you'd like I could bring in several people that agree with my point. Would that help any or would you dismiss them too? Kung Fu Man 23:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

TMasta here, Co runner of http://www.reubenkee.com/ and i would like to add that warehousing is in fact illegal since even tough in allot of cases the graphical and audio aspects of our creations are based of Copyrighted material, the programming/coding isn't wich is infact copyrighted material of the creator. thus hosting creations with our programming is illegal unless permission were to be given. --86.87.226.35 02:48, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Then take legal action.Sonic Hog 03:01, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

You must be a joke or something, do you have the slightest idea of the economic effort this kind of legal action brings costs? If it was reasonably possible, I myself would have paid for the necessary costs in the meanwhile. Also, how is this related to Wikipedia? --151.37.24.130 03:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of which, Reu's latest creations use original sprites, and he's not the only one who does that, and warehouses hosts his stuff as well. --151.37.24.130 02:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

"Though if you'd like I could bring in several people that agree with my point." I see that your a firm believer in

Wikiality Sonic Hog

02:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Funny, considering how you didn't move a finger to prove us that this is false, maybe you need me to ask it: do you believe that warehousing work of intellect without the consent of the author is right?

Even better: Do you think that our statement "warehousing work of intellect without the consent of the author is wrong" is a false one? (since you just spoke of truth)

Also, I don't get if you consider this false (you spoke of wikiality whose definition is "truth by consensus" (rather than fact) so maybe you guess we're just making up stuff) of you don't consider it intresting enough. For the first case, well, I'd like to see you trying convince anything on the "falsiness" of the aforementioned statement, for the second case, if a lot of people cares about it, it's important, it's a rather simple concept: a lot of people cares and is intrested about x -> x is important, you shouldn't have any sort of trouble in understanding this, I hope. --151.37.24.130 03:07, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Well sonic hog, this discussion is not about the origin of the material in question, it's about the fact that people are taking credit and our work and host them trying to act as concierges.--86.87.226.35 03:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but what does warehousing mean to anybody outside of the Mugen Community? You have to consider this: This article isn't for Mugen afficianados who want to learn what they already know. This is for people who don't know what Mugen is. If you really thing warehousing matters to those people, let me clue you in: it doesn't. The warehousing "situation" is nothing more than a petty squabble, as far as I am concerned, and 99% of the general population that exists outside of the mugen community doesn't give a rat's tail about it. That's one of the bases Wikipedia articles operate on: Notability. How worth mentioning is it? To you, obviously, a great deal, because you're part of the Mugen community. But just like linking your own website is a bad idea, putting some arbitrary flamewar on a wikipedia article is a bad idea. Not only that, but it's always being told from the POINT OF VIEW of Mugen creators; at Wikipedia, you never tell anything from a point of view. That's what NPOV is; Null Point of View. And quite obviously, there exist people out there with the POINT OF VIEW that Warehousing is, infact, not a bad thing at all. If you want to give your section a greater chance of staying, tell it from a NPOV side; showcase the benefits AND the shortcomings of warehousing. We have to see both sides of the picture. You can't lean one direction or the other. And even then, if you do that, I expect it to be reverted. BlazeHedgehog 03:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The only benefits for warehousing are that in some cases you can get ahold of an unavailable work and that they have everything in one place. But even then if you were to flesh those two out the cons still outweight the pros don't they? When I wrote that bit, I did say if it came across as POV, add to it or edit it so it wasn't. Why couldn't someone have just done that instead of nixing the whole thing? :P The reason it was important to bring up here btw is this article is one of the first links brought up, and the absence of any information about the issue has been commonly cited by those going who wished to host stuff without permission (though ironically, when it's here they shrug it off and knock wikipedia's validity @_@). And while 99% of the work outside the mugen community couldn't care less, it's still an important matter for *THIS* article here. In all seriousness, I'd rather have the section back and cleared up to whatever NPOV standards that people wish, and simply be there to inform people of the facts. That's it! Kung Fu Man 00:22, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Aztec Soldier from Mugen-Infantry here. I wanted to give my thoughts on this issue, and hopefully we can all solve this and come to accordance. I won’t take long, since the truth is very simple and blatantly obvious. First of all, M.U.G.E.N Creators spend their time creating code and perfecting it to meet their standards. When they finally finish it, and are pleased with the results, they release it to the public hoping someone will appreciate all their hard work and have fun at the same time. Then some random person comes in and hosts said creation on their site, without any consideration whatsoever to the creator. Most creators will give you permission to use their stuff, its not like they are greedy, if they were, they wouldn’t be releasing anything. The main factor here is respect, that’s all a creator really wants, to be respected.

