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Free Street Fighter X Mega Man patch expected early next month, Sven discusses the rarity of Capcom's involvement in a fan-made game

Posted by DreamKing23
December 31, 2012 at 11:38 a.m. PST

Free Street Fighter X Mega Man patch expected early next month, Sven discusses the rarity of Capcom's involvement in a fan-made game

The Capcom forums have been quite active recently with users fielding their questions about various subjects, specifically Street Fighter X Mega Man glitches and getting Capcom's cooperation on other fan-made games. First up, Brelston mentioned that we can expect to see a free V2 patch for SFxMM early next month that will address some of the issues brought up by a Capcom forum user below.

1. If you lock your computer or close your screen with game running the video doesn't want to come back. You have to close the game and restart. I think it's an issue with your computer needing to refresh the screen.

2. If you get killed at the same time as you kill the last boss in the boss rush you can't re-enter their tube. You are stuck in the level. I'm not sure if this is a problem with any boss during boss rush or if it's just the last boss you fight.

3. The top of ladders don't seem to want you to grab them. Some full jumps are awkward.

4. Esc key should have a yes or no menu to safely close the game. I've exited on accident a couple times.

5. (Not really a issue since I don't do it, but) Urien can be easily killed by pausing game with mine sweeper explosion over him.

Brelston: Thanks for the notes. We're working on a V2 that should address some of these issues. Goal is to get it out to everyone early January, free as usual :)

Another user mentioned that he too is creating a fan-made game and wondered how he could possibly get it endorsed by Capcom. Sven jumped in to provide a little bit of clarity on the situation and explained how Street Fighter X Mega Man came to be.

Sven also states that more often than not, Capcom's legal department must shut down the development of fan-made games to protect copyrights. Street Fighter X Mega Man was a rare exception.

I'm currently working on a free-to-play fan game for the computer utilizing Game Maker. I saw that Megaman Vs. Street Fighter got endorsed by Capcom and I was very curious as to why this was and how it came about.

Does one apply for this endorsement?

What are the stipulations for such an endorsement?

What would I be receiving as a result and what would I have to give up?

Would such an endorsement lead to a Capcom sponsored port to Ipad/Iphone devices? (which of course, all proceeds would go to Capcom or whoever, natch)

Its something that has been on my mind for quite a while since I saw the Capcom officially endorsed a fan game, which is something they've never done before. So it mystified me and made me curious enough to register here and ask the question. Thanks for any response and/or help.

Sven: I have to make clear, we didn't endorse it. We bought the project outright, compensated the developers of the title, provided creative direction and feedback for the remaining duration of development, handled all QA, marketing and distribution. It was a collaboration. It was not an endorsement.

As I've mentioned in several media interviews, this was a fairly unique situation where the right project (SFxMM) came at the right time (prepping for the transition from one 25th anniversary to the next). It's not something that we're likely to be formalizing into an ongoing program.

Fan games are amazing but all too often, unfortunately when our IP/legal group hears of such things, they must often shut them down to defend IP rights (lest we be in jeopardy of losing trademarks/copyrights in various territories).

More often than not, it is better that we not be officially aware of fan project of this nature. This was a very special case where I was able to make everything work out.

Via the Ask Capcom and Mega Man forums.

Comments

GLKFierce said on December 31, 2012 at 11:45 a.m.

inb4pplgivingcapcomsh*tforagametheydidntpayfor

SAMURAI said on December 31, 2012 at 11:48 a.m.

Just release it on console, not everyone plays on PC.

niggardly said on December 31, 2012 at 11:50 a.m.

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Meety said on December 31, 2012 at 11:54 a.m.

The game isn't too long, but yes, there should be a save or password system, just to make sure people good back to the stage they might've exit by accident.

Dutchling said on December 31, 2012 at 11:55 a.m.

They should fix the controller support for this game and have keymapping.

ZrogiX said on December 31, 2012 at 12:32 p.m.

I hope in that patch they address the slowdown on blanka's level as his is the only level to do that. Also the fading out sound of the charge shot should be addressed but I doubt it will be.

Jandro83 said on December 31, 2012 at 12:37 p.m.

free as... USUAL? LMAO

Aluppoj said on December 31, 2012 at 12:43 p.m.

This game is really cool. Thank you Capcom.

takanari said on December 31, 2012 at 12:45 p.m.

save state for 08'ers!

JBADGUY said on December 31, 2012 at 12:47 p.m.

Sagat stage dlc please

#10

BumblebeeCody said on December 31, 2012 at 12:49 p.m.

http://i.imgur.com/w1eMH.png

#11

HooliganComboFTW said on December 31, 2012 at 1:04 p.m.

WAAAAAY more people game on PC then on consoles and i doubt it would be a free game on console due to the nature of Marketplace

#12

MidniteVanguard said on December 31, 2012 at 1:44 p.m.

I almost want to say problem #5 shouldn't be fixed. It's a nice unintentional callback to the first Mega Man.

#13

error3 said on December 31, 2012 at 1:45 p.m.

Free game is being patched? interesting...

#14

BlankaBeast said on December 31, 2012 at 1:46 p.m.

Save game progress option?

#15

illness690 said on December 31, 2012 at 2:07 p.m.

@12 I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one.

#16

BUYACUSHUN said on December 31, 2012 at 2:17 p.m.

Where is the link for this. I feel really dumb but couldn't find where to download this game.

#17

Gailim said on December 31, 2012 at 2:22 p.m.

@16 you shouldn't; he is completely right in both points

the install base for PC is many many times the install base for any console.

and for a game like this that would have run on any system released 15 years ago? pretty much everyone can play this game

and a console release would entail paying a large amount of money with no return at all.

#18

OhYouDontSayThat said on December 31, 2012 at 3:26 p.m.

leave the urien thing in, it's a throwback to megaman 1 yellow devil fight!!!

#19

n00b_saib0t said on December 31, 2012 at 9:36 p.m.

@19 its a throw back to every MM1 boss fight. Its harder to do with weapons that aren't the Elec Beam, but you can still do it with all of the weapons against all of the bosses.

And the no input bug needs to be fixed. Someone said something about keymapping needing to be added, that person should try reading the README or pausing the game, both tell you how to map keys.

#20

Boogityboy said on December 31, 2012 at 10:52 p.m.

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#21

n00b_saib0t said on December 31, 2012 at 11:29 p.m.

@21 I've played the game multiple times with remapped commands, I fail to see how remapping them breaks them.

#22

Boogityboy said on January 1, 2013 at 12:57 a.m.

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#23

n00b_saib0t said on January 1, 2013 at 2:11 a.m.

Interesting, haven't heard of that yet. All I know is that #5 said the game should have key mapping and you're getting all butt hurt because I said it does. Saying a game needs key mapping and saying a glitch with the existing key mapping should be fixed are two very different things.

#24

Boogityboy said on January 1, 2013 at 4:12 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#25

Kirin said on January 1, 2013 at 5:03 a.m.

"4. Esc key should have a yes or no menu to safely close the game. I've exited on accident a couple times."

Rage quit behavior?

I would like them to fix Ryu's Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku too because it's weird when Mega Man can't slide under him only when he was executing Tatsumaki while flashing/blinking/being damaged.

However, if that's the way they wanna keep Ryu as scrubby as always, it's not a big deal for me.

#26