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  4. Fightcade 2, promises Genesis support

    in Sega Genesis Emulators

    Posted

    I have an account that works. I'll post the account details some time tonight (if I remember) so you guys can test. 

    On 11/6/2017 at 5:31 PM, jer_33 said:

    I'm curious of a few things.

    1. Obviously, how easy the set-up is.

    2. How good the emulator is (based on it's popularity for fight games, I'm guessing it has to play well).

    3. If it is better than Kaillera for lag/inputs etc...

    4. For fights games, I think the site will track wins/losses.. I'm assuming it would do the same for sports titles.

    lots to think about...

     

    1. The set-up is easier than GENS. You need to have the NHL '94 ROM in the ROMs folder. When you launch FightCade, just select NHL '94, and it will put you into a lobby.

    2. I think the emulator is good.

    3. For me, the netplay has always been smooth, and there's even in-game chat enabled.

    4. I think the tracking of wins/losses is only for the (popular) fighting games. 

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    **FightCade automatically uploads replays of past games to their website. You can also spectate any game you want.

     

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  5. Premium Retro League 2

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, aqualizard said:

    Yes, I have done extensive testing.  Conclusion: Nothing works for me, and I almost came in last. :P (Last time around Mario had 2.0 PPG -- a record low, no doubt! Yes, he was on wing.)

    I will play around a bit, and may change it up when I compete.  I do appreciate your remark. :)  My logic is, Mario has 6 stick handle and 6 passing, so would "drive the bus" so to speak handling the puck, and feeding Lindros (or Muller) at Center?  

    But the *main* reason I have 88 at C is because I love plopping him in the middle defensively.  He is a checking behemoth that clogs my zone up, when I can get him back there...

    Edit: PS: I welcome all comments from anyone regarding my lineup. I am a thick skinned lizard.

    I agree with changing it up. Have a preferred lineup, but also be ready to change it if needed. I used all my forwards at multiple positions.

    Another thing, I personally never liked the idea of "feeding" someone at center. Don't go into the offensive zone with the plan of "looking" for someone. Let the players look for you. So many people mess up their offense by trying to force too many one timers.

     

     

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  7. GDL XVII

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Lupz27 said:

    Lack of adequate competition, now when KG gets his home internet service installed since his town finally got fiber optic internet, and Tomkabs wires up his cpu instead of wifi (that wasn't that bad once I wired up), you return, King, and Ice and when they are hot Tex and Brutus all offer adequate competition.  Maybe if some of the other top guys see this competitive again you might even get a handful more to return.  Just my .02.

    I disagree. GDL16 was arguably the most competitive league. Still bored many players. The competition was adequate, but sitting around for 25 days waiting for slackers isn't worth it for most.

    7 hours ago, Lupz27 said:

     if @Premium decides to play so he can take down a past champ, and the Firsr Kof94 winner boom becomes very interesting.  

    I already won two GDL titles with kgman in the league. 

  8. 2017 Fall Classic

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Premium

    10 hours ago, Lupz27 said:

    And Ice on the sign up would be nice.  I disagree Plabax has done nothing but struggle in Classic since the introduction of CB check.

    Good bait, but the only time I registered for Classic since CB check was last season with Boston. I went 18-5 and was scoring nearly 7 goals a game! I definitely wasn't struggling.

    I participated in two other seasons, where I replaced swos for NJ and Carse for CGY.

    Struggling with NJ is obvious.. I don't believe you can win with the Devils. For this reason, my heart wasn't 100% in to it. As for CGY, I played on a setup that sometimes didn't allow me to turn around and go backwards, which is why I lost so many games and finished with poor stats.

    As for the other leagues since the CB check... I have more than everyone else combined :D, and that includes me sitting out!

  9. GDL XVII

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    9 hours ago, CoachMac said:

    I know I am spitting in the wind, but.....

    Why not take those 2-6 and let them compete in a small, fast, effective league.  Draft, season, playoffs, Draft, season, Playoffs etc......

    Then divide those other 18-22 people up by skill and let them go in 6-8 man leagues doing the same thing.

    Premium Retro has proven it works, except we have differing skill levels.

    Limiting the draft pool worked well to maintain the fun of the draft.

    Continuing to start leagues that lag, need replacements, last 6 months, etc..... is crazy but carry on crank her up and tell me why my small fast and effective leagues suck.

    Being small is not key to a league being fast and successful/effective though. Your league just happens to be small. 

    Why not have the same fast/effective league with more players? Having a respectable amount of players in a league is very appealing for a lot of people. I would say that it trumps overall competitiveness. My guess is that most would prefer to see a league with 5/20 players be dominant than to see a league where 5/5 are competitive. 

    Limiting the draft pool is another potential issue. Some people are very picky (see swos, Freydey) and may not be able to draft players they like. 

