This update mainly focuses on balencing and adding proper functionality to popular CS moveset and abilities, reworking blocks and countering, adding a visual queue system to make FFA requests easier, and many bug and stability fixes.
Networking And Requests
Non-host players can now issue duel and team requests through server-processed sync requests.
Non-host players can forfeit; the server authoritatively resolves the match.
Invite targeting now requires players to be in the same course, level, and area.
Fixed requests accidentally targeting players in another level.
Team partners must still be nearby and in the same instance when battle begins.
FFA join requests validate every participant’s location.
Challenge state is cleared when combat begins, preventing request text from lingering.
Request Dialogue
Added synchronized overhead request dialogue:
FIGHT?
...
ME TOO?
LET'S DO THIS!
YOU'RE ON!
NOT IN THE MOOD
=(
I GIVE UP!
Dialogue is color-coded by team or FFA slot.
Added MarioFIGHTer APIs allowing ToeTagger to render these tags consistently.
Added a built-in fallback renderer when ToeTagger is unavailable.
Rounds And FFA
Added separate win tracking for players three and four.
Added equidistant three-player and four-player starting formations.
2D FFAs use evenly spaced linear positions.
3D FFAs use triangular or square formations.
Added an FFA elimination sound when a fighter is knocked out while others remain.
Added a short health synchronization delay before resolving a KO, reducing premature round endings.
Improved KO and winner determination for multi-player matches.
Fixed win-streak announcements persisting during active combat.
Combat
Blocking now cancels velocity, sliding, knockback timers, and knockdown reactions.
Bowser fireballs inflict zero chip damage when blocked.
Vanilla punches now counter incoming dive attacks.
Added a reusable high-launch system for powerful special attacks.
Added synchronized sustained launch velocity for electrified and custom attacks.
Added dedicated staleness rates and minimum damage floors for selected attacks.
Added grounded spindash-charge contact damage: 0.8% every 15 frames with a small outward push.
Airborne drop dashes no longer enter the grounded charge chip-damage loop.
Character Balance
Link sword strikes now use a dedicated stronger damage profile.
Metal Knuckles punches now use dedicated damage and stun values.
Geno Rocket Punch increased from 30% to 42%.
Geno beam tiers now deal 9%, 15.75%, and 19.125%.
Fully charged Geno beams receive heavy upward-back launch.
Mallow Bolt now deals 17.6% with heavy launch.
Pikachu Thunder reduced from 22% to 15.75%, preventing one-hit KOs.
Pikachu Thundershock now has a dedicated fast-staling profile.
Vile machine-gun damage increased by 30%.
Added dedicated charged Vulcan, Vile grenade, Vile Mk II grenade, and Axl grenade profiles.
Added dedicated Gaea Giga Attack and Zero Rekkoha profiles.
X/Alia fully charged buster damage reduced from 17.2% to 15.48%.
MMX projectiles now stale much more slowly than conventional attack spam.
Victory And Final Hit
Added a standalone victory-pose action that does not trigger a star-exit transition.
Winners are grounded, immobilized, and turned toward the camera during their pose.
Victory state is cleared correctly when the next round begins.
Final-hit camera now targets the defeated fighter directly.
Final-hit camera was moved farther back and uses a tighter cinematic FOV.
Defeated fighters use the injured/dead eye expression during the cinematic.
Added the MAN victory Easter egg with final-hit confetti and DEATH support.
Camera And Controls
Camera wall collision is now enabled by default.
D-Pad Up toggles wall collision during fights.
Added input debounce so one press cannot rapidly switch modes.
Added optional automatic close-wall camera escape with hysteresis.
Camera settings and switches remain local to each machine.
The selected 2D or 3D battle mode is now remembered between sessions.
Improved restoration of transformed analog input before each physics pass.
Updated /help with camera switching, forfeiting, and target-switch controls.
Compatibility
Expanded the package from two compatibility archives to six.
MMX: strict projectile-position collision checks, direct hit registration, unique hitbox IDs, special-attack profiles, and movement-directed ground-dash support.
Pikachu: direct Thunder and Thundershock registration with repeat-hit limits.
Link: unlimited arrows and bombs during active fights.
Metal Sonic & Knuckles: corrected Metal Knuckles wall-climb controls during fight input transformation.
MarioFIGHTer is back, this time supporting fights with up to 4 players, and includes direct compatibility files for MMX and Link (use the files in the zip and replace those files within their respective mod folders).
To form a team with another player, hold L + R + A
To start a FFA battle, first have one player challenge another with L + R + Z; before accepting a match, Player 3 and 4 can also use L + R + Z to convert it into an FFA request!
This list includes only features, balancing changes, and fixes completed after MarioFIGHTer 1.0.
Multiplayer Expansion
Added three and four-player free-for-all battles.
Multiple nearby challenges can merge into one open FFA request.
Added request text showing the players currently joining an FFA.
Added in-world indicators above players involved in an open request.
Added indicators showing whether an open challenge uses 2D or 3D rules.
Added longer acceptance time for multiplayer requests.
Added individual health and knockout states for every FFA participant.
Added lower-screen health bars for Player 3 and Player 4.
Added target switching with L during multi-opponent battles.
Corrected friendly fire between actual teammates.
Prevented players from challenging their active teammate.
Team partnerships now remain active after a battle.
Knocked-out teammates remain immobilized until the next round.
Multiplayer Victory Rules
In 1v1, the first knocked-out fighter loses.
In 2v1 and 2v2, a team loses only when every member is knocked out.
In FFA, the last remaining fighter wins.
Timed team battles compare each team’s combined remaining health.
Timed FFA battles award the round to the fighter with the most health.
Fixed rounds ending before a fighter’s health actually reached zero.