It’s sad to see that a programmer doesn’t have authority over his own code, when he obviously should. It’s his work, his math codes, and his time spent. People should learn to be more thoughtful when it comes to that.--75.22.2.89 03:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the Internet, bub. You post something publically, it gets passed around and ends up at some website you don't know about. That's why you make sure you put your URL in the file, preferably in several places, so that people will always have a link back to your website no matter where they get it from. If you aren't comfortable with that, maybe the internet isn't the place for you. BlazeHedgehog 04:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The files are getting modified to remove links back into the site though. Usually most people just use a readme to do this and removing it is not harmful in the least to the operation of the character. I think the majority of content creators wouldn't care if this sort of thing would stop to where hosting would identify the author and leave the files an unmodified state. Messatsu 14:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Files getting modified to remove URLs certainly does suck - but holding ALL warehouse sites responsible for the actions of a few is very short-sighted. It's that same short-sighted behavior that starts up all these pointless "Violence in Videogames" debates in congress. "A couple kids went on a bloody rampage, and they played a videogame! Nevermind that violence, especially violence in schools, is at a 30 year low! We'll blame

DooM

!"

An example that seems to crop up in the warehousing discussion is warehouses for other modifiable game engines: Nobody seems to care those exist. When was the last time you saw the Half-Life community shut down because some idiot stole some textures, or a couple of models, or posted a map without providing a link back to who made it? The answer: You haven't, because it never once happened.- BlazeHedgehog 14:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Why doesn't a apple taste like a orange?! They've both fruit, they should both taste the same and follow the same guidelines!

What works for one goose isn't going to work for some other gander: it's a community's choice, not some off-beat internet 'logic' that you release online it's fair game. Try taking content from someone's game or mod in the infinity engine modding community, and see if anyone gets upset. Oh wait: that's happened a few times, but not to the point where everyone shut down. Then again, it's a limited RPG base, so the problem isn't as insane as it is here.

Also, warehousing is being used here SOLELY as a derogatory term. There are no "good" warehouses, because the term solely aplies to any site hoarding other people's works with reckless abandon, simply for the site hits, not because they're doing you some great favor. People can't claim archiving purposes: Mugen Museum already has just about everything made in a requestable-by-email form of distribution system, and that's by far more tasteful than hosting everything and anything because one can.

A site that hosts a lot WITH permission is NOT a 'warehouse'. Sites that host things with the author's consent, like RandomSelect, StreetMugen, or Wolvie's site even, are the kind I'm talking about, and the kind I presume you call "good warehouses". Those provide somewhat of an easier service for people to get reliable access to works, without stepping on anyone's backs just for 'a few more hits'. If more people actually just bothered to ASK to host stuff and then stated they had permission from the authors, you realize there would be plenty still online without any fuss?

And let's not get into the fact that some 'warehouses' will gladly host a work that had utilized someone else's code or original content (yes, there's a concept!), was modified without permission, or a section of the readme is removed or removed entirely in these creations because they choose to.

Nobody wants to deny anyone anything: people wouldn't release anything online if that was the case. People just don't want to be crapped on and turned into yet another notch on someone's belt either. This goes against the common 'internet logic' which aparently throws out any concept of ethics, but new folks who come in won't know that this problem's here and might very well accidentally do it themselves because they didn't know. All it was there was to inform people what the term means in the community, why it's there, and why the community has a problem with it, so they wouldn't find their butts in a sling because they wanted to be nice and share some creation they found that was long offline because it's okay in other communities.

The debate isn't about the community, it's about this page, and why this belongs here. You can't go change tons of minds simply because it doesn't jive with you and you don't want it on the page here: I'm sorry, but that's you misusing POV then aren't you? Hopefully we're on the same page, because given the majority of voices are for the topic to be brought back up here and to *inform* people, I'm going to repost it later today with a bit more fairness towards the other side and better explaination of the point. --Kung Fu Man 11:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

"given the majority of voices are for the topic to be brought back up" You mean the people you asked to reply here?Sonic Hog 18:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

These people came on their own volition. I didn't force or coerce anyone to speak up anywhere. A bit on the paranoid side, aren't you?--Kung Fu Man 19:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

"Though if you'd like I could bring in several people that agree with my point. "-Kung Fu Man

You may not have forced them to post here but you asked them to post here because they agree with your point. "given the majority of voices are for the topic to be brought back up" the majority being "victims" of warehousing.Sonic Hog 20:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I never personally asked anyone to jump in. Also, my statement there was sarcasm: you believed that I was pretending to be someone else through my IP to lend support to the arguement when that wasn't the case. I *could* bring a ton of people into this with a little effort and make this one very long dragged out mess, but I choose not to. Your points there are totally moot, but I'm assuming you'll just overlook that and try to twist my words again. Please, bother some other topic. Your POV is suffocating.--Kung Fu Man 22:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

This is insane, not only we have to "accept" that copyright infringment is something usual in the world wide web, we can't even inform people about the damage it does.

