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  1. TBH I think a lot of the reason for the lost interest in 94 is the game is getting older, and less people are interested as they get older, and younger guys for the most part don't want to play an old Genesis, or Super Nintendo game with players they never heard of.

    Also another thing that I think is HUGE is the emulator, Kaillera, Hamachi for Genesis sucks balls, and the SNES version of the game sucks balls.

    I've been here playing since fall 2014, and the same elite guys are elite, literally in the last 2 years not one person who wasn't already here has even challenged for an A title, or an elite league like GDL title, so this tells me there just isn't enough interest in this game anymore, or you would be getting gamers coming in, and quickly challenging, and that is not the case.

  2. 7 hours ago, Brutus said:

    Here is the weighted list of balls prior to actual draft lottery.

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    I don't give a s**t as I like where I'm picking, but you did the number of balls backwards (I'm assuming you gave more balls to the guys you thought could use a leg up for having a higher pick 6, 7, and 8) so if I'm correct you want to do the draft in order of 1-20 not 20-1, you should have given a guy like Coach 6 balls (less likely to get picked early in lottery), and a guy like Raph 8 balls (more likely to get picked early in the lottery process).

    As usual awesome video just my .02, and as usual I'm open for trade takes boys HMU.

  3. On 8/6/2011 at 10:28 AM, kingraph said:

    Forwards

    Weight - 3

    Agility - 5

    Speed - 4

    Shot Power - 5

    Shot Accuracy - 4

    Stick Handling - 5

    Pass Accuracy - 4

    Off Awareness - 4

    Def Awareness - 1

    Checking - 1

    Defensemen

    Weight - 4

    Agility - 4

    Speed - 3

    Shot Power - 1

    Shot Accuracy - 1

    Stick Handling - 4

    Pass Accuracy - 4

    Off Awareness - 1

    Def Awareness - 5

    Checking - 3

    My thoughts 

  4. 10 hours ago, Uncle Seth said:

    I have no reason to lie about anything in 94.  Believe what you will.  This thread has reminded me that I haven't been doing a lot of this strategy on purpose lately.  I'll have to start incorporating it because it's very effective.  Loft right over your D and catch it as it hits the ice.  My unintentional ones are risky and detrimental, I admit that.  I have no tolerance for playing against Brutus anyway, his laptop is not sufficient for gaming and causes a sanctuary lag-city.  Even my games vs AJ and Depch are buttery smooth since I bought a new PC last year and upgraded to fast internet.  Some of you people's laptops are laughably inadequate and cause the same problems (I won't name any other names, cough cough Lupz and a couple others).

    Lol your the only one who has a complaint about my laptop (well out loud maybe others do to, but haven't said anything).  I don't have an Ethernet port on my laptop so every game I've ever played has been over wifi, I bought a USB to Ethernet adapter, but haven't set it up because I don't have a long enough Ethernet cable to reach my laptop from where my modem is set up, and also 90% of the time when we played I was at work using a optimum hot spot wifi signal, and you never once quit because it was bad, and I know you won't waste your time if the game is to laggy so my connection using my laptop on an open public cable hot spot wasn't to laggy for you to quit I don't think it's my laptop.  We've only had a bad connection since you had to swap your laptop with someone else's because you couldn't get netplay to work on your own with new Kaillera, and after that was the first time I ever noticed a bad connection between us so maybe it's your new laptop.

  5. 42 minutes ago, Premium said:

    CHECKPOINT 4 - JANUARY 30TH, 2017

    Missed

    Chefstar - 2 - BOOT

    Icestorm - 2 - BOOT

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    The next checkpoint is February 5th, 2017, and all 26 games are required. You won't make the playoffs otherwise!

    JV also missed the checkpoint, I only bring this up because he is my only remaining 2 games, and I know he is having CPU issues, and I don't want to be left out of playoffs over that.

  6. 1 hour ago, Premium said:

    I already said I was a bigtime CB checker. I used the CB check to my advantage when I swept you 4-0 too, but I have still given beatdowns and I still won 5 titles without it.

    CB check or not, my stats don't fluctuate like Raph's do. Raph would know that I don't CB check ANYMORE if: he actually read the posts in the thread and if he could make it past round 2 to play against me.

    Your talking about the guy who has beat you in the last 2 playoff series you guys played in?

