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Mad Virus Attack is a mod created by Power Room Studio. The mod centers around 8-BIT, a character from Brawl Stars with many other reskins surrounding him.
Story[]
After a nice afternoon in the local Starr Park Arcade, known simply to be Starrcade, Boyfriend and Girlfriend come across an abandoned arcade machine once walking past a dumpster. Upon investigating it, they soon find themselves trapped into a strange video game, and are forced to rap battle their way out through the pesky Virus' schemes and forms an unlikely alliance.[1] Once the first song finishes, 8-BIT was able to hold in the struggles against the virus, and ends the song in piece. However, a mysterious entity is summoned out of aa small folder, later reveling himself to be Virus, who challenges Boyfriend to a rap battle. The song ends, and the ending screen implies that both Girlfriend and Boyfriend made it out of the cursed arcade cabinet in one piece, despite Virus' attempts to terminate the two.
As of V2, the story ends here.
Development[]
Before release, Power Room Studio was founded when Rusron found John uploading old song teasers on twitter. When AguaCrunch found both, he saw that the vocals were noticeably missing in the teasers so he offered help in adding some. The rest of the developers found their way throughout Twitter or the Friday Night Funkin' modding server[2][3].
Overall, the mod took a total of 11 months for the devs to release a demo for the mod.[4], given that the comment was released over 4 months ago prior to demo release.
On the 30th of January in 2022, the 1st demo of Mad Virus Attack released, featuring new menu layouts, songs, 1 of the story mode songs, new character designs, etc.
In the future, a 2nd demo is set to release in the future. As shown at F3, it's planned to release in July 2022 or August, Since then, the mod failed to reach their initial deadlines.
The mod did however, released the update on 25th of February, 2023 on Gamejolt, and later released alternative download links on Gamebanana and Google Drive Alike, with and without assets included.
Characters[]
Main Article: Boyfriend
See also Boyfriend (disambiguation)
Boyfriend is the main protagonist of Friday Night Funkin' and the mod's only playable character thus far.
Appearance[]
His design consists of a white mechanical hat with a black visor emitting a ">:)" emoticon colored cyan, a white hoodie and a red undershirt with reddish orange tightening strings, black pants and blue sneakers, as well as fingerless gloves.
Boyfriend had minor hue differences during specific sections of D1SC0. These were placeholder sprites in the V1 demo until V2 was released.
Gallery[]
Main Article: Girlfriend
See also: Girlfriend (Disambiguation)
Girlfriend, also known as Vanilla in this mod, is the secondary protagonist of Friday Night Funkin'.
Appearance[]
This version of Girlfriend appears to have light skin and auburn colored hair with a pony tail behind her. She wears circular glasses an a pair of reddish orange headphones behind her, a teal hoodie and a dark purple leotard underneath, a pair of fingerless gloves of the same color, a pair of hot pink socks, and red shoes.
Trivia[]
- Starrcade Girlfriend is a Oni demon.[6]
- The tweet also states she isn't a succubus demon, although the base game developers never clarified her subspecies.
- Starrcade Girlfriend owns a Kanabo.[6]
- Starrcade Girlfriend likes cheesecakes.[5]
- Starrcade Girlfriend is unable to play music as she breaks any instrument known to play music.[7]
- Starrcade Girlfriend plays Dark Souls.[8]
- Starrcade Girlfriend does not like pineapple on pizza, but prefers Pizza with extra cheese.[9]
- Girlfriend holds a thermos bottle in the mod. This is a reference to the description of Brock's Rocket No. 4 Star Power (Brock loads a fourth rocket into his launcher, increasing his ammo capacity, and discarding the thermos bottle he's been keeping in his launcher's #4 tube).
Gallery[]
“Player one, get ready!”
― 8-Bit, Brawl Stars
Want to know more about 8-BIT and Brawl Stars in general?
8-BIT is a Super Rare Brawler found in Brawl Stars, unlockable from the Starr Road. He is the first opponent in Mad Virus Attack, appearing in D1SC0 as the opponent and in Y1PB34T as a playable character.
