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Off-Topic => Video Games Talk => Topic started by: Angel on August 03, 2009, 09:05PM

Title: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Angel on August 03, 2009, 09:05PM
OMG who else is loving this game????? I loved it ever since I played it, Dazzler has always been my favorite!!! This is definitely a game I would love to mod and add all of my favorites characters too. Does anyone think it's possible? I'm thinking to just substitute MUGEN characters and hopefully could keep all their moves and if not just keep the basic moves like the attacks and a super. Any thoughts??
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Unknown on August 03, 2009, 10:12PM
I don't think so, but ask Teancum or a Moderator they'll know.
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Teancum on August 04, 2009, 07:13AM
Not possible, as it's in a ROM format (basically meaning it's like a file version of a cartridge, with everything that would be stored in a chip all inside one file.  Since ROMs are so very different between games, there's only a small handful of games between all consoles, handhelds and arcade games that have tools to open them.  X-Men is not one of em.
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Angel on August 04, 2009, 01:54PM
Awwww that's poop. I do know some programs that allows you to create your own side scrolling game. Do you think it would be possible to extract the files of the game, like the images for the backgrounds and enemies? That way a moddable version of the arcade game would possble.
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Teancum on August 05, 2009, 04:30AM
Getting the images would be the least of the worries.  The much, much harder part would be building an engine/modifying an existing open-source engine to recreate the gameplay.  Sprites are just pictures, but how things work -- now that's tougher.
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: BLaw on August 05, 2009, 06:35AM
I gave a shot at mugen characters a few years ago.. Trust me: it's hard. Well, making sprites wasn't hard for me (at least, most of them weren't), but the programming part for making a character was.

Just some side info, I wanted to make Baby Vegeta before his transformation to his black costume.
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: TheStorm on August 10, 2009, 01:28PM
Is it playable for the PC?
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Teancum on August 10, 2009, 02:07PM
Yes, but you need an arcade machine emulator called MAME.
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: TheStorm on August 11, 2009, 06:30PM
Oh, ok, thanks Teancum :)
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: Meganubis on August 15, 2009, 05:46PM
i remember seeing a pc version, ill try to find it
Title: Re: X-Men arcade game
Post by: TheStorm on August 16, 2009, 11:55AM
Quote from: Meganubis on August 15, 2009, 05:46PM
i remember seeing a pc version, ill try to find it

:)