Fixed rounds occasionally awarding victory to the wrong player.
Fixed matches softlocking after incorrectly detecting a surviving player as defeated.
Fighters who bubble or fall out of the level are restored before the next round.
Final-Hit Cinematic
Added a Smash-inspired cinematic for the final attack of a match.
Added cinematic bars, camera zoom, dramatic hit freeze, impact effects, and a finishing launch.
Limited the effect to genuine match-ending player attacks.
Prevented forfeits and secondary impact damage from activating it.
Increased the final launch knockback.
Moved the cinematic camera farther back for clearer framing.
Fixed the cinematic activating only once per session.
Added cleanup for interrupted or stale cinematic states.
Fixed missing effect functions that previously generated Lua errors.
MMX Compatibility
Added direct MMX compatibility by modifying MMX’s own projectile handling.
X and Alia’s uncharged buster shots now inflict chip damage.
Added damage for X and Alia’s stage-one charge shots.
Vile’s machine-gun shots now inflict chip damage.
Axl’s pistol shots now inflict chip damage.
Increased MMX uncharged projectile damage after initial balancing.
Reduced excessive damage from fully charged MMX projectiles.
Increased Vile and Axl grenade damage and added knockback.
Increased Zero’s sword damage.
Added more subtle projectile impact effects.
Corrected MMX projectiles firing toward the target instead of straight ahead in 3D battles.
Updated MMX ground-dash handling to preserve player-directed movement.
Added a clean MMX compatibility package alongside the live patched version.
Kept MarioFIGHTer independently releasable without bundling MMX itself.
Character Compatibility
Added heavy damage to Pikachu’s aerial Thunder attack while preserving its electrocution and launch behavior.
Added damage for Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles bounce attacks.
Added collision damage for Metal Knuckles’ glide.
Added momentum-scaled damage for Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles spin attacks.
Increased damage from Link, Zero, Metal Sonic, Metal Knuckles, and other specialized movesets.
Reduced launch behavior from Metal Knuckles’ opening punches so combos can connect.
Added compatibility hooks that external movesets can use to register MarioFIGHTer damage.
Combat Changes
Added a Z + A backflip counter-attack.
The counter becomes active immediately to interrupt close-range pressure.
Successful counters inflict damage and strong upward knockback.
Backflip counters defeat incoming ground pounds.
Reworked parries to create a short attack clash instead of knocking down both fighters.
Added faster recovery after a successful parry.
Improved blockstun so blocking can create a counterattack opportunity.
Blocked attacks no longer apply normal knockback.
Reduced standard Mario punch, kick, dive, and ground-pound damage.
Increased damage for specialized custom-moveset attacks.
Reduced ground-pound damage through multiple balancing passes.
Reduced damage from ground, wall, stair, bonk, and knockdown impacts.
Added speed scaling so exceptionally hard impacts can still cause greater damage.
Added protection against the same impact dealing damage repeatedly across several frames.
Added a low-health standing animation below 20% health.
Recovery Fixes
Reduced the amount of recoverable health to prevent drawn-out matches.
Fixed recovery freezing indefinitely.
Fixed newly received damage sometimes being overwritten by active recovery.
Fixed grenade and sword damage occasionally being nullified during recovery.
Changed recovery processing so each player owns their local health restoration.
Added damage timestamps that immediately suspend recovery when a new attack lands.
Added safeguards for missing team-damage and health functions.
Fixed recurring recovery errors that accumulated lag for non-host players.
Camera Improvements
Added improved vertical tracking for slopes, pits, and aerial movement.
Added a Camera Wall Collision option.
Camera wall collision remains disabled by default, preserving the unobstructed fight camera.
When enabled, level geometry can push the camera in front of obstructing walls.
Improved multiplayer camera framing for team and FFA battles.
Reduced camera snap-back after a fighter receives damage.
Fixed combat movement corrections ending before the full match transition completed.
Improved camera cleanup after softlocks, ring outs, and interrupted battles.
PIGGYBACKer Integration
Added an option to suspend PIGGYBACKer during fights.
Added direct compatibility handling inside PIGGYBACKer.
Combatants are rejected as piggyback riders and hosts while fighting.
Existing piggyback links are cleared when a fight begins.
Added repeated enforcement to catch piggyback links created after the initial battle transition.
Normal piggyback behavior becomes available again after the fight.
Interface and Help
Added /help with challenge, team, FFA, forfeit, and targeting instructions.
Added Player 3 and Player 4 HUD layouts.
Added wins indicators for additional combatants.
Moved lower-player names, icons, and wins above their health bars.
Removed lingering FFA request text after a battle begins.
Added active teammate and target indicators.
Rebranded the release as MarioFIGHTer 1.5, retaining the red, yellow-orange, and white title colors.
Stability Fixes
Split FFA, multiplayer combat, and counter logic into dedicated handler files.
Reduced pressure on Lua’s per-file local-variable limit.
Fixed missing last_damage_for_team, set_health, show_fight_fx, burst_particles, and related helper errors.
Fixed invalid MMX projectile-owner lookups.
Fixed repeated Lua errors triggered by SIDEKICKer swaps.
Fixed countdown and battle-state interruptions introduced during multiplayer development.
Reduced accumulating non-host lag caused by callbacks failing every frame.
Added safer cleanup when a combatant disconnects, changes levels, or becomes unavailable.
Added recovery paths for interrupted FFA and final-hit states.
Known Limitations
Character Select locking remains excluded because universal hooks repeatedly caused startup failures.
Throws and grapples were not included; the backflip counter currently fills the defensive escape role.
MMX, Pikachu, PIGGYBACKer, and Metal Sonic/Metal Knuckles integrations require their supplied compatibility files.
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MAN victory Easter egg with final-hit confetti and DEATH