LA Robbie

Erm................can I change my mind and go in GENS C?! lol Onetimer - You're an angry, angry man! lol Good luck to everyone. Donnybrook - I'll do my best to give you a decent game! GL you miserable get! ;-)

Hope I make the cut for GENS B2. Who wants to end up in the "GENS C Losers" Cup?! lol In English football (soccer) the two big cup competitions are the FA Cup & the League Cup. The teams in the lower leagues that have no hope of winning the major competitions then have their own cup competitions that only 1 man & his dog care about! lol. One such cup was once called "The LDV Vans Trophy". It was as prestigious as it sounds! lol .............Really don't want to be known as "LDV Vans Robbie" lol .............On the other hand a pot's a pot. Count me in! lol

Does anyone know if an infection's location indicates the source of the infection? Am I right in thinking it doesn't and that an infectious file once into the system can hide itself anywhere? I only ask as yesterday I scanned with AVG - once again s**t loads of rootkits after 3 consecutive days clean. The only things i'd opened after the last clean scan were Hamachi & AIM. I then did a complete scan with Malwarebytes - nothing?! I deleted AVG & installed Microsoft Security Essentials - found one virus in the AOL files! I believe this doesn't indicate that infact AIM was the source of the problem, but can someone confirm that? Would it be an idea to re-install it?

Hi AJ, Absolutely love ur stuff. Have an idea here, which, I don't know, hopefully you'll like. A bit like those websites that do those online knockout tournaments, where people vote for their favourite & the winner progresses to the next round. Know what I mean? Basically I think it would be great if you could write a piece each month or whatever analysing a specific matchup - i.e. New York Islanders vs Edmonton or whatever. You could act as coach of both teams & state who you're going to play where, and how the 1vs1s are going to match up across the ice. Based on your analysis you could then decide who you think wins that particular match up. What do you think? Basically i've got Calgary in the Classic league, and my prefered attacking 3 are Fluery, Roberts, Riechel as I think Roberts is the best finisher & one-timer down the centre, and having Fluery & Riechel coming off the wings releasing their slapshots is what they're best suited to. Fluery's speed is also best suited to getting behind the defence and then laying a pass back for Robert's one-timer. However, over the course of the season i've come to realise that against the likes of Chicago, Montreal & Detroit, whilst he doesn't do a bad job, Roberts struggles to help keep the likes of Roenick, Ciccarelli & Yzerman quiet on defence. Therefore, against a good player i've got to put Fluery down the centre to stand any chance of limiting those player's effectiveness. This changes my style of play completely because now i've got Roberts on the right & Makarov on the left, but i've lost the real poaching goal threat down the middle. Now i'm more of a counter-attacking side, trying to get an early pass into Fluery so he can get beyond the defenders and go one-on-one. Depending on the opposition my line-up, and therefore my style of play changes, so against different opponents i'm going to play a different line-up, which will effect the way the game goes and the result accordingly. What do you think? "AJ does Vancouver vs Los Angeles", next week "Los Angeles vs Winnipeg". The combinations are endless, and it may be something that could really help people out, especially newbies. "In his article AJ suggested he'd play Svoboda on the left to deal with Sandstrom down their right. I think i'll try that" for example. Works for me anyway!

Well the regular 2011 file has 5 min OT. Obviously there's been some roster changes, but I think that would still be great?

UPDATE: Just to let you all know, after AVG scans found nothing 2 days running I did some test games with Hamachi, and I now believe I can say with some certainty that the Hamachi network IS the cause of the problem. On the 26 no problems, 27th no problems. On the evening of the 27th I played some wireless online games at work via hamachi. 28th first thing in the morning - did a scan. Once again totally clean. Immediately after finishing the scan I connected online at home via cable. Connecting through Hamachi I played 4 or 5 games against Comeback. Immediately after finishing I scanned again - guess what?! Loads of rootkits again! After 3 consecutive clean scans the only variable is that I hooked up to Hamachi at home via a cable plugged directly into my router. There's no other potential source of infection. I have set up port-forwarding with Smozoma so I don't need hamachi anyway, so from now on i'll be playing only via my real IP or through client. Hamachi is getting deleted!

