Here's what you need to know to about Muscle Gear, the utility that allows you to use unlimited characters and play different game modes with Muscle Fight.
Simply download the utility and extract it into your Muscle Fight folder.
Run MG.exe to start Muscle Gear; when you select a game mode, Muscle Gear will launch Muscle Fight for you.
Muscle Fight enables you to play with the following game modes:
To unlock Team Competition, Tournament and League modes you must win six matches in Survival on Easy, Medium and Hard difficulties, respectively. Alternatively, you can download our Muscle Gear Mode Unlock file and copy it to your Muscle Fight directory.
Pick your fighter and progress through a series of matches until you reach the ending.
 | Fighter select |
| CPU Mode: | Fighter controlled by CPU |
| Continue: | Enable continues |
| S. Random: | Randomize opponents |
| Capture: | Capture character portraits and stage graphics * |
 | Set starting health |
| G: | Set power gauge (0-3) |
| Lv: | Set CPU level |
 | Select colour (1-4) |
| End: | Select ending |
| Round: | Set number of rounds |
 | Consult guide |
 | Play |
 | Back to main menu |
The list of opponents appears on the right side of the screen.
*Use this option the first time playing with new characters and stages to add the appropriate graphics to the character and stage select menus.
Select your fighter and your opponent.
Use the "RANDOM" square to select your stage.
Pick your fighter and try to beat as many challengers as you can in a series of one-round matches with one life bar.
A different story mode.
Note: this mode appears to require files not included in the bulk download.
Pick 5 fighters per side and have them battle in a gauntlent match, a la Scramble for the Throne. Unlocked by defeating six fighters on Easy difficulty in Survival mode.
Unlocked by defeating six fighters on Medium difficulty in Survival Mode.
Unlocked by defeating six fighters on Hard difficulty in Survival Mode.
To add new characters:
To edit an existing character slot, right click on the character portrait to access the following menu:
| Change character (select new .player file) |
| Delete character |
| Okay |
| Cancel |
| Check to allow character to be randomly selected in different game modes |
| Check to display the file name on top of the character portrait |
A character can be moved to an empty slot or swapped with an existing character by clicking on the character portrait and dragging it to an empty or occupied slot, respectively.
What else can Muscle Gear do for you?
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Rearrange character registration slots. Character names are given in Japanese text so if you can't read that, this'll be no use to you. See more here if you'd like. |
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Automatically capture thumbnails of all characters or stages; the full download has done this for you already. |
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Expand the number of character registration slots in the game; the full download has done this for you already. |
