It's good to see that even how much SMC sucked, the SM community is still strong, and can produce awesome works.

A few days ago, new Sailor Moon characters which are part of a long running project called Sailor Moon Stars Beyond finally released. Programmed by a guy named MillionMiles.

The most notably difference is, these characters have tons of new custom made sprites, and of course, new effects. I wondered how they can manage against TsukinoAI+ characters, which were at this point the best (IMHO), if we speak about the arcade style characters of course.
Definetly, these are well made characters with a bit of a passive, but decent AI.

Speaking of SM, this reminded me that 10 years ago, I released a Sailor Moon stage pack, and I decided to update it. (Better now than never.) Most of these stages were fine, I only need to remove some deprecated controllers, yet I decided to do more. I added 3 new stages, music to every already existing one, and I completely remade one stage, the Park stage with the fountain.

The funny thing is, this stage was among the very first one which were mugenized back in the early 2000's. Yet nobody did it properly. The stage was distorted, blurred in many release, and almost nobody tried to animate the fountain water. The pack also includes another one with alternative, more bluish water color.

The stage pack: [ Ссылка ]

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