joshtpw :

sorry man, you have to earn it yourself like everyone else did.


hey David, in the past couple weeks, there has been a large amount of timeout errors occurring in the netplay sessions, these errors occur almost immediately when the session is created.

The problem has only appeared and intensified within the past 2 weeks, as I had not seen it before then.

Also, I noticed that you have changed the netplay sessions page and have gotten rid of usa limited and asia. Have you decided on how to raise awareness of netplay again, because I feel like once the special netplay offer ends in January, netplay will go back to being an under appreciated part of the site. Maybe lowering the price for the netplay item might help, or extending the special offer. I am not sure how you plan to fix this situation, because a lot of people who used to be on netplay a lot, just dont show up anymore.

bobq : I think I'll keep it so that anyone can join sessions but you'll still need the netplay item to create sessions.

Which server gives you the troubles?

I don't mean to spam or anything but Can anyone summon me to Notify me that the timeout error was fixed?

it seemed to happen constantly on the usa limited server, but now that that server is gone, it still happens occasionally on the usa server.

I recommend people use sonikku's server.

Davideo7 : I was just wondering if you know when the gba games will be playable.

nick37 : It'll be a long time from now since no one donates much these days and it'd cost a lot to have added.

Hey man, merry Christmas.

Sorry to be the one to bare bad news, but it seems like all the n64 sessions keep crashing.

I don't know why either.

David, you made it sound like having GBA netplay added was actually a possibility if the money was there... I wasn't aware that this was a thing that was possible. The creator of Visual Boy Advance had officially stated that he will NOT implement the GBA Link feature for Online Play because of the way the GBA and link cables work with their synchronization, it just wasn't something he could do.

Since the emulator is open source, someone else ended up making VBA Link that enabled the Link option locally where you could open up to 4 instances of VBA on the same local computer and at least link those up. The last I heard on the VBA Link project, they also got LAN netplay working... but there was no way they could get it to work outside a local network with any degree of stability. Heck, even the LAN version isn't really stable enough to use reliably. I've tried it for Pokemon battles, and it likes to randomly disconnect.

I recall that there was an old emulator for GBC and regular Gameboy games that did do real netplay which I've used before but that was also extremely unstable and had a tendency to disconnect a lot not really giving more than 5 minutes of real netplay without interruption.

So unless Tom can work magic that no one else has, I don't see how GBA netplay is ever gonna happen, money or not. I think you'd sooner be able to get it on something like MAME considering netplay for that has been around for at least 10 years now.

Crazy Li : I'm just going by what Tom said, he simply said that it's a possibility but he wasn't sure, it's something he'd have to research more. I'll take your word for it though.

Hi Davideo7. I'm having a problem. My Netplay sessions keep timing out. I get a "waiting for other players..." message followed by a countdown.

Davideo7 : Sorry if I sounded know-it-allsy or like I was trying to say you were wrong or anything. I just thought it was odd. I'm not saying it's NOT possible... but based on my own knowledge of emulation, it didn't sound too likely... but it'd be awesome if it was a thing that could be done for sure. I obviously don't know all there is to know and I'm not someone who's looked at the source code for any of this stuff before (and even if I did, I'm sure I wouldn't understand any of it xp )

See my last post.

Also, why is the Netplay chat room locked with a password? It makes no sense since you can get into the room without needing the password through the retro game room.

David, is it possible to use Netplay over Gameboy games or Gameboy Advance titles? I would like to trade pokemon with a friend but I don't know if it's possible...

mrkool078 : What system?

Crazy Li : It's no problem at all, that info was valuable. It'd probably be easier to just create a PHP script where users could earn, battle and trade Pokemon on the board itself

bobq : Because users are only suppose to use that chat room if their on the netplay page. That room isn't meant for hanging out, it's meant for discussing netplay and finding people to start a session with.

SpeedIsMyName : Nope, refer to what Crazy Li said.

I'm doing better now. The lag cleared up. But the system was n64 and the game is Mario kart 64.

Hey David, Kiddo gave me an idea just now.

Somebody asked him for Viz for the netplay item, and I told Kiddo to make the person earn it. So kiddo suggested doing a netplay tournament.

Why don't you set up a netplay tournament where the prize is viz, or people have the option to gamble their Viz through netplay. I figure it would bring attention to netplay more so. Although you would likely need to fix n64 games from crashing frequently.

It should also be noted that it is fairly common for people to not be able to get n64 and /or snes games to work due to graphic card issues or something like that.

bobq : that's what we been doing recently in fact there's a super smash bros tournament excepting people it starts January 12

super smash bros crashes a lot though, so best of luck

Ive had slightly better luck with smash bros hd than the no hack version.

bobq : Funny thing is, I just started a Tournament, right before reading this post. We'll see how it goes.