I took this from psxemu.com
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While it's a bit silent in the PSX emulation scene at the moment because of no new releases, two programmers started a project which is about to introduce a totally new feature into PSX emulation : Netplay.
One of those programmers isn't new to the PSX emulation world, it's JNS, programmer of the cool PSX emulation tools [pec] and blini!. The other programmer is Iczelion and mainly responsible for the lightning fast net code. The first attemp basicly was to run this feature through the popular netplay software Kaillera which is already the base for netplay in several other emulators. But after much testing, we came to the result that it just isn't possible to keep the game running sync - so a new platform had to be created.
And with that knowledge, the two programmers created a completly new program (actually, it's a plugin, more about that below) and decided to call it CyberPad. And after some testing with JNS, all I can say is that it's really amazing what they created : Running between 30 and 50 FPS on our ISDN-64k lines, we were able to play Tekken against each other without any problems. Now here're some screenshots we took : The first one from the server selection screen within CyberPad and the last two are screenshots taken after 40 seconds of gameplay on both PCs (no, it's not an error that they look the same, that's what the goal was) :
Like already mentioned above, this program is a plugin - it's using the PSEmu Pro PAD plugin standard to get all the necessary informations from the emulator - and exactly this is the disadvantage : While AdriPSX, PSEmu Pro and FPSE support the PAD plugin standard, our favorite emulator ePSXe isn't supporting that one yet, and since this is the most compatible and fastest emulator, we're certainly missing something - so in case you'd also like to use netplay in ePSXe, make sure to leave a comment about this on our message board (please don't mail the authors directly, they're busy enough as it is with reading mails), maybe they'll add it when enough people ask for it
So, to get to an end: there're no plans for a release date of this neat utility yet, a homepage with more informations will be online soon at http://cyberpad.psxemu.com, and we'll of course keep you up to date about the development status.
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While it's a bit silent in the PSX emulation scene at the moment because of no new releases, two programmers started a project which is about to introduce a totally new feature into PSX emulation : Netplay.
One of those programmers isn't new to the PSX emulation world, it's JNS, programmer of the cool PSX emulation tools [pec] and blini!. The other programmer is Iczelion and mainly responsible for the lightning fast net code. The first attemp basicly was to run this feature through the popular netplay software Kaillera which is already the base for netplay in several other emulators. But after much testing, we came to the result that it just isn't possible to keep the game running sync - so a new platform had to be created.
And with that knowledge, the two programmers created a completly new program (actually, it's a plugin, more about that below) and decided to call it CyberPad. And after some testing with JNS, all I can say is that it's really amazing what they created : Running between 30 and 50 FPS on our ISDN-64k lines, we were able to play Tekken against each other without any problems. Now here're some screenshots we took : The first one from the server selection screen within CyberPad and the last two are screenshots taken after 40 seconds of gameplay on both PCs (no, it's not an error that they look the same, that's what the goal was) :
Like already mentioned above, this program is a plugin - it's using the PSEmu Pro PAD plugin standard to get all the necessary informations from the emulator - and exactly this is the disadvantage : While AdriPSX, PSEmu Pro and FPSE support the PAD plugin standard, our favorite emulator ePSXe isn't supporting that one yet, and since this is the most compatible and fastest emulator, we're certainly missing something - so in case you'd also like to use netplay in ePSXe, make sure to leave a comment about this on our message board (please don't mail the authors directly, they're busy enough as it is with reading mails), maybe they'll add it when enough people ask for it
So, to get to an end: there're no plans for a release date of this neat utility yet, a homepage with more informations will be online soon at http://cyberpad.psxemu.com, and we'll of course keep you up to date about the development status.
