2d Freeplay and GGPO

Post by **vlame** » Tue May 12, 2009 1:32 pm

Which do you prefer?

http://2dfighter.com/ - more games, online replays, bad hosting set-up (uses mame32 i think)

http://ggpo.net/ - Small amount of games, live spectating, challenge user bugs (used final burn alpha)

Post by **weasels** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:09 pm

wow this is the first time ever seeing this so i couldn't tell you my preferred.....I'm gonna have to check them out....although my skills with most fighting games isn't high.

Post by **vlame** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:24 pm

get the roms and hit me up on the messenger. you need to foward ports to play lots of people tho, which i still can't do.

Post by **Dakinggamer87** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:41 pm

I'm gonna have to check them out too...

Post by **Haruspex** » Wed May 13, 2009 1:51 pm

Both of them use FBA for the emulation of the roms (and that's a good thing)

2DF basically use the nFBA network code, GGPO uses it's own network code which it's closed source. SSFT2THD Remix uses a modification of GGPO network code.

I prefer GGPO for fighting games since it's arguably better but 2DF has more games and probably more people. What really annoys me about 2DF it's that there is no offline installer.

One thing for sure is that both GGPO and 2DF are miles better than Kaillera. And that's to be expected i guess since they are newer programs.

One warning to scrubs (like me) though. Be prepared for a serious beating

Post by **vlame** » Wed May 13, 2009 3:52 pm

hmm, i've gotten worse lag from ggpo than 2df, maybe cos i've never hosted on 2df.

Post by **Haruspex** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:50 pm

vlame wrote:hmm, i've gotten worse lag from ggpo than 2df, maybe cos i've never hosted on 2df.

Well, there is always the ping factor. Also both programs don't work optimally with SF 3 Third Strike. (i think 2DF might be better with this game)

Other than that GGPO isn't forgiving when you don't open the required ports and it's very likely to have problems because of that.

Of course 2DF also requires to open ports for optimal operation but let's say is more "forgiving".

Also in GGPO options make sure the smoothing option is set to 0 instead of default 1. The 0 option requires lower pings to perform correctly but you will have 0 input lag instead of 1 frame delay with the default option.

Post by **BigTinz** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:37 am

ggpo is way better for 3rd strike.

Post by **vlame** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:08 pm

BigTinz wrote:ggpo is way better for 3rd strike.

i always get graphical glitches on it. but not on 2df.

Post by **wip3outguy7** » Sat May 16, 2009 7:06 pm

has anyone gotten it to work in OSX?

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