Board Thread:M.U.G.E.N Discussion/@comment-25763593-20141125153407/@comment-5289928-20150930181020

TaurmegaTyrant wrote: DemetrioMachete wrote: I actually did have a question about cheapies and virus characters.

Do you have to actually boot up Mugen for them to screw things up? Or can they start f**king up your computer the moment you download them? Could I open one with Fighter Factory and be considered safe? If they started cocking up your computer without booting up M.U.G.E.N, then they're not really Cheapies at all. Just plain viruses. Remember, the point of higher-tier Cheapies is to win.

As for the Fighter Factory question... no idea, lol.

If they're simply exploting bugs in WinMUGEN to modify the other character's parameters to achieve effects that aren't normall possible then nothing should occur if you open the character with a program like Fighter Factory that doesn't execute anything.

Characters that actually come with their own programs that run outside of MUGEN to go even further - while it's an incredibly bad idea to run sketchy programs downloaded from the internet - by design will be completely invisible to FF or whatever.

Personally I'm extremely skeptical of how these lists escalate into the absurd terrority of doing any sort of physical damage (these aren't 1980s MS-DOS virsues) and to anything that isn't another computer. Sounds like people making up increasinbly silly claims like some kind of MUGEN creepypasta.