Ultra Street Fighter IV

[joffocakes]

So, Marvel is mental now because of this TAC glitch thing almost everyone has an infinite, even Hsien Ko? How does the new thing work?

I played Imp just now, but he decided to win all the time, which is no fun. It was fun though, actually. He hit the furthest Solar Plexus, SRK x Super I've ever seen. He also managed to hit me with Solar Plexus Strike somehow even though I was standing behind him, the scamp.

Also played Sith and his utterly terrifying Hawk. I was too, too scared to get in, and made short work of when I got near. Also, his Ryu made a complete mockery of my obsessive focus attackin', haha. Infexious was there, but didn't ready up, which is a shame. I did play his Hawk as Honda in ranked last week though, and scraped a very cheeky win off him.

I'm going to watch the new Alan Partridge special now though, and I am impossibly excited about it. Dinner and King of the Hill on Netflix first though, because that is my evening routine.

[Lyrical Donut]

Oh! There was another fantastic thing that happened last night - Haggar and myself held down back for 98 seconds of the opening round with Honda and Balrog. Then I let rip with a dashing punch and won. It was ace. Probably not quite so ace for Jiro though, who had just joined the lobby. Sorry sir.

[imp]

You two are a right gootecks and mike ross.

Speaking of whom, did anyone else notice a cross counter vid of gootecks at E3? Can he come back now please?

[ah]

So, Marvel is mental now because of this TAC glitch thing almost everyone has an infinite, even Hsien Ko? How does the new thing work?

Basically - I think - you do a TAC, which resets hitstun scaling, and then when the time comes for you to land (which would make scaling kick in again), you do something that makes the game think you didn't actually land, i.e. do a final attack that hits right before you land and be holding up before you land. Then find moves that will allow you to continue comboing your opponent while the two of you rise and fall back to the ground, ending with that same thing you had the first time that lets you land without the game realising you landed. This way scaling never kicks back in, because it's been explicitly told by the game engine not to kick in until one of the characters lands.

It's like the game engine is a partially sighted referee and goal-line technology had never been introd... oh. It's like the game engine is a partially sighted referee. You just keep hooking the ball back over the line while he's not looking, and back into the air.

[ah]

In my unschooled opinion, it's very cool but not necessarily "game-breaking" - they all build meter for your opponent and only happen after a TAC, at which point you'd usually be able to kill anyway.

It might mean that Filipino Champ gets even stronger, of course, because basically all four of his characters will have them, and his team thrives on meter building. On his Phoenix team people won't know whether to block the TAC exchange that gives him a meter or gives him an infinite (and it won't matter to him which one he goes for because his execution is crazy). Pretty scary proposition.

The possible worst bit would be if Marlinpie starts doing Doom TAC infinites instead of his ridiculously beautiful style combos. That said, a re-up into yet more style instead of rocks xx super might not be such a bad thing after all.

[Lyrical Donut]

https://secure.justi...ribe/185/signup

So, paying gets you an HD stream.... and.... umm, access to the chat. Why would anyone want to pay to access the chat? I don't really understand.

[Yasawas]

I bought Vanilla today, I don't really know why. It does have this though which I'd totally forgotten and is so good I let it loop for several minutes before starting. Also hitting people after KO and flags on the pre-fight screen, they were weird things to take out of Super.

$12 chat is probably a lot different to the usual vile Twitch chat diarrhoea but it's still a weird bonus. I might pay just for the rosy glow, also I'm getting tempted by that phone cradle since you mentioned it and HD would be nice for telly watchin'. That's about £30 though which seems a little extravagant just for HDMI out.

[imp]

The hitting after KO thing was removed because of two things: Hippies like Choo complaining it was immoral and the peaceful country of Germany objecting.

[ah]

https://secure.justi...ribe/185/signup

So, paying gets you an HD stream.... and.... umm, access to the chat. Why would anyone want to pay to access the chat? I don't really understand.

Pay-per-chat is an amazing idea. If it deters idiots who just want to spam nonsense in a window nobody else is reading then it might make the chat a useful tool for a change. If it doesn't deter them then we can all feel pleased that idiots are subsidising our fighting game streams for us, just so they can spam nonsense in a window nobody else is reading.

It's a shame they appear to be witholding the archives again, though.

[Yasawas]

Inkblot (Tom Cannon) just posted in the comments that the archives will be available. Was that not just an error last year anyway, as I seem to remember the Saturday archives working, it was just the Friday stuff that was missing. I might be misremembering that though.

