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Greetings! After a few votes on my next character project, the Pizza Cats won! So I decded there's no better place to post the progress of this character:
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Summary: The samurai pizza cats are a team of samurai that protect their town of "Little Tokyo". And since they're a team, the gameplay will be as such! The player will control Speedy Cerviche, but all the supers and most of the special moves will call in his team mates Polly Esther and Guido Anchovy.

Complete: All Damage Animations, Stance and Down

Progress: Standing Attack Moves.

Plans: 4 Button control set up (SNK style), Japanese Voice Packs, Multiple types of striker attacks of Guido Anchovy and Polly Esther, 2 Ground Supers, 2 Air Supers, 1 Ultimate

Cameos: Entire Main Cast! From Bad Bird to General Patton, even the Goonie Birds will appear for a special transformation super!

Still Open to Suggestions!

Nice, would be great to see a video when it is more advanced...

i would definity play that game

sure the graphix are like SNES ... but who cares really

I'm quite excited, as I really like the looks of what you've shown so far, and I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more. Good luck!


Alsooooo.... would you consider an English voice pack? The resources to make it happen are definitely available.  ;)

 8O

COOL!!!

Welcome back. You're doing astonishing work here. I hope you don't lose your steam on this. I want this to be finished. You'll be doing a great service for this community. The last animation is classic funny.

Looks interesting. I have some ideas for SPC Mugen characters of my own, but I'm still figuring out the process I will use to make the graphics for them. Keep it up, I'll be looking forward to seeing more progress on this.  :)

MUGEN Pizza Cats are something I've wanted to see for a long time.

I'm curious, did you make these sprites yourself? There's only been one SPC/KNT video game, to my knowledge, and that was for the Famicom.

EXCELLEEEEEEEEEEEEEENT. This sort of thing is LONG overdue.

I had a few ideas for Super Moves myself thinking back to when I hoped that this sort of thing had already been done about a year ago. XD I'm interested to see how this progresses.

Thanks for all the feedback! Happy to see this is welcome amoungst the community!

First order of business is the voicepack. I was leaning towards Japanese because of all the fan-feedback wanting the Pizza Cats in Tatsunoko vs Capcom. But personally, that may be too big of a hassle, after all, I don't speek japanese, so that would probably limit my progress altogether.

Secondly, though all the sprites you see are originally created by myself (no sprite base, I prefer to go from scratch) I have played the Famicon version from beginning to end. ;) So some inspiration had definately  come from that game!

Lastly, working on all basic attacks as we speak, when those are done, I'll have an "In Works" Vid ready. :)

I could help with getting you voice clips from KNT. I have all the episodes to pull sound from, and I know enough Japanese to recognize a few phrases that might be useful. I could also try to get sound effects form the show, if you want.

As far as the voicepacks, this would be a big help if it comes to that! Oy, I might have to do a second poll to see what people want for the voicepack, heh heh. But lets not worry about that yet, still laying out the initial moves. :)

PS: Knowing how brutal Americization goes for imported cartoons, I'm wondering if the Japanese version is even as funny as the English version. >>

It depends on your sense of humor, as well as how much of the language and references you're able to understand, I suppose. I find it pretty funny.

Looking completely awesome, I support this wholly, cant wait to be able to use them. Not a fighting game person but this will definitely get my playing one :3

Also lol Polly's face color is a weird brown instead of a lavender/purple XD

Also I wanted to know what format do you do the spties in, something like PNG or something else?

And please keep up the work so far its looking great  ;]

If you remember, one of my projects way back in the day was to create a very similar thing. And I did.

I had all the music, stages,  backgrounds, programming all finished, all I was missing was the sprites, which ... Uhh.. The megaman fan guy worked hard on and made some for me.

It's a tough project, but so far it's looking good. Hope you have better luck than I had!

~Burkey

Heh, I would like to be a perfectionist, but the less of a pallette I have to fight with the better. :)
Also, the sprites end up in a PCX in the actual game. When the character's complete, I'll upload the sprite pack itself so people can continue making games using the sprites. ^^

I'm definately seeing this character through. Just too much fun to play with my old morning cartoons from childhood. :3

So what happenned to your project?

Pizza Candy: Polly is Still Pissed!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/Tsunamidusher/WIP/PollyStriker1.jpg)

Renamon ... :| ... you could of used MaloMyotismon (Myotismon ... VemonMyotismon ... MaloMyotismon (End on Season 2)) ... or something annoying like Veemon =P

and from the background ... it looks like old TMNT ... with the blimp


looking good

BG's actually from Marvel Vs. Capcom.

Speedy Cerviche: our very own Captain Commando! XD

Used Renamon because I did a Renamon character before. You know testing balance amoung my own creations. :3

I take it that's your Renamon, then? The art in the character portrait next to the health bar looks similar to the Pizza Cats' sprites.

Yep! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Bkma6Vadg

Whoa.

And how long ago did you make that?

GEEEEZ, Those Pizza Cats are gonna kick ARSE.