    When was the last time you went through Raph to win a title?  Blitz?  He went through you to win GDL 14.  Your doing an awful lot of bashing against a guy who has beaten you in classic playoffs, and for a GDL championship the last 2 times you guys tangled in meaningful games (insert Plabs CB excuse here).

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  7. 46 minutes ago, Premium said:

    No, he gets rolled over in GDL after the improvement. He claims he improved, but he got knocked out in round 2 after. If he improved as a player, why did he lose in round 2 afterwards in 5 games?

    You know the answer to this, I'm not gonna explain it, and I know Raph isn't gonna engage so it's a dead point move on to something else that helps your cause.

  8. 22 minutes ago, Premium said:

    It takes skill, but it's still cheese. You guys can say what you want, but the numbers are right in your face. NOBODY was able to get under 2.94GAA without it, yet with the CB check the worst we see is 2.61GAA. 

    What is wrong in me saying it's because of the CB check? It's just a night and day observation. It's a good one too because when Raph can't take advantage of the CB check, he tends to lose in 4 straight or 5 games. It just doesn't make any sense, how can he ever lose in 4 straight or in 5 games if he really is that good at defense? 

    You guys just can't admit the truth, and we all know it. 

    The one problem with this post is your using data about a player (Raph) from over a year, and a half ago summer 2015, to think Raph hasn't improved as a player, and knowledge wise since then is foolish, so assuming he will just get rolled over in 4-5 games without CB check in a WBF league now because it happened then is really stretching what you perceive as truth to fit your agenda, and try, and prove your point.  Doesn't work that way bud.

  9. On 1/29/2017 at 0:38 AM, kingraph said:

    Both Genesis and Sega CD play slower than emulator.  Your first game or two will feel like you're playing in mud or something, but you get adjusted fairly quickly after an exi or two.  

    In that sense, playing on Kega Fusion is more realistic than GENS.

    I also feel the game has slowed down a touch on the gens emulator since the New Kaillera update, I remember when we first made the switch I could feel a difference, might just be me thou.

  10. 16 minutes ago, Depch said:

    On the video that you commented the release doesn't happen vertically, it happens holding the movement directly UP. That's why I showed that video as the one where you should learn it first. That shouldn't be hard, just skate diagonally on a proper lane, turn up or down and release, no technique involved, showing it's about controlling where the goalie is mostly.

    I think that not everyone is on the same field with dexterity so for some it might take a lot of work and repeat, some might not never be able to do it. The concept is same for both, keyboard and gamepad, just different technique in executing, there are no extra directions for keyboards. It's best for what you're used to.

    I understand, this pass shot is not easy on a dpad, you either have to time it perfectly in left right up/down transition, or take your thumb off the dpad press B, then press up/down on the dpad, for me this is very difficult as I don't take my thumb off the dpad ever unless I'm attempting these pass shots which I've done on occasion, but it takes so much mental thought for me because I have to release my thumb off dpad hold B then slam back down on the dpad up/down to execute.  You keyboarders are always moving off of a directional button so a movement like I explained above is very easily done from a mental standpoint for you compared to the gens controller player.

    I'm very poor at explaining what I mean sometimes so my point might be lost in translation.

    So say a player is in a stand still position perfectly aimed straight head on at the open side of the net (just off center from goalie) if I hold up then press B the pass shot will be weak, BUT if I hold the B button down first while not pressing any direction on the dpad, and then slam my thumb down on the Up direction on the dpad it will be a rocket that will get airborne, and will more often then not score over goalie shoulder/glove in my experience practicing these, some guys might have different experiences, and opinions on what I tried to explain as I'm no expert just commenting on my personal experience.

  11. 1 hour ago, Depch said:

    I think that it's easier than many people think. It's not the same combination of buttons everytime people do it. Basically it is finding a good position for it and trying to hook the goalie to your movement, so it's a lot about fast moves left and right and then just pressing the pass button and it's not always identical.

    The goalie has a trajectory on the puck movement so doing small dekes can force the goalie to open up for the pass. You finish the pass with kind of like what you could think of a sling move and pass at the end of it.

    The easiest pass shot that I first learned was similar to the short side snap shot deke to a goalie. You know where you come diagonally short side and the goalie leaves the short side open. Well, that same applies to a pass shot and the faster the player, the farther you can do it because of the goalie trajectory leaving the post a bit open. In this one you don't even have to do the sling movement just skate diagonally and straighten your skating to upward and pass directly upwards. I made a small clip of this.

