My first, proper and fully complete MUGEN character. Obviously inspired by the infamous Gurospooo by Souken. I started work on this character all the way back at around 2022, under a different name however: Harapenyo. Harapenyo was relatively incomplete and suffered from horrible sprites and sloppily put together attacks, so I then decided to restart from scratch under a different name this time around: Jalapeno. I restarted work on him early 2023, before dropping the project for a good year in favor of working on a Doom mod i was making, until 2024 where I picked it back up, then abandoned it again for my indie game this time, only to pick it back up a final time this year 2026 where I worked on completely reworking his sprites and attacks for 2 months straight, leading up to where we are now. I'm very proud of this character and I think I've made him satisfying enough to play and also well balanced.

Programs used:

* Fighter Factory 3 (Assembling the character + coding)

* LibreSprite/Paint.net (Spriting)

* Audacity (Audio)

Jalapeno does not have an AI patch, at least not yet, as I do not know anything about how to code that nor do I plan to learn how. I do wish someone would eventually make one of him, similar in aggressiveness to Gurospooo's AI patch by EFB.

NOTE: This character only works on MUGEN 1.0 and 1.1b, not WinMugen, due to me using an empty template made specifically for those version of MUGEN.

This build keeps the Boss/Very Hard AI and adds close-range melee intelligence.

MELEE FEATURES:

• Uses standing jab, medium punch, medium kick and low attacks at close range.
• Uses crouching light/medium attacks for low pressure.
• Confirms successful normal hits into follow-up normals.
• Converts confirmed standing strings into state 1000 when appropriate.
• Converts low strings into state 1200 when appropriate.
• Adds air hit confirms: jump light kick -> jump medium kick -> jump punch.
• Uses randomization so the AI does not repeat exactly the same string every time.

Recommended:
- M.U.G.E.N 1.0 AND 1.1 BETA

If a specific opponent has unusual hitboxes, some strings may whiff; the AI will
still fall back to its normal Boss AI when the confirm conditions are not met.