Eleven years ago, Halloween fell on a Friday and I made that the theme of the update. Now I’m bringing that energy back in more than just the sprites in this final HorrorThon 2025 update!
Custom Sprites:
– Friday the 13th : Jason Voorhees (walking) and unnamed running counselor.
– Halloween: Michael Myers/The Shape – 1978 top of the stairs pose
– Splatterhouse: Terror Mask boss (giant mask version)
part 1: Remains of the Night
Custom Sprites:
– Mega Man : Skullman
– Castlevania: Dhuron
– Splatterhouse: Splatterhouse 2 Zombie
part 2: Creature Features
Custom Sprites:
– Darkstalkers: Demitri (scratch-made idle pose)
– Castlevania: Medusa
– Horror – Critters: The Crites (just the small ones, for now)
All new custom sprites and mini-logos were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators that I used to make the group shot at the top of this post. Dhuron is in the “Castlevania skeletons” character slot.
One more day of horror left!
Arcade Quartermaster has the new shrines up, with one for Smash TV and Sky Destroyer!
part 1
– Horror – The Craft: completely redone Nancy Downs hovering (“Surprise”) sprite.
– Marvel Comics: New Scarlet Witch spellcasting pose
– Illmosis/ScrollBoss: An updated version of the new ‘cos-ladies’ Witch sprite I added last week and a second version in a slightly more traditional-looking witch outfit.
Stay tuned, there’ll be a second themed part of this update added later today. The title: On Leather Wings. Pretty sure some comic and cartoon fans can guess at least one of the sprites in that batch!
All new custom sprites were added to the fake screenshot makers/image generators that I used to make the group shot at the top of this post. The cos-lady witches now have more palette separation for their outfits.
Can’t have a HorrorThon without a teaser video, can we?
Over a dozen new static sprites for the site (that’s not even counting alternate versions of them) and more new animation than usual will be in the main video.
The HorrorThon kicks off next week, but here’s a little something to get you
GFX Generator: The new 2025 theater lobby with posters chosen by site visitors has been added to the Screenstyles with multiple background choices: Group, Vs., Marvel vs. Capcom ending, Box 160 x 192 pixels, and Comic 88 pixel. In the Box and Comic settings, I made an extra version that crops to the two movies that got the most votes: Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 2.
As a bonus surprise, I’ve put an early version of a new sprite into the “ScrollBoss – Cos-ladies” character: a witch! For now all you can do is change the color of her skin, hair, eyes, and laces while she wears an all-black outfit. She’ll have more extra palette powers (and possibly other surprises) when she’s updated during next week’s HorrorThon! Speaking of which, here’s a taste of the new pixel art that will stalk this site during the marathon:
The HorrorThon will start later this month, but you can help out right now!
Maddie Tenay has a problem… she wants to put up a new set of posters, but can’t decide which to use. So now it’s YOUR turn! Leave a reply with up to four choices out of the posters below and that new line-up will be added to the image generators when the HorrorThon starts later this month. Voting will end on October 15th!
edit October 18, 2025: Thank you to everyone who voted here, on Bluesky, and on Instagram! There will be a small site update next week that adds the new background with the winning posters. Here’s the what won, arranged in the order of votes (click thumbnail below to see a bigger version of this CRT_VIEW filtered preview):
Here’s the breakdown of the top 4:
Dawn of the Dead – votes 9
Evil Dead 2 – votes 8
Halloween, votes 6
Nightmare on Elm votes 5
This background will be added to the Group, Vs., Marvel vs. Capcom ending, Box 160 x 192 pixels, and Comic 88 pixel screenstyles in the generator. Don’t worry, I’ve already set up a cropped version for Box and Comic that focus on the two posters with the most votes: Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead 2. So tune in next week for a tiny update with that and then get ready for the HorrorThon in the last week of October!
A few small things added before have been added as we September behind and get ready for this year’s HorrorThon in October.
GFX Image Generators: Bishimon, Bulleta/BBH, Demitri, Donovan, and Felicia have been updated with their idle/standing sprite from the original Capcom games. I’ll be adding the other characters’ idle poses soon.