Listen carefully: there are many sorts of mugen-involved-person but for simplicity I'll divide them in two big groups: those who use and those who make, maybe warehousing is not a *direct* issue for the first group, but it is for every member (including potential ones that can learn about mugen here on wikipedia) of the second group, so maybe the user/"leecher"/player is not directly involved, but I assure you that every author/contributor/beta-tester I got to knwo WAS concerned about this, and I know plenty of them. --151.37.24.130 23:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah yes. The "leecher". Such a wonderful Mugen community term. "Wait, I have fans of my work who download them WITHOUT giving anything back to the community? Burn'em at the stake! Fans are bad news!" - You honestly can't expect any more than 5% of the people who download your content to re-contribute back to the community; that's insane. That's like expecting everybody who watches TV, to make a TV show of their own! - BlazeHedgehog 14:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

You are absolutely rig... wait a sec, people gets PAID to make tv shows! Mugen authors don't, so well, it's kind of normal for them to be expecting something back from the people who pay their chars, maybe a donation, maybe a decent feedback, maybe some form of contribution, maybe some help with something the didn't get right at the first try. Darn, you're not even funny anymore. --151.37.24.130 20:28, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

"Also, you're being very rude, to the point of being offensive, way to go on a place that is meant to be used as a knowledge base for everything. You should be ashamed of yourself"151.37.24.130 Sonic Hog 22:37, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Blaze, you're THIS -[ ]- close to getting reported for verbal harassment. Stick to the topic at hand, and don't tell them what to do. As far as I care, their info is qualified. Let them put it in. Blacklist 05:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

ha·rass; 1. To irritate or torment persistently, 2. To wear out; exhaust, 3. To impede and exhaust (an enemy) by repeated attacks or raids. These verbs mean to trouble persistently or incessantly. Harass and harry imply systematic persecution by besieging with repeated annoyances, threats, or demands.

As far as I am concerned, I have done nothing of the sort. Infact, in my experience, Most MUGEN people are actually very hostile towards subjects like this. Believe me, if I was intentionally harassing you? You would have already reported me. Just relax and watch where you throw threats around; the next person you threaten might not be as forgiving as I am, and the BOTH of you will likely be in hot water.

Besides, in what world do SUGGESTIONS constitute harrasment? BlazeHedgehog 06:32, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

They count when you put them in the tone you said it in. "Maybe the internet isn't the place for you" is NOT the nicest of things to say. Blacklist 06:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

The saying goes, "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" (rather than, you know, stop cooking). It's certainly blunt, but it's not harassment by any degree. BlazeHedgehog 08:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

We're not trying to "turn off the heat" we're just informing about the damage it provokes. Besides, what kind of behaviour is answering to a "I might be reporting you if you don't chill out" with vacuous, generic threats? Let's end that quarrel here. --151.37.24.130 23:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

What damage, though? There will always be bad eggs, regardless of "Warehousing" or not. GOOD Warehousing (keeping proper author credits, etc.) is useful when you don't want to spend 30 hours digging through a 200 page Mugen Link-farm like, I dunno, Mugen Warriors Union or something. Unfortunately, you guys don't even let GOOD warehouses exist. It's no wonder some of your fans can get so demanding with all the arbitrary rules you guys have set up for distributing this stuff. - BlazeHedgehog 14:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Some author might not want to have his chars around, "good warehouses" (which are rarely called warehouses at all) only host characters they can host (the author/license allows for re-hosting) so when you host stuff you shouldn't be hosting (no explicit consent) you're simply out of the "good warehouses" business. Also, the "fans" (that sometimes don't even know the name of the author since they got a homebrew full-game pack off some p2p network) always contained a part of whiny people that kept demanding, they created the situation, they are NOT victims of it, the players that enjoy and give back (even if only in the form of a good feedback and sometimes even *smart* suggestions) are not considered "leechers" in any way. Also spending 30 hours (wth?) digging for 200 pages is NOTHING compared to making a single GOOD character (which can take up to 300 hours to do), and by the way, in 30 hours of "digging" how many chars did you find? And what good did it do for you? Probably all you've got after that is a crappy 300-something characters mugen game, with maybe 5 stages, where finally you can have the "vegeta vs gandhi" fight of your dreams.

