Its been a good three years now since
XMugen was first made and after an initial firestorm of interest exploded here, and then in my forum "XMugen Spot", it seemed most people (including me) got fed up with how difficult and unreliable the Linux loader for it was, and gave up on it alltogether. After almost two years have gone by without my playing of it, or tinkering with it in general, I'm now ready to give it another shot. Mugen itself is very strict with its settings, and requires a bit of knowledge to get it going, but becomes fairly simple after a bit of playing around with it. It has always been the Xbox's loader for it that has made most people give up after a short period of dealing with it. I have tried unsuccessfully to try to compile a new loader myself, but I have no faith whatsoever in being able to do it myself. I do however have a very good understanding of what needs to happen to put it together though.
Knowing all of that, here is my challenge to any/all coders and Linux guru's out there:
Someone please create a new Linux loader for XMugen. It would be preferable to have a nice graphical interface (similar to the Linux bios loader's already in existance) which would allow the user to select different Mugen games with a controller, and then launch a game. It must have the capability to display pictures, and possibly have music/themes. Other than that little bit of coding, that's it! Its not the amount of work needed to port something like an existing PC game, its just a small Linux kernel used to load an application. I'm am 99% positive that the coder wouldn't need to have any knowledge of Mugen to be able to code this.
There are a TON of people out there that either have played XMugen, or have TRIED to play XMugen that would die for the chance to see this happen, myself included. Please, please please please someone take the effort and try to make this happen! All of you lurkers out there reading this, please post your replies and lets get some excitement for this generated so that someone with the skills to code this will be interested!
I made a
thread regarding a revival of sorts for this (website and all) in the emulator section.