    7 hours ago, Lupz27 said:

    Losing the best of the best in every league is what is hurting this place we don't need new blood as much as everyone thinks, what we really need is the old top level players to return, that is what this place is missing.

    Basic Problem Solving: What is causing the best players to leave? That's the underlying problem.

  10. 2017 Fall Classic

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Premium

    7 hours ago, Lupz27 said:

    GDL is like the equivalent of the USFL

    Blitz is like the equivalent of the XFL

    Classic is the equivalent of the NFL

    Why?  Because both GDL, and Blitz are currently belly up while Classic is about to run, and only game in town!

    Well, if you find the IIHF World Championships is the equivalent of the NFL, we'll just have to stop there.

  11. 2017 Fall Classic

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    GDL is the NHL '94 equivalent of the NHL.

    Blitz is the NHL '94 equivalent of the Olympics.

    Classic is the NHL '94 equivalent of the IIHF World Hockey Championships. 

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    I will never come out of retirement for Classic.

  16. Open NHL'94

    in General Questions & Discussion

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Brutus said:

    Let's just say, in your analogy, most doctors agreed that trying chemotherapy on a patient too weak to survive it wouldn't work  and that trying an alternative medicine, while likely to fail as well, was chosen.

     

    Highlighting only the points you want to see is a fools gold approach to anything.

    Seth was quitting if he had to play in any format not exactly how he wanted it.  He had become the MOST difficult member to placate of late & his constant byatching I feel helped drive turn out down. You were quitting out of boredom, as numerous times stated by you.  Your constant negative post/comments certainly didn't help, IMO, but your total efforts as a whole I'm sure helped more than not for sure.

    Several coaches in the league had privately messaged me that they enjoyed Plablegs ( no penalties & fast paced) occasionally but would not want to keep doing it multiple seasons consecutively.

    In Plablegs, you had several owners not finish/cancel/forfeit/replace as well, similar to all previous leagues.  Given you were OUT of your own league, and I didn't see even the SAME number of available coaches willing to replay Plablegs 2, how is not running a 12 coach Plablegs what killed Nhl 94?

    i mean if 3-4 years ago, not using your league format was the reason for the decline, I can read that argument & state, I might not 100% agree with it, but it's harder to argue against it, S there were 40-50 coaches at times, and 20 active at all times, so a no nonsense approach with replacements /forfeits would have room to keep moving.

    But last year? When the site was under 20 TOTAL active coaches.  Lolololol

    Thsts just using clown talk cause you miss your crying partner Seth.

     

    This is the way I see it:

    The main goal of Plabax League was to influence all other leagues to be like mine, and for the community to model itself after the Tecmo community. Things seemed to be going on the right track, but unfortunately my progress was undermined because Et-Tu-Brute reverted to the old league structure. Instead of the community as a whole moving forward, my rule-set became an "alternative" rather than the standard, and we ended up moving backwards. It was an indirect way of the community saying, "we are not changing our ways". That is why I think not running Plablegs didn't kill NHL '94. 

    Another thing to note is that 99% of slackers are slackers only because the community doesn't want to crack down on it. You are not grasping it correctly. For example, you say there were 40-50 coaches at times, and 20 were active. Under my method, if 40-50 coaches are around, then they are all likely active. The goal is not to have strict deadlines to kick the slackers out, the goal is to have strict deadlines so slackers don't exist. The point is.... slacking only exists because it's allowed (and supported) here. If there was absolutely no tolerance for it, then almost every single coach would be active, and you would likely never need a replacement outside of special events such as vacation, childbirth, divorce, etc.

    Lastly, there were more than 20 coaches last year. GDL 16 had at least 27 different coaches participate in it. 

     

     

  17. Open NHL'94

    in General Questions & Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Premium

    6 hours ago, Brutus said:

    I still get a laugh that you log in & talk to yourself about yourself while making sure to apply some flawed logic to everything you go on & on about.

    Easily one of the biggest doucheags of all time.

    brutus killed Nhl 94.

     

    I wasn't talking to myself. I was replying to aqualizard.

    Uncle Seth made the original comment, not me. I agree with what he said because it appears to be true. You may not like it, but you can't point out anything wrong in the comment. 

    "Brutus killed NHL '94" is definitely not the message I am trying to portray. Here is a better way of putting it: NHL '94 is a patient on life support. Plablegs is the medication, Et-Tu-Brute is a doctor who unplugged NHL '94 from life support but didn't use the medication (due to consent), thinking nothing bad would happen despite some of his colleagues telling him the patient would die. 

    That situation wouldn't make the doctor a killer, but you could say whether or not the patient survived was 100% in the doctor's hands.