Let me tell you something, that is NOT what mugen is about, mugen can be 2 things: an open engine to create a full game OR an engine to come up with a good "crossover" game, filled with chars coming from AUTHORS you know and whose creation you enjoy. Mixing and matching that only gives you an horrible less-than playable soup somebody likes to call "game". So do yourself a favour, stop digging links of chars as in "I absolutely need every version of goku and ryu for my mugen" and just get the creations that are worth playing and delete those who aren't. --151.37.24.130 20:28, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

In regards to this statement "You are absolutely rig... wait a sec, people gets PAID to make tv shows! Mugen authors don't, so well, it's kind of normal for them to be expecting something back from the people who pay their chars, maybe a donation, maybe a decent feedback, maybe some form of contribution, maybe some help with something the didn't get right at the first try. Darn, you're not even funny anymore." Yes, exactly, I am paying a tv network to do me a service. Because they are getting payed they are obligated to show programming that majority of the viewers want to watch. Nobody forces a creator to make a char they don't want to because they are not getting paid, there is absolutely no obligation on their part to make a char that other people want. They make a char they feel is worth their time to be playable, others won't feel the same way. If I don't like the char, why should I be obligated to give something back, I'm not getting paid for it.

I work 10 hour a day shifts and I'm freakin tired to do anything so I simply don't have the time to send feedback on every char I download yet the whole community is always expecting something back from the users. Why can't I just play mugen with the miniscule amount of free time I have to enjoy? Why must I always give something back? Whatever happened that creators felt was that they were just happy that people liked to play with their work? Some of these creators are absolutely ridiculous saying they slave for hours, don't study for exams, skip on sleep etc... Nobody is forcing you to do that, you create chars when you have free time so likewise don't expect other people to do the same. "digging for 200 pages is NOTHING compared to making a single GOOD character (which can take up to 300 hours to do), and by the way, in 30 hours of "digging" how many chars did you find? And what good did it do for you? Probably all you've got after that is a crappy 300-something characters mugen game........." I really don't care if it takes a thousand hours to make a char, I'm not paying a creator to slave for 300 hours, they create based on their time schedule, and no obviously I do try and look for good chars based on other peoples recommendations but if the char isn't hosted anymore. I've never been hardcore enough with the whole mugen thing to use warehouses but they sure seem convineant, though I GUESS I'd rather waste my time surfing through hundreds of links only to find that the char I want isn't hosted anymore and now I can't even do requests on mugenguild anymore because its for contributors only. What crap is that? I obviously would contribute, again, if I had the time. Mugen is becoming an exclusive club for mugen creators only.

Though I condone stuff being hosted without permission, some of the arguments seem really weak. 1. Stuff about warehousing hosting older char versions than the newest char versions on the original creators website. Who the hell cares? Thats obviously the leechers problem if he decides to use an older version. What difference does that make for the creator? If a creator is upset with that, they seriously have issues. 2. People who use warehouses prevent creators from "get revenue in one form or another". Who the heck creates a char expecting profit? Mugen institute being the only example I could find, why would I pay for merchandising just for a couple chars? What if I don't like the char? Am I still entitled to reimburse on the creator or some sort of contribution on those grounds?

One more thing, yes as sonic said this is the internet. I can name countless videos, games etc..that have been leaked over the internet. This is the internet, stuff like this happens all the time. If you are not comfortable with the risk of your work being hosted, distributed etc without your permission, as much as it is unfortunate, the internet isn't for you. By the way, the article now on warehousing is still biased towards the people who oppose them and is only preaching the evils of hosting files without permission. Give it a rest already. Shiftyol 07:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

The above arguments are completely vapid. Citing four million hour work days is not a valid excuse for failing to contribute to the M.U.G.E.N community. Sprite ripping takes only a few hours and is considered contributing. Sprite cleaning is a quick process and is also considered contributing. There is a tremendous amount of ways to contribute outside of character creation. Please stop talking around this tired point.

As a point of mention, the M.U.G.E.N community is definitely a scene. Hopefully, even the connotations of the word 'scene' alone will help carry my point. In my opinion, there are quite a number of parallels between M.U.G.E.N and the punk rock scene of the late 80's early 90's, ie. DIY, elitism, and posers. Cries of 'sell-out' become 'leecher'. 'Major label' echoes warehouse, etc, etc. Both of these communities have rules established by their active members. And the active members of M.U.G.E.N have decided that warehousing is wrong. To steal a quote from an earlier comment, "The saying goes, "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" (rather than, you know, stop cooking). It's certainly blunt, but it's not harassment by any degree." You don't like searching for characters? Leave. You think that theft is acceptable because the internet is already riddled with crooks? Get out. You really are not welcome. Honestly, I hear there is a really nice Wikipedia page devoted to homebrew Sega games featuring Super Mario clones. You might be more interested in that.