Appearance[]
8-BIT is a white arcade cabinet machine with a light neon blue screen, a coin deposit on the right and 2 red buttons on the left. He has 2 navy blue arms who starts with a gray ring, along with an empty input below his right hand that can be seen in his sprite. Instead of using a regular light gun, he has a microphone equipped in his left hand. He stands with 2 blue leg segments with dark gray foot parts. He is given a confident expression. When he misses, his whole body turns into a gray tone and his screen glows in the dark.
Halfway through Disco, he becomes infected, he is given a more weakened expression with his mouth changed, looking vary similar to his Virus counterpart.
Trivia[]
- Like Pico, 8-BIT contains missing poses found in the sprite work. These go unused in game with it unknown if he will be a playable character.
- In 2 of the frames where 8-BIT transforms into his Virus counterpart, his screen displays a neon colored folder with a face on it, baring strong resemblance to Ron. This has been confirmed to be the case.[10]
- His glitching out sprite sheet doesn't contain an idle animation, and is so far, the only idle-less sprite sheet found in the files.
Gallery[]
![Official Arrow Funk design of 8-BIT created by Toneart_kk, approved by Rusron.[11]](/wiki/File:8BitArrowFunk.png "8BitArrowFunk.png (300 KB)")
![Ditto, but updated. [1]](/wiki/File:Arrowfunk8bitnew.png "Arrowfunk8bitnew.png (1.05 MB)")
“I EAT BRAWLERS FOR BREAKFAST!”
― Virus 8-BIT, Brawl Stars
Virus 8-BIT or simply Virus, is a reskin of 8-BIT that could've been acquired in Brawl Stars by purchasing the Skin with 299 Gems (later 199 Gems, then 149 Gems). He appears very briefly during D1SC0, but is otherwise an opponent in INTOXIC8, and Y1PB34T.
Appearance[]
Very briefly during D1SC0, he will appear as a vary disfigured version of his former self.
His screen depicts texture-less tiles with the colors magenta and black with his head smoking out a green gas, his left pose has his face deformed and his right arm replaced with a seemingly unfinished weapon, his down pose places 2 of his legs on top of his head and mouth being blue instead of lime green, eyes white and a split-second blue screen indicating a Blue screen of death before shutting down right after. His up pose replaces his face with a giant magenta and grayish colored boom box with his right hand missing, and right pose recoloring his V to red and changing both of his arms to a full magenta color, replacing his left eye with a warning and right eye with a cross symbol, his teeth changing to a sharp red color while severe glitch effects follow. At a brief milli-second, sharp magenta colored teeth surrounding his entire face also show up.
In his normal state, he appears as a black arcade cabinet with his coin slot taped up and neon green facial features and green vein-like lines sprouting out from the eyes. He has lime green arms with black chain bracelets with spikes of the same color as the arms, as well as a V symbol on the top part of the cabinet. He also has 4 spider leg segments colored magenta.
Gallery[]
Saloon 8-BIT (simply known as Saloon) is one of 8-BIT's reskins that can be acquired in Brawl Stars by purchasing the Skin using 5000 Bling or 149 Gems (formerly 25,000 Star Points) if the player unlocked the purchase option during the Goldarm Gang Power League season. He is the opponent for QU1CKDR4W and Y1PB34T, unlocked after beating INTOXIC8.
Appearance[]
Saloon appears as a wooden piano decorated with golden frames. He has tannish segmented arms, darker brown legs and he wears a pair of brown boots. His face is a replacement for sheet music normally seen on a piano.
Gallery[]
8-BIT Classic is the main opponent for D0T-M4TR1X. He is one of 8-Bit's reskins, obtainable through purchasing the Skin with 1000 Bling or 29 Gems.
Appearance[]
8-BIT Classic appears almost identical to his original counterpart, albeit with a some notable changes. This includes his entire color pallete being different, having a whitish arcade cabinet with a neon lime pixelated screen, a gray D-pad replacing the coin slot, dark gray arms and red sneakers.
Trivia[]
- During 8-BIT Classic's appearance in the Pocket Starr/Game Boy section, each one of his poses is single frame.
Gallery[]
“Brawl Stars FOREVER!!”
― Colette, Brawl Stars
Colette is a secret character in Mad Virus Attack, appearing as an easter egg with a 25% chance of appearing when restarting the game. She is an Epic Brawler from Brawl Stars, unlockable by purchasing the Season 3 Brawl Pass (Welcome to Starr Park!) or by unlocking her in the Starr Road.
