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hey guys, as some of you know, (and most of you dont) I'm currently working on a full game based on the dragonball series, I've been on the project for coming up on a year in feb or march, the project initially consisted of smaller sprites, but seeing as how I've decided to make this my last dragonball project, I wanted to go all out, so I've gone with sprite size that is about as big as cvs or kof (maybe a bit bigger?)


I'm currently in the production phase (making sheets etc) although I have my system planned out and made somewhat (its based off my last release; son goku) thanks to roken I have few base sheets (fully cleaned shinb sheets before customs, added frames etc) of frieza,goku,piccolo,vegeta,gohan,


The Entire roster list is....

Goku
Gohan
Vegeta
Trunks
Piccolo
Kurrin
Tien
Yamchua(not started\no base)
Recoome (not started\no base)
Jiece(Not started\No Base)
Ginyu(Not Started\No Base)
Freeza
17
18
Cell
Fat Boo
Super Boo
Gogeta(Not Started\No Base)

Now that the roster is shown let me discuss the system and gameplay :


Button commands:

A- Power Attacks

B- Agility Attacks

X- Melee Attacks

Y - Ki Attacks

Z - Defense


Dash - fwd fwd or back back

Zanzoken - X+A

Power Up - Y+B

Air Dash upward - Up,Up



Attack System:

The attack system is made up of four attack button layouts, Ki,Power,Melee, And Agility, Each attack
button's combo which all consist of 4 hits max (3 hits in the air), start off as a different standard physical attack,followed by said attack buttons style of attacks.


Ki - Ki's first physical hit are usually moves that would send the opponent across the screen,then usually followed up by 3 basic ki attacks (usually ki shots,small blasts, lazer shots etc.)

Power -Every type of hit in power will consist of strong styled moves,and for some will even consist of slams and throws.



Agility -The Agility button is based on Zanzoken attacks. The first physical attack is usually a move that sends the opponent upwards in an angle, straight up or straight back.


Melee - Melee is the most unique of all the attack buttons, because it very much depends on the character, its basically a signature button of sorts, for piccolo its attacks that focus him stretching his arms, while frieza's has his him utilize his tail and use his Tk. Later I will break down all the diff melee styles and who uses which.


In The Air:

The Attack system is a bit Different in the air, first change is that each attack button consist of 3 attacks max instead of 4, also the 4 buttons are split up into two diff styles of attacking.

Ki and Agility will be aimed at opponents on the ground, while power and melee will focus on opponents in the air.

Advanced Gameplay

Mixed Attack combos - Mixed Attacks Combos are triggered by switching from one attack button to another after the 2nd hit has been initiated,and can go from any different buttons afterward. these chains will create new styled combos,and can go up to 4 hits,as long as a basic attack combo. not to be confused with Ex chains, which I will explain next.

Examples - "X,X,A,B," "B,B,Y,B" "B,B,X,X"


*EX chains- Ex chains are a special type of chaining hits that take power to use(500), and keep a combo going longer the basic 4 hits. they can be triggered after the third hit of a combo to link with another attack button combo,these allow for more hits, as it starts the combo from the initated buttons second attack (ie 3 melee hits, then a ex power chain for 3 more hits. or two power chains followed by a teleport chain,etc.) the ex moves commands are a certain direction, and said button

ie x,x,x,fwd +a,a,a.


*Ex Chain enders - Ex Chain enders add a 5th attack to your combo, and take 250 power to do. they can only be intiated at a 4th hit from a basic,or chained combo.

Examples - "X,X,X,X FWD+B" "X,X,A,B,DOWN+A"

*Ex Chain Supers- these are hidden level 1 supers (1000). depending on the mixed combo you do with a certain ex chain ender hit (ie x,x,y,b,+Fwd,A) and if you have said power (need at least 1000) you will trigger your characters ex chain super.



Dash Attacks - when dashing foward (fwd,fwd) hitting any attack button will give a diff style of dash attack,
Dash attacks are also part of something bigger with the pursuit


Ki- The player charges at the opponent and fires a ki blast

Agilty - the player charges the opponent then teleports behind for a surprise attack

Power - the player rushes the opponent with a strong attack

Melee - Varies.


Pursuit - Pursuits work with the dash attacks,after a dash attack is initialized, hitting one of the four attack buttons, will give you a distinct style of pursuit attack.

Power- the player rushes at the opponent and sends them to the ground with tremendous force.

Agilty - The player catches the opponent with a teleported hit

Ki - The player pursuits the opponent and follows up with a ki attack

Melee- Varies


Defense Button - the defense button will be used to guard, and trigger counters, by hitting the defense button at a certain time during an opponent's combo, you will parry the attack and be allowed to counter by hitting one of the 4 attack buttons.


Recover attack - during a fall state, hitting the defense button and attack button will trigger
a recover attack.

Specials- this is probably the one aspect that will stay the same as what I've always done, kept it the same vein as sf or kof styled specials, with quarter and half circle commands, as well as some charged commands, alot of specials will consist of 2 in 1's and mixing diff styles of gameplay from diff games.

Supers - Most Characters will have 3 level 1 supers, 2 from your common commands found in sf and kof,(qcf,qcb,qcfx2 etc..) and one hidden in the form of a ex chain super.

Level 3 Supers or "AllStar Attack"- Each character will have a level 3 super which will be in the form of a mini game, and will be called their "AllStar Attack" I have a few already thought out, but alot of them are still up in the air atm. so I'm taking ideas for them.