It is my belief that if the article seems POV it is only because KFM's stance on warehousing corresponds exactly with the stance of the majority of the M.U.G.E.N community. The community's point of view is that warehousing is unacceptable. I honestly do not believe that anyone is here to preach. KFM appears to be outlining the rules of the M.U.G.E.N community for newcomers. Let him keep his additions already.

In parting, New World colonists had a point of view concerning freedom. How often is the Bill of Rights page chopped due to POV information? S0mah 17:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

"The above arguments are completely vapid. Citing four million hour work days is not a valid excuse for failing to contribute to the M.U.G.E.N community. Sprite ripping takes only a few hours and is considered contributing. Sprite cleaning is a quick process and is also considered contributing. There is a tremendous amount of ways to contribute outside of character creation. Please stop talking around this tired point." How is this vapid? You don't know my life. Not that anyone cares but I work daily 10 hour shifts from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. I also have to do home school which involves another 3-4 hours of study if I wish to get into college. That revolves around half an hour to an hour of total free time. Really, what are you expecting? I simply don't have the hours like other people, and I'm sure other people live the same life as I do.

"::It is my belief that if the article seems POV it is only because KFM's stance on warehousing corresponds exactly with the stance of the majority of the M.U.G.E.N community. The community's point of view is that warehousing is unacceptable. I honestly do not believe that anyone is here to preach. KFM appears to be outlining the rules of the M.U.G.E.N community for newcomers. Let him keep his additions already."

No, wikipedia isn't a board for kung fu man's forum-like rules, it is preaching. If kung fu man's not so eager to preach, why is he already so pushy with getting a subsection done about a petty squabble between a few bad websites and a few mugen creators that instigated a whole flame to getting countless other creators to close down their sites. It didn't and won't accomplish anything.Shiftyol 15:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

You have either failed to read the entirety of my post or you simply do not care. Let me make plainly my prior sentiment:

The majority of the M.U.G.E.N community stands aligned with KFM's words. He is not a vomit covered transient waving a cardboard sign that reads, "NO WAREHOUSES!!!@!11! PS. the end of the world is near.' As far as M.U.G.E.N goes, KFM is the voice of the majority.

Stop taking this argument in the direction of KFM and maybe try participating in the community. Follow a link to any one of the forums listed in the article and read the warehouse threads. Stop spewing your own personal agenda. As far as the M.U.G.E.N community is concerned, you're wrong. S0mah 18:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I love how you and the others keep asking people to create stuff for MUGEN and go to your message boards, the article and talk page are not here for you to recruit members, and neither is it for you to solely inform new members of your "community".

"As far as the M.U.G.E.N community is concerned, you're wrong. " As far as Jack Thompson is concerned we are all evil pixelantes that shoot up schools, does that make it fact? "Stop spewing your own personal agenda" the MUGEN community are the ones doing that. Sonic Hog 18:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

How 'bout we just talk to an unbiased admin about this. I have reason to believe that Sonic Hog, the other Hedgehog person and whoever Shifty is are leechers themselves, and don't want creators to make this page mean something towards the community and beyond. Gawd, stop the bickering already. Blacklist 21:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm too lazy to dig up quotes between the postings I read, so I'll just write. Mugen people don't care if you contribute or not to the community. We have no problem with leechers at all. We understand that people have lives of their own and probably would never bother lifting a finger for the community. To ask everyone to contribute is absolutely ridiculous. That's not the reason why the request board is missing from Mugen Guild. The reason there isn't a request board is because the rules Mugen content authors want in place to allow requesting is too difficult to moderate for just by the volume. I'm not going to explain why it's difficult here. If there is demand for it, an alternate board would develop where requesting is allowed--restricted or unrestricted. I know MugenBR allows requesting to some extent.

I don't particularly mind "warehouses" myself as that's how I found out about Mugen. What I dislike about most warehouses is that authors are left uncredited, their sites aren't linked back, and/or readmes are removed for whatever reasons. Seems MugenNation is a former warehouse that "went straight" recently or at least I noticed that they've "gone straight". Enough authors make a stink about warehouses that I can't write rules allowing it; though I don't think they're all that bad since they're functionally equivalent to personally answered requests which are acceptable to 99.9% of the community. This discussion is beginning to be too long to read. Messatsu 00:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

