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Little Fighter 2
Ver. Combined Effort
Main Makers：聖龍(aka 阿緻), Sam2003(Sam Chou), 重愁(aka 錯像 or Mike Liu), Marshall and many others
Technical Advisor: Havoc Creator
Powered By Marti Wong and Starsky Wong
Copy Right® 1999-2005 All Rights Reserved
Official LF2 Site: www.lf2.net

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UPDATES
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4 new backgrounds added
Deleted 1 moves from Woody and added two new ones
Modified 1 move for Rudolf
Deleted 1 move from Deep but added 3 instead
Modified 2 moves of Henry and added 1 new one
Modified 1 moves of Firen
Completed Firzen, Dennis and Davis 

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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《Basics》
CPU: Celeron 300 / K6-2 300 or above
Memory: >32 MB Ram
Display Card: Supports Direct X acceleration
Platform: Win 95/98 with Direct X 6.0 or above
Resolution: 800 x 600 or above, _MUST BE_ 16 bit colours

《Suggested》
Platform： Windows 2000 Professional, XP Professional
CPU： Celeron 1.2 Ghz or more advanced (I don't keep track with new tech = =)
Memory：256MB
Hard disc space： at least 500MB
Direct X version：9.0b
Resolution：1024*768 with 16 bit colours (note：32 bit colours are not recommended)

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INSTALLING
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Unzip everything into the folder where you installed the original LF2
and allow replacements

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Function Keys
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F1: Pause
F2: Pause/Step
F3: Function Keys Locked (F6,F7,F8,F9)
F4: Restart
F5: Turn off the frame control timer (Speed up)
F6: Unlimited MP
F7: Recover
F8: Drop weapons from the sky
F9: Destroy all weapons
ESC: Quit

(F5 ~ F9 are disabled in stage mode.)

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Introduction
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Combined Effort Little Fighter 2 (CE LF2) is presented by me (Marshall) based on the game LF2 created by Marti and Starsky.
After playing LF2 for 4 years, I have left the LF community after the crash of my website (LF2 Unlimited) while it was having an average of 100 unique visitors each day. >_< Since then, I had other things to occupy my life such as public exams. Two years later, here I am, back on the scene and decided that many people are making a mod of their own while the quality varies a lot and many are just half finished projects. Before my disappearance, I have played many character modifications or characters made by various people. The return to the LF community showed me people have already forgotten the classic stuff that deserves to be remembered and many players have bad taste. Apart from Kate-LF2 and arguably, Reinforced-LF2 which are both from my time, people have forgotten some really good makers. The reasons maybe due to the language barrier (which I am trying to bridge) or the works are not completed by them... So I have decided to learn data changing to fuse all the best from various authors and some of mine to have a really high quality mod. Thus it is called Combined Effort LF2 as it is not entirely made by me. I am just the assembler and collector. I hope you will enjoy it.  

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NEW BACKGROUNDS
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Name: Rockman Stage
By: ccc2

Name: Mountain
By: Sam2003

Name: Sanctuary
By: N/A (I don't know)

Name: Leaguer
By: 重愁 and modified by me

Name: Limestone Cave
By: N/A (I don’t know, but extracted from LF2 Mega)

Name: Easter Island
By: MH-LF2

Name: Palatial
By: Ricky Mok

Name: Dark Lion Forest
By: Sam2003


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ADDED/MODIFIED MOVES
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('D' means Defend button, 'A' means Attack button, 'J' means Jump button)
('>', '^', 'v' means the arrow buttons)
You can setup the Key Configuration by choosing OPTION in the main menu.


