Netplay and DOOM question

Gibaholic · Post by **Gibaholic** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:57 am

I read a wikipedia article on the xband online game service for snes the otherday, and it said that you could play DOOM 1v1 deathmatch over the net with it. so I've wondered, can you do the same with zsnes? Why would one want to I have no idea since there are pc ports, but just curious.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:07 am

Yes, you can do netplay in ZSNES.

As long as you use old versions, that is, which sometimes have desync issues.
It's been disabled pending the new CPU core in ZSNES and a future recode of netplay itself.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:10 am

Firon wrote:Yes, you can do netplay in ZSNES.

As long as you use old versions, that is, which sometimes have desync issues.
It's been disabled pending the new CPU core in ZSNES and a future recode of netplay itself.

What? He is asking about xband service, related to DOOM, not about zsnes' integrated netplay.

As far as I know, if the game doesn't have 2-player built-in. You won't be able to netplay with zsnes.

Unless there are plans to add Xband, I don't know.

Gibaholic · Post by **Gibaholic** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:43 am

Joe Camacho wrote:
Firon wrote:Yes, you can do netplay in ZSNES.

As long as you use old versions, that is, which sometimes have desync issues.
It's been disabled pending the new CPU core in ZSNES and a future recode of netplay itself.
What? He is asking about xband service, related to DOOM, not about zsnes' integrated netplay.

As far as I know, if the game doesn't have 2-player built-in. You won't be able to netplay with zsnes.

Unless there are plans to add Xband, I don't know.

How did xBand manage to implement netplay to begin with?

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:00 am

Gibaholic wrote:
Joe Camacho wrote:
Firon wrote:Yes, you can do netplay in ZSNES.

As long as you use old versions, that is, which sometimes have desync issues.
It's been disabled pending the new CPU core in ZSNES and a future recode of netplay itself.
What? He is asking about xband service, related to DOOM, not about zsnes' integrated netplay.

As far as I know, if the game doesn't have 2-player built-in. You won't be able to netplay with zsnes.

Unless there are plans to add Xband, I don't know.

How did xBand manage to implement netplay to begin with?

I can't say.. There have been a couple of threads about Xband, if you want to read them, please use the search funtion.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:17 am

Joe Camacho wrote:What? He is asking about xband service, related to DOOM, not about zsnes' integrated netplay.

Whoops.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:15 am

I would hazard a guess that it would be done with some form of softpatching the ROM. The Xband service would probably download a patch for the game you were trying to play online, and it would soft-patch. It would probably be as similar as the Secret of Evermore two player patch. The only issue is that this must be done per-game that do not have native 2 player capability. Those games that already have the capability for two players or more probably wouldn't need this (it would use the existing hardware in some way and still might need a patch).

Romhackers would probably tell you that making a game support two players natively isn't a simple tweak..

Vigorousjammer · Post by **Vigorousjammer** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:09 am

*ahem* PC PORTS?! .... they aren't ports! the game originated on the PC!
but, i'm just beign nitpicky, lol

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:12 am

Actually, anything available today is a port. The game was originally a DOS game that was playable on a 386. There are still versions available at retail that were ported to run on Windows natively. In other words, if you don't need DOSBox or VDMSound to play it, it's a port.

Skiessi · Post by **Skiessi** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:20 pm

I think Doom95 is the port closest to not being a port and you can play it on XP. And it supports DirectPlay enough to play DM in LAN.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:53 pm

Skiessi wrote:I think Doom95 is the port closest to not being a port and you can play it on XP. And it supports DirectPlay enough to play DM in LAN.

Mmm... it is a official port for Windows. Too bad it is an awful port (well it is old) since mouse support doesn't quite work under non-9x OSes.