If this entry continues to be disputed as POV, I definitely feel that we should start the mediation process. The warehousing section has remained in some form or another for at least a day now. Hopefully this argument is over. S0mah 08:28, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Mugenation is still a warehouse, the files are still hosted and with a not-so-smart trick you can leech all the creations there, including the copyrighted stuff. And about the contributing thing, if time is a too valuable resource for you to give it away, then donate some cash to authors whose creations you enjoyed. And please, stop using the "but everybody else does it" defense, we're here to inform about what is considered wrong, and what is considered right, you don't have to agree, it's a POV, but we're not here to spread our POV, but to inform people what is the most widespread POV, so they know what to expect when they enter the communities. Heck if we were to think like some of you suggested we should remove the "n politics, right-wing, the political right or simply the right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of conservatism, the religious right, and areas of classical liberalism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics." from the

"We have no problem with leechers at all. We understand that people have lives of their own and probably would never bother lifting a finger for the community." I could give alot of examples of creators that make it clear, leechers are not welcome/bothersome. I don't understand, if board requests are restricted to contributors only, regulars hate being asked for a request, warehouses are not ethically right. Where does the leecher go?Shiftyol 04:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

From what I understand if mugenguild continues to grow, and the volume to be moderated again becomes to great, how do mugenguild admins intend to fix the problem? Further impose higher required contributions? Even if the volume of contributors would increase ten fold, Mugen Guild wouldn't have a problem with the request board. Also, most members with contributor request much less than new members.

I could give alot of examples of creators that make it clear, leechers are not welcome/bothersome. I have yet to see real examples of creators hating on download-only members.

Most major boards make it specifically clear that they are a creator only forum. All members, creators don't want to be bothered with requests, so in my opinion, mugen is already an exclusive club. Which is why I suggest to create an alternate forum to do so, but mugen-infantry and mugenbr readily accept requests of all kinds. Messatsu 18:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

@User:Shiftyol: Man, it shouldn't be to hard to understand, you use the work of somebody else, and you don't give back in ANY way, what do you expect? A warm welcome? Specially considering how pesterfully annoying can some "leecher" become, with silly requests or empty-headed feedback (!wow your Adon is very cool, you should make an evil-orochi-daemon version!!1111!11!1!" or "great work, downloading now" how do you know it's cool if you still haven't got it?)

And it was YOU who said 10$ to every char, I said contribute back; decent feedback, well-thought bugreporting, new chars-stages-screenpacks, some new animation to be used in existing chars-projects, money, those are all forms of contribution, and you don't have to give back to EVERYONE, just to those you consider worthy of that.

Communities are worried about contribuion because that's the bone and meat of the community!

Look at what's happening with the BoR communities, they have almost no-one that creates-rips sprites and sound (sadly they are made of a lot of leechers and almost no creator, and the creators rarely spend their time gathering their resources), most of the creations are done by ripping the sprites straight out of mugen creations.

Also, anonymous leechers are somewhat better than those who, not only download, but damage the community appearance raping the concept of mugen, using it like it was a game, putting it in watch mode and uploading videos of "cheap dude with nifty fullscreen FX" with "even cheaper dude with stolen sprites as well" on youtube.

I'll leave you with the decision of what to be, but remember, the more you give back, the more the community is likely to grow, and produce quality material. Man, I feel like an idiot, that stuff was for granted. --2dMadness 20:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

"using it like it was a game," It is a game. Sonic Hog 20:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Heck, we need to put this too in the article.

Mugen is NOT a game, that's a common misconception, mugen is a game engine, mugen only has one character (Kung Fu Man), games are a completely different thing. --2dMadness 02:00, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

If Half Life only had one map it would still count as a game. Sonic Hog 02:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Half-Life was made with the GoldSrc engine (which actually originated from the Quake engine). And if Half-Life only had one map, it would be one helluva crappy game compared to what it really is. The GoldSrc engine made Half-Life, and the MUGEN engine made MUGEN. MUGEN's an engine. Period. Blacklist 03:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Sonic Hog, are you serious with that? The Half Life comparison I mean. Now think if half life only had a square map, with no textures, with only a wall in the middle, and the code was full of comments, maybe with just a parallelepiped-shaped weapon that could only fire single shots. Darn, mugen is just a game engine, elecbyte stated so, TestP were the guys who released some stuff for TESTING with mugen, but overall, KFM can't be considered a character in a game of his own, it's just a tutorial with some humor in it. Mugen is NOT and will NEVER BE a game. And neither Mugensoup is. Try Babel Sword maybe, so you can see what a game IS. --2dMadness 08:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

M.U.G.E.N is sort of both I guess. KFM vs. KFM is still a complete fighting game anyway you slice it. Just because it wouldn't be commercially feasible doesn't make it any less a game on it's own. Pong doesn't have multiple backgrounds or differing characters for that matter. 24.7.231.250 03:08, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

