ESR - GGPO - now with spectator support

ESReality - Where Gaming Meets Reality

About | Contact | Guide | Filters
Users | Preferences | Search | FAQ

News | Forums | Columns
Journals | Articles | Polls | Wiki

Files | Galleries | Demos
Events | Coverage | Movies

ESR Shop | Betting Fixtures

Not Logged In | Login | Register

08:26 CST - 1560 users online

ESR Discord Channel

no live streams found

Scheduled Listings

Latest Threads

Latest Comments

News Learn to play quake live with FraZe (90)
News HoQ TDM 4v4 Winter Season 2025 (2)
News Cooler Interview 9.8.24 (1)
News World's Greatest Gamer Event - QC - Punk vs Leffen (1)
News 250 FPS QL League (6)

Latest Forum Threads

OT Donald "Trump" Trump wins Elections 2016 (582)
QC =]<o~~~ Possible Scenarios for Quake 5! =]<o~~~ (23)
Q4 all pk4 files collected so far (2)
GG Need maps for q4 (0)
Q3 Why cant id learn from Valve's CS2 and give us an updated Q3 (55)

Latest Journals

2z faye (22) by stpbozin
Why this game sucks to hard? (28) by The_Sh33p
Mars died as his temple burned. No new gods of war exist. (57) by ShadyVoltaire
TEnEP ETO PYCCKu CAuT (2) by stpbozin
How to sporadically play multiplayer games? (7) by cx

Hot Topics

News HoQ TDM 4v4 Winter Season 2025 (2)

ESR Virtual Betting

Lamur
E$ 238,131

E$ 176,304 omek
E$ 129,238 fazz
E$ 61,723 lithz
E$ 58,635 nsx0r
E$ 57,658 nk121

News

GGPO - now with spectator support (31 comments)

( Major News: ESR)

Posted by Aquashark @ 02:30 CDT, 9 October 2007 - iMsg

GGPO stands for "Good Game, Peace Out" and it is an online matchmaking system for fighting games.

GGPO has a lag-free netcode algorithm specifically tuned to frame-based 2D fighters, making the PC a viable platform for such games and taking things even further.

The latest updates bring a lot of improvements such as:

- in-game chat
- spectating
- widescreen support
- new playable game, Marvel vs Capcom
(alongside with the previously supported Street Fighter Alpha 2)
- demo recording (works only while spectating for now)

To get things going follow the few easy steps in this Installation Guide.
(DirectX 9.1c and .NET Framework 2.0 are required for WindowsXP)

Signing up isn't required at the moment. At the login prompt of the GGPO Client, simply type any available user name and a password (the password doesn’t matter) and the server will let you in.

Future updates will bring more games and more features (such as rankings and an easy to set-up tournament system which will help the competitive nature of the games).

Screenshots: 3 matches, 4 specs, Marvel vs Capcom, paused demo, world map

Some VODs: @ stage6.divx.com (or @ youtube.com).

Edited by Aquashark at 03:26 CDT, 1 November 2007 - 23786 Hits

4%

<< Comment #1 @ 02:58 CDT, 9 October 2007 >>

By

xou

sounds lovely, gonna give that a try

<< Comment #2 @ 03:18 CDT, 9 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark '

ROMs can be found with Google: SFA2, MvsC (they go in "/GGPO Client/roms/")

gameplay videos: 1, 2

Edited by Aquashark at 03:26 CDT, 9 October 2007

<< Comment #20 @ 10:30 CDT, 11 October 2007 >>

By

gSTRUCTOR ' - Reply to #2

Europe versions of the roms to be more precise.

<< Comment #3 @ 09:02 CDT, 9 October 2007 >>

By

ashr

awesome. just wish they changed it to SFA3 :<

<< Comment #4 @ 10:06 CDT, 9 October 2007 >>

By

Sub_

major please :>

Oh and I suppose it's also possible to play one specific player (say a friend or smth) instead of using the match making system?

Edited by Anarki320 at 10:21 CDT, 9 October 2007

<< Comment #5 @ 13:47 CDT, 9 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #4

of course.. you can challenge anyone you like and refuse challenges from unknown players :)

<< Comment #6 @ 12:26 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

koekie

addicting as hell

<< Comment #7 @ 12:28 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

luxxiz

lmfao, I finally got it to work, and i played someone, didnt know settings, got my ass kicked :DD!

<< Comment #8 @ 12:55 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

gSTRUCTOR '

DirectX 9.1c??? o.O

<< Comment #9 @ 13:02 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

gSTRUCTOR '

Please add SF2'

Its a CPS1 game so i suppose it cant be that hard :))

<< Comment #11 @ 13:30 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #9

it will be added in the future updates :)

the only games they won't add are Super Turbo and Puzzle Fighter.
they don't want to upset Capcom who supports the Evolution tourneys (as they are about to release Super Turbo HD remix and Puzzle Fighter HD remix on XBOX)

Edited by Aquashark at 13:32 CDT, 10 October 2007

<< Comment #12 @ 13:43 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

prawn

Wow, finally new version with new playable game.
Can't wait to play.

