New P2P Game Server: 2DF FreePlay

[werepig]

Those games aren’t in regular FBA.

Anyway, I have one little nitpick with how the client detects roms - for games that take their roms from more than one romset, it demands the romsets be in separate zips. I like to keep my roms merged when possible so this is a little annoying.

Like for instance, Super Turbo uses roms from ssf2.zip and ssf2t.zip. I have everything in ssf2.zip and emulators have no problem reading it this way, but the client won’t let me enter the room unless both ssf2.zip and ssf2t.zip are present in the directory.

maybe you could just make a dummy zip

[Dandy_J]

Things are moving along nicely, but there’s a couple problems with the new build for me.

1. When you scroll up in lobby chat, then switch the rooms tab up/down, it doesn’t scroll back down all the way, and you can’t see what you are typing into the lobby (though you can still type, since like a pixel of the chat area is visible.

2. The Alpha 3 room asks for sfa3u.zip, which to my knowledge is not ROM that exists. I can make a copy of sfa3.zip and name it sfa3u.zip and it works fine, though.

[damdai]

Things are moving along nicely, but there’s a couple problems with the new build for me.

1. When you scroll up in lobby chat, then switch the rooms tab up/down, it doesn’t scroll back down all the way, and you can’t see what you are typing into the lobby (though you can still type, since like a pixel of the chat area is visible.

2. The Alpha 3 room asks for sfa3u.zip, which to my knowledge is not ROM that exists. I can make a copy of sfa3.zip and name it sfa3u.zip and it works fine, though.

What doesn’t scroll back down all the way…the rooms tab or the chat window?

[KagerouSama]

This may sound like a weird request, but here goes.

Fatal Fury 3.
Sure, you can’t play as Yamazaki or the Jins without a code.
But you have the 2 punch, 2 kick system. And the inputs for all the supers are different. It’s definitely a harder duck to master than the Real Bouts.

But, if consensus says no, so be it.

[System_1]

Damdai, you are doing a good job of updating the server quickly with the features people are asking for. I like the new general lobby as a “base room” sort of setup. Still have a couple of questions:

1.) I’m still getting the “your 27886 port is closed” the first time I log onto the server. Weirdly, it’s only the very first time I try after you update the software… I click Retry, and it works immediately. Then I try logging into the server later in the day or whatever and it works fine. Like I said, it seems to be only the very first time after I start the software for some reason… maybe it’s because Windows Firewall is waiting for me to click the “Unblock” option, and in the meantime, I fail the port-forward check? Not sure if that happens simultaneously or not, forgot to look.

I also had a friend who wasn’t behind any firewalls/routers get the port-closed claim too, even though his were open. Not sure if he uses Windows Firewall or not.

2.) You said the server kick-time was supposed to be 2 hours? I ruitinely get disconnected from the server even at times I imagine are unintended. Like, I’ll play a game for an hour with someone, finish and close the emulator, and immediately get the “You have been disconnected from the server” error and have all the windows auto-close.

I’ve also had it where I’m just waiting in a room for 30 minutes, come back and try to change rooms or something, and then I get the disconnected message and closing windows. (It’s a little bit of an inconvenience, 'cause I have to restart my browser to log back onto the server, yet I don’t want to play with the browser open cuz I don’t want it hogging up cpu cycles or RAM.)

All that stuff happened just today.

[damdai]

Damdai, you are doing a good job of updating the server quickly with the features people are asking for. I like the new general lobby as a “base room” sort of setup. Still have a couple of questions:

1.) I’m still getting the “your 27886 port is closed” the first time I log onto the server. Weirdly, it’s only the very first time I try after you update the software… I click Retry, and it works immediately. Then I try logging into the server later in the day or whatever and it works fine. Like I said, it seems to be only the very first time after I start the software for some reason… maybe it’s because Windows Firewall is waiting for me to click the “Unblock” option, and in the meantime, I fail the port-forward check? Not sure if that happens simultaneously or not, forgot to look.

I also had a friend who wasn’t behind any firewalls/routers get the port-closed claim too, even though his were open. Not sure if he uses Windows Firewall or not.