When you download M.U.G.E.N, what you get is actually a development kit: It includes all the documentation for the engine, some tools for creation, and a "sample game" to show what the engine can do. The "sample game" was created directly using the engine, and is a forefront for further fighting game development. It is a component to the engine; the "sample game" does not make up the entire package. AeroGP 17:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

This section is unnesscary and obviously unencyclopedic. Keep stances and issues of the community on your forums. 216.86.70.87 17:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

How 'bout no? 207.62.237.108 18:13, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Unfortuntately, I'm going to have to agree on removing the section. Take, for example, this article on bartending; while it does say a lot about the behavior of the typical bartender, there is no information on the page about bartending ethics and regulations, even though it would benefit a person seeking a job as one, and would benefit an existing bartender who doesn't want to put up with violations in the rules. Dispite that it is very important and very controversial information, it does not belong in an encyclopedia. AeroGP 04:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

"And it was YOU who said 10$ to every char, I said contribute back; decent feedback, well-thought bugreporting, new chars-stages-screenpacks, some new animation to be used in existing chars-projects, money, those are all forms of contribution, and you don't have to give back to EVERYONE, just to those you consider worthy of that." Did you even read the rest of my post? I already stated I simply don't have the time except spare minutes of play here and there. I simply don't have time to contribute, the way things are right now my life is alittle more important than designing, beta-testing, ripping whatever..... You want my soul instead? I can contribute that.

The part removed, current event or not should not be there. It is basically commentary in an encyclopedia.--Spikelee 02:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Oh I did not mean to label the edit as a minor edit.--Spikelee 02:24, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Is it possible for someone to throw up some screenshots of the engine in action? Some people will read this article and might start to question if it really exists. I know people that flip out when something like this pops up. So, I think that some form of pictoral proof should be added to the page. Blacklist 08:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I recommend a picture of the basic GUI when you first get it, since the entire package can vary in appearance. AeroGP 23:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Don't even try to talk some sense into the KFM and his cronies. Almost every person here that is on his side did in fact come from the Random Select Forum that he created. It was in fact encouraged from this forum to come to the wikipedia article and voice thier side of the battle. This argument will never end and this wikipedia talk page will be entirely one-sided because of the amount of Kung Fu Man's "colleagues" that have come here to stir up trouble.

From browsing Kung Fu Man's forum it can be deduced also that any Mugen character and stage "authors" that did not comply with his and several other influential mugen artist's "movement" were actually attacked with petty and base invasions of thier sites and straining of thier bandwidth.

These people cannot be reasoned with it seems. But wikipedia is not the place to come and spout your garbage. This talk page is one of the worst discussions I have seen to date. Thier is No discussion here at all! I believe that this page should be locked ASAP as there are still rabid supporters of these anti-warehouse movement willing to arbitrarily deface this article.

It is really sad that creating 2-dimensional game characters can cause such inflated egos. To those who believe their creations are to be held sacred on such a place as the internet even in the face of the actions of the MPAA and the RIAA on "piracy" of media should be ashamed. Your siege tower is made of cardboard and toilet paper.

P.S. The browse the RandomSelect forum atleast one time before making your conclusion. That site's forum is a pit of vipers. P.P.S. Stop circle jerking each other it's just a ripped ryu with some coding to make him perform video game moves!!

I agree with the person above me's comments. I came here of my own volition and am posting my seperate opinion, (lol actually it's just the same person except behind a proxy). Just trying to add balance to this argument. You can see by my L33t use of different names to post slightly differing opinions to add power and depth to my argument that my cause has a lot of supporters. If this mugen article becomes vandalized any more in the future, you can see that it was probably one of my internet friends that knows how to write lengthy and scathing articles on a subject matter because I think it matters. This article is fairly neutral as it stands, I recommend locking it ASAP if you don't want rabid people from either side attempting to vandalize it!

Lol oops looks like I'm actually a noob when it comes to signing my name because I forgot too for the last comment lololol rofl! Evil Kung Fu Man 22:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

• Wow are you full of bull. But what the hey, you're entitled to your opinion just as much as the next guy even if you are dead wrong (proxies? Gimme a break).

Regardless, @Blacklist: I'll get a shot up tonight of the basic setup.--Kung Fu Man 16:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

@ EKFM: Wrong section, dude. I didn't want that discussion here. Hence, the "Moving on...".
@ KFM: These are all great shots. The gameplay example shot seems rather bland, IMO, but they still get the point across. Blacklist 03:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Remeber Wikipedia isn't a political forum. Make sure the entries are unbias and let all sides related give their most important issues. acglass 14:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The vandalism here is the most retarded; lame points, hearsay claims, typos, what else could you ask for from a retard like Violent-Ken-Masters? He's also unprofessional for personal attacks, which is clearly against Wikipedia's policy.

