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It’s finally here!
The biggest hurdle in the MUGEN engine development has always been stability. Legacy characters, specifically nulls, hypernulls, postmen, and god-tier cheapies rely on memory-corruption exploits to function. In the past, the moment these characters fired an exploit, the engine would trigger a hard crash to "protect" itself.
The Problem: The engine was designed to panic whenever it encountered buffer overflows or malformed bytecode.
The Solution: We have implemented a "Raw Execution" bypass in the backend. IKEMEN:VOID now utilizes an interceptor that absorbs these memory-corruption attempts in real-time, allowing them to register on the opponent without the engine halting. Simply put: we are somewhat reaching a point where you won't need to juggle WinMUGEN or 1.x separately. IKEMEN:VOID is being built to be the unified home for all uniquely coded characters.
What this means for you:
Characters with garbled text, DTC coding, and other techniques are now operational. kills are registering, memory-write exploits are landing, and the engine remains somewhat stable. this has been a tedious, ground-up project, but the results are finally showing but there is still obviously some things that will still need to be worked on. which is why...
I am officially opening this for Beta Testing.
I need the community to help me find the edge cases:
Test your roster - Throw your most unstable, crash-prone characters into the engine. IKEMEN:VOID comes pre-loaded with a dark, chaos-driven version of the Infinite Legacy X SP as it's default. in future updates, we will go into allow the engine to accept and run screenpacks with many many slots but for now we are focused on the cheapie option.
Report findings: If a character fails to register a kill or behaves strangely, I need to know. Please report findings in the 
✁・support on my discord server here or under this post
Locking in: Once you report your findings, I will focus on optimizing, fixing bugs, and implementing community suggestions.
SUPER IMPORTANT Beta Notes to keep in MIND:
1 . Performance: Because the engine is now processing "raw" exploit data that it used to ignore, you may experience frame drops or lag. this is a known trade-off for the added compatibility.
W.I.P. Status: This is OBVI STILL a major work in progress. It will take time to reach perfection, and you should expect bugs. we are looking for constructive reports only so we can fix them efficiently.
Setup: Please ensure not to delete all required runtime libraries (DLLs) are placed in the root folder with the .exe to avoid load errors.
This engine was built to be the ultimate home for competitive legacy integrity. Thank you to everyone who helped with the technical brainstorming, and props to the creators of Ikemen for making the engine open source.
This comes with starter characters: Infinite Soulabyss (still has system error), Uya-HTA (kill don't register yet), nihili, Tine na Diabhail (kills don't register), Aestheticdistortionist (currently, cannot load at the moment), Questarv and oaev. soon characters like Vibri, Crazy Catastrophe, and more will be added unto the next phase for further testing (but ofc you guys can add them yourselves before me and tell me if they run)
Enough yappin'. If you're ready to test, the download link is below:
drive.google.com
Note: we are STILL looking for helpers / contributors so if you are interested in working on the project with me let me know c:
The biggest hurdle in the MUGEN engine development has always been stability. Legacy characters, specifically nulls, hypernulls, postmen, and god-tier cheapies rely on memory-corruption exploits to function. In the past, the moment these characters fired an exploit, the engine would trigger a hard crash to "protect" itself.
The Problem: The engine was designed to panic whenever it encountered buffer overflows or malformed bytecode.
The Solution: We have implemented a "Raw Execution" bypass in the backend. IKEMEN:VOID now utilizes an interceptor that absorbs these memory-corruption attempts in real-time, allowing them to register on the opponent without the engine halting. Simply put: we are somewhat reaching a point where you won't need to juggle WinMUGEN or 1.x separately. IKEMEN:VOID is being built to be the unified home for all uniquely coded characters.
What this means for you:
Characters with garbled text, DTC coding, and other techniques are now operational. kills are registering, memory-write exploits are landing, and the engine remains somewhat stable. this has been a tedious, ground-up project, but the results are finally showing but there is still obviously some things that will still need to be worked on. which is why...
I am officially opening this for Beta Testing.
I need the community to help me find the edge cases:
Test your roster - Throw your most unstable, crash-prone characters into the engine. IKEMEN:VOID comes pre-loaded with a dark, chaos-driven version of the Infinite Legacy X SP as it's default. in future updates, we will go into allow the engine to accept and run screenpacks with many many slots but for now we are focused on the cheapie option.
Report findings: If a character fails to register a kill or behaves strangely, I need to know. Please report findings in the
✁・support on my discord server here or under this postLocking in: Once you report your findings, I will focus on optimizing, fixing bugs, and implementing community suggestions.
SUPER IMPORTANT Beta Notes to keep in MIND:
1 . Performance: Because the engine is now processing "raw" exploit data that it used to ignore, you may experience frame drops or lag. this is a known trade-off for the added compatibility.
W.I.P. Status: This is OBVI STILL a major work in progress. It will take time to reach perfection, and you should expect bugs. we are looking for constructive reports only so we can fix them efficiently.
Setup: Please ensure not to delete all required runtime libraries (DLLs) are placed in the root folder with the .exe to avoid load errors.
This engine was built to be the ultimate home for competitive legacy integrity. Thank you to everyone who helped with the technical brainstorming, and props to the creators of Ikemen for making the engine open source.
This comes with starter characters: Infinite Soulabyss (still has system error), Uya-HTA (kill don't register yet), nihili, Tine na Diabhail (kills don't register), Aestheticdistortionist (currently, cannot load at the moment), Questarv and oaev. soon characters like Vibri, Crazy Catastrophe, and more will be added unto the next phase for further testing (but ofc you guys can add them yourselves before me and tell me if they run)
Enough yappin'. If you're ready to test, the download link is below:
IKEMEN;VOID.rar
drive.google.com
Note: we are STILL looking for helpers / contributors so if you are interested in working on the project with me let me know c:
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