the GGPO recruitment drive

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:39 pm

i was a bit late to the party on this one, but if you haven't heard of it GGPO is an international online network for playing beat-'em-ups.

supports: super street fighter 2 turbo, alpha 3, 3rd strike, king of fighters 2002, garou mark of the wolves, and some other shit too.

http://ggpo.net/

i know kern and BBH are on there, anyone else from here play on GGPO?

works really well with some clever computer shit that basically "hides" lag, and from what i understand, GGPO will be used for the street fighter HD remix and SF4's online play. word!

the 3rd strike lobby tends to be full of the usual macho posturing bullshit, but the super turbo lobby is full of friendly people.

it's easy enough to set up, even i managed to do it, and i'm a right pikey when it comes to the internet. definitely recommend people check it out if you're a fan of capcom or SNK brawlers.

now where yo curleh mustache at!

Good Game, Peace Out

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:26 am

2dfighter.com

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:41 am

Yeah, I've played ST on it for hundreds of hours already. Definitely the best lag-handling algorithm around.

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:48 am

But do they have cheaters/brazilians like 2DF?

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:03 am

Well, Mr. Massacre originated from GGPO. Decent player; dumb arrogance. Cheaters can't really get anywhere on GGPO ST because there are too many good players and the lag is minimal enough to really hamper down lag tactics.

crithit5000 · Post by **crithit5000** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:27 am

I haven't been there in awhile, but if I am there you can catch me playing ST, Alpha 2/3, and Third Strike. On rare occasion you'll see me suck hard at KoF or Darkstalkers 3.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:17 am

have to give you a game at some point ganelon

i'm usually on there about midnight GMT (weekdays)

bitkid · Post by **bitkid** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:09 am

I play on GGPO every day and then 2DF if I can't find competition on GGPO. I'm generally playing 3rd Strike since that's the game I'm learning right now. Only thing I don't like about GGPO is that it tends to desync a lot.

kernow · Post by **kernow** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:12 pm

I'm still up for some whenever matey

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:53 pm

i'll be on from 11pm to midnight/1am (if you're not waxing your legs

)

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:57 pm

I joined up but it was not liking my pc not recgonising my name i used but would not let me sign up again :-/

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:01 pm

hmm, that's a shame dude

did you have some really offensive username or something?

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:25 pm

jpj wrote:hmm, that's a shame dude
did you have some really offensive username or something?

Oh yeah! Lordstar, I know that name offends some people.
thing is it let me sign up and everything but when i came to log in it would not let me

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:25 pm

And you have Adobe Air installed and all? GGPO can also be buggy at times...

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:02 pm

ah, i see. i think might have too many users online at some points of the day, so you can't login. only had that happen to me on one evening, maybe you just got unlucky.

do you go by the same name on ggpo, ganelon?

kernow · Post by **kernow** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:19 pm

Yeah lordstar, sometimes it just gets extra busy and won't let you login, it happens to us all, its better at nighttimes.

anyone up for some tonight? I'm extra bored.

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:07 pm

Sorry if i'm a bit late on this, but they finally got Third Strike emulated?
Is it a perfect emulation?

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:16 pm

it's good, but not perfect (is emulation ever perfect?

)

they're taking 3rd strike off for the next build, so get in while you can

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:48 pm

Yeah, jpj, I go by Ganelon there. But I'll probably never be on at the same time as you on weeknights since I'm generally on midnight EST, which is 4-5 hours off. Maybe on a Saturday sometime.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:16 am

cool. sometimes i'm on there at 7am

so i may see you about

@kern: christ, were we on that for three hours? four hours???

my fingers hurt and my brain has melted

kernow · Post by **kernow** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:20 am

my hand esploded

to be fair it was more like a couple of women having cuppas and chatting than fighting , I'd say 80/20 in favour of fighting, and me complaining about getting fucking ownned by vega mostly

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:26 am

kernow wrote:a couple of women having cuppas and chatting

Good Gossip, Peace Out

Dandy J · Post by **Dandy J** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:13 am

3rd Strike isn't going anywhere, that's old stuff from several months ago. All the games on GGPO right now are staying.

GGPO has the best lag correction, but for CPS3 you'd better have a dual core or it gets choppy. It has some weird bugs with 3S, such as horizontal black bars appearing sometimes. It also has live spectating.

2DF has slightly worse netcode (not really noticeable with CPS2/Neo-Geo, but more noticeable with cps3 over longer distances like USA > UK) and no live spectating, but a larger selection of games, a replay database, plus stats/rankings for some of the games. It just got a new interface, which at first was horrible but Damdai has been fixing the problems quickly.

I'm usually on 2DF because...

1. My router severs my connection when I connect to a room with a lot of users in GGPO, so if I want to use it I have to disconnect my router.
2. Because I like lots of gay games such as KOF2000, Real Bout 1, etc. It also has a lot of non-fighting games such as Baseball Stars 2, Windjammers, Twinkle Star Sprites, and Magical Drop 3.
3. I like that it saves replays, in case I want to upload dumb shit to YouTube.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:28 pm

Ganelon wrote:Maybe on a Saturday sometime.

or sunday

cheers for the education.

i don't know how you can just play and play and play like that though. thank god you don't have epilepsy

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:14 am

Ah, so we made it on the 4 month anniversary; wow. Fun matches; I've got an upcoming tourney so I need all the practice I can get.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:25 pm

best of luck dude. and sorry again, i'm usually tied up on the weekends.

forgot to ask you, out of curiosity, what are your least favourite match-ups for claw?

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:22 am

I think the worst is boxer by a slight bit. Honda, dictator, Chun Li, Dee Jay are pretty even. Now online, things are different as characters with good holds or rely on ticks (Honda, dictator, and Blanka) are overpowered and rushdown works better than reaction. GGPO is generally pretty good about this but the more lag in the game, the more this shows.

atro_city · Post by **atro_city** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:58 am

if you haven't heard of it GGPO is an international online network for playing beat-'em-ups.

Aww, you got my hopes up. You mean 2D fighters, not beat-em-ups.

KBZ · Post by **KBZ** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:11 am

been following this from first release. ggpo is awesome, and it runs well enough for me with wine.

http://ggpo.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f= ... t=10#p8241

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:05 am

atro_city wrote:if you haven't heard of it GGPO is an international online network for playing beat-'em-ups.

Aww, you got my hopes up. You mean 2D fighters, not beat-em-ups.

you say tomatoe, etc. although final fight is on there if you're interested