Eh.. I think I started that about... 3 or 4 months ago and completed it a few weeks ago.
Been on this Pizza Cat project for only like.. 2 weeks.

Minor Update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otRyVKV5Ivk

Shows basic movements and some stiker stuff. ^^

Wow, man, so far, so AWESOME. Ha ha, Polly does DYNAMIC ENTRY! XD

I'm sure you don't need to hear this, but you're prolly gonna have to figure out a way to see to it that strikers such as Polly don't end up coming simultaneously, I don't know if the world can handle two or ten of her at the same time. It was pretty funny to see, though.

But yeah, I'm really liking this. And to be honest, this is the smoothest I have EVER seen a MUGEN related video.

Keep up the good work!

It supports two-player, but as far as I know, there's no way to have the character's entire spriteset dynamically change like that (it's something that a lot of people have wanted to do). And even if it was possible, it would be a lot of extra work to go back and draw Big Cheese's, Bad Bird's, and Jerry Atrick's faces onto every single frame off the spriteset.

Looking good so far! :)

Faces nothing, to do that, he would have to make a completely different set drawing Big Cheese, Bad Bird, and Jerry Atric in the Pizza Cats' suits.

It would be funny, but it's way too much effort to throw on the guy. 'sides, as far as I've heard, a greater load of the cast are gonna be present for moves in this set.

Wow, that looks amazing so far!

i'm McLovin' it :D

it just keep getting better & better & better!

i cant wait to play it for real!

totally agree, it looks awesome  ;-)

Glad you guys are digging this so far!

And yes, the codework is far from complete. The Strikers timing will be something dynamic, so will take some time.

Other than that, glad you guys like the progress! Even after all the sprites and codework is done. This will be FILLED with dialogue from the US Ver of Pizza Cats. So you expect a Speedy look-a-like of the Big Cheese anyway. I'm serious when I said I would bring in all of the cast at least once. ^^ You're gonna love Bad Bird's stuff. XD

Will Lucille appear to flood the screen with missiles?

That'd be a wicked Super Move. XD

She'd make a good danmaku game boss

maybe the Big Cheese has controlled her mind, like in episode 02, with her brother ... so she'll be like the penultimate bos or something

Ok back! Had some health and income problems for a while, but the project goes on! ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trU1H7Tw7nI
Quick Sparring match with Hoahmaru from Samurai Showdown (Was going for a consistency :P) to show off new moves, just noticed I missed showing Speedy's grab though.
Working on Specials and Supers now!

woah...
I just stopped playing mugen, but something tells me i might pick it up again soon...

Oh man... that is so cool! Guido was great. Um, the whole thing was great... I love you!

That was actually pretty neat to watch. ;)

looks very awesome, also it looked pretty funny when guido showed up  :D

Nice progress. Unexpected choice of attack for Guido. :P Looks like you've gotten quite a bit of spritework done.

i'm loving all the little animations for Speedy in there, looks like you've put quite a lot of time and effort into this, and it kicks ass ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXgWSuxpTu0
Long Overdue update!

nice addition of the narrator there!

benimaru!!
I'm glad you finally added the catslah, it really looks great, also you can make pretty good combos, even with guido and polly :P

The finished product looks like it's going to be a blast!

The Cat's Eye Slash is really well done. And *gasp!*, you added in Fran as well! Awesome!

You've done a great job on this. Looking forward to the release!

are you also planning on making bad bird or someone else as an enemy??

I'm glad to see that work on this is still progressing; I was worried that we wouldn't get to see any more.

Some thoughts:

You may want to speed up Polly and Guido's assist moves. MUGEN tends to be very fast-paced and combo-heavy (despite how horribly imbalanced it is in general), and as it stands, their attacks seem a little sluggish.

You've given your reasons for preferring the English localization, but I think that throwing in a few KNT lines might help to add some atmosphere; hearing Speedy bust out with "HISSATSU! NEKO ME SURASSHU!" during his super would definitely give me chills.  ;)

if that's so, then why sais your avatar cat's eye slash  :D

So a lil snag in the progress.

I just can't think of what to do for his Hyper Special (The big one that uses the max bar).
I've done one with Speedy, one with the Surpreme Catatonic, one with Polly and one with Bad Bird...

Any thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixYWLkUUEC0

i've said it before and ill say it again... Looks great, sounds great and i cant wait for it. ;-)
bad bird was a welcome suprise and so was the catatonic  :D but in the beginning i thought it would stomp on the opponent or something :P
badbirds armour was realy bright though, but i might be the only one who thinks that  :-\
Anyway, keep going! i can see theyre gonna be awesome!

Again, awesome work so far.  Excellent use of Polly for a special move.

For the hyper special, I'd suggest doing that tri-attack the Cats use in "Bad Bird Uncaged". Although that's mainly because I'd like to see a bit more Guido...

