I think Ryu and Simon share a stopwatch power, too. I guess the best thing to do is change the Ryu weapons to comparable Simon weapons. Also another skin idea for Ryu would be the two ninjas from "Shadow of the Ninja". Actually, the GB game Ninja Gaiden Shadow was originally a sequel to Shadow of the Ninja!
OK, so here's version 3 of the Batman skin. Redid the spin-slash sprites, the custom climbing sprite, and the powerup icons.
I presume you didn't see, but I posted a similar Batman skin two weeks ago. http://www.explodingrabbit.com/forum/threads/character-skins.2194/page-16#post-168058
When I look at CurvisTheConqueror's version, it feels like it would fit better, would look less weird. So I think I prefer his.
Man, this was a lot of work! I realize it's pretty much just a recolor, but it took a long time nonetheless. I used the 16-bit graphics as a base, so I had to make a 16-bit skin first, then recolor it. The stars and fire wheel graphics are from FFVI, while the dragon fire orbs are from FFV (and the fire wheel graphics were recolored to match the dragon orb colors). EDIT: I've updated the icons.
Don't worry about it, man. I think it just shows that the idea is good. The ER team is welcome to test both and take the elements that they think work best from each. Where did you get the icons from? I couldn't find any sprites of them from that game.
Those are custom, actually. Did them the size of the Ninja Gaiden icons, but styled after the Batman icons.
I thought I'd rather post the portrait I made for Mario-Fan's repairmanman skin. Well, the portraitS, because I needed to make the Awesome Face before making RMM's stuffs. 8-bit stuffs of course. Though they did not really want 8-bit stuffs. But anyway... Maybe I should make a Batman portrait. I don't know. Anyone has any idea for Batman's spinslash sprites? I can't find any, really.
Had an idea, but it doesn't fit... (How did Jay fit those other SNES characters?) Space Pirates from Super Metroid work fairly similar to Ryu. They projectile attack, spin jump, climb walls, and attack from them. (For those poor souls that haven't played.)
They have claw attacks (and beams that fire out), while the "Ninja" Pirates have jump kicks. The claw throw could be the larger boomeranging star.
Now this is only my third skin don't judge me to badly! It's Steve Hermann From Shatterhand Now There were not enough sprites to provide for everything else so he throws ninja stars and punches people. Deal with it. And another thing that really bugs me is how awkward wall climbing is gonna be cause he does it with one hand but try not to wall climb or spin attack for maximum enjoyment ;D