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I just played 3 games ranging from 55-60fps with Chris (AcerBandit on the WP Forums) at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. I attend Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. The first two races (played the first two courses) had no noticable lag at all. We even compared the game time to real time and found that the game was playing in exact real time, a full 60fps! On course three, we noticed a bit of lag, but the game was still very playable with only a few noticable slow downs during the race.
Please note that the current build of Warp Pipe is an unoptimized alpha version, so this should show the importance of University Connections when it comes to reaching these speeds. We look forward to supporting residential cable and dsl connections at (or close to) full framerate in our next releases (beta and beyond).
Until then, I have created a University Network Connections thread on the Warp Pipe Forums and I encourage all who access a University Network and are able to (now or in the future) meet the requirements to run Warp Pipe, to post in this thread, as I would like to conduct further testing.
This is just one small step for Warp Pipe, as we have a lot of work ahead of ourselves, but it did feel good to essentially play the first "real game" of Kirby Air Ride online, even if Chris won 3/3 times.
That was so awesome! For an update. Chad beat me in 2 games after the news post. I was very unfamiliar with the courses =P but man is this game fun to play online! You guys have got to get into this. It will all make a world of difference once we get Mario Kart and all the future games out. Plus Kirby's Airride is a very fun game! I can't wait for optimization in Warp Pipe. We'll be having some serious online gameage then!
Posted by: AcerBandit at October 28, 2003 04:15 AMDamn... makes me wish I wasen't a bum and decided to room at home my first semester of college rather than getting a dorm. DAMN YOU!
Seriously though, this is some pretty big news.
Posted by: Shigeru Miyamoto at October 28, 2003 04:52 AMAwsesome news guys. Keep up the good work.:)
Posted by: Arduras at October 28, 2003 12:28 PMThis is some great news! I can't wait until I get a BBA and Kirby so I can join you guys! I have been searching long and hard for someone to trade a BBA and Kirby for some of my other games that I don't play as much. If you know of someone who has this game and a BBA that they don't want, please email me! I am really desperate.
Posted by: Justin at October 28, 2003 05:41 PMBest news ever. Thanks guys for your hard work ;D
Posted by: rifsk at October 28, 2003 10:36 PMJustin, I think A trade might be hard to organize. I'd check the forums for threads on where to get one... nintendo.com is your best bet it seems.
will methods other than a router be included in the final. im connected over a network with the adsl connected to the server.
oh and this is all great news, i so hope you can pull this off on non uni connections.
also is it theoreticaly posible to link differnet regions (im guessing not)
keep up the great work
this is so cool...i have no friends that play gc here so this will be a definite plus for my multiplayer gaming (sister doesnt play gc at all :( )
i have a wifi network connected to an ultra high speed dsl connection. i hope that a wifi optimized version will come out :p...
That is great news! To be able to get 60fps with ANY connection at this early in the project is a good sign. Keep up the awesome work! :D
Posted by: Troopa at October 29, 2003 07:16 AMSUPERCOOL. Agreed, an FPS rate that high, this early in the game, bodes well for the future.
LaterDays
Posted by: Berbs42 at October 29, 2003 09:32 AMChad (and company) you guys rock!
I sure as heck am not smart enough to figure out the stuff you guys are doing, but I'm really glad there's someone out there who does. And you guys are Nintendo fans! That's the best part!
Keep up the good work. I should be getting a BBA soon!
- CubeNES
Posted by: CubeNES at October 29, 2003 11:19 AMNow if only someone would invent a way to play GBA through the internet. It HAS to be easier than a GC warp pipe. I *love* the GBA and playing it online would be awesome!!
Posted by: Rush Montgomery III at October 29, 2003 12:27 PMThis is just great from you guys!
