that RC8, all RC versions are really shit. they have tons of things you need to adjust in chars, stages and motifs. better use the final and complete version of 1.0 and do this
http://elecbyte.com/wiki/index.php/Updating_to_1.0 they took out all those tedious things to do when converting winmugen stuff to 1.0 when they released the final version of 1.0