Also I hope that thing about Germany is true but it's Imp and I never quite know what to believe.

[imp]

Believe that I won't try and uppercut you on your wake up.

[ah]

Inkblot (Tom Cannon) just posted in the comments that the archives will be available. Was that not just an error last year anyway, as I seem to remember the Saturday archives working, it was just the Friday stuff that was missing. I might be misremembering that though.

Oh, that's good. Thanks, dudes who don't owe me anything!

Oh and Jason sorry for popping up and disappearing but just as you invited me to join a party I got banished to Tesco to buy icing sugar. Sad times.

[JLM]

That's rough.

GGs again Nate. I ate three wake up demons in two rounds there. Dang.

Before that I had seven games with the almighty VRyu Sensei and it was excellent. I managed to get some very close games out of him but never quite took one. I expected to get bodied horribly and I think I raised my game as a result. I also made sure to mix up my defensive options because I've seen all the amazing tech and back dash spam is not going to cut it. I also got to try all my fancier stuff I hadn't been doing in ranked because it's designed to work against good players. Caught him with the nemo string frame trap, a couple of back dash option selects and the classic safe empty jump into low. I also landed cr. short - > cr. short - > cr. jab - > stand jab - > far standing fierce - > link into Super against him in the first game, which perhaps bought me a few extra games. Exchanged friendly messages afterwards and I told him I love his Makoto science videos. Oh, and he used that dive kick fake cross up thing from his latest videos against me. Evil stuff.

[Plopboy]

I was going to play this game tonight but I had to save a life instead.

She turned up on my doorstep this morning complaining about the lack of medical care since 2006. She was on her last legs so I brought her into the house and put her on the kitchen table.

Some of the scenes you are about to witnes may shock you and quite possible be NSFW

Her she is on the kitchen table ready for surgery (Darkstalkers European CPS2 board)

and her is the little problem and early 2001 battery (top right corner)

They can be left for quite a while, but five years is the conservative length of time the battery lasts.

So here is my prepared battery casing for easy change next time. Pros like to attach the battery holder directly to the board but my soldering skills are as good as my SF skills so this is my preferred way of doing it. I'm more Dr Nick rather than Dr Kildare.

So I cut the first prong of the old battery so far so good and as I'm looking at removing the second prong I smell an acid smell and a popping noise. Arrgh the battery is leaking, so I quickly remove (yank out) the old battery and put it in a safe place (out the window). Not had that happen before

Phew, so back to the patient, so I solder on the two wires, check the connection with a multimeter and fasten it down with some electrical tape.

Put the old girl back together and a quick test in the cab

Yay, but I can't be too hasty as the charge on the board can last up to 45 minutes, which is why you can remove the battery and replace it, so I need to come back later.

A couple of hours later and phew we are still good to go and all is well. Another suicide battery CPS2 board thwarted for a few more years.

[cale]

I don't really know what you wrote or indeed what it is you have done but it looks brilliant. Have a plus 1 when I can get to a computer.

[Goemon]

That's rough.

GGs again Nate. I ate three wake up demons in two rounds there. Dang.

Before that I had seven games with the almighty VRyu Sensei and it was excellent. I managed to get some very close games out of him but never quite took one. I expected to get bodied horribly and I think I raised my game as a result. I also made sure to mix up my defensive options because I've seen all the amazing tech and back dash spam is not going to cut it. I also got to try all my fancier stuff I hadn't been doing in ranked because it's designed to work against good players. Caught him with the nemo string frame trap, a couple of back dash option selects and the classic safe empty jump into low. I also landed cr. short - > cr. short - > cr. jab - > stand jab - > far standing fierce - > link into Super against him in the first game, which perhaps bought me a few extra games. Exchanged friendly messages afterwards and I told him I love his Makoto science videos. Oh, and he used that dive kick fake cross up thing from his latest videos against me. Evil stuff.

This post is useless with vids!!!!

[Plopboy]

Sorry I'll explain a little better.

I picked up a CPS2 ( This is Capcom JAMMA arcade board well half of one) and the problem with all CPS2 and CPS3 arcade boards is that they have a battery installed onto the motherboard which is there to stop people trying to reverse engineer the boards. This is because one of the rom chips gets wiped if the battery runs out or ins't present for a period of time (for CPS3 boards, i.e. SFIII this is instant death as soon as the battery isn't alive) and when this happens you no longer have a working arcade board

So you have to change them every five years or so to keep them running. You can get what is known as phoenixed boards where the battery is removed and a special version of one of the rom chips is installed so you don't need to have a battery, but the borad is no longer original as it where and you have to go to all the effort of getting the roms flashed.

