New Server Software used for N64 Netplay on United States L2 server.

Before we were using Kaillera 0.86 but now we're using Emulinker-Kaillera 1.0.

It's suppose to be better but I tested it out and I still faced desync issues. If others have a better experience with N64 netplay sessions after this update, please let me know.

Me,
bobq : and 
boomer1709 :  

tried a 3 player battle fight thingy on Mario Kart 64, and we did not have any problems. It was awesome. Thank you for the update. Much appreciated.

thing1 : Really? It actually worked better than before? In what ways? Was it less laggy? Did you guys stay in sync for the entire time? Any info would be great.

bobq :
boomer1709 : I wanted to get your feedback as well regarding this update.

Is that an update I need to grab for my kaillera netplay server?

sonikku : Yeah it would be. We'll probably want to make sure it's better though before updating to it on other servers. If you want to go ahead and do it yourself though, you can get the file here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emulinker/files/emulinker-kaillera-server/emulinker-kaillera-server-1.0/
You'll have to let me know when you do though because it uses a different port.

If you want to wait until I update that zip file in my Underground thread, you can wait for that.

Davideo7 : I'll actually go ahead and update it as soon as I finish restarting my machine (which should be within the next half hour since I'm updating it as well), but keep the old server as a backup in the event the update is overall worse. It's best to have something tested on multiple servers, because results on one server may not be as good as results on another, and it gives a wider range of locations for people to try it on.

sonikku : You can actually have both kaillera servers running as long as they're using different ports (which they are), so if you update to the newest, all I'd basically do in my PHP script is make it so that when someone uses your server, it uses a different port.

Davideo7 : Ah, I see. That makes sense, then.

Since that's the case, I'll start using the updated server, but keep both running until there's an official update made. That way if people report the new server isn't good, you could just switch what port the user tries to connect to and you wouldn't need to notify me; I'd simply see the change through which of the servers people are connecting to.

sonikku : Sounds good, just let me know when the update is made.

Davideo7 : I've made the update. Though I'm not sure about the folder heirarchy, as there weren't any instructions to go with it that I saw, so I may wind up not receiving connections. I basically took everything out of the emulinker folder and put it in the VizzedNetplayServerSetup folder instead of putting the emulinker folder in there, and I ran the .bat file that was in there. So if I did something incorrectly, let me know now. ^^''

Davideo7 : the games I have played have mostly been genesis and nes games on netplay... they seem to be working fine no real lag happening from what I can tell so far.  I have however played mario kart 64 a few sessions with bob the syncing has definately increased while playing that game... also managed to play 3p mario kart 64 with bobq and thing1 seemed to work great with no lag for me and was in sync . so from all that I can tell its definately a improvement from the last version vizzed was using for netplay... hope this helps!

Davideo7 : yes, it worked a lot better than before. There was very little lag, if any, and there was also nearly perfect sync the entire time. 

Hope this helps. If you want us to try 4 player, I am sure we can find somebody.

boomer1709 : Yeap, that definitely helps

thing1 : You can do 4 player if you want but the info given is good enough.

sonikku : I have it pointing to the port of the new N64 server on your computer. If you get a chance, test it out.

Davideo7 : Tested with Kitoko. He was able to connect to me, so I can confirm it's working.

Though unlike the old version, I don't get notices on who connects to the server. Was nice to see if someone was having problems so I could tell them what the server told me happened to their connection if the need arose.

sonikku : It should say, the version we installed on the United States L2 server did.

Would you be interested in doing a test with me? If so, meet me in the Netlay Lobby.

Davideo7 : Guess I missed ya. Went in there and didn't see ya, though I'll wait for a while in there.

Davideo7 : O.K. I have a tournament in there for 
bobq : 's Mario Kart 64 Championship. I will make sure to throw a Fatal 4 Way match in there some kind of way with some wacky stipulation.
And we will let you know how it goes.

sonikku : I'm joining it again now.

At first N64 games were very slow and choppy, but now they run much smoother. I was wondering why all of a sudden it was working so much better.

I like it.

So I may have figured it out.

I think the Kaillera server might throw out any player inputs for the first few seconds of netplay, as a lot of the times I tried to play Star Fox 64 with someone, my opponent somehow wound up in training mode while I'm waiting on the handicap screen. So I took advantage of the "moving the 64" easter egg to use it as a synchronization test. I asked him to tell me when he saw the 64 moving, he confirmed, and from that point on, there was no loss of user input, no desync, and my opponent confirmed I killed him in all three matches we played. Though I was only able to test this through U.S. L2, mainly to see if the issues we were having were because of my own server (and they weren't; we got them on U.S. L2 as well). I've yet to play a match on my own server or with more than two users connected including myself.

Homing bombs in Star Fox 64 are just too OP. XD