The History of the Melty Blood Community

[F9|Chibi]

I've been meaning to do this for a while but I guess I never followed through.

Anyways I want to do a video of sorts (or maybe an article, who knows) on the history of the Melty community. From the start, where it was like 9 of us in the US to landing a spot at Evolution. I want to get old names like Linalys, Mad Tea Party, the works in this. Not so much tooting our own horn but I know there's an interest from other people out there and I'd like some help from you guys. Who's up for it?

[TheMaster_Rahl]

Well, I don't know if I can be of much help in making this, but I'd definitely like to read/watch what ever is produced.

I remember discovering the Melty Blood series in '07, while I was stationed in Germany. It was MBAC ver.B then. I was already a Type-Moon fan boy, and through random google searches I found out there was a fighting game. I was like, "Hell yeah! Gettin that right now." So I get deployed that year, and the deployment lasts till the beginning of '09. I was about to separate from the Army, so that year I started looking to see if people played this game. So I do a google search for 'Melty Blood Tournament', and wouldn't you know, a get video results for something called 'West Toast'. That was my introduction to competitive fighting games. It's what made me want to learn to play Melty. It looked like so much fun. I had to play this game.

Then AA dropped, I was starting to go to UNT in Denton, where there was a university club hosting a fighting game event. So I bring my loptop, because I can't lug a TV and PS2 around, and set up Melty just to see if anyone recognizes the game. And that's how I met Pfhor. He comes up and says, "OMG. That's my main game." I proceeded to get my ass handed to me for the next year (or maybe it was longer...), before I could take rounds here and there.

Thanks, Pfhor, for making me into a Melty player.

Not sure why I typed all this... Must be that thinking about the history of Melty makes me think about how I got into it and why I still play it. Best community of people I've met.

BTW: I can't seem to find many of the old Top 8 West Toast vids that used to be around the tubes. Was going to take another trip down memory lane, but... Anyone still have these vids?

-TexasTim-

[abitofBaileys]

Great thread.

'twas a short story. Around 2004 I found out about the French Bread doujin circle. Was looking for some small indie games back then and discovered Bike Banditz. Played it, was short fun. Looked into the circle, found about Melty Blood, which was funny since I was familiar to Tsukihime.

So I started playing the still-doujin-game when like 3-4 weeks afterwards there were news on ReAct. At this time I was already playing Garou: Mark of the Wolves and was really selective to fighters. But since it was a Tsukihime fighter and had godlike animations back then I started playing that as well.

Nothing much happened afterwards, I even forgot about it completely until around 2006 I learned that a next installment: Act Cadenza, was released. This was the first version I legitimately imported from Japan. Half a year later in 2007 I found out about Melty Bread and starting from there the rest is history.

More info:

It was late 2007 when I decided to start an independent community. The initial plan was to spread this game in Germany and after setting up a website with information, a translated wiki and 2008 a forum - we were even able to get about 35 members (39 until today) - and hosting a small netplay tournament.

Shortly after the launch I had my 2nd car accident which came along with high expenses to I had to cut my internet connection for more than 1 year. During this time I learned PHP and started the CasterStats project.

While the German community alread died by then people were interested in CasterStats so I sided with Danielsan, a loyal fellow Melty player, to create and finish the statistics page. This bloomed for about 2 years until I had yet another accident and had to cut my internet again.

The site ran a few months without me but with the installment of Actress Again for PS2 people lost interest and were abadoning Act Cadenza in almost an instant. A few tries were to reanimate the page with new features and a new concept (was contacting mauve back then when he was giving me the proper tools) but that never came to be. So the site died.

When MBAA for PS2 was blooming I made preparations for the next CasterStats installment (Traybar icon, Lobbies, autohost + -join and all that shit, that was even all already coded), but since the creation of a Caster client was abadoned the project died as well.

2009 I was trying to reanimate the German community with an updated website but this time being demotivated from the events and attitude in the Melty scene I ceased development.

Thought you might be interested in this.

[HRGS|忍]

I've always imagined a documentary on the community and/or the anime scene in general. Let me know if you need anything from me before or during FR Chibs.

[Qaenyin]

I haven't been around long enough to have anything of value to contribute but do want to give 2 thumbs to the idea, cool to see something like this made.