So all I did in essence it changed a battery, but on a piece of Capcom fighting history and Darkstalkers is defiantly worth preserving

[joeplus]

So all I did in essence it changed a battery, but on a piece of Capcom fighting history and Darkstalkers is defiantly worth preserving

Man, that sentence should get you Seth Killian's old job.

[Camel]

Amazing work, plopboy and I'm massively jealous that you now have a working Darkstalkers cab.

If I could, I would neg Capcom and their fucking idiotic suicide batteries. Stupid Capcom.

[Plopboy]

Man, that sentence should get you Seth Killian's old job.

To kind, though I think JLM would be a better choice due to his excellent commentary and being able to play the games

Amazing work, plopboy and I'm massively jealous that you now have a working Darkstalkers cab.

If I could, I would neg Capcom and their fucking idiotic suicide batteries. Stupid Capcom.

Thanks, though CPS2 is a breeze to maintain compare to the evils of the CPS3 security carts as you say stupid Capcom. The thing is Capcom can revive the CPS3 carts but only for arcade operators and Japanese carts, so if my US 3rd Strike dies it is lost for ever

That is until the encryption is finally cracked.

[strawdonkey]

Did you know that Mike Ross got taken into hospital a couple of days ago? He's ok and I think he might be back home now, but the picture of the medical sheet he posted on Twitter gave us a couple of interesting bits of information:

- he is 28

- he is white

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Yessss, he is older than me. Thank god.

Also ggs to everyone last night. I played a wild amount. It was wild.

Highlights included nate chickening out again, after only beating me 3 or 4 times with his evil ryu; somehow perfecting donut's seth with Terry and missing about 50 punish spds in a row against quazi because I can't do an spd from down-back, it turns out. Also I have a new appreciation for just how dire balrog's focus attack is after i charged one up to punish a gouken hurricane kick, and it whiffed from almost point blank range. I also played a lag-free ranked match against a man who was a man from Canada.

Then I watched the new alan partridge and marvelled at how he went to lots of places that i have been to, in the city of Norwich.

[fullspectrum]

Shout outs to donut and imp in the lobby last night, especially imp with his multi character 10 win streak : )

play me again when I haven't been to the pub!

[imp]

I think I only won because I had been to the pub! GGs!

[fullspectrum]

I need to have this alcohol that makes you play better, all my problems would be solved : D

Trying to arrange a date for the next MM, I'll rememebr to keep you posted this time. There's some vids of the last one here:

[Lyrical Donut]

Ggs! My internet decided it was time for me to go to bed and quit for me. I didn't do particularly well in that rog mirror

[mayor_mike_haggar]

Has it been playing up a bit? My connection to you has been a bit worse than usual of late. Normally lag free, but fairly jerky now.

[Lyrical Donut]

Yeah, I had a bunch of really patchy ranked games last night too.

[Nate Dogg III]

Yes, geegs last night, you fine people. I won the first Evil Ryu v Oni match against Jason and wondered if I should just quit there and then, but ploughed on and soon regretted it. How infuriatingly good you are with the entire cast - and how infuriating that I appear to have forgotten about throw teching.

And Haggar yes, gugs to you also. Quite pleased that you didn't catch me with Trip Hawkins' Ultra II once - you need to coach me into fearing SPD for that to work, really. Also did I perfect someone with Blanka? It feels like I did, but I can't remember who.

I played some Marvel. I don't understand it. I tried Doom's missions and I really struggle with the combos where you have to press a button immediately after the launcher. Also I hate that auto-scrolling move list - I understand it needs to be like that for the really long combos, but there are plenty where it could display the whole thing but just cuts off the last two moves. Most frustrating.

[Qazimod]

Awesome lobby with Haggar last night - it started off with one huge series of Ibuki vs. Hawk matches because I wanted to try and convince myself that I could still sort of play Ibuki. I think we each had our fair share of wins but Haggar had the lead in the end and it was a good opportunity to share our musings on the matchup. After that I eventually got bored and alternated between Juri and Ibuki but by this time I was giving away free wins to Haggar by being completely crap. Still, at least we can still connect to each other without XBL having a fit about my ports or whatever. GGs!