• I think we've all gotten annoyed by that fellow as of late...he's just reposting the same thing over and over again, and crying how some 'truth must be told'. It's funny too: if he read the article he'd see he's wrong that there's no original coding (yes, nobody writes their own code! It's all been lies! :o), GameFreak (the "makers of Pokemon") has no ill-will against M.U.G.E.N video makers that I know of or could find evidence of, and people are calling copyright on their coding and in some cases original characters, not commercial ones...okay, I'm done venting now. ._.'--Kung Fu Man 13:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• I've been told that what has been happening is a [Revert Rule Violation]. Time to step up and put and end to this farce. Oherman 19:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Kung Fu Man, you're being an asshole. Again.

• Yes, there's a thoughtful response...--Kung Fu Man 03:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

LOL Get a life much!

You first VKM, that is, if you don't get kicked out for 3rr. Put those nonsense again and you'll be hearing from Wikipedia admins. Oherman 08:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh? If it wasn't for acglass there wouldn't be a mugen article, just mindless nonesense. If anyone is vandalising it with nonesense it's KFM. He thinks he's some kind of God for Jeeze sake. Don't blame me when somebody with copywrites comes and sues him for overcopywriting something. Everything was fine until KFM stepped in.

• Nice to know you can read and debate well. Sadly, you don't know what you're talking about. BTW...if you read carefully, it's the code and original characters copyright is being called on, not commercial based characters. Even if it's the 9999th version of ryu, the code inside is still by that author and copyright HIM. The character is copyright CAPCOM, but the code is his.

Your points are also unfounded. Where's your proof that gamefreak (you know, the 'makers of pokemon') are upset and have stated this? Even better, your comment about how their is no original coding is hogwash: people write their own, it's original. It's not limited to crappy tag team codes or bonus stages.

Look, I'm asking you to stop and read half the stuff posted here. I really don't give a damn about lording anything over anyone, but you come in here spouting nonsense, I'm damn well going to call you on it.--Kung Fu Man 22:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

VKM, next time, you post legit proof to support your petty claims. And yes, you ARE vandalizing this article. Blacklist 05:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Moreover, you have just been reported for 3RR. Want a vandalism report or a report to the arbitrary commitee about you too? Push us with your hearsay and you'll get it. DO YOU even know the exact company who produced Pokemon and the company licensed to make games from that franchise? Oherman 13:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to keep things clear and straightforward, what exactly would justify as acceptable references for the warehousing section? There are plenty, but most are on the community's forums and in the community's 'code of ethics', making it a little harder to exactly cite things (you're basically asking for references on a community's moral code at the very least). Exact suggestions on what to start with on specific parts would be helpful.--Kung Fu Man 20:49, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

how do you get mugen?

Go West, my young friend. Blacklist 06:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

The only known places where M.U.G.E.N is shown with a period following it are the title screen when opening the program and a few places in the documentation. And in the documents that show M.U.G.E.N. incorrectly, M.U.G.E.N appears more often. Additionally, M.U.G.E.N (the correct form) is also used in the title bar when launching the program, the select screen, the versus screen, the F1 screen whenever M.U.G.E.N is mentioned (some versions of the program might not mention Mugen), and all documentation including the tutorials, license agreement, tool specifications, etc.

While I'm too lazy to perform a check on the files, the string MUGEN very likely appears more than M.U.G.E.N. in documentation, but can't be taken as official as MUGEN is written only in circumstances where it appears easier to type out.

Additionally, originating from Elecbyte are the acronyms U.N.I.T.E.D and T.E.S.T.P (shown in the upper-left corner of the link). While each acronym had each letter stand for something, the last letter of each were nonetheless unpunctuated. Messatsu 00:04, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I moved the page because when I came across it (I can't remember the circumstances, probably just random browsing), there was nothing in the article to suggest that the period should be omited (there's a big picture right on the page which screams "improper naming"). Also, it didn't seem to be a controversial issue since I was even allowed to move it in the first place (usually, an existing page blocks moves like this, requiring a requested move thingy). To avoid this in the future, it may be helpful to add something in the intro paragraph about this with/without period thing. Axem Titanium 00:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Are these talk pages useful anymore? Can we just delete them? They're rather sizeable and haven't been commented in for quite a while. Messatsu 17:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

It's time this talk page got it's first Archive. Too bad I don't know how to make one on Wikipedia. Can someone help us out with this? Nevermind. Archiving now... Blacklist 06:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)