Ponder stopped giving a shit a while ago.
I asked one of my S Korean friends about this article.
<Player 1> that link you gave me
<Player 1> is the fucking reason why ggpo’s slow
<Player 1> wow
<Player 1> it’s an UDP flooder
<Player 1> UDP is connectionless data transfer protocol
<Player 1> so you can just send the packets limitlessly to ggpo server
<Player 1> and basically overflow the server’s incoming bandwidth
<Player 1> the linked article just
<Player 1> gives the instructions and program to bring GGPO server down
<Player 1> and eggs whoever reads to do so
<Player 1> it’s a UDP flooder
<Player 1> it’s not like a ddos
<Player 1> as long as one or two people does that
<Player 1> it’ll have an effect
<Player 1> i haven’t looked at the program
<Player 1> apparently
<Player 1> there is some sort of
<Player 1> ggpo-like client
<Player 1> developed in korea
<Player 1> and the fucker’s saying
<Player 1> use that instead of ggpo
<Player 1> and he’s gonna force it
<Player 1> by making ggpo unavailable
<Player 1> i don’t believe this
<Player 1> is actually happening
<Player 1> they say
<Player 1> “GGPO sucks, so lets move to arclive”
Full translation here:
http://ggpo.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3840#p14559
the cause of current GGPO server state
Postby NewZeta on Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:09 am
Hi. I found difficulty in logging in and playing in GGPO(garou mostly). When I managed to log in to the garou lobby someone gave me a disturbing link.
BATTLEPAGE.COM … &no=168186
For those who don’t know, I heard, that it’s one of biggest south korean fighting-game forums. and the rough summary of the thread is as follows:
it tells you how to do a UDP flooding on GGPO servers, basically. He also shares a program to do it.(called UDP Flooder, which I think just tells the whole story)
The thread’s dated March 8th and the thread starter claims that the past five day’s difficulty in GGPO server was his doing.
He urges anyone who reads this thread to do a UDP attack on GGPO when they’re bored. He also encourages to have a good internet broadband connection to have the attacks successful.
The original thread doesn’t say the reason behind this, but one of the replies he posted gives me an idea.
GGPO???? ????? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ? ????? ?? ?? ??? ??????? ??????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ???? ????? ??? ?????? ????? 2011-03-08
translation:
Play Zhoong-Po-Ru(I don’t know what this is. Probably some sort of GGPO-like service in korea). GGPO’s deadbeat. Why would you play GGPO when there’s something better. Play MAME if you like sticking to the classics. Anyways if you can’t connect to GGPO today just try Zhoong-Po-Ru, just betwwen us Koreans
GGPO???? ? ???? ? ??? ?????????? ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ? ?????? ???? ?? ????? ???? ??? ???? ? ??? ???? ?? ??? ??? ???? ?? ?? ? ??? ????? ????????? ??? ??? ?????? ????????? ???? ?? ???? ??? ??????
translation:
I just want you all to use something better. Look at Venon and Jeon-Youn-Jin(Probably some names familiar with those in the forum), and how they don’t use GGPO and use zhoong-po-ru. GGPO’s responsive time is shitty and that’s why. If you think responsive time of zhoong-po-ru is bad they modify the settings and try. I’m just recommending something better for you. I didn’t like that you never try something better and just stick to GGPO. Just keep praying that GGPO will work any time soon.
I’m not trying to suggest that this IS the cause. There may be some other deep shit going on, but it is highly probable that these guys do assist in current state.
This is ridiculous.
EDIT: corrected some words.
Quoting it in case people can’t get to the site.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU fucking douche bags man. So what can we play on now? What do we use in place of GGPO for 3S?
if that true that the most fuck up thing i have ever heard.
What
The
Fuck
Fucking arclive *******.
Wow. Somebody from Korea is being either** a)** Anti-Competitive b) Anti-Choice c) Racist towards the rest of the world (except Koreans), or d) All of the above.
That’s so incredibly selfish, I don’t even know where to begin.
why don’t we counterattack?
Parry Option select imo
arclive? man that program gives me tons of lag lately, it use to be fine couple of months ago
Eggzackly. You are all wasting your time gentlemen. Ponder has moved on and so should we. GGPO will eventually crash and burn as a result of this, and will continue to decay even further from this point on. We will eventually be reduced to two options…Supercade and MAME Hub. So you may as well get used it. Let the Koreans have their little ArcLive or whatever. They will not be able to UDP Flood MAME Hub.
Keep riding that dick.
Well GGPO was working earlier and it’s working now.
Fixed
Looked the games that don’t work online list for mamehub and cps3 games are on there(if you can’t run 3s then you have no hope to be popular in the fighters genre).
So GGPO is gonna die? There goes my 3S . . .
Wow really fucked up I agree, though it’s been up a lot more than earlier this week so maybe they’re lazy, or maybe some of them wizened up on not DDOS’ing the best online service
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/djfrijoles/GGPO2.png
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa116/djfrijoles/GGPO.jpg
I mispelled oops too
Sweet, glad Ponder got in the middle of this, hopefully ends all the commotion
also lol at Antzer “red text of god”
Yay, it was working last night. Getting destroyed in a fighting game never felt so good! 
My thanks to Ponder for fixing GGPO like a boss. 
MAMEHub is under development and as such, changes happen frequently. With the most recent update, CPS3 games are easier to play now. Although, for CHD games a pre-initialized .nv is recommended otherwise you have to wait thru the cd-rom setup.
Below are some captures from tonight’s sessions of SF3: Third Strike (USA 990608).
Movies:
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Screenshots:
[LIST][*]SF3: Third Strike (USA 990608) Picture #1 - bezels enabled (878kb)
[*]SF3: Third Strike (USA 990608) Picture #2 - bezels disabled (882kb)[/LIST]
Limitations:
[LIST][*]Initially, you have to give the game 2-3 minutes to settle in.
[*]The game may occasionally desync. Entering service mode resolves.
[*]USA version: Both sides require an sfiii3.nv nvram present with the cd-rom already initialized.[/LIST]
These limitations are likely to be addressed as MAMEHub is further developed.