You are most likely correct about the the client trying the connection test before you have a chance to tell Windows Firewall to unblock it.

2.) You said the server kick-time was supposed to be 2 hours? I ruitinely get disconnected from the server even at times I imagine are unintended. Like, I’ll play a game for an hour with someone, finish and close the emulator, and immediately get the “You have been disconnected from the server” error and have all the windows auto-close.

I’ve also had it where I’m just waiting in a room for 30 minutes, come back and try to change rooms or something, and then I get the disconnected message and closing windows. (It’s a little bit of an inconvenience, 'cause I have to restart my browser to log back onto the server, yet I don’t want to play with the browser open cuz I don’t want it hogging up cpu cycles or RAM.)

All that stuff happened just today.

I’ll investigate this, because I left my client open all day and wasn’t disconnected.

[RushedDown]

Things are moving along nicely, but there’s a couple problems with the new build for me.

1. When you scroll up in lobby chat, then switch the rooms tab up/down, it doesn’t scroll back down all the way, and you can’t see what you are typing into the lobby (though you can still type, since like a pixel of the chat area is visible.

2. The Alpha 3 room asks for sfa3u.zip, which to my knowledge is not ROM that exists. I can make a copy of sfa3.zip and name it sfa3u.zip and it works fine, though.

the rom sfa3u.zip does indeed exist

[pootnannies]

so far i like it. beats kaillera like a red headed step-child. anyway for the option to have more than one roms directory to choose from? keep up the good work

i also have a request for samurai shodown 2

[System_1]

I know I requested two games already but…Can you plz add

Mortal Kombat 5.0

Mortal Kombat II 3…1

Mainly MKII…that would be the shit…

I too would love to see MK1-3 available, somehow.

[El-Capone]

Damdai i would love to see UMK3 in their , that would be fun.

[Dandy_J]

Ah, cool Rushed, I found sfa3u.zip

What doesn’t scroll back down all the way…the rooms tab or the chat window?

I checked and it’s the room tab not scrolling back down all the way…might have something to do with resizing the window. Also I’ve had the rooms tab + X button disappear when resizing the window which makes rooms inaccessible.

[Rikidozan]

This client is incredible I fought I guy in USA while I live in Denmark. There was no noticeable lag, thank you so much for your effort.

[Lord_BBH]

maybe you could just make a dummy zip

yeah that seems to work ok, I’ll go with that solution for now

[Shim_Sang_Joon]

This client is incredible I fought I guy in USA while I live in Denmark. There was no noticeable lag, thank you so much for your effort.

Rikidozan!!! Do you play 3s??

[System_1]

Damdai, I know this is very improbable with it being .NET based but do you think there’s any potential chance for a linux build at some point in the future?

With 2DF & GGPO both using .Net it looks pretty bleak for Linux users.

=)

[damdai]

Damdai, I know this is very improbable with it being .NET based but do you think there’s any potential chance for a linux build at some point in the future?

With 2DF & GGPO both using .Net it looks pretty bleak for Linux users.

=)

It is very improbable. But who knows what the future holds.

[caliagent_3]

How hard is it to include other emulators?? Do the emulators need to have kaillera support for it to work??

[damdai]

How hard is it to include other emulators?? Do the emulators need to have kaillera support for it to work??

I would need the source code for the emulator. I won’t attempt this in the forseeable future however. I have some other things I want to finish first, such as watching matches from the client and website (should be done this weekend), per-game stat tracking, and xbox live style leaderboards and matchmaking system.

[caliagent_3]

I would need the source code for the emulator. I won’t attempt this in the forseeable future however. I have some other things I want to finish first, such as watching matches from the client and website (should be done this weekend), per-game stat tracking, and xbox live style leaderboards and matchmaking system.

I was just curious to know if it was difficult. Because if not, some nulldc support would be hotness.

[damdai]

I was just curious to know if it was difficult. Because if not, some nulldc support would be hotness.

nulldc isn’t open source yet. I read that it plans to be at some point in the future, but until then, not possible.