Now that Super Street Fighter 4 has been announced, this thread could not be more relevant.

Don't dissappoint Capcom, better netcode needs to happen!

I am looking forward to this sequel.

I cant wait with them using and ultra modifying I cant wait.

Jul 8, 2009 -- 1:16PM, Ant wrote:

I was listening to Alphaism radio, they had Ponder (creator of GGPO netcode) as a guest speaking and he talked about GGPO for SF4, and basically he was encouraging people who like the no input lag style of netcode that GGPO is to post on these forums, because according to him Capcom listen. According to Ponder GGPO is possible for the SF4 series, and that we should make our voices heard, afterall Capcom has licensed the code, they can and should use it and improve on it.

So here goes, I'm a big fan of the Street Fighter franchise and enjoy SF4 aswell, however in order to play with almost unnoticable input lag I have to get a 5 bar green connection (I'm talking PC version if that differs from console). This is a rarity and limits the amount of people I want to play as they have to be geographically quite close to where I am, playing under any other circumstance (4 bar and below) is just not enjoyable for me personally and I end up going back to GGPO for lagless online play.

I feel an important point needs to be made as to why I think GGPO is so successful amongst fighting game fans, and that is the way it masks input delay, I think the masking of input delay makes a world of difference and really helps to recreate that offline face to face experience where fast reactions are executed reliably and without worry, also the fact that it masks input delay regardless of connection quality gives you alot of leeway in the type of people you can play, playing people with 100-120ms of ping is actually possible in GGPO (thats something like UK to some parts of USA).

So yeah, those are my thoughts, anybody else whos in support of GGPO style netcode for the next iteration of SF4/SF Series to eliminate input lag, please reply with your thoughts, lets get this noticed.

Here is a link to an old post with Ponder's thoughts on how GGPO is theoretically possible for SF4: forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=5690...

Here is the podcast which features Ponder, he talks about GGPO as an independant product and GGPO with SF4 around a quarter of the way through the part2 mp3: www.zshare.net/download/6237192062f2416f... (Source Thread: forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=19...)

Oh and as a PS, Blazblue has some nice networking features to create a nicer environment to play as does SF2 HD Remix, it would be nice if the next SF4 equals or even beats these two games in network interface features. (Things such as spectating, quarter matches, lobbys etc)

 

EDIT: Now that SUPER Street Fighter IV has been announced, this thread could not be more relevant, better netcode needs to happen Capcom, don't dissappoint!

Ono already said they have new netcode in it.  They also said they couldn't do Lobbies in SFIV without GGPO.  Ono also stated that there would be lobbies and modes like winner stays for group play.  This hints toward GGPO.  Why would capcom waste their time when they already have a completed netcode that they paid to liscense? 

(Mind you they didn't have the liscense for GGPO when they started SF 4, they got it for HD Remix which was after the completion of the Arcade Version of SF 4, which was then ported to consoles.  Super Street Fighter IV has a new network code.... so it really can logically speaking, only be GGPO.  So I wouldn't worry about it.)

Signed without better netcode Street Fighter may as well be called Ken Fighter online, laggy safe SRKs ftl, GGPO FTW!