Bonus Games -

I have an idea for two bonus games, one is the great ape challenge, depending your character you will either A. play as a sayajin monkey and fight off attackers trying to cut off your tail, or B. try to cut off the tail of a sayajin monkey. The Second is the little people beatdown, where you have to beat the snot out of as many saibamen and cell jr's you can within a time limit.

I'm currently working on 17 who I am I doing entirely from chris from king of fighters 2002, along with rips from the anime.After I finish him (hopefully by the end of the month) I will start on ginyu,

the screenpack has been thought out for the most part, just been looking for help in the graphics department for some things (like the lifebars) I'm always up for more help as of now I'm keeping my crew small, I'd like to do as much myself as I can, I have a few people working on sprite sheets, some people later for coding, and warner for the games portraits and whatnot. here's a sample of the select screen : the characters will rotate in and out upon movement.

as far as stages I'm going to be using some that are released already from a friend, with some upgrades, along with some hi res'd sb stages in which I'm sorta looking for help in too.

I'm also looking for a little help in the graphics deparment, I'm trying to go for a more anime-ish feel than a mega graphical beast, so I'm trying effects that look cel shaded in a way.


I'm here to answer any questions I can, and eventually will update everyone with more news as I progress. along with screenshots and whatnot ( I could've done so now, but there's not much to show)



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so cool . it will be a best db game in mugen .

First of all - congratulatios for creating such game. It's really ambitious project and I'm sure it costs you a lot of work.
Keep up the great work - there are still many fans, i think, waiting for decent mugen dbz game.

My advice is on the screenpack and some details.

- I think that it would be cool to make an animated menu with some db theme/motif(background)
here what im thinking about more or less(Of course, doing something like this by you guys, would look much better than by me )

Spoiler:

- The select screen could be animated as well - kinda round style selection - It look pretty cool.
Something like this maybe?

Spoiler:

- Finaly it would be nice to put some character description, backgrund story, or power lever next to char itself.
Something like Bardock are using in his W.I.P

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So these are my ideas, hope that you will take them for consideration

Greetings.

Whoa man.This is awesome!!!!The menu style is perfect.I like the 3rd picture for select screen.

I have the screenpack settled already. Thanks for the suggestions though.

fantastic chars,but the best for mi is cell,if you can make a big kameha for this are good,and destroy some ground o colateral damage

8-11-12


Finished cell, Next up is goku. Here are some sample sprites and a palette to work with if you guys wanna make palettes for him I'll take 1 or 2 good ones.

I think I'm in love with him

some gif's





I'll add more later.

Dude, what about stages? Are you going to code it aswell, or are you going to use the old ones, i would like to code the stages for this project. Go to csmugen.ucoz to see my work. Farewell.

stages aren't a priority atm, so they are on hold. I'm going to use actual scenes from the show and have them fixed some to work with the stages. I am also coding everyone, I have some specials done that I did a while back but for the most part I will be coding everyone.

have maded some pallets, more alternates:

on piccolo, i finished his win pose. and started his attena attack.

8 - 13 - 12


I started on ssj goku's sheet. I finished 4 rows out of 12. should be finished by wensday, then its on to super buu.

I think you're still missing some Shin Butouden Cell sprites, maybe I can get them for you. If you're using the sprites from MaJiTa's spritesheet my statement is valid.

However they are a few, not a lot. Let's say six/seven sprites.

Wonderful

G.o.D. wrote:

I think you're still missing some Shin Butouden Cell sprites, maybe I can get them for you. If you're using the sprites from MaJiTa's spritesheet my statement is valid.

However they are a few, not a lot. Let's say six/seven sprites.

I have the game, so I know which ones that are missing,I have everything I need from other games as I didn't just use the shinb sheet. but you can make a little sheet of what you think I don't have, and I'll let you know if I do or not.

Glad to know you have the game.
So do you know how to rip them with Artmoney? If not, nevermind.

Here's the small spritesheet: (not so small)

Spoiler:

I kept the two sizes because maybe you'll work better with the bigger ones, but if not you have the smaller ones.
About the lifebars if you set life to 420, that line I wrote in the png is right.

8-21-12

Finally finished goku, his palette is very separated. From his upper gi to his shoes, everything has a different color just about. So lots of fun options to try

Fuck yeah ! Nice work brother !

Great Work, congratulations

spectacular!! it seems the real goku from anime

some news, removing super buu from the roster as he is annoying to do, and it would be weird to add one buu character now with a roster full of namek and cell saga characters. roster will be 9 people.

Good Luck for this project! Work, Sprites, and Progress are excellent! Keep it up nreo-san!

Are you planning some kind of story mode? If so, then I recommend the program "story creator" by kamiloxnumetal.

Little Sneak Peak what a program can do -

Spoiler:

Yes. I heard of this tool before. And there will be a story mode when I come up with the story completely

10-4-12;

I just about finished reworking the fight system. It's more like my ssj2 gohan and majin vegeta of year's past. with some additions from the recent base (ki shot chaining,zanzoken attacks,pursuit attacks etc)

as of now the system looks like this -

Light Punch - x
Hard Punch - y
Light Kick - a
Hard Kick - b
Ki - z
Zanzoken - c
Burst evade - x+a
Power hit - y+b
Charge - Down, Down

Chaining will vary from character to character,but the basic chains are -

Standing -

Lights go into hards standing and crouching. Also go into ki and zanzoken and power hit.

Hards go into crouching hards, Also go into ki and zanzoken and power hit.

I'm going to make some little changes to each person's system. To accommodate some difference between everyone.

the system is a cross between garou,Kof2k2 and the Capcom "vs" series as well as my own custom z stuff.


18 and vegeta's new basics are done. Working on Goku atm. Followed by piccolo.