
KAGAMI MUGEN PORT Advanced Version

Made by Orochi Herman (iori@philippines.crosswinds.net)
Made at The Riot of the Blood Rehabilitation Center (http://rotb.cjb.net)

Hello people! This is my 5th MUGEN attempt on making a character. From
the legendary maker of Setsuna, Sakura and Whip now comes another
sure-fire fighter who can kick butt!

Who is he? It can be no ther than the man in fire, Shinnosuke Kagami!

---------------------------------------------------Update at January 2...

- New CNS that goes with the new MUGEN. (kanew.cns)
- New sound algorithm (hurt and attack ones)

-----------------------------------------------What needs to be implemented.

1. Load some pallate.
2. Gameplay tweaks, which is my disability..
3. Stuff...

------------------------------------------------------------------Storyline:

Shinnosuke Kagami is a Japanese-European student of Gaisei Kouryu. He
is one of the holders of the power of the guardians that keeps an eye on
the gates of hell. There are four of them. Genbu, which is held by Genbu
the Okina, Byakko, by Shigen Naoe, Seiryu, held by Kaede, and Suzaku,
held by Shinnosuke.

Unfortunately, in LB1, he became consumed by the powers of Hades, making
him evil. This made him kill Kouryu. In doing so, Moriya is engrieved,
which in turn, made Kaede though Moriya was the murderer of their
master.

During those times, he used the power of the phoenix to open up Hell's
gates, in which he almost successfully did. Kaede, Moriya Minakata and
Yuki, alongside with Genbu of Okina, successfully defeated Kagami.

As he said, he will be gone with his scheme, thus, he dissapeared along
with the other things consumed by the portal to the gate. However, the
power of the Suzaku did not permit Kagami to enter hell, knowing he was
just a mere pawn. As a result, he lives again, without the influence of
Hades.

As he stepped on the earth again, he is guided this time by Genbu of
Okina.

---------------------------------------------------------------Instructions:

Set the destination unzip directory at the "chars" directory of MUGEN.
Then, specify another subdiectory called "Kagami." Overwrite any
existing files if you are upgrading.

----------------------------------------------------------Gameplay Overview.

Kagami is what we can call, Kyo's ancestor. His attacks are primarily
based on fire. Like in Setsuna, his sword attacks can be interlinked
for massive dammage. He also has a diving fire kick now, his boss-mode
move (not included in LB2, changed).

Some of his LB1 elements, such as his taunt and crouching attacks that
requires low blocking, has been ported into this incarnation but with
different functions. His old crouching attacks MUST be blocked high, as
it has been reinstated as an overhead attack. He has 2 taunts too. His
gameplay is a little reminiscent of Demitri, except for dashes.

Kagami's range is not as far as Setsuna's, but he is way faster and
damaging than the rest.

----------------------------------------------------------------------Moves

Be wary that MUGEN uses a Sega Saturn-type of controls; X,Y,Z, A,B,C,
and that some buttons are not available for all characters. In the case
of Kagami, ALL are available.

If your button orientation is at A-Z, please change it to X-C. Well,
don't blame me, it's the configuration I got when I first downloaded
MUGEN.

My characters cannot have less or more than 6 buttons. I know, it's my
taste of perfection. >:P

Diving attacks: During Jump, Down Y or Down B.

Hien Yoku (QCF X) or (QCF Y/Z *far)

A fireball move. :) B and C has different functions up close.

Hien Yoku Y/Z can be followed up with

Shiranui (During Hien Yoku Y/Z, QCF Y or Z)

Shiranui Y will knockdown your enemy just like in LB2. Shiranui Z does
not, which means you can follow up with a...

Dai Batsu (During Shiranui Z, QCF Z)

This is his old Shiranui ani from LB1. In this version, it drives your
enemy to the wall with a bang. With a damage that can kill.. >:D

----------------------------------------------------------------Some bugs:

Missing frames. I will fix this as soon as I can get to it.

Beware that he has caught the flaw that heavily plagued Setsuna. He uses
a large deal of Ram due to in part of his large flames. But this is just
half. Just take a look at this.

Results for Kagami:
Summary:
Total number of groups:  69
Total number of images:  578
Total number of unique images:  474
Palette type: shared
Bytes total:  1944629   (805740 saved by optimization)
              (8697534 mem saved by cropping)
              Estimated memory usage:  at least 6638 kb

Results for Setsuna:
Summary:
Total number of groups:  30
Total number of images:  720
Total number of unique images:  688
Palette type: shared
Bytes total:  3562752   (757940 saved by optimization)
              (17148514 mem saved by cropping)
              Estimated memory usage:  at least 11694 kb

Kudos to the maker of SFUNPACK.exe for making me restore Setsuna.

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If you have comments or suggestions, my e-mail is above, or my ICQ
11596428

I am also reachable in the TESTP Message Board.

visit my site for more MUGEN characters:
http://rotb.cjb.net

Thanks to Karin Kanzuki @ N/A for her time-to-time criticisms, which made me
better a bit.

Thanks to DJ Boogie for the inspiration and advice.
Thanks to Neogouki and Gama for the reports....
And to Dark Sun! :)
VIVA VK!!! >:D

Well, enough ranting...>:P
