SameOldSchmidt

So I got Xmugen, or X-M.U.G.E.N. or however it’s supposed to be spelled, up and running on my Xbox. I had to FTP into the console with a crossover cable and copy the game files onto the Xbox that way. I have a laptop, so it’s easy enough to hook that up to the Xbox for file transfers.

The game doesn’t run quite like other games that I’ve loaded onto my Xbox hard drive. Xmugen has to load up a linux distro and then run itself inside of that environment. It’s sort of a lengthy start-up process, and you lose the soft reset that all my other Xbox games and apps have. Kind of irritating when you’re used to quick loads and the ability to jump back to the dashboard (main menu) of the Xbox at will. But then, how important is it, really? I’m griping about a freeware video game!

The game itself? It’s pretty cool, fun to piddle around with but definitely a novelty thing. The schtick is that it’s got 500+ characters and you can load in more, take others out and customize your game in a lot of different ways. For example, I definitely want to try and integrate the Queen of Fighters characters into my Xmugen setup. As a game, it’s nowhere near an official Capcom or SNK fighter in terms of play quality or overall tightness, but some day when I actually have some friends over I can see this being a blast to play for a little while.

This entry was posted by Jeff on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm and is filed under Video Games. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.