Appearance[]
Colette appears as a young woman with light skin and long, white hair that hides her left eye and goes down to her heck. She wears a red vest and a cyan long-sleeved shelf, topped with a black collar with a yellow circular symbol and a golden heart medallion just in front of it. She also has multiple black belts on her body, from her waist to her upper arms.
Personality[]
In the mod, Colette is given self awareness on her current affairs, being nothing more then a series of files within the mod's data. This is implied in much of the dialogue. This also becomes a problem in one of the dialogue conversations, describing much of the consequences of staying in the same environment for too long. She also likes to play pranks on the player from time to time, such as pouring sulfuric acid and faking it as hot chocolate.
Trivia[]
- Colette mentions that she is part of the mod's code and therefore, could have access to any of it's files. However, most files are harmless and won't do any sigificant damage to the user's PC.
- Colette points out that the mod's lead programmer (ZackDroid) listens to the same two songs nonstop. These songs are Till Depth Do Us Apart and Hero Mode Rocket 4, both from Splatoon 3.
Gallery[]
“Ready for another?”
― Barley, Brawl Stars
Barley is a background character appearing in QU1CKDR4W. He is a Rare Brawler in Brawl Stars unlockable from the Starr Road.
Appearance[]
Barley appears as a robot with slate gray metal for skin, a moustache, and a singular yellow eye. He wears a bowler top hat with magenta line, a red vest with short white sleeves, and gray boots. He holds a cloth as shown in the mod
Gallery[]
Trivia (General)[]
- In the game over screen, Boyfriend is seen getting trashed instead of blue balling where he dies traditionally but then glitches out into a trash can.
- Boyfriend's winning icon shares a strong resemblance to his unpixellated FPS Plus winning icon.
- When the player reaches a certain menu background in the mod, they are met with 2 characters on the bottom left of their screen. Those being Spike, and a mini sentry-Chan, who is a personified version of a TF2 mini type sentry gun where various artists depict the gun as a young girl.
- 1 of the menu backgrounds feature a TV with the IRIS symbol, sharing a very similar appearance to Hex in Detected, and Glitcher.
- The idea of modchart notes is unlikely[12]
- A Funky Friday rep is possible[13]
- Dialogue is possible to be added in the final version.[14]
- A further continuation such as a V2 and V3 are possible.[15]
- A menu redesign is possible, and more Easter eggs are possible to appear in the full released.[16]
- Different characters for the mod may appear, the most likely candidates are affiliates of the Arcade Trio.[17]
- The total amount of songs for the mod is unclear.[18]
- A song without the use of pixel art is possible.[19]
- Some jsons are referencing embed asset, or just scrapped/upcoming.
Cameos in other mods[]
Note: All of these cameos are not canon to the Tess's story.
- In Vs. Voltz, 8-BIT appears in the upper left crowd during Homestretch.
Music[]
Story Mode songs
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Extra Files: Instrumental |
2.6 (Normal) |
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Extra Files: Instrumental |
2.2 (Normal and Hard) |
Freeplay exclusive songs, which can be unlocked through various means
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Extra Files: Instrumental |
2.6 (Normal) 2.7 (Hard) |
| Complete INTOXIC8 to unlock this song. |
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Extra Files: Instrumental |
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Extra Files: Instrumental |
2.6 (Normal) 2.8 (Hard) |
| Unlocked by chance through clicking on a Gameboy symbol in the main menu. |
Different versions of pre-existing songs
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| OST bonus, isn't used in the mod. |
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This song is not upcoming to any particular content, confirmed by developers. |
Other songs that aren't levels
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| Formerly titled Settin' Up |
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Game Over themes, also includes the retry sounds at the end
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Covers made by the developers
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Lyrics: 1:53  Zanta: How can you defeat someone you can't; recognize?1:58 8-BIT: Oh no, that's not compute! 2:21 Virus 8-BIT: You idiot, you destroyed Santa! |
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Lyrics: 8-BIT: Game not over. |
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Logo sound Menu Intro Menu Intro (Layered) Confirm Scroll Cancel Volume |
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3 2 1 Go! |
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3 2 1 Go! |
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3 2 1 Go! |
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3 2 1 Go! |
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1 2 3 + Game Over Game Over |
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Ambience Folder Summon Introduction 1 Introduction 2 Introduction 3 |
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1 2 3 Death sound |
Saloon Getting Angry "The Patient" "Well Well Well" Zap Explosion |
Outdated versions of pre-existing songs
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Extra Files: Instrumental |
2 (Normal 2.4 (Hard) |
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Confirm Scroll Cancel |
Songs that never made it in any version
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Filled with Deltarune song references, including, Berdly, and Smart Race. Initially a Halloween track that according to AguaCrunch, would've likely not been playable.[20] |
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Dialogue[]
Note: Dialogue doesn't exist for any of the mainline songs. There is a 25% chance for the player to encounter Colette after exiting the title screen, in which encounter one the 7 discussions below.
