Speaking of this, should totally do a race sometime (and by race I mean more of a co-play because god knows nobody is really speedrun calibre) of one of those bullshit games like Ninja Gaiden or Contra or something. It seems like that kind of stuff would be fun to Skype up and go.

WHAT A WHORERIBLE NIGHT TO SWEEP THE LEG

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seriously acer buy that SSFIVAE I will have my revenge

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"PVPenis"

Seriously, I haven't laughed that hard in quite some time. Sailor Moon and Power Rangers - best games ever!

Until the lag claimed us, that was awesome, Garr. Turbo Tunnel lols though jesus.

Alright, if we're doing ARCADE MADNESS next week we need to organize a little better since arcade roms are often not tiny things that you can download on a whim whenever somebody gets a goofy idea, and a full set of MAME roms is, heh, somewhere in the neighborhood of 260GB. So if behooves us to plan out which things we want to play.

So: kindly grant me your ideas, and I'll gather up the necessary files and slap them up on Saxypunch over the weekend. If you're short on ideas, this link will show you every 4-player game on MAME. (XMEN goes up to six players but that's about it for >4.) You can figure out how to use the advanced search to find 2-3 player shit (OH GOD UNDERCOVER COPS), there's a lot of weird little gems out there.

The latest Kaillera-infused version of MAME is a few years old but most MAME progress in the interim has been obscure bootlegs and stuff from 2001 forward, so I don't think it'll be an issue.

It'll be great if you guys did a Shadow of Mystara run, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs run among other four player treats.

So just a heads up, Garr and I just tested a multistream. Basically I'm hosting rtmp and have it set up to have four channels. We each can stream to a channel and then on a separate computer I can add all four channels to stream out to ustream for everyone to see at the same time. Obviously if I streamed out everyone's game audio it would be a mess so I'll be muting everyone's but one player or at the very least putting everyone's game audio very low. I can also have my skype audio go through and basically it'll be the same game night but with four streams at once in just one stream window.

However, if it's too choppy I could set up a bunch of embedded stream players that we all individually stream to. That would take up far more bandwidth though for people watching.

Do you guys want to try out four people streaming sometime? Garr and I had good success with two people. I'm curious how three or four would work. I'm hoping that Skills and Diss are interested. If you want to test let me know and I can set up a channel for you to use.

Garr, if you wouldn't mind showing these guys how to set up OBS that would be fantastic.

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To give you a rough idea of what I'm talking about I took a screenshot of Garr and me streaming on the right side with the left blank and put in what perhaps Skills and Diss might be playing.

http://www.thegond.com/rp/multistream-yay.gif


Although obviously we'd more than likely be playing the same game for racing purposes or something. However, this was just a test.

That is probably exactly what Skills would be playing.

I could try streaming on this as well, assuming i actually catch game night. I showed up on time yesterday, but when nothing had materialized an hour later i left to play Monster Hunter, and game night suddenly happened without me.

Alright I uploaded the test video for you to see what Garr and I did last night. For those that did not tune in while we tested last night this is what they saw live.

Please note this is in a 16x9 aspect ratio so you may want to actually open in it in youtube to get a better idea of what it looks like in the player.

YouTube Video

In this test you can see me testing both of us having our audio on, just me with audio, just Garr with audio, and a mixture of one of us having higher volume than the other. Both Garr and I streamed to two separate channels on my rtmp server which then streamed to ustream for people to see.

For a more thorough test I'd want to use four channels and obviously four people. That's why I intentionally left the left side blank.

Well, gave OBS a whirl, fairly painless so far. Surprisingly it seems I can manage a reasonably decent stream, provided the game itself is fairly low-res anyway. If I do stream it's probably better if someone else hosts the Skype though.

WELL THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR INPUT

Anyways! Just download this here bundle: http://www.saxypunch.com/grundle/mam...19-20070914.7z

Unzip that into a folder wherever, should be pretty much self-contained. If I missed anything obvious let me know so I can scramble to make corrections at the last possible moment!

I have a guaranteed day of Wednesday since its parent-teacher meeting day, so if I'm not otherwise incapacitated I should be joining in for the fun times tomorrow!

SHIT YES LET'S DO IT.

Well, somebody needed to take Dazzler, so this works out fine.

wait, what did i just download?

Well, I may be making some context-dependent assumptions here, but: probably a copy of Mame32++K 0.119 and the arcade ROMS for:

Aliens vs Predator
Battle Circuit
Bomberman World
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Captain America and the Avengers
Crime Fighters
Darius Gaiden
Dungeon Magic
D&D: Shadow Over Mystara
D&D: Tower of Doom
Final Fight
Gauntlet
Killer Instinct
King of Fighters '98
Knuckle Heads
NBA Jam
Ninja Baseball Batman
Rampage
Rampage World Tour
Rival Schools
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike
Sunset Riders
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Undercover Cops
Waku Waku 7
Wild West C.O.W.Boys of Moo Mesa
WWF Wrestlefest
X-Men

and a handful of derived clones, redundant parent roms, required BIOS files, etc

I hope this resolves your concerns!

Pang

U VILL BE DAYZZLED

Experiencing some weird internet connection issues; unsure if will be resolved in time for gamenight. Will try to keep you informed.

sounds fun. i'll have to find my usb controller which should be lying around here somewhere.

Also - what time is game night? last week nobody was around and then suddenly i missed everything.

Officially it's supposed to start at 9 PM EST but it never does. It normally starts or people start to gather anywhere from 9:20 to 9:40 PM EST. Also seriously don't just stand around in the stream chat and kick dirt. Get on AIM and look for Pang or get on IRC and yell at people in chat. Or Skype! Or Steam!

tl;dr: it starts later than 9 PM EST and look for people

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Oh and Garr chimed in on this as well:

[19:25] <Term> Also what time is game night starting?
[19:28] <Garr> Term: We usually start Game Night at 9 PM EST (so 6 our time) but we really don't get things going for another half hour/45 minutes to get all the stragglers in.