WIP Diddy

WIP Diddy is a character created by Ravenboy9 some time in the year 2008. It's an edit of Omega Tiger Woods using original sprites likely made in Microsoft paint. Although the character is a highly bugged spriteswap, it is also associated with cheap characters due to the odd tactical advantages said bugs give it.

## WIP Diddy

A crop of the character's sprite, made from a screenshot on YouTube

## Known Info

Unlike the name would imply, WIP Diddy has no relation to Diddy Kong and was also released with no updates making the "WIP" in the title superfluous. Instead, it is a small drawn robot directly inspired by Mekazawa, with a grey rectangular body featuring yellow eyes, a yellow mouth, and a yellow V-shape on the belly, also with a darker grey antenna with a red topper.

It is mostly a spriteswap of Omega Tiger Woods, but with some notable differences. One of which being that the character will clone itself from projectiles if the said projectiles are hit by an opponent.

The accidental clones have no A.I and will only perform melee attacks from time to time, but the sheer amount that can be spawned creates a tactical advantage combined with the character's strong attacks and small collisions. This bug is due to the character missing various animations during its projectiles, which will create a clone on a hit state.

The Armageddon attack also will only hit the opponent while they are in midair, due to the explosion animation from the missiles being missing. Another notable bug is that the character will get stuck in midair after it uses the explosion attack until hit. This is also due to a missing animation.

The character also features a plethora of strange sounds, most of which taken from different characters such as Giant Chicken and Kamek. The most notable is the former's Chicken Dance music which plays on every grab. It also has some other bizarre features such as turning into yellow text reading "moo" on being hit and creating an enormous red sphere during a certain attack.

Due to its bugs, the character would probably be hard to rank precisely. It could be anywhere from High Normal, Strong, to Brutal, depending on its opponent, but likely no higher.

According to someone who had previously had the character, it included a readme which is paraphrased as saying "You are a loser and so is your mother". While some suggest that this character was named from its victory line (taken from SuperMario64), "I'm Diddy, haha!", it was directly named after Diddy Kong, with the WIP added for no reason other than the creator liking how it sounded put together.

## Search Efforts

Because of the character's overall obscure nature, very few people have the character. The author's laptop which included the character is broken, and nothing was ever said of it being recoverable in his hard drive. mmpaperguy1 had previously had the character, but also lost it due to a hard drive incident. It is probable that Alice Chan and Lucas Hidemi Komori also had the character, but again with the same outcome.

It is also known that Arcadboy had the character, due to featuring it by internal name in an incomplete dedicated measure for his character "WhatTheShittles" (this code was never completed and only created a landing sound). However, it is still inconclusive as to whether or not he still has it. He did, however, create a fake version which can be found on 4shared which has very little resemblance to the original.

It's also known that TheIranSonic was actively searching for the character in 2012. However, he also no longer has his Mugen files and it's unknown if he ever obtained it.

For a good while, the only available video not created by the author that featured the character was one by persovik1, who has been inactive for years. Unfortunately, it would appear the video was taken down by YouTube in mid 2022, apparently for "violating YouTube's policy on hate speech"--likely due to the video's title/description containing a phrase the site considered offensive.

However, there are two computers that exist that may contain the files to WIP Diddy owned by ravenboy9. However, neither of the desktops turn on, and ravenboy9 was made to return the computers by his wife because they were “taking up too much space” and the fact he kept them for several months without making any attempt to actually fix them. As of September 2023, it is unknown if the computers still exist, or if they were thrown in the garbage by his parents.

On September 11th, 2023, WIP Diddy’s creator ravenboy9 has placed a $50 bounty on the finding of the file.

## Links

* Original release location
* The character seen as a target in a cheap busting video (volume warning) *(dead link, kept for posterity)*
* Video from the author that features the character
* The character is briefly seen in this video, before being killed by instantly by the author's Weegee
* Ditto
* A list of characters that were to be used as anti-code targets for Arcadboy's "WhatTheShittles" which includes WIP Diddy. Note that the characters are all listed by internal name, which requires having the character's def file to obtain.