That makes sense. If that can be changed i'd say it's league ready isn't it?! Is there anyone showing interest in organising a league using this rom? I would offer but I don't think i'm really computer savvy enough. I'd end up doing it for hours on end in excell & word and sending people the info via email etc lol.

lol. Yeah, he destroyed me 8-3! I don't know if he believed me or thought I was making excuses but I had little control. Never happens with the classic rom tho? Hopefully it'll be fine when i'm connected directly via cable

Well I tested the bin. file out & there's certainly no problems with netplay in terms of dropping out or desynching. I was playing via wireless though & it kept speeding up making it virtually impossible to play, like my guys were moving at 100mph. I think this was perhaps due to my connection though as Comeback was in Chicago & said it was fine all the way through, whilst for me in Mexico it was like they were all screaming around on coke! lol I'm going to play again when I can get connected via cable & see how it is, as via cable I never have a problem at all with the regular '94 rom. The only other issue is that the overtime clock reads 60 minutes! lol If that can be sorted out I think this seems ready to be used for a league..............count me in!!

Just played it online against Comeback. Works great except thru the 2nd period & first half of the 3rd it speeded up. all the guys were runnin around like little mosquitos! Is there a way to fix that? That's the only fault as far as I can tell

Well, just to let you all know, 2 AVG scans in a row have revealed nothing but tracking cookies, so right now it looks like Malwarebytes did the trick! Only thing is I never used AIM, Hamachi or Netplay yesterday. Sounds like Smozoma knows more about the possibility of any of those things being a problem than me, but basically i'll be using them today & then if there's any new problems tomorrow it would seem that 1 of those is leaving a door open perhaps? Of course for the good of everyone on this community i'll let people know if that's the case! Thanks for all the help guys!

Hi, I have been playing Clockwise's 2011 rom. Absolutely incredible! A true work of art & a piece of NHL '94 perfection! My question is this: I really want to be able to play it online & introduce more people to it. I read it was unplayable online originally, but now people have figured it out? I read some stuff about patching the game etc, but to be honest it's not really something I understand too well. I'm sure it's not too difficult, but could someone in the know please produce a short, step-by-step "idiots guide" to help out people like me, and help this version of the game grow. Also, i'm sure I speak for probably 99% of the GENS players on here when I say that if online play is now possible & there were a league using this rom there would a hell of a lot of excitement around it & a huge number of sign-ups! It really is the definitive version of the game & needs to be regularly played online! Anyway, I hope it is indeed now playable online, and that there can soon be an online league running using the 2011 rom!

Guys, I don't really understand this whole "patch it" stuff, but really want to play the 2011 clockwise rom online! Can someone put an "absolute idiots guide" up for me?!!!!

"You can set a static UDP listening port and TCP handshake port....................." ........................................... :-S

All very odd. Did a Malwarebytes scan last night & it eliminated all the problems it found. Today AVG found absolutely nothing, although took about 3.5 hours to do a scan! :-S The only thing I haven't done today that I normally do is hook up to AIM. Did a scan of my memory stick & found a virus on there though! Will have to install MSE and then see what happens tomorrow, but at the moment it would seem my system is virus free again. Is it worth Smozoma advising people in a thread about the potential security issues associated with using Hamachi.............and porn download? lol

So is the next step a list showing the "combined abilities"? Appologies if it's already here somewhere!

I'm running Vista. Set up port forwarding with Smozoma yesterday. Will delete AVG & download MSE today!

Sure..............as soon as Sofia Vergara agrees to go out with me! lol

Hmmmm. Well it certainly seems something is regenerating. AVG found nothing Saturday night & then 8 problems the following morning?! :-S Sophos anti-rootkit identified the Playstation emulator as a problem, but it also identified lots of other things that appear to be false positives. I've had the emulator on there for years, and it definitely works & never appeared to be a problem before. It also identified the add-ons to my N64 emulator, which again, have been there for years & have never been identified before, so I don't know if I can trust Sophos - Reading reviews it has a reputation for producing false positives. I'll put the Microsoft anti-virus on today & see what happens with that! Again, all of this started not long after joining this community & starting to play online.

Well thanks for the help guys. Last night AVG found nothing. Today it scanned and found 8 problems again?! Only thing apart from web browsers i'd opened up all day was AIM! It deleted 2 of them. I downloaded and ran Malwarebites. took forever but found 8 problems & deleted them all. I'll see if AVG picks anything up when it scans 2morrow & then get rid of it & install MSE after that. Hopefully this will be the end of it!