  18. Open NHL'94

    in General Questions & Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Premium

    I stopped running Plablegs because I decided to stop playing. As for leading by example, it doesn't matter because there are too many people in the community who attempt to slander my character, take jabs at me and are more than happy to use my reputation against me. I don't think me being a "leader" is a realistic option.

    It's up to the other figures with the power, but those guys are more concerned with earning "high fives" and keeping their reputation up rather than doing what's right for the community.

    On 2/12/2017 at 1:32 PM, Uncle Seth said:

    The design of Plablegs and management of the league has been a breath of fresh air.  It's been inspiring to see what can be done if expectations are established and enforced.  For some of us, it's like "hey, maybe we can change this place for the better".  Then Brutus makes his league that reverts back to the old ways, and I think Plabs feels like the progress has been undermined.  Sure, Brutus can make whatever league he wants and his intentions are good.  People will join and most likely have a lot of fun. Yet it doesn't change the fact that it seems like we're going backwards and the wind has been taken out of the sails.  The ones who have been demanding a change in culture are once again alienated.  At least that's how I feel. 

    This site is dying and none of you can see it happening.  The community should have listened to hockey.  They still don't get it and it seems they never will.

    I agree with what Seth said here. Seth and I are like a boat driver who started to steer the Titanic clear of the iceberg knowing what would happen if the ship were to hit the iceberg, but Et-Tu-Brute is another boat driver who deliberately put the Titanic back in the path of the iceberg (for a good reason) thinking nothing bad would happen.

  19. Recruitment Ideas for getting tourney players to join forum and play online

    in Other NHL'94 Live Tournaments

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Lupz27 said:

    After my first Classic season I was going to quit, I was terrible, and knew nothing about the actual game inside the game.  I got lucky that a few spots opened up in the next GDL as soon as Classic ended, and decided to give it a go, and it sucked me in.  With out that first GDL experience I wouldn't still be here, that, and the ability to get a game at almost any time of the day, and night I didn't have to hop on the CPU, and HOPE someone was out there willing to play there was always a few to a lot of buds looking for exis at that time (3 years ago), and 2V2 even thou I did not play back then was always popping off every night.  Now it's a chore to seek out games it's hit, or miss depending on the night if anyone is around for exis, a lot is probably do to the lack of a draft league going on IMO, we really miss Brutus dude was awesome at organizing a draft league, and commishing it.

    Everyone keeps coming up with all sorts of theories, but it's simple. The leagues are PRO-slacker, and there is no incentive to play. 

  20. GDL??

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Ask and see who is willing to play.

    I personally think 24 coaches is too much. 18 I think should be the absolute max because there simply isn't enough depth in the weight bugged version of NHL '94 to build 24 teams that are all competitive. GDL wasn't always 24 coaches. 24 coaches is nice and all, but I hate the idea of someone losing a draft league because they didn't get a high enough pick, and they weren't willing to rip someone off in a trade.

  21. King of 94 Tournament - Feedback / Improvements

    in King of '94

    Posted · Edited by Premium

    6 hours ago, chaos said:

    What benefit would we get from this? Can you explain? It's hard enough to get someone there for 1 day, let alone multiple days. Remember anywhere we host a tournament, there will be people traveling to it. But we are open to suggestions.

    I agree, there should have been trophies handed out. 

    I also like the idea of having a PC set up and a demo on how to set up to play online.

    I had talked to a few people about playing online, and it just so happened there are a couple of guys who had found the forum years ago who ended up setting up to play online, but they only play against each other. I talked to them about joining classic, so hopefully we do get a few guys to play.

    You guys gotta remember this was Mikey's tournament. Not set up by us (though Hali did most of the work). While we would have loved to do more with promoting the website, I'm not sure if it was the time or place to do it. This tournament was more about promoting his movie. I absolutely agree we could have "advertised" more without shoving it down people's throats though. Some kind of flyer would have been nice. This is a good idea for the Hartford, CT tournament.

     

    Most of the video game tournaments I have seen were 2-3 days. I guess that's to give enough time to avoid burnout, rest, play enough games, etc. I remember Seth wished he could have had more opportunity to play at the first KO94.

    3 hours ago, CoachMac said:

    Many of us played all day Friday and well into Sunday morning.:big_smile:

    AngryJay, EA, Raph, Tex, and Smoz (The majority of the Bets Gens players) played all day in our Hotel Room Friday.

    BUT, as Chaos stated the actual tourney would be tough to extend as it is monumental effort to make it one day.

    I am glad to see you showing some interest and a positive vibe.

    You would be a huge addition to any Live Tourney.

    I'm not even sure if I'll play this game ever again. Last time I played against someone was when I won Plablegs back in February.

    If I showed up to a live event, it would probably be for a hour or so just to watch.

    The game is also better without penalties and with even advantages, but people continue to play an inferior version of the game which isn't appealing to me.

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