<< Comment #10 @ 13:26 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark '

Street Fighter Alpha 2 - basics & move list

Marvel vs Capcom - basics & move list
(i suggest you learn SFA2 first since MvsC is really complicated and chaotic for beginners.. real fun to spectate experienced players though.)

Edited by Aquashark at 13:26 CDT, 10 October 2007

<< Comment #13 @ 13:44 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

luxxiz - Reply to #10

yeah, that MvsC was INSANE, my friend and I tried it, roooooooofl, just spam the buttons 24/7 and hope for something good :D.

and the other thing sjees, how to make those thingys when u get a shadow, damn :/, i suck :p

<< Comment #15 @ 13:50 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #13

the shadow thing is the Custom Combo mode. you can activate it by pressing two kicks and a punch (or two punches and a kick).

<< Comment #14 @ 13:44 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

luxxiz - Reply to #10

and thnx for helping me with the audio thingy ;p

<< Comment #16 @ 14:37 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

Lisk

ugh and linux?

<< Comment #19 @ 09:22 CDT, 11 October 2007 >>

By

koekie - Reply to #16

Nope, sadly.

<< Comment #17 @ 16:23 CDT, 10 October 2007 >>

By

luxxiz

god i keep getting owned, sooooooooooo much buttons etc, are the good ones using gamepad or so? :p

<< Comment #18 @ 09:14 CDT, 11 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #17

gamepad or even arcade stick :)

you can improve on keyboard too, but after you reach a level is really hard to progress anymore in terms of execution. i still have a lot of trouble doing 360 or half-circles :/

Edited by Aquashark at 09:15 CDT, 11 October 2007

<< Comment #21 @ 11:16 CDT, 11 October 2007 >>

By

joo

Marvel vs Capcom 2 =D
really nice stuff right here , tks for the game

<< Comment #22 @ 05:27 CDT, 21 October 2007 >>

By

Aquashark '

this week the first edition of GGPO League was held with 32 players signed up.

here are some VODs @ stage6.divx.com (or @ youtube.com).

bracket image

the winner of this first edition was

Akuma.
he played as Chun Li in all his matches.

Edited by Aquashark at 05:32 CDT, 21 October 2007

<< Comment #23 @ 05:52 CDT, 1 November 2007 >>

By

cp4c

i saw a nice streetfighter 2 joystick in a store a while back, but alas it wasnt there today.. here i found a pic!! I suppose a joystick is recomended as opposed to keyboard?

Edited by cp4c at 05:56 CDT, 1 November 2007

<< Comment #24 @ 06:30 CDT, 1 November 2007 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #23

yepp.. an arcade stick = win
too bad i can't find any around here :<

Edited by Aquashark at 06:31 CDT, 1 November 2007

<< Comment #25 @ 09:11 CST, 8 November 2007 >>

By

cp4c

i stumbled across this joystick which is apparently PS3 and PC compatible !! I mention the PS3 connection because of the fact there is going to be a new streetfighter eventually.

Here is some youtube footage of it..

Edited by cp4c at 09:13 CST, 8 November 2007

<< Comment #26 @ 01:45 CST, 9 January 2009 >>

By

HamidoOs

Wouldn't hurt if this gets bump'd every now and then.

<< Comment #27 @ 04:46 CST, 9 January 2009 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #26

GGPO = 99% of my gaming for quite some time :D

<< Comment #28 @ 09:08 CST, 9 January 2009 >>

By

HamidoOs - Reply to #27

Same here!
But you can't see me on SFA2 room, because :

1 - I can't find any opponent because no one here plays Alpha 2.
2 - tbh, I don't like SF Alpha 2. Or at least, I don't like it yet. I understand what you guys say about it, but...

<< Comment #29 @ 11:05 CDT, 21 July 2009 >>

By

Jamerio :

most of the arcade roms for GGPO, though a few more were added a while ago.

rom torrent

Arcade roms have no real commercial value which is why I am posting it!

Play arcade games arcade perfect with no lag from most parts of the world. And still the best way to play StreetFighter!

Get client here.
http://ggpo.net/download/

And don't forget to donate!

Edited by Jamerio at 11:22 CDT, 21 July 2009

<< Comment #30 @ 03:17 CST, 5 November 2015 >>

By

xou

Fascinating!

<< Comment #31 @ 10:52 CST, 7 November 2015 >>

By

Aquashark ' - Reply to #30

it was at the time.. now GGPO server is down indefinitely, luckily there's an open source alternative based on it: http://www.fightcade.com/

Edited by Aquashark at 10:53 CST, 7 November 2015

Reply to:
[Reset]

Formatting:

Content:

Enter Text:

Or if you already have an account:

Username:

Password:

Read the Posting Guidelines

Non-HTML tags: [b]bold[/b], [i]italics[/i], [u]underlined[/u]
[small]small[/small], [q]quoted[/q], [s]~~strikethrough~~[/s]
[url=www.url.com]link[/url] or type www.url.com
[flag=country] (list), [avatar=name] (list)
[map=mapname gamename] (list)

Conceived and created by Sujoy Roy (Legal Notices)
RSS Feed Information, Link Buttons and Banners