Ah OK, so in fact there's a good chance that this was the result of using netplay? I'm now checking out how I set up port forwarding :-S

Thanks for that. I didn't know that. & obviously thats the same way when you connect via client right? I can only think it was that ISO file I downloaded then, 'cos i've done absolutely nothing else of late that I can think was a potential risk, and it was instant - 1 day nothing on the AVG scan, next day 20 rootkits! I'll definitely download that malware stuff too

Hi Everyone, Thought i'd post this more out of concern for everyone else really, but also to tap into the collective knowledge too. I've just cleared up a major infection on my laptop, and unless someone can tell me it's impossible I think it's been caused by hooking up to others for online play through Gens & Hamachi. I'm no computer whizz. I have a basic understanding of things & am generally able to sort things out with a bit of work when I need to, but can someone with more knowledge than me please tell me: When you hook up to someone else via netplay are you effectively opening up your computer to theirs and telling the system "It's OK, I trust this computer, let it hook up and do what it wants"? The reason I ask is that this is the first time i've had a big big problem in 4 years of owning this computer. I run AVG free anti-virus and over the years every now and then, maybe twice or three times a year max it finds a virus. I guess this is pretty normal? In the past, like all red-blooded males i've also visited some sites the good lord would probably frown upon, and until it got closed down I also had some file sharing software installed. I have to point out that I have not used either of these things for a long long time, probably like 6 months to a year at least. Well, since joining this community i've played against a number of different people. Usually with absolutely no problems whatsoever, but there was one player who, whenever I tried to connect to him for exhibitions things went wrong - failing to connect, error messages on GENS etc, all at the exact moment of connection. It just didn't seem right - not like when i've been playing against others & had trouble connecting. The only other thing i've done recently was download a Playstation ISO for the emulator I have. I unzipped it & everything, but it didn't work, so I deleted it straight away. Well, for a little while (not sure exactly) I started to notice some visible slow down of my programs and processes, in particular for 5 or 10 minutes after boot up there would be a long delay when opening anything - messenger, google chrome, excell or word files. Everything. After this long "boot up" period there'd always be a delay when opening a new webpage on Google Chrome too, and sometimes it would freeze all together. Then since the 18th of this month AVG started reporting 20 rootkits found! To make matters worse it would only delete 2 of them as it said the others were hidden. So here I was thinking my computer's finished and going to need to be wiped, thus losing all my programs & files etc. Like I said, over 4 years i've had only minor problems - 2 or 3 viruses per year maybe, during a period when I was visiting some "entertainment sites" more than I should have (tell me you've never done it & i'll show you the guy who's lying! lol), so to all of a sudden have 20 rootkits show up on my system, when I haven't been doing anything potentially harmful to my system seems very very odd. The fact that it coincides with joining this community & playing online games just seems far too much of a coincidence. As I said, the only other thing i've done of late was download that ISO file too, but that was from a trusted website according to my anti-virus program. Fortunately I downloaded a rootkit removal tool, and after a lengthy scan and then having to manually check through a long list on Google for false-positives I identified 2 known viruses and deleted a host of suspicious items in my temporary internet files. I ran AVG again, and amazingly it didn't identify a single problem! My system is now zipping around like road-runner on speed! It's like having a brand new computer! I guess my point is i'd really like to know from someone who has more understanding than me, is netplay/hamachi a security risk? Like I said, it just seems like too much of a coincidence that after many trouble free years I join this online league & all of a sudden my system is infested! & if so, clearly we've all got a serious responsibility to make sure we're running a clean system that's not going to pose a threat to others. I understand I may well be wrong, so I wouldn't like to post a name here, but i've deleted the person I was worried about from my AIM list (It wasn't someone in my league so there's no worries there), and I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. If someone could fill me in on how connecting via hamachi & GENS works security wise i'd really appreciate it. Cheers................gotta run, off to the adult video store!! lol (Joking!!!!!!)

P.S. Usually love reading these, but was bitterly disappointed at the lack of "Die Hard" puns in John MacLean's assessment!

Never ceases to amaze me that some people actually like this team. I have a friend that loves them as probably his 2nd team. Ridiculous. Zelepukin is the star, but would just be a good "squad player" for thee top teams. The other forwards a horribly difficult to get regular goals from. You have to go with Stevens at the back if you have any intention at all of being an attacking team - He's the one that'll get a few plays started regularly. I guess it's just a case of getting the balance right to help him out when the Devils don't have the puck. Strictly a team for people that love a dirty, bruising, unattractive style of play. To use a "soccer analogy" if Detroit are the Arsenal of NHL '94, NJ are the Stoke City!................really hope at least 1 or 2 people get that! ................Why oh why would anyone want to play with this team?!