Meldo, I'm well aware of what is and is not okay to do when it comes to other people's hard work and whether or not I, or anyone else, has permission to tamper with, modify, or re-use their work for our own. But you seem to be responding to me as though that I am going to be doing something with any of this at all.
I can assure you, I'm not. I don't plan on editing this game. I don't plan on stealing or reusing anything from this game. I don't plan on copying anything from this game and turning it into something else. Everything that this game is, will not be modified in any way, shape, or form from my end. That I can assure you.
But me having wishful thinking that other people do these sort of things, doesn't change the fact that, even had I not said that, someone might already be in the works of doing such a thing. After all, there are other full-games, that have been edited from various people online, in order to work with regular MUGEN 1.0/1.1, that is something that happens.
Just because I approve of such actions, doesn't mean I have any control over them. Addressing me on what is right or is wrong, doesn't change what is and isn't. I cannot control what others do, and my suggestions, don't make a difference to whether or not they get done.
Believe me, I appreciate your concern and thoughts brought into this conversation, but they seem to be directed at the wrong person, as I have absolutely 0 skill in making, edited, or even doing any kind of work regarding MUGEN at all. Hell, I can't even make palettes work.
If you are this concerned about the possibility of people editing or stealing or abusing someone's hard work, then I would strongly suggest making a public notice or thread about this, perhaps have a discussion with the staff to hopefully promote this line of thinking and perhaps change someone else's mind, someone whom actually contributes to the creation process of MUGEN itself.
All I do is host/re-host content, nothing more, nothing less.
Once again, I am aware that taking someone else's hard work is NOT OKAY, but this doesn't mean it isn't going to happen eventually. I have no control over that.
Addressing me on the moral aspect of this, does not change who is going to view this game in their own light and change how others can enjoy it.
That'd be like telling someone who plays pirated video games that those games are bad, expecting that to somehow stop people from pirating games.
Also... what you just said, literally makes no goddamn sense to have a moral opinion on. MUGEN is literally made from "stealing" assets from games and putting them onto this fighting game engine, where they would otherwise NOT BELONG. So as much as I even want to be like "hey man, that's a good moral code to stand by", it also makes literally no sense when MUGEN is made from taking assets from other people's games and shoving them into this engine for others to enjoy. So yeah, your point is completely moot and you might as well just have said "nobody should make anything at all for MUGEN", unless you want to justify it being okay to "steal" content from companies so that MUGEN can exist but not "steal" stuff from people within the community so that this same content can exist in different forms or styles.