{"id":841,"date":"2007-03-22T11:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/mugen-gives-life-to-original-2d-games\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:57:44","slug":"how-to-create-games-with-mugen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-create-games-with-mugen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create your games with MUGEN in 4 easy steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MUGEN (stylized as M.U.G.E.N<\/a>) is a free game engine<\/strong> that is decades old but still going strong because people or groups of fans can use it to design their own games. The name MUGEN is derived from Japanese, meaning infinite<\/strong> or unlimited<\/strong>, and that describes the incredible variety of games people have created using it. It started as a shooting game developed by a company called Elecbyte, changed course, and became a fighting game. Years of work by fans have since produced an amazing array of games on MUGEN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People have for instance pitted well-known superheroes like Goku, Superman, Donkey Kong, and Zangief against each other to see who will win a very entertaining fight. The application is free as are the third-party tools you can download and use to create your own characters<\/strong> and get them to play games of your invention. You can even get your characters to make specific moves by using specific buttons to control them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting started<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So you like games and you\u2019re interested in the retro phenomenon that is MUGEN and decided to see what it\u2019s all about. What do you do next? Here\u2019s a guide to how you set it up and get started.<\/p>\n\n\n

  1. Download MUGEN<\/h2>\"How

    Download. You can safely download MUGEN for free<\/a>? and create a MUGEN directory on your device.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

  2. Get a screen pack<\/h2>\"How

    MUGEN screen packs<\/strong> are freely available on the internet. Find one, download it, and unzip it if needed. Put all the files in a new folder in your directory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

  3. Get characters<\/h2>\"How

    Download a ZIP or RAR file of MUGEN characters, extract the files you want from the hundreds of characters<\/strong> available into a characters folder, and put it in your directory.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>

  4. Assign stages and complete game<\/h2>\"How

    A MUGEN stage has two files;<\/strong>?one has the extension .def and the other the extension .sff. Move both files to a stages folder in your MUGEN directory. Save the select.def file.<\/span>rnrnStart making up your games and playing<\/strong>. And if you get stuck or need advice anywhere along the way there is a huge, thriving community out there to help you. There are also videos, tutorials, characters to download, and lots more.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ol><\/div>