Peppino Cuphead Prototype 0.2.1

Play as Peppino in Cuphead, solo or with a second player on the same PC. Requires your own installed Windows Steam copies of Cuphead and Pizza Tower. Cuphead is the host; Pizza Tower supplies Peppino's real sprite animations, read from your own data.win on first launch. No original game artwork, sound, levels or game assemblies are included.

What you get

• F8 switches player one; F9 switches player two. Each player can independently use Peppino or their normal Cuphead/Mugman character. Player one defaults to the normal character and player two to Peppino.
• Accelerated running, tuned jump and dash, crouching and crawling. Use your usual Cuphead controls.
• Shoot with a long-range gun; weapon swap changes to a short-range punch attack. Gunfire, directional aiming and EX attacks use real Peppino animations while retaining native damage and meter rules.
• Airplane fights retain flying, shrinking, parrying, EX and supers, with Peppino visuals and a short-range spread attack. Flight visuals fit the native hitbox; player one wears red, player two blue, and flight parries use pink clothing and a spinning animation.
• Native health, revival, shared-screen co-op and boss scaling remain in Cuphead. This is an adaptation, not all of Pizza Tower's movement mechanics: no grab, wall climb, dive or super jump is added.

Play

Melty installs the bundled BepInEx loader, plugin and separate asset reader, then launches Cuphead. Wait for sprite preparation on first launch, enter a level, and press F8 to use Peppino as player one. Use Cuphead's normal second-controller join prompt for two-player local co-op. There is no network host, server, address or online join support in this build.

Close Cuphead before installation. This package does not contain or run the old interactive updater. Saves are not modified by the plugin. Loader files are shared with other BepInEx mods, so an existing modified loader installation should be preserved or backed up before replacing it.

Versions and verification

Developed against Cuphead Windows Steam build 20241530 (Unity 2017.4.9f1, x64) and Pizza Tower Steam build 16727860. Other versions and Chromebook/Linux compatibility have not been verified. The creator reports testing 0.2.1's gameplay, flight changes and two-player local co-op. Release preparation independently checks startup logs, fresh read-only sprite extraction, archive contents and Melty's install recipe; these are distinct from the creator's gameplay testing.

Credits and permissions

Original mod code and ExportPeppino.csx: Peppino Cuphead Prototype contributors, developed with Codex. MIT license; remixing allowed. This permission covers original mod code only.

Cuphead: Studio MDHR. Pizza Tower and Peppino: Tour De Pizza. Their original content remains theirs and is read from each player's installed games, never distributed in the release.

BepInEx contributors: BepInEx 5.4.23.5, LGPL-2.1, with its bundled Harmony/Mono.Cecil dependencies under their own notices. UndertaleModTool / UnderminersTeam: separate UndertaleModCli 0.9.2.0, GPL-3.0, with Underanalyzer. Its runtime is bundled, including Microsoft .NET and the libraries named in UndertaleModCli.deps.json. Third-party licenses and source are included under licenses/ and source/third-party/. GUI example scripts and accompanying unrelated game border artwork are omitted from the source distribution; the CLI/library source and required Underanalyzer source are retained. Universal-modder by rehan-remade was development guidance; ILSpy by ICSharpCode was used for inspection and is not distributed.