Well to do pads would be kind of the opposite of BYOC. I wish I could use pads tho, it’s a hell of a lot easier to carry around. I wonder if in time people will be just as good on pad or better than on stick, heck if that’s gonna happen i’ll jump the fence now and be ahead of the game =P.
The saturn issue is a good point. The first question is whether saturn is acceptable, 2nd question is whether there’s a good ps2-> saturn convertor. then it’s pretty much set. Over the next year i’m hoping some people will be willing to help solve the joystick issue, once those are made we just ensure that they are ps2 compatible, test for convertor lag, and be done with it.
if saturn could be setup for it…that would be great i mean it was setup this year just some things wernt done i think cause it was a bit underplanned and spur of the moment to a point.
Well with the fact that EVO wants to go console and there is no viable console port (aside from MAYBE saturn) then the only way to go would be to have a laptop/PC emulation setup with converters to DC/PSX with DC/PSX Arcade sticks connected up. I’ve heard of asian tournaments do this. But over here in the west I suspect companies are much more anal about this sort of thing.
Maybe we should ask someone with some experience in law? To see if you can get away with it?
Legally, if the venue/organization owned copies of the Alpha 3 board, they could probably escape any legal action against them. However, this wouldn’t stop sponsors from threatening to withdraw if they didn’t drop emulation from the bill. And that would be more than enough.
Sega Saturn: If you think it could work and would be acceptable, go for it.
PSX/PS2 controller converters tend to dislike anything that isn’t official Sony. There ARE saturn joysticks (good ones were made, I’m pretty sure), the trick is finding them.
So basically, even if SFA3 tourneys started popping up of their own accord, EVO probably wouldnt even be able to have SFA3 since it seems next EVO is going to be all Console by the sound of it.
Which is basically what I said in my first post in this thread.
“Evo went console, which all but seals the fate of SFA3 not being at Evo”.
I highly doubt they will cater to the needs of the A3 community. And The A3 community doesn’t seem interested in compromising. The Saturn version might be the only hope.
A3 is only dead here in the US because there are too many MvC2 only players. When an MvC2 player sees A3 they are like “What?! Where are my uber broken characters!?”. For the MvC2 players that got A3 love, we need more of them. That is why Japan is alive and kicking with A3, they got no MvC2 love. Goes back to beasting in A3 and getting stompped in MvC2
Its about 2 years too late to playerhate on Marvel. The issue with a modded xbox and emulator is the copies of an arcade board that someone didn’t pay for, not breaking the warranty on the xbox.
For A3 to be at Evo, the Saturn version looks to be the only way anyone would want to play it on console. What you play on at home doesn’t matter. Things really don’t look very good.
If any tournies are going to be ‘popping up’, they are going to be console themselves. The main issue is that we haven’t even figured out how we would play A3 at all, much less at evo.
But to refocus the thread here, we have a possible solution, the question is: Is saturn A3 acceptable??? If so, then we’re practically done, if not, then we can move on from there.
The Saturn version has some differences, for example I think Dhalsim is worse. But, it’s still a good game, and still basically the same game. Maybe it’s “good enough.”
I can’t really make a call on Saturn version, since I’ve never played it. And just how many Saturns with A3 are floating around anyway? Would there be some sort of Saturn/DC/PSX converter to allow people to use their Arcade sticks?