I really like all the new stuff, especially when speedy cries  :D
btw just a tip, I noticed you had trouble with getting the enemy out of those corners so you should make a move that speedy hits the enemy from the left to the right, and vice. Just like in king of fighters, when you are near the opponent, you can press the button "o" and the enemy is on the other side.

for the hyper special you maybe could use the supreme cat-a-tonic doing that cat eye slash that turnes into a jaguar or somethin like in the last episode.

Wow, didn't expect comments this fast!

A command roll ability... that might be a good idea, but I'm not sure if it'd break flow of the other skills. Well, it's worth a try!

Bad Bird Looks so bright because I was trying to use the color pallette in a minimal way, but I think this is one spot I shouldn't be lazy. :P He's got a fanbase that shouldn't be underestimated.

And for that comment on the hyper from "Bad Bird Uncaged" episode, that was a pretty sweet idea! It's given me a sweet idea for a hyper after watching that episode! I know you'll love it!

PS: and yes, that Polly Super is hilarious

say just another idea, since speedy can call for help you also should put lucille with her missles into it :P

Looking really great good to see it back on track, though for the limited color palette is that by choice or is it Fighter Factory that only allows for a small color pallete?

Cause honestly we live in an age now where no one has Pentium 1's or 12 bit graphics anymore so really color pallet's should be unlimited.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/Tsunamidusher/SPCAdvertisement.jpg)
Character's done, here's the sprite sheet: http://www.4shared.com/file/101722464/fe1bdff7/SPCSprites.html

And here's the actual character MUGEN, http://forum.mugen-infantry.net/index.php?topic=127872.0

Enjoy! *bows* And thanks for all your help!

AWESOME!
Thanks man!

*makes a big applaus* I'm glad it's finished!
only I'm not the smartest I guess, what do you need to open the game??

well, its kind of complicated... there are a lot of "How to" videos on youtube about how to start up M.U.G.E.N
when I first started with mugen, i couldnt grasp anything.

You'll need the Mugen engine, which you can download here (http://randomselect.piiym-net.com/), via the "Download Mugen" link on the left-hand bar.  Extract that into a new folder (prefferably named "mugen") somewhere on your computer . Next, extract everything from the "SPizzaCats.rar" into a new folder within the "chars" folder, which will be within the "mugen" folder. Name this new folder "SPizzaCats". So your hierarchy should be like this:
Next, go to the "data" folder within the "mugen" folder, and find the "select.def" file. Open it up with a text editor, such as Notepad. Scroll down until you find a section that reads:

Append "SPizzaCats" to this on a new line, so you end up with this:

Save the file, and then you can open Winmugen.exe. You'll probably want to configure the controls under the "Options" section of the main menu. After that, you can select one of the play modes, and Tsunamidusher's SPC character should be available for you on the character select screen. You can follow this same process to add all sorts of other characters from all over the internet, if you'd like.

So what are the computer requirements? I have an old Apple G3 iBook and was wondering if i could play on that.

the requirements are practically nill, since mugen was first released on DOS.
if the computer can play SNES emulators, it will play MUGEN.

thnx for the info!
I'm already plain now :P

I downloaded the DOS version to my mac and was about to go into the Data area when it said that i can't because I don't have enough permissions. What does that even mean? what should I do?

Sounds like an access restriction issue. Computer wants to keep potentially unauthorized people from fiddling with things they shouldn't. However, it also often ends up trying to keep users from doing various things that they want to do. I've been getting used to having Windows Vista do it to me fairly often. Unfortunately, I don't know what to do about in on a Mac. :-\

Anyway, I've downloaded your character Tsunamidusher, but haven't had time to play with it yet. Once I have, I'll give you some feedback. :)

works fine for me :D


I use a verision called "Mugen Hi" that i found on e-snips. but then... its winmugen.
there is no verision of mugen for the mac originaly, but there are people who use "VMware Fusion" to emulate windows for mugen, you can find vids of it on youtube.

Can we get a video of the hyper in action?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4nkVK76GBU

Well, I hope you guys are liking this character. ^^

Furthermore, I hope those sprites come in some use in the future for anything you're interested in. :)

I realy enjoy owning my friends wit the SPCats. :-*

Great job its awesome. I got a question though.

When I pick the Pizza Cats to use them I always get the secondary green color scheme, not the primary true SPC color scheme, only the second player gets it. How do I make or edit Mugen so I get the primary player color?

Well, your color is dependent on what button you use to select your character.

If you choose a character with whatever you have set for "a" or "Light Kick" you should get the Original Scheme

Wow, the video is great! Now I musy install Mugen in my PC... Also could be sweet a desperation move with the Otasuke final weapon but that's ask too much...

To see Speedy kicking butts was sweet and I specially loved the Neko Me Slash...

Needs moar video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK692dXZRuo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvc8sc3pN8

that just looks so awesome  :-*

I can haz SPC Mugen?  :-\

Well, at least this project is still alive!

Can somebody please upload this to fileplanet?
Fileplanet: http://www.fileplanet.com/

Those look great. The videos were awesome.