This 26th anniversary update may be low key compared to last year’s big 25th anniversary celebration, but today’s newness brings new sprites of one whole sci-fi game trio, completes another sci-fi team, brings in a classic comic book villain who recently became a final boss, and gives a vehicle to another final boss!

Custom Sprites:
Alien Storm (new): long overdue idle stance sprites of Karla, Gordon, and Scooter. I also sprited Karla’s select screen pose.
Donkey Kong (new separate): completely redrawn Donkey Kong Junior
Flicky (new): Flicky
Kid Icarus: Palutena
Mega Man: Dr. Wily in the Wily UFO 2 (open and closed)
Quartet (new separate): Joe and Lee (finally)
Marvel Comics: Annihilus (classic comic)

Mini-logos:
Capcom: Andore (SF6 cutscene)
Nintendo: Kid Icarus
Sega: Flicky
Marvel: Annihilus

Game Index: MARVEL Cosmic Invasion

Toyboss: Took a new TMNT villain group pic, adding the VHS box ‘toon Foot Soldier.

New custom sprites and mini-logos added to the GFX Generators.

This will probably be the last time I do an anniversary update like this, so next year’s will be different. PROBABLY, it depends on how certain things I’m working on turn out between now and then. The main thing is to not just have another “bigger update than usual.” The main thing is to still do something special for all the people who still come through to check out this old website.

Here’s a couple of teasers from recent sprite linework scans and all I’ll say is that’s both of them are super-villains.

Thank you for visiting the site and I hope you come back for more pixels and fun when you get the chance!

ToyBoss/Toybox – The toy photo galleries have been redone and now share a bit of code with the pixel art galleries. Not sure how much you’ll notice on your side of the screen, but hopefully this makes the page load more quickly. It also lets me add a lot of photos that I left out to keep the page’s file size down. Some of the galleries now have different urls, but the old ones should still work, too.
Double Dragon: Syndicate Collectibles: First I got Jimmy Lee and took some new photos of both brothers and some faked enemies. Then I got Willy, the game’s final boss and a beast of an action figure, and took a group pic of all three regular figures. Keeping my fingers crossed that this line continues, especially for Abobo and Linda.
Street Fighter: New heroes group shot including my new Jada Toys Blanka. I’m SLOWLY catching up in this line.
Masters of the Universe: New gallery with three new Masterverse pics.
Marvel Legends: A big group shot of characters who were in the Marvel side of the legendary Mego World’s Greatest Super-Heroes toy line up (except Conan).
DC Comics: added Justice League “original seven” pic and updated heroes pic, including new additions McF Martian Manhunter and Captain Marvel/Shazam.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: updated heroes lineup pic with NECA comic Casey Jones (gray shirt), archive pic of the Pizza Club boxes stacked up.
Wrestling: added an old “everybody I have” photo from March 16th, 2024. Sadly, I didn’t have a figure of Stone Cold then.


The site anniversary is on the 19th of July, but I don’t know what I’ll be able to finish for it because I’ll be working on commissions for a while. I already have a few finished sprites to add and linework already drawn for more, so it definitely won’t be an empty update.


The brand new Warp Point website brings a new school approach to the old school concept of video game website webrings. It groups together the latest updates from a wide, growing variety of video game fansites, and I’m proud to say that the ScrollBoss site was invited to be a part of it, too. With the internet being cluttered with more and more meaningless slop, it’s a great way to find new game sites or be notified that a favorite site recently updated. Their 88 x 31 pixel button (so glad to see that format making a comeback) is now part of this site’s sidebar quick links, and I’ll be adding it to more places soon, so you (and I) and go there and see what the other sites are up to. Really, that’s how it was when I started in the 00s and I’m grateful that someone has brought that back again!


Beatdown City Survivors, the horror-flavored sequel to Treachery in Beatdown City, has been available for a while, and you can get the scoop on the official site!


Once again shouting out the Pizza Kidd pixel art beat ’em up Kickstarter, fighting its way to the finish line, so please help out if you can!


Kimimi made a post about getting Escalator Action (not a typo, not a photo manipulation) and I’ve been waiting for that review ever since. That wait is over, so check it out on Kimimi’s blog!

I meant to post this days ago, but I hope any alert is better than none: the toy section update will happen either next Monday or Tuesday. I’ve already taken some roster update pics (two are because of what I showed you in the last update) and I’ll be taking more pics this weekend. You’ll also see the next big coding update for the section that makes the galleries work on the same system, which will let me make bigger toy section galleries.

I’ve gotten even more since then, mostly thanks to sales and gift cards.


Jimmy Lee figure boxed

Jimmy Lee figure boxed

both listed figures on blister card

Hasbro Secret Wars Falcon and ReAction+ Cobra Commander with cape

Mr. Fuji, G.I. JOE Classified Big Boa and Zap, Hasbro Secret Wars Daredevil


All three non-exclusive Double Dragon figures are in the Prime Day sale (I bought mine BEFORE that sale, but during an earlier sale) here. Mr. Fuji was already on sale at Target and I added him to get free shipping for a Bull Nakano pre-order while they were having a $10 off $40 sale, so I got even more $ off. Amazon was price matching that sale, so I ordered Falcon and Cobra Commander there and put some gift card $ on that. Also, Zap and Big Boa were bought in April at BigBadToyStore, but I didn’t have them shipped off until my Daredevil pre-order hit the store last week. So, no, I didn’t buy all this at once for regular price.

