deadfrog

What is this defeatist attitude?? I thought you guys were poverty! Hahah. I would deffffinitely not describe this game's current level of online activity as dead. Sparse, yes. Small, absolutely. But certainly not dead. I've been playing this game online for just the past couple of months now, just sort of on-and-off, here-and-there, at a wide variety of times of day, as well as on a the full variety of days of the week, and I've found matches almost every single time I've been on. I have only had two occasions ever where there was nobody else available. The only real qualifier here is that most of my matches are bad connections against good players (that Japanese heat!!!) or good connections against bad players (I guess this is the North American visual novel fanbase?). Even when those are the only kinds of matches I'm getting, though, I've still been improving my play and enjoying myself a lot in the process. Player Match is almost always empty. Occasionally you'll see Asian rooms but they're usually restricted by connection quality. I always check Player Match first but there's pretty much never anything in there for me. Ranked Match is where it's at. Almost all of my games come from here. The trick is that you need to set a mode to idle in while you wait for opponents. I haven't heard aaaanyone else ever talk about this, and I'm honestly not sure why. I know that most other modern fighting games offer this same feature, and it's not like it's rocket science to puzzle it out for yourself, but Aquapazza does not at any point make the existence of this option at all obvious to you, and its menu implementation is somewhat unintuitive and slightly hidden. Mercifully, you only need to set this once because game will save your preferences as you would hope. *** Deadfrog's foolproof fail-proof super cool super helpful assistance instructions tutorial guide on setting an idle mode for Ranked Match in Aquapazzaaa *** - Beginning from the main menu... - Select [PlayStation®Network]. - Select [RANKED MATCH]. - The screen/window that appears is titled "RANKED MATCH SETTINGS"; this is the one where you set your characters, colours, and stage. - Now select [sETTINGS] from this menu. Yes, that's right, settings for settings. - This new window is titled "RANKED MATCH CUSTOM SEARCH SETTINGS" because hey whatever, right? - In this new window, go down to the "Waiting" option; the default setting is "None"; change it to whatever you want: "Story" (single-player), "Another Story" (more single-player), "Training" (training mode), or "Room" (a lobby screen). - Do NOT press the circle button to go back to the previous window! Doing so will take you back, but it won't save any of the changes you've just made. Hhhhhh - Select the [sEARCH] button to save the changes and return to the previous screen. (As is completely apparent when you do so, this does not actually start a search.) - Now that you are back on the "RANKED MATCH SETTINGS" screen, you can select [sTART] (just as you normally would) to begin idling while the game searches for an opponent for you in the background. - Finally! Now you are all ready to start waiting to actually get to play this game! (Special note: If you are waiting in story or training mode, be aware that the game does not search for opponents during character select screens or loading screens. It only searches while you're playing in-game.) If you haven't gotten a game within 5 minutes of waiting, you can be sure that no one else is on at the time. Like I said, this has only happened to me two times ever. There has virtually always been at least one other person on for me to play against. That default idle option, "None", is what causes what is the equivalent of the "quick match" option in other games: an instantaneous matchmaking search attempt where it looks for 5 seconds and then gives up. The problem is that if most people are only doing this, then most people are simply missing each other, and subsequently logging off for that day, and eventually quitting for good. I strongly suspect that most people go on ranked, try that quick search a half-a-dozen times, don't get a match, and figure the game must be dead. And I honestly can't blame them. I think I've had a lot of experience (and patience and frustration and desperation and depression and elation) trying to get matches in games with extremely tiny and elusive active online playerbases. And this is without a doubt the first game I've ever run into where the game's menu itself could possibly be killing its online community. I had allllmost given up on this one completely by the time I discovered the big secret setting. Anyway, I hope this helps someone. I'm sure this would have been more useful if I had posted it two years ago.

If you punch the tiles, do coins come out??

I want to play Bushido Blade!!!

Hey everyone. I don't know if you ever actually check the Dustloop front page but today you should actually check the Dustloop frontpage.

So! New Guilty Gear. Wow.

"Ah yes, 'Guilty Gear' - we have already dismissed that game!"

y'all hearrrd the newwwws? GGXXACP, XBLA, PSN, netplay

I'M flippin' out, man.

You're flippin' out, man.

i am investing in anime fortunes

Hi all. Quick copy-and-paste. I just posted this on the SRK 604 BC thread. also durhh i forgot to mention of course i would take an unmodded HRAP2 as well

uhh does anyone who likes playing arcana heart actually give a shit about moe girls

Please do not ignore this link! AKSYS Games has opened an interest check poll to see what their fans most want localized. The choices are: Arcana Heart 3, a fighter-shmup, and a shmuppy-shmup. Arcana Heart 3 has a really really good chance of winning this poll.

Tougeki SBO live stream is this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, except of course it's on Japan time so for us it will be loopy backwards nighttime hours. Basically in our timezone: - The 1st day will start (today) Friday evening and continue through the night, overnight, all night, and into the wee hours of Saturday morning. - The 2nd day will start (tomorrow) Saturday evening and continue through the night, overnight, all night, and into the wee hours of Sunday morning. It's pay-per-view, at $18 for one day or $30 for both. The games being run are as follows... Day One - VF5R, BBCS, T6BR, KOF13, MBAACC, GGXXAC Day Two - KOF02UM, AH3, SF4, SSF2X, SBX, SF33S I have no idea if those lists are in the correct order or not because I haven't found an actual schedule for the event yet. Is anyone interested in watching this?