I don't think this has been brought up yet...

but if you set a character's stage to random it gives an error when you continue and you're facing that character... i think it's becaues it tries to load the non-existant path of "random" instead of a random stage anybody know how to fix this?

Actually, it has been brought up too many times to count.

To fix, just assign a stage to a character. Depending on how many characters you have, it'll probably take a while, but then again, do people really need a lot of characters?

Anyways, just assign stages to characters. That's one way to fix it.

Another way is to use 'random' for the stage, then copy some stage's def file to the main mugen folder (where mugen.exe is) and rename it to random without any extension.

Will make it stop crashing and you can still have the random stages. If you lose and continue, you'll be playing on the copied stage though.