    Key things to notice are that the goalie follows the trajectory of the puck. Notice the goalie not moving at all when Lumme skates diagonally, because that is where the puck is projected to go, he just holds the position, then at a proper moment just straighten up and pass. The following I did with Courtnall from a bit farther but it follows the same logic, the goalie just holds the position because of trajectory and then just release at a proper moment when the angle for the pass is proper. Remember that the pass picks up on the trajectory of the movement your player had so you don't even have to be at a direct Y line to do it. This is probably the simplest one and the very first I had learned.
     

     

    Excellent post, BUT the one thing you don't understand is how hard that is to actually execute with a dpad compared to a keyboard.  Timing the pass while the stick is vertical like that is very difficult as it will go past vertical a lot due to the 8 directional axis on the gens dpad, that's why I give Ice, and Raph so much credit for being able to do these on command using the gens controller, they are the only 2 non boarders I know that can do them at will.

  12. 41 minutes ago, aqualizard said:

    Well, I think I kinda sucked in the VHL draft.  The first one I did, I ended up playing guys I drafted late more than my early picks, and the 2nd draft I was out of town, so Skip did it for me.  Also, Skip's ROM is kinda star studded, so there is not the same sort of variance as thr Classic ROM. (We kinda all winded up with All-Star teams.)

    But still, thanks for the advice.  I do hope that Brutus is able to make a Google Sheet that has the Total Adjusted Check Rating info (Check rating and weight combined in some weird formula), like Skip had. (I think it didn't show up for VHL 1, but did after.)

    With the links Depch proved, the info Brutus provided, and hopefully with some sort of Total Adjusted Check Rating in the spreadsheet, I shuld be able to un-knot my panties. :)
     

     

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0lPq1Un8oJW64n_f7lCHyxsbmtHx1fr966p1wlVCJE/pubhtml#

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ry1KjqZQI_abJvg5o74qydTJOHalXKY7KRNLbI5qvOo/pubhtml#

    Thats the link to the last 2 Blitz draft google doc spreadsheets, it does include Total adjusted check rating for every player.

  13. 3 hours ago, aqualizard said:

    I have never played with the Classic 94 roster in a weight bug fixed (WBF) leagued?  How do things change, as far as drafting is concerned?

    Before you tell me, if there is a link to drafts in the past, that is the most useful info.  Blitz was before my time here, but did it use the classic roster?  If yes, can I see how the drafts went, like exists in that GDL Google Sheet with Average Draft Position?

    I am sure JR is going to take a huge hit?  Who goes first in a WBF league?  (Bourque?  J/K, but I bet he goes pretty high.)

    Also, as I understand it, WBF means no CB checks.  Does this mean that glitch has been removed? Is this removal the same thing that makes it WBF?  Or will CB still" work" in some instances, or is it completely useless?

     

     

     

    Aqua approach this draft as you would the VHL draft, it's almost the same exact thing minus the player pool, it's on you to study the player pool and their attributes to draft a team you think will work for your style of play in this sort of league, so you already know how the rom plays with the WBF and Check rating included in checking success now just find the players you like in the original rom for a VHL league.

  14. As a B player who is way to over aggressive and impatient I will give 1 piece of advice to other B players who find themselves like me, and to guys who C check, and miss way to much creating tons of scoring chances for your opponent.

    Play a bunch of exis NEVER using the C button for the purposes of checking, OR speed burst, skate up, and down the ice without it, and always B check on D (yes you will find yourself trailing someone skating up the ice on D, but don't worry about it).  You will find yourself being in much better position on D after a few games, then play a game using the C button for checking and speed burst as neeeded to see if the experimental games without it have made you more disciplined with employing it, and even more efficient with it, keep doing this until you see a big change in your play.

    Not guaranteeing a miracle here, but it is something that can help you take a small step to improvement.  I personally used to do this back when I first started, and found it helped a lot, haven't done it in a long time, and I probably should take my own advice and do it as I'm horrendous right now at being over aggressive with the C button.

    Also when your exing purposely play with heavier guys that can't C check lighter guys, and can get C checked easily by lighter guys this will help you with learning how to dodge more checks with the puck, and play defense using B checks, CB. checks, and better positioning.

    Anyways my rant is over, and it's a shame I'll never take my own advice on this for improvement but if anyone does, let me know how it worked out, and if it is viable way to improve your play.

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