Is it normal...

Cubemario · Post by **Cubemario** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:03 am

To be using zbattle, and getting a complete wealth of people who join your server and leave 1-10 seconds later without saying a word? Then have 10 people who do that?

Then have tons of people who join your server, who are the most complete morons you've ever seen in years that can't spell, talk in caps, and if you don't have the right version of a game, they get all confused saying LETS PLAY and then have a fit and leave. Then join your server later like nothing ever happened.

Is this a common? Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: Also if anyone is interested in donkey kong country or mario games that isn't like those people, please let me know. I'd be happy to play with you on a regular basis instead.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:08 am

Moved this thread because it is not a ZSNES issue... the netplay forum may be more appropriate.

Frankly, to maximize enjoyment of netplay, you are better of playing with people you know, than random people with different preferances.

Cubemario · Post by **Cubemario** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:17 am

Thanks for the very fast response, yeah, i'd play with people that I 'know' if I knew anyone who played. My family isn't interested at all, neither are my friends. I don't know anyone online who wants to play either :\

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:27 am

I really don't know what the whole zbattle system looks like, but what I suggest doing is posting a message (if one is possible) into the room was created on what you plan to play. When someone comes into chat, you discuss with them what region/game revision you will play (it helps when one side has all the revisions available) and discuss the filename to be used (the GoodSNES filename format might actually make sense here

). NSRT would still be useful if the person on the other end had no clue what version of the game they have, or whether they have a bad dump..

Most of the issues here really stem from "rom/filename incompatibility" as it is hassle, but when dealt with properly, can speed up/improve your experience. It has to be some sane guidelines so that people can skip all the annoying parts like what I've mentioned to make this process easy and painless. Unfortunately this can't be enforced unless the zbattle system takes these details into account (in fact, it would have to be rewritten for this very purpose).

Cubemario · Post by **Cubemario** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:36 am

Thanks for all the help, and not to mention help making zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) happen, it's a fantastic emulator, and i've never had a problem with it once, other than the latest version lacking netplay, the NTSC filter rocks

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I think it's just a matter of finding the right people to play with you, hopefully someone on the forums here may be interested. There wouldn't even be a problem, if I could get the 'download' feature to work in zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator). For some reason nobody can ever download the rom from me. Not sure if anyone can shed some light on that.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:41 am

There hasn't been a "download" feature for ZSNES ever. You are thinking of zbattle.

Cubemario · Post by **Cubemario** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:49 am

whoops, your right, that was just a typo, I meant zbattle. Anyway yeah, nobody can ever download from me, strange thing. Ports for zbattle are forwarded too.

smkdan · Post by **smkdan** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:24 am

Most of the issues here really stem from "rom/filename incompatibility" as it is hassle, but when dealt with properly, can speed up/improve your experience. It has to be some sane guidelines so that people can skip all the annoying parts like what I've mentioned to make this process easy and painless. Unfortunately this can't be enforced unless the zbattle system takes these details into account (in fact, it would have to be rewritten for this very purpose).

One of the nice features of ZB is that you can have different file names on each side and the program only checks the checksum / CRC for a match. ZSNES doesn't seem to allow different file names so it probably makes a temporary file on the client side which matches the name of the host's selected game. Either that or it's luck that the ROMs always had the same name.

The download system almost never works. In about the 5 or so years I've been on only a few special occasions did it work; it's a common problem. It may be overhauled in 2.0.

As for the spammers, the best you can do is report them on the zbattle forums. Until a personal ban list comes along there's not much more you can do.

Kajuru · Post by **Kajuru** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:14 am

The people @ GameFAQS are usualy willing to play a netgame.