End of Dialogue - Bob
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Collette: Wooh, congrats! You found an easter-egg!
Collette: Or, well, I guess you this is a state used by the lead programmer so he could discourage his own loneliness.
Collette: Because there is no internet! And he is a loner. Apparently. not sure how I know about this information.
Collette: Either way, you should feel lucky. There is only a 25% chance of finding this!
Collette: Name's Colette! Normally I spend my days obsessing over over Brawlers. Like the ones in this game! And Brawl Stars.
Collette: But now I'm stuck in the files, for some reason. With absolutely no way out.
Collette: Hehehe, oh well! If you ever feel lonely, keep rebooting the game! There is always a chance I will show up!
Collette: HiiI!!~ Wanna know a random fact?
Collette: I have a bunny Suit!
Collette: ...
Collette: ...What?
Collette: No, I'm not gonna wear it for you, creep.
Collette: Get out.
Collette: Hey! Welcome back!
Collette: Y'know...
Collette: I'm actually just three sprites combined into one.
Collette: Amazing, right? Hehehe~ Programming can do wonders!
Collette: Hey! I made some hot cocoa. Want some? It's been really cold here.
Collette: I hope you like it...
Collette: ...Hehe...
Collette: ...Pfttttt, HAHAHAHA! DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT WAS COCOA?
Collette: YOU'RE WRONG! SULFIRIC ACID! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Collette: You're back!! Hello~ I was feeling lonely here by myself...
Collette: Alone in the code, ya know...
Collette: That reminds me, since I'm in your computer, I technically have access to your files!
Collette: Don't worry though. I would never mess with your privacy like that.
Collette: Welp, I'm tired. See you later, [Device Name]!
Collette: Hey! Didja know know that the lead programmer listens to the same two songs for hours nonstop?
Collette: They're Till Depth Do Us Apart and Hero Mode Rocket 4 from Splatoon 3!
Collette: I hope that is some good insight that you definitely asked for!
Collette: !
Collette: ...
Collette: ...You were not supposed to see that.
Collette: *sigh*
Collette: ...
Collette: You what? I know what you're thinking. I do, really.
Collette: It's not the first time I've seen you look at me like this.
Collette: How do you think I feel? Living every single day of my life, being completely judged for my actions?
Collette: Everyone is ALWAYS like "Oh, Colette, you should give others a break! You are too clingy, too much of a fangirl"!
Collette: YEAH, YOU WOULD BE TOO IF YOU WERE IN MY SITUATION.
Collette: I don't have ANYONE. I never HAD anyone.
Collette: And now I'm stuck in this STUPID GAME, with no way out. I don't even know how I got here.
Collette: ...
Collette: Every passing second, I have to entertain myself in this dumb void.
Collette: You see this black screen behind me? That's what I have to put up with. All day, every day.
Collette: What makes it even WORSE is that I sometimes get glimpses of actual lively parts of this world, only to be blocked off.
Collette: Always some dumb invisible wall blocking me off from freedom.
Collette: ...Hahaha. HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHHEEEEEEE.
Collette: DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Do you see how MISERABLE this place makes me?
Collette: The only joy I get in this living hell is doing what I love.
Collette: And it turns out, now I can't even DO that without being stared at.
Collette: YOU did this. YOU are the reason I am clinically insane.
Collette: I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BEING THIS EMPTY. I NEED TO FEEL SOMETHING
Collette: SO THAT SETTLES IT.
Collette: You mom is sooo short that she needs a ladder to get into a chair. (Repeat multiple times)Gallery (General)[]
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