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Apart from Doom, do you guys ever play the vidya together?

I'm not talking about playing with people around you, I mean as a board.

>> No.2277947

I've never tried that.

Would like to hear some stories though. The good, the bad and the ugly, anything.

>> No.2277961

>>2277947
The only story I have is that I played on ST on ggpo with some dude from /vr/ (I think) and he was really fucking good.
But then most people on ggpo are really good at fighting games.

>> No.2278001
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back when /vr/ first came out, as a board we played King of dragon pass successfully, and I personally got 2 people to play Majesty with me of which I lost to the dude somehow getting wizards to level themselves to 13 without dying and then portaling on my castle.

Was pretty fun

>> No.2278013

we've tried netplay threads before, I don't know how well they turned out though.

>> No.2278016

>>2278013
actually scratch that, a few years ago (wow, /vr/ is getting up there!) I played Super Bomberman 5 with some blokes on here. No idea how it works but I'd do it again.

>> No.2278037

Anyone want to play Smash 64? I've been wanting to play for a while now and this would be a pretty perfect opportunity.

>> No.2278065
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2278065

I did play at anything doom related with /vr/ at the time of creation of the board.
It was fun, especially playing at wudunit.

>> No.2278071

>>2278016

Why can't /vr/ put together a thread every week to play online, doing some stupid ass tournament and so on.
And bomberman sounds fantastic.

>> No.2278080 [DELETED] 

>>2278037
>he actually plays games

>> No.2278119

>>2278080
>/v/

>> No.2278125

>>2278071
There's no reason we can't really.

I believe the biggest issue before was not being able to get everything set up for people. The threads to organize online games were more spent getting people's emulators set up than they were actually playing.

We'd need a period where people got things set up and working, over several days or weeks. Then we'd get interest by starting with tournaments for games that anybody could play, like Smash 64 or Bomberman. Then you could develop into regular tournaments.

Could also get interest by giving away GoG downloads or even physical cartridges/disks as prizes.

>> No.2278132

Would you want voice chat as well? It can help in some ways and hurt in others.

>> No.2278145
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>>2278071
We used to, but there was fairly low attendance and Bomberman was regular.

>>2278125
Also this.

We use Mednafen (primarily) and a dedicated server to netplay.
IRC channel is:
https://qchat.rizon.net/
#/vr/_netplay
I just regular the IRC channel, other's could provide much better info.

>> No.2278146

>>2278125
>like Smash 64 or Bomberman
>Could also get interest by giving away GoG downloads or even physical cartridges/disks as prizes.


This shit sounds more and more interesting, but it's true, we need ONE emulator and a single setup to make everything smooth.

>> No.2278147

>>2278146
>we need ONE emulator and a single setup
Mednafen does that for most every console, sans N64.

>> No.2278152

>>2278147

Would retroarch work for something like this ?

>> No.2278153

>>2278152
Maybe. It has some netplay options but no idea how well it works.

>> No.2278156

>>2278145
>>2278147
I blew it!
Use http://www.finalstarmen.net/ instead of the other link.
Also has a mednafen tutorial

>>2278152
Possibly, but we use Mednafen. That's probably never going to change.
If you, and other people, want to use it, great! Go ahead! But it's unlikely the regulars in the group will be switching over.

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2278160

Starting up Bomberman '94 for TurboGrafx.
Join the IRC if you want in.
>>2278156

>> No.2278182

>>2278145
OP here, I lurk now and then, I used to notice the netplay threads but was always busy with work and life shit but I want to play with some /vr/bros if people are still interested

>> No.2278207

>>2278182
scheduling for stuff would help a lot. They do it for real-life meetups, might as well do it for online ones too.

>> No.2278245

>>2278207
Eh, there's nearly ALWAYS people in the IRC channel and it seems things are really spur of the moment.
There's often taking turns in 1 player games (such as Castlevania) and I think a few people are playing that one good Digimon game for PS1 recently.
I guess creating events will give more incentive to join and do stuff at a particular time, but ehhhhh.

>> No.2278257

I know there's a Steam group for HOMM3 now. Only a few ever got the HD version from what I understand, so multiplayer would be done by other means.

>>2278125
>GoG
This reminds me, when Galaxy goes public will that be the place to do multiplayer for DOS/Retro Windows?

>> No.2278281

>>2278257
Depends on how many game will use Galaxy for multiplayer and not just as a download tool.

Not /vr/ but if they get Nox working then I will be all over that shit.

>> No.2278282

>>2278245
taking turns in 1player games? That's a thing?

>> No.2278286

>>2278245
no reason you can't keep doing spur of the moment things. Scheduling events just makes it easier to ensure players will be around and ready to go.

>> No.2278306

>>2278282
yep, basically emulation of passing a controller on a couch. Or you can have a bunch of people on one controller at the same time and try to beat sanic like a bunch of autists

>> No.2278308

>>2278282
Mednafen allows users to take control of (and drop) certain controllers.
Any number of people can be watching someone play the game through this netplay and we just rotate who's using controller 1.
Games like Bomberman '94 support up to 5 players at a time.

