wow deadlyraveneo and i have been playing this 98ae p2p for the last week and i dare say the shit really is better than the real game. even unfinished. i hope they continue to work on it and show the genius’ at playmore how its done. go chinese!
96 AE and 98 AE each have things that make them pretty good but I’ll say that 96 AE is better. Besides the fact that King freezes the game (and I’m sure some other characters with new moves do the same thing), it uses the old 98 input reader except… it feels worse than 98! It’s probably the Kawaks input lag but 96 AE inputs definitely feel better. I’ll just make a tl;dr version of it
96 AE
pros
custom input reader made for the game
almost everything is hacked so I think properties were made similar to that of 98 um
everyone seems fairly good
boss chars don’t seem too broken or strong except maybe krauser
plays really damn good
cons
uses roll, dodge, charge… basically uses 96 style system and meter
not as many chars as 98 ae
new moves added in are kinda corny sprite edits
98 ae
pros
a LOT of characters
new moves added from 99, 2k, 2k1, etc
ex chars are interesting
able to put separate chars into different modes
comes with a moveslist!
cons
glitchy
game freezes on king and I’m sure with some other chars
input reader sucks through kawaks p2p and the coders didn’t make it any easier like 96 ae
ugly colors
was that different life bar really necessary?
feels kind of stupid
new moves are pretty much a copy and paste, doesn’t seem like properties on anything was really changed
Like digimonemporer said, 2k2 3rd strike is exactly 2k2 with tagging. I don’t think anything has been changed and no you can’t do tag combos like in 2k3 or XI. Seems like it plays a bit faster? I don’t know. Taunting makes you change your color.
so yeah, they’re all hardcoded into kawaks and 98 ae comes with old kaillera.ddl which you can just replace with the one you use for nfba or ggpo and come into #snkplaymore for matchmaking!
Hmm are you sure you have the right version of 2k2 3rd Strike? I’ve seen a few combo vids of that game and they all contain XI style tagging and combos. Here is an example -> [media=youtube]xfis5HQLLVw[/media]
I played a bit of 96AE, and it’s really nice to play a KOF on the Geo that has silky smooth controls. Haven’t really dug into just yet, and I haven’t played any KOF’s in forever, so it’ll take me awhile to get back up to speed.
I’ll be all for some netplay battles in the next few days. I don’t suppose there’s any way to get this on Kaillera?
Edit: Let me just say, and I think everyone here all ready knows it, but 96AE is 10X better than the original. It could be my new favorite KOF (not counting XI which I have yet to play) we just need an online scene going.
96ae is alot of fun, especially for an old 96 head like myself.
Are there any cheats for the version digimonemperor linked to last (the kawaks one) so i can just make a practice mode? Ie turn off time infinent health blah blah you know the drill
I’m trying to get back into 96AE. Anyone still play this online? And is there any way to activate a training mode or use cheats for some ghetto training?