==John== Completed 75%
1. Magical Blast  mp: 105
   D > A
Data made by 兔子先生 (Mr. Rabbit)

2. Tele Disk  mp: 300
   D ^ A
Data made by abc

3. Staff Bashing  mp: 200
   D v A
Data made by 重愁 (aka 錯像 or Mike Liu)

4. Electro Zap  mp: 340
   D A
Sprites and data made by me

==Deep== Completed 95%
1. Skyward Slash  mp: 100
   D ^ A
Sprites and data made by Sam2003

2. Sword Demon  mp: 490
   D J A
Sprites and data made by Sam2003

3. Shadow Strike  mp: 80
   D v A
Sprites and data made by Regan

4. Blaster  mp: 200
   D > A A
Data made by Sam2003

5. Sword Throw  mp: 120
   D A
Sprite edit and data by Sam2003

6. Sword Wheel  mp: 50
   D v J
Sprites and data by Sam2003   

==Henry== Completed 100%
1. Arrow Flurry  mp: 40 (18, 18…)
    D v A
Data made by me

2. Jab  mp: 95
    D ^ A
Sprites made by me, data by Sam2003

3. Critical shot  mp: 225
    D > J J
Sprites and data made by QQQ

4. Arrow Rain  mp: 75
   D v J
Sprites and data made by Sam2003

5. Falcon Summoning  mp: 120
   D A
Sprites by 重愁 (aka 錯像 or Mike Liu)
Data by 聖龍(aka 阿緻) 

==Rudolf== Completed 100%
1. Leap Attack  mp: 20
    > > J A
Sprites and data made by ? (I don’t know)

2. Blade Slash  mp: 40
   > > A A
Data made by me

3. Blade Storm  mp: 110
   D J
Data and sprites made by Dark Lord

4. Shuriken Throw  mp: 330
    D A
Data and sprites made by 喪屍Firzen (Zombie Firzen)

5. Surprise Attack  mp: 20
    > > D D
Data made by by 神天 (aka Sontin)

6. Fury Cutter  mp: 400
    D v A
Data and sprites made by 神天 (Sontin)

7. Whirlwind  mp: 170
    D ^ A
Data is made by me, sprites are from 聖龍(aka 阿緻)

==Louis== Completed 0%

==LouisEX== Completed 0%

==Firen== Completed 100%
1. Ghoulish Fire  mp: 150
   D ^ A
Sprites are taken from the Little Realm but I made the data

2. Rapid Foray  mp: 75
   D v A
Sprites are my work while the data is a combination of mine and Reagan's

3. Fire Blade  mp: 150
   D J A
Sprites and data are both made by me

4. Magma Boulder  mp: 200
   D A
Sprites and data made by 聖龍(aka 阿緻)

==Freeze== Completed 100%
1. Icicle Spears  mp: 260
   D ^ A
Sprites and data made by me

2. Ice Blast  mp: 120
   D > A
Data made by me, sprites made by Dark Lord

3. Ice Palm  mp: 100
   D v A
Data made by 重愁 (aka 錯像 or Mike Liu)

4. Freezing Slash  mp: 100
   D A 
Sprites and data made by me

5. Hail Storm  mp: 110
   D J A
Sprites and data made by 聖龍(aka 阿緻)

==Firzen== Completed 100%
1. Flying Kick  mp: 25
   D A
Data made by LS 

2. Whirlwind  mp: 350
   D v J
Sprites and data made by 聖龍(aka 阿緻)

3. Fire Blade  mp: 190
   D v A
Sprites and data by 絕對抹殺 (aka Sten)    

4. Fire Dragon  mp: 125
   D > A
Sprites and data made by 聖龍(aka 阿緻)

5. Ice Trap  mp: 125
   D J A
Sprites made by ? (I don’t know)
Data made by me

==Dennis== Completed 100%
1. Low-lying footwork  mp: 70 (+50 +30)
   D A (+ D > A + D > A)
Sprites and data by me

2. Tornado Kick  mp: 420
   D ^ J
Sprites and data extracted from Kate-LF2

3. Lightning Killer Kick  mp: 175
   D J A
Sprites and data made by 聖龍(aka 阿緻)

4. Power Upper Blast  mp: 300
   D v J
Sprites by me
Data by MSSJSG

==Woody== Completed 100%
1. Flip Kick  mp: 15
   D ^ A
Sprites and data made by QQQ 