I ask myself, has Nintendo already tried to contact you? Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Matthew at October 29, 2003 01:14 PMwhat the hell is a "dhcp enabled" router? cant i just use a hub? or use my hub and somehow emulate the router on my pc? it doesn't matter, if it doesn't work i'll buy one, just to play online. I LOVE YOU GUYS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Russta Busta Check Me Bad Self SHAMONE! at October 29, 2003 02:16 PMwell done guys! Can't wait to play MKDD online! Its goog to see that there are people out there that know what a ‘real‘ console is when they see one. Gamecube rocks and you guys rock!
Posted by: spike at October 29, 2003 02:46 PMWhen your playing online with the warp-pipe already downloaded, will you (people playing the game) be able to use the keyboard like in PSO???
Posted by: Jamie at October 29, 2003 02:49 PMThis sounds awesome!!
You said that you need to put something on a computer well my question is if you need to have the computer in the same room as the GCN or if my house is networked will still work. pleas email me if u have an answer.
what is a BBA? i'm not aware
Posted by: bobert at October 29, 2003 05:22 PMI was wondering if it works with a 56k dial-up conection and how?
Posted by: David at October 29, 2003 05:42 PMI am just wondering, I am guessing in early 2004 we will have to pay for this. I wonder how much will it cost and will we have to pay monthly?
Posted by: jumpingmario at October 29, 2003 06:37 PMIn the words of Matthew lesko, IT'S FREEEEEE!
Posted by: Shigeru Miyamoto at October 29, 2003 06:52 PMWill this cost money to go online?
Posted by: Luigi at October 29, 2003 07:28 PMNevermind.
Posted by: Luigi at October 29, 2003 07:28 PMAwesome news guys I just hope you have as much success with residential DSL cause thats what I got.
Also do u think it will work with the full 16 players on 8 cubes just wonderin'.
this is the best!!! yet there is one problem. how r we gonna be able to communicate with each other? it will be good if we can get headphones.
Keyboards anyone??? communication needed to play games online duh!
Posted by: Jamie at October 30, 2003 03:41 PMShigeru Miyamoto, thanks for the advice. I just heard that Nintendo is going to bundle Double Dash with the BBAs which is helpful to those that dont have them. Hopefully that is true, it seems like it could be a good idea.
Posted by: Justin at October 31, 2003 10:05 PMWell, I’m personally surprised that the big N isn’t doing something like that. They’ve done it in the past with the rumble pack, GB reader, and expansion pack (Starfox, Pokemon stadium, Donkey Kong 64 – respectively). I haven’t heard anything about a MK:DD . BBA packing deal. It personally sounds like bunk to me, but I hope it’s not…
Posted by: Shigeru Miyamoto at November 1, 2003 07:34 AMYou guys should make it like xbconnect. If you wanna check out what they did go to www.xbconnect.com. I realize that is a lot of hard work but I figured I would tell you. Thanks this should be awesome.
Posted by: Blah at November 3, 2003 05:00 PMthis is really great finally someone is smart enough to make this happen thanks so much guys and this is great on my cat 6 netwotk u guys are the greatest and im not really a new commer i first heard about this from IGN and not Megagames so thanks guys so much i will waste u all in any games
This is pretty ground-breaking, I think. Could someone tell me if a hardware firewall could cause any major issues in connecting to other games? If this project advances I may consider buying a broadband adapter.
Posted by: GeneralFailure at November 3, 2003 06:49 PMI'm intrigued. Would it be possible to place the Warp Pipe alpha software on a PC coverdisc?
Posted by: Cheekos at November 5, 2003 05:49 AMhey chad, i go to IU too! i would really like to check out your setup and ask you a few questions. i don't have my gamecube here but at home. can you please email me at isyed@indiana.edu
Posted by: imamsyed at November 9, 2003 11:40 AMwhats the next nintendo system called ? can you send me image of it?
Posted by: spencer at January 24, 2004 12:06 PMmario kart double dash is awsom!! i almost beat the game
Posted by: spencer Z at January 24, 2004 12:09 PM