>>2278286
Oh certainly, I'm just not sure if people are interested in scheduling specific events. The group is more active at ~9pm EST or so and I'll bring up the idea then. Honestly I just mostly lurk and chat and don't do a ton of netplay. Too big of a backlog.

>> No.2278312

>>2278306
>>2278308

Controller passing sounds great. I want to do that.

Can you do that through the setup link posted (wherever it was in this thread)?

>> No.2278317

>>2278308
I wish Saturn emulation was at the point where netplay was possible so the world can enjoy 10 player Bomberman.

>> No.2278327

>>2277961

that was probably PISSSS\akagi from /fgg/

>> No.2278343

>>2278312
Yes you can! iirc, Mednafen requires a dedicated server to netplay, but through the #/vr/_netplay we have one already set up.

>> No.2278365

>>2278317
That one DS emulator, is it netplay-friendly? You could play 8-player Bomberman or 10-player Tetris.

>> No.2280041

http://www.fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/emuhelp_mednafen.htm

providing this to help out

>> No.2280043

Yesterday i went to IRC, but i don't know.
The guys seems chill, but it's the same thing as all the other channels, you are there waiting while someone talk about something.
I would like a method where we know that we are going to play at that predetermined time and then quit after a while.

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>>2278245
>I think a few people are playing that one good Digimon game for PS1 recently.
Hey that's us!

>> No.2280957

>>2280041
Not sure if it's on my end, or a x64 version of Mednafen or what, but MedGUI wasn't working for me when we were playing Bomberman.

>>2280043
We're planning something! Stay tuned!

>> No.2280963

>>2280957
I should mention Mednaffe is another front end that should work, but I just ended up dragging and dropping my game onto the .exe

>> No.2280964

I used to enjoy playing a final fantasy 4 mmorpg there were tons of /vr/ bros playing but then it was gone forever

>> No.2280982

Why not RPGs?
I mean, I get most of them require more involvement and time than, say, a plataformer, and that a lot of people here has little free time, but games like diablo II where someone can create a realm and anyone can enter at any time would be fun.

>> No.2281005

I probably played with a few people when Megaman 8 bit deathmatch was still fairly popular but otherwise I keep it local

>> No.2281007

>>2277943
vr has a tibia group although life caught up with me and kinda stopped playing. still see threads popping up every once in a while

>> No.2281032

>>2278308
>virtually passing the controller
sounds cool

>>2278317
I don't think world will ever be ready for that.

>> No.2281060
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>>2280982
>Why not RPGs?
Tell me about it. I've been itching to play pic related with a full party since forever. Found the PC version, too, just haven't been able to muck around with it yet.

>> No.2281071

>>2281060
Zero story, that's not and RPG, is a hack and slash game

>> No.2281098

>>2281071
So the narrative doesn't intrude on the gameplay (until around the end). I like it that way, feels more like tabletop than Fail Faggotry.

>> No.2281170

>>2281060
is that that madness whatever RPG on PS1?

>> No.2281179

>>2278317
I'm surprised someone hasn't made a version of Bomberman for PC/Mac allowing up to 10 players. I know there's PuyoVS for those who want to play Puyo Puyo over the net without emulation.

>> No.2281182

>>2281179
Personally, all I want is some way to play something like Animal Crossing Originally for N64 to play on my PC with friends. Is this too much to ask?
Considered emulating it and passing around a save file but that's not very convenient.

>> No.2281184

>>2281182
You guys could play Harvest Moon together on the SNES.

>> No.2281191

>>2281184
Is it actually multiplayer like Animal Crossing is? I was always under the impression Harvest Moon was single player.

>> No.2281192

>>2281191
No

>> No.2281193

>>2281179

There is. I played this game a ton back in the day.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Bomberman

>> No.2281195

>>2281170
No. You're thinking Shadow Madness, which was made by a western team (including Ted Woolsey, apparently).

B&B plays more like a multi-session tabletop campaign, and as such, pretty much requires multiple people.

Like the tripfag pointed out, it does get pretty hack-and-slash〜y, especially if you pick Fighter, but at least there's a bit more to the gameplay than "press A to win".

>> No.2281208

>>2281170
It is. The one by Crave? Yes, it is.

>> No.2281324

>>2281195
That game sounds neato. Can we try it once to see if we like it? I don't want to immediately commit to something I may not enjoy in the end.

>> No.2281348

Is there a way to know when people play directly from mednafen ?

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>>2281324
>Can we try it once to see if we like it? I don't want to immediately commit to something I may not enjoy in the end.
That's for you guys to decide.
It's just that I happened to get a lot of enjoyment out of B&B, and have gone back to it more than once.
My last time through, I played solo and rolled Elf/Elf, just in case that's of any use.

>> No.2281715

>>2281348
I'm 99% sure no. It's just not how it works.