ToyBoss: a new picture with the villainous half of Capcom’s Marvel Super Heroes roster in Marvel Legends form. I finally finished getting all the parts for Blackheart a little while back, got Shuma-Gorath/Gargantos on Sunday, and took a quick pic of all the villains. That makes Marvel Super Heroes the first fighting game roster I’ve ever finished!
update: October 1, 2025 2:49AM EST:
idles added for Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei, Lilith, Lord Raptor/Zabel, Pyron, and Q.Bee.
What started as an effort to add more to the image generator/screenshot maker’s Marvel vs. Capcom 1 ending options turned into a Secret Wars update with some new sprites. Basically the theme was a secret even to myself while I was working on most of it.
The new sprites and mini-logos were added to the GFX Image Generators, which was used to make the image at the top of this post. New options were added to the Marvel vs. Capcom ending found in the fight-size generator.
– backgrounds: a rocky Battleworld stage based on two ads for the toyline
– frames: Marvel Super Heroes arcade ending, and a new custom Secret Wars frame.
– sprite layouts: a new “beat ’em up – 2 players” option, used in the pic at the top of this post.
Coincidentally, Capcom’s MSH line-up features 6 (Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Doctor Doom, Magneto) of the 8 characters that made up the Mattel Secret Wars toyline’s first year. That stray thought started the whole chain that led to nearly everything in this update.
I’ll be one of the guests on the the Dire’s Place YouTube stream this Saturday, and the topic will be 90s cartoons! The cartoon I chose to talk about has one of the characters from this update!
Monday: There’s going to be an update this week that’s mostly Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, and I’m going to post previews here and on other spots online. Here’s a do-over that actually got requested a while back, the Absorbing Man, Crusher Creel!
Looks like an ending for a Capcom Secret Wars fighting game, right? This frame and background will be added as options to the MvC1 ending screenstyle in the screenshot makers, and the background (based on a couple of ads for the toyline) will be added to other screenstyles in that generator at a later date. See you tomorrow for the next preview!
Tuesday: Preview 2 is another enemy of Thor who made it into the comics: The Wrecker! He’ll be the only member of the Wrecking Crew in the update, but I think he’s enough trouble as it is.
Wednesday: This update’s been heavy on the villainous side so far, but luckily we have a hero to save the day, and she made her debut in the comic series! That’s right, the Julia Carpenter version of Spider-Woman finally gets a sprite!
Will Thursday’s preview be friend or foe?
Thursday: Another Secret Wars debut (and debut on the site), it’s Volcana! Transformed into a superhuman by Doctor Doom on Battleworld, Volcana fights for that side, but turns out to nowhere near as evil as the circle she runs with then.
We’re in the eight month, and in its ninth day, and that means it’s time for The Revenge of 1989! It’s time for some new pixel art, including a couple of sprites in the style of Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (1989) (later localized as River City Ransom)!
Custom Sprites – New:
– Bonk/PC Genjin: Bonk (and his gallery) debuts and gets two sprites
– Ninja Gaiden: Irene Lew fans have it good today, she gets THREE new sprites, replacing all those 2014 sprites and even that action-y Capcom edit.
– Mega Man: Returning Sniper Joe from Mega Man 2, and of course I’ve got the regular Sniper Joe palette version, too.
– Marvel Comics: a sprite of Storm in her Pryde of the X-Men outfit. A different version of this pose was in her Sprite Showcase.
– sprite style: Kunio-kun/River City Ransom: Golden Axe’s Tyris Flare and Revenge of Shinobi’s Joe Musashi
Custom Sprites – updated:
– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Modified the sprites of the 4 turtles with their weapons on their belts, including putting the ties on the belt.
There will be a ToyBoss section update in the last half of August, and I’ve got a lot of plastic to catch up on and roster photos to update there. There may even be an extra surprise or two. Here’s a few quick pics of some of my favorite toy newness: the Jada Toys SDCC Neo Metall 6-pack and the Marvel Legends Psylocke-Thanos two-pack!
