My 30 Team Challenge

[Turd]

I'll have some time tonight, maybe...you should get AIM express or something (you can use it on the web, no install) so it's easier to hook up for games...

[Re-Peat]

Ok, I've started in on this using STL.

Season Opener vs Arizona:  Carpenter goes lights out for 7 innings, Pujols has a solo shot and a double, Holliday has a 2 run homer in the 9th.  Miller gives up a run in the 9th and looked shaky as he allowed a DBacks rally, but manages to finish out anyways.

STL 3 ARI 1

[Turd]

Sweet, welcome aboard...is this on the latest rom, juiced? Are you going by the same set of rules?

[Re-Peat]

Sweet, welcome aboard...is this on the latest rom, juiced? Are you going by the same set of rules?

That is correct.

Game 2

STL 8, ATL 1

Waiwright puts up 7 solid, giving up a solo shot to McAnn and many, many warning track nailbiters... 

After a relatively slow start including an unearned run (Ludwick reached on a BOP and proceeded to score), STL goes apeshit on Takashi Saito in the 8th, scoring 5 including a Pujols 3 run shot.  Unlike the ARI game it's not a 1 man show as STL has 6 batters with RBIs and 5 different runners score.

Franklin put up 2 scoreless innings to close it down.

[Turd]

The cards are a good team on my ROM, as they should be...solid pitching stafff, save for an average closer, and a solid hitting team...

[Turd]

Re-peat (or anyone else), if you want to track your season on my site, I'll set you up...

[Attezz]

I'm starting my season over now that I'm competing against repeat (except not now, cause i'm drunk)

[Re-Peat]

Re-peat (or anyone else), if you want to track your season on my site, I'll set you up...

I'm just keeping track of scores and records really...  full box scores would be a little much.

[Re-Peat]

Game 3

STL 3 v BAL 2

Baltimore jumped out to an early lead with a  1st inning 2 run shot for Markakis, who would prove troublesome all day.  For St. Louis the story was Colby Rasmus, who had a shot of his own as well as getting on base to set the plate for a Holliday RBI.

Also, Holliday had a solid BOP in left field that was way, way too reminiscent of last year's playoffs.  Also since Franklin came in with a 1 run lead in the 9th and struggled to get the three outs I was thinking "If Holliday BOPs and Franklin blows a save this may be the most realistic baseball game I've ever played".

[Turd]

I don't think you understand, you just upload your save state to my site and it tracks your records and stats for you.  Takes like, 5 seconds at the end of the game...but, to each his own.

[Gantry]

God is repeat dumb

[Re-Peat]

Sorry, I've never had fancy tools like that...  Sure, I'll get in on that action.

Although I've started on a hot streak that's not likely to keep up, so can I manually enter those games? 

[Turd]

No worries man, I know stat extraction is new to this forum. I wrote that extractor a while back for the league we were in.  Do you think if more people knew how cool things like this make the game, they'd play more online?  I don't know, I constantly find myself jonesin' for some league play, even though the juiced CPU is fun.

Anyways, there's not a great way to manually enter games...never coded for that cause I always just uploaded my games.  You can either start over or just wait until your next round...either way, no biggie dude.

[Re-Peat]

Well, I guess I'm only 2 games back (you caught me before shutting down the baltimore game)...

I think more people should play online, but there a lot of people on here who have a huge stigma against it because of lag they experienced when they tried to play with FCE back in 2002...  I will admit that sometimes Nestopia lags too and when it does it's fucking deadly.

How do all the Tecmo leagues do it?  Are there dedicated servers or something?  I can imagine lag ruining the shit out of those games.

Also, nothing compares to playing someone in the same room.  Ever. 

[Attezz]

Go ahead and set me up on the site.

I'd also be in for a league, or if there's not enough interest, even just a little online round robin type tourney thing with like 3 or 4 people.

[Turd]

Agreed about the same room thing, but for tecmo leagues, Nestopia runs lag free, the only nestopia problem is every now and then there's a slight hiccup, but there are no servers or anything, everyone connects P2P which is the best, fastest way to do it.  Lag free...

As for SNES games, ZSNES is console quality netplay...when you played nestopia before, you are probably remembering the server style play.  Someone wrote a kaillera netplay client that allows you to connect directly to your opponent bypassing servers, and it's like buttah...

[Attezz]

Go ahead and set me up on the site.

I'd also be in for a league, or if there's not enough interest, even just a little online round robin type tourney thing with like 3 or 4 people.

[Turd]

Awesome attez, you can send me an email at traviskjansen at gmail with your desired username and password, and I'll set you up, and send you an email back when it's ready.  Same goes for you, Re-Peat.  I'm gonna go make some beef jerky after getting trounced by the Cubs here, but I'll set you up later.

Also, if we can get 4 guys or so, that might be fun to do a round robin tourney or something...

[Re-Peat]

Someone wrote a kaillera netplay client that allows you to connect directly to your opponent bypassing servers, and it's like buttah...

I've definitely played with that and have still had lag issues sometimes.  

Usually it's just fine, but when it's late in the game, lag can kill a game almost as bad as missing a roughing the passer or facemask call...

[Re-Peat]

How about I email you and you send me some beef jerky?