I’m going to spoil one that I already post on social media, here’s a shot with “every real Marvel character who was in the MEGO World’s Greatest Superheroes toyline” photo:

Marvel Legends figures of Captain America, Falcon, Green Goblin, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Iron Man, Lizard, Mr. Fantastic, Spider-Man, The Thing, Thor

70s Mego Marvel Comics line-up in Hasbro Marvel Legends figures

I photographed a second take at that group and improved a few things, and you’ll be seeing that one in the update.

“Hey, how close are you to doing that with the DC half of Mego?”
Not even close to half. A fourth, maybe? McFarlane figures can be tricky to get and some of the earlier Mattel and DC Direct figures are expensive on the aftermarket. Let’s see if Mattel makes it easier for me when they get the collector line license back in 2027.


Beatdown City Survivors, the sequel to Treachery in Beatdown City, has been out for a minute or two, get the scoop on the official site!

Once again shouting out the Pizza Kidd pixel art beat ’em up Kickstarter, it’s over the halfway to the goal, so help out if you can!

Kimimi made a post about getting Escalator Action (not a typo, not a photo manipulation) and I’ve been waiting for that review ever since. That wait is over, so check it out on Kimimi’s blog!

Offline issues kept me from being able to add more to the pre-April update from a few days ago like I planned, but I did manage to finish one more thing…

Marvel Super Heroes Vs. portraits: Iceman’s portrait based on the same Jim Lee card art as his X-Men CotA portrait, but redone from a scan I had from the magazine reprinting that art.

Of course added to the GFX Generators where I made the pic at the top of this post.

Illmosis.net got updated today with new black-and-white artwork of my character Nutroll, and it may get turned into a pixel art portrait here later!


It was just barely still April Fool’s day in the EST time zone when I finally got this uploaded, but I got it in under the wire! There will be multiple small updates through April, so stay tuned!

This small update brings a few new things for the image generators ahead of April Fools’ Day and some newness to the toy section.


X-Men – Children of the Atom Vs. portraits: Beast and Cable (Jim Lee and Scott Williams). Beast’s was 100% redone even though it uses the same JL & SW art I used to make his custom MSH portrait.

GFX Generators: the new portraits were added to the generators.

Toyboss: Added quite a few shots of Jada Toys Akuma (that action figure was worth the wait), one of Vega and 3/4ths SFII Shadaloo group shot, and a few surprise pics. A “Sega (Jakks) gallery was finally added as I do more to sort these pics out before I start redoing how the section works. A specific pre-order I was hoping to work into this update didn’t happen yet, so I’ll have to wait on that one.

There’ll be a bit more added soon, either to this update or the all-new one for April 1st.


The 2025 DangerTerrorHorrorThon is ON!

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!


edit 10:19 PM:
part 2


Altered Beast: Skinny Orcuses added
Mega Man: Batton added
DC Comics: Man-Bat added

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.


The Trick or Beat ‘Em Up project has a cool, brutal beatdown demo on the project’s IG page. Check out the project’s Linktree for more info and how to help!

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.

update: October 1, 2025 4:30PM EST:


Last of the idle sprites added.

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.

Custom Sprites – Marvel Comics: Black Costume Spider-Man (in the #8 cover by Mike Zeck), Spider-Woman Julia Carpenter (debuted in the series), Absorbing Man (all-new sprite, different style from the 2015 sprite), the Wrecker, and Volcana (also debuted in the series)
mini-logos – Marvel: the Wrecker

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.


The update hits tomorrow!

ToyBoss: Lots of new photos, including the recent new thangs (♫ new thangs, new thangs ♫) of Gamerverse Psylocke and the Jada Toys SDCC Neo-Metall 6-pack, along with some roster pic additions (the Punisher, finally) and updates (Capcom’s MSH).

Adding to that, I’ve started the first step of recoding this section, adding a gallery feature that splits off some of the sections into their own thing. Some of these have new pics not found in the “Latest” section, so look around if you have the time. There are some older pictures I didn’t add before now because they weren’t game-related enough and I didn’t want to crowd out the video game characters here. I even added a few shots I took of those background rocks I made when I was working on them in 2023.

I say it’s the first step because I’ve also been slowly working on a rewrite of the custom sprite and sprite gallery systems, and the next upgrade of the Toyboss section will be based on that rewrite. It’s been a side project, so it’s going to be a long while before it’s ready. Nowhere near as big as the recent Spriters Resource update, but it’ll let me do a few new things.

Custom Sprites:
G.I.JOE: Stalker gets a new pose and an update of his 2017 sprite to match the new pose. The new pose uses the same standing body as the sprite’s in June’s update, but with a new rifle-holding right arm. There might be even more changes later as I keep redoing G.I.JOE sprites (especially the males in the Original 13 squad) using this base body and changing other to match it.
Princess of Power: I made some adjustments to the She-Ra sprite, but don’t be surprised if I make more adjustments later.

The new customs sprites were added to the main image generator. Also added to that are:
– End – Marvel vs. Capcom 384×224: new option to use the G.I.JOE Konami arcade font.


I’ve also been working on sprites and animations for different clips, especially this one. There may be a new multi-topic video on the YouTube channel in September, depending on how things go.


This is perfectly on topic, because I’m still in shock at this announcement. Here’s the video for those of you who don’t know yet:

Not only does this look amazing, it looks like it has solid game play, too. A Masters of the Universe beat ’em up with hints of Golden Axe in the play style is pretty much a dream game for me, so I’m already hype about it! The Steam page for it is already up, so you can put it on your wishlist.


edit:
The pre-September Arcade Quartermaster update is brought to you by the letter R and the company Sega! The new shrines are the Westone/Sega beat ’em up Riot City and a Sega rail shooter that takes the genre’s name literally, Rail Chase

Also adding this trailer for the upcoming brawler, Pizza Kidd!