How to View Mugen Characters in Photoshop

Mugen (also known as M.U.G.E.N.) is a fighting game emulator for Windows, Linux and DOS machines. It allows players to generate artwork for characters for use in the game, with an extensive library of fighting characters to use as bases to modify from. M.U.G.E.N. imports characters in a file format called SFF (Structured Fax Format) and is somewhat analogous to a ZIP file.

Things You'll Need

• M.U.G.E.N. SFF archive
• SFF archive extractor
• Photoshop 4 or later

Instructions

1. Download an SFF file utility. Several are available at http://view.software.informer.com/download-view-sff-files.

2. Launch the utility and open the SFF file. Inside it, you'll see several PCX files. These are sprites of the character. Copy those to your working directory.

3. Launch Photoshop and open the PCX files for viewing.

Resources

• Software.informer.com: SFF File Extractors
• CAD's M.U.G.E.N.: Making Mugen Characters - A Tutorial
• Inverse's Hideout :Making SFF files for Mugen