2. Mach Punch  mp: 130
　 D A
Sprites and data by Sam2003

3. Tele-Dash  mp: 240
   D J
Remake of gptony's Woody EX

4. Energy Burst  mp: 330
   D > A + D > A
Sprites of Woody_2 and data made by me
Sprites of Woody_ball2 made by 喪屍Firzen (Zombie Firzen)

5. Tiger Dash  mp: 300
   D > J
Data made by Sam2003

==Davis== Completed 100%
1. Dragon Ball  mp: 250
    D A
Sprites of davis_ball2 made by Davis
Sprites of davis_ball3 made by Stupid
Data by Davis and Stupid

2. Drunken Punch  mp: 70 hp: 10
   D > J
Sprites and data by me
N.B. It is a fact that Drunken punch does exist in Chinese Martial Arts = =b For the purpose of promoting alcohol damages your health, the mp usage includes a deduction of 10 hp… 

3. Sacrificial Punch  mp: 360 hp: 70
   D v J
Sprites by Alien Davis
Data by Kobeip and me

4. Dragon Rage  mp: 500
   D J A
Sprites and data by Davis
==Bandit== Completed 0%

==Hunter== Completed 0%

==Mark== Completed 0%

==Jack== Completed 0%

==Sorcerer== Completed 0%

==Monk== Completed 0%

==Jan== Completed 0%

==Knight== Completed 0%

==Justin== Completed 0%

==Bat== Completed 0%

==Julian== Completed 0%


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THANKS
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Special Thanks is given to Sam (sam2003), 阿緻(聖龍), 重愁(錯像) and Kobe for allowing me to use many of their old works in this LF2. Hope our friendship lasts forever.
Many thanks for Andre (HC) and Kobe for being such a great pal and being my technical advisor. Thanks to windmill and MH-LF2 for their DC tutorials, without them, you won’t be playing C.E. LF2
Thanks to Metatail and Matti for all your encouragements. 
Last but not least, your support by downloading this.

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DISCLAIMER
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Authors of this program will not be held liable for any damages to either the user or the system it is run on, that may occur as a direct or indirect result of the use of this program.

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Conclusion
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This is the first time for me to do any large scale DCing. Although not many moves are my work, you can say that I have the experience of making a mod… It is very tough work indeed (typing this readme is already exhausting =.=) and now I fully understand why people are angry when their works get stolen…
As for the balancing and powers of the characters, I have to confess that I didn’t really bother to learn how to fight seriously, so my skills are just a little better than a noob, thus you may think some moves are simply too strong. I will fix them after I receive comments and feedback from YOU since I think you will be a better judge than me, thank you!

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About Marshall
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Name: Marshall
Nationality: Chinese
Location: UK/HK
Occupation: Student
e-mail: marshall_luk_boom@hotmail.com
MSN: marshall_luk_boom@hotmail.com
Played LF2 for: 6 years
DCed for: less than 1 month =.=
Phone number: I don't think anyone will bother (or be desperate enough) to make long distance calls and waste money, so I'm not going to announce it...

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Recommendations:
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The original version of LF2 i.e. version 1.91 or 1.9c
Melody-Blood LF2 by Nanaya (Japanese animie styled, very original)
SEED LF by Sam2003 and Nanaya (that is if you can find it :P, best for Gundam lovers )
Kate-LF2 by Kate (not sure) (a classic)
LF2 Mega by 聖龍 (many of the stuff here r from there cuz it’s too well done =.=)
Zero LF by Sam2003 and Nanaya (what? Them again? Best for Zero/Rockman lovers)
Eagle by 重愁(錯像)
Robotical LF2 by Tomcwy (unknown to many, but it’s with cool, creative moves and as the name suggests, with robots)
Nintendo VS Sega by Jackie Rabbit (for Nintendo/Sega fans, featuring Mario, Pikachu, Sonic etc)
LF-EMPIRE, a website by MH-LF2 which is very organized with tons of high quality content.
http://www.lf-empire.de.vu/
