Project M Online Lag Questions

[Ronin 3000]

I've never played Project M online. How is it in terms of lag? Better or worse than Brawl?

Also, how laggy would it be with people playing from America and Japan? Is it even possible to play across versions like that? If someone could answer all of these questions, I would appreciate it.

 

[MattNF]

It's slightly better than Brawl, from my experience. From America to Japan would probably be a huge amount of delay, like 12 frames at the very least. Even more if you live in the east coast. Japan and America both use the same version (NTSC) so it's possible to play each other.

 

[Rikana]

It's the same as if you were playing Brawl. We didn't do anything to online connections. The only difference is that everyone playing online must be using the same codeset and files; in other words, no Brawl vs PM.

 

[Zujx]

Same horrifying online lag as in brawl
Some people are able to tough it out, I am not one of those people

 

[Mr.Random]

Same horrifying online lag as in brawl
Some people are able to tough it out, I am not one of those people

I feel you brother. Too difficult to adjust to y'know?

 

[GaretHax]

You could always try Netplay via the dolphin emulator (Melee online version), near lag-less online play.

 

[b2j135]

You could always try Netplay via the dolphin emulator (Melee online version), near lag-less online play.

not everyone has the luxury of owning a high-end PC to play lag free :/

 

[GaretHax]

not everyone has the luxury of owning a high-end PC to play lag free :/

There's nothing high-end about netplay, a fairly good laptop could run it these days. Honestly anything relatively new and worth from 300 to the POS "next-Gen" console price range can run it fine. Consoles and especially not the Wii don't have impressive or even good hardware, give it a shot, if it doesn't run on dual-core you may need to upgrade.

 

[Zujx]

There's nothing high-end about netplay, a fairly good laptop could run it these days. Honestly anything relatively new and worth from 300 to the POS "next-Gen" console price range can run it fine. Consoles and especially not the Wii don't have impressive or even good hardware, give it a shot, if it doesn't run on dual-core you may need to upgrade.

Dolphin isn't that taxing if you have a decent computer I can run it just fine and my computers been in need of an upgrade for a very long time. Problem is a lot of people that I would play with don't have the computer to run it and they aren't PC gamers so they don't care to upgrade it. On top of that I gotta order an adapter for my Gamecube controller which is dirt cheap but, seems like a waste so, i can play with an extremely tiny selection of people online.

Thats my view on the situation.

 

[GaretHax]

The tiny player base is easily fixed by getting the word out and encouraging people to give it a shot and check it out on the melee online boards, since, you know, they have literally nothing to lose lol. Anyway just a recommendation, Brawl wifi is insultingly bad, always has been, doesn't make too much sense not to at least give a MUCH better alternative a shot in my book.

 

[XalchemistX]

http://www.reddit.com/r/SSBPM/comments/1t4iab/project_m_30_netplay_guide/

I just tested out a match, and I noticed almost no lag. This is smash bros of the future!!

 

[DrinkingFood]

Smash4 will probably be the end of the series anyways, I remember reading something where sakurai said he was getting too old to have new ideas for the younger generations. Assuming, of course, that nintendo won't be willing to just drop him for somebody else.

In the year 20XX, all tournaments will be played online with google fiber, but humans will never win because CyberOverLord King Clubber will have digitized copies of all the best player's brains that the AI can access at any time.