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[RoleTroll]

I never liked KI. But bringing that series back in 3D, ala Mortal Kombat, should have been done years ago.

[johnk_]

I played the #1 MK2 player on Xband a few times, that shit was no fun. He knew what you were going to do before even you did. Xband kicked ass (I can't remember any major lag either. Sometimes you'd get disconnected, but rarely).

just curious, do you remember who it was?

[TobalRox]

I would play it too... but I think I can consider myself a scrub since the only fighting game I put any time into to learning is VF. I like my fighting games to just let me pick up and play, along with my friends (who won't even play VF) and just have fun. This is also why online is nice, because if something like VF could be online, I'd actually have people to play against (but that point has been brought up before).

I never liked KI. But bringing that series back in 3D, ala Mortal Kombat, should have been done years ago.

But it WAS 3D.. ULTRA 64!! hehe.. Seriously though, I think KI2 was nowhere near as popular as the first (at least around here anyway), so a sequel was never worked on. I never played much KI2 outside of Gold for N64 (if that counts) and it just didn't feel the same since it felt like you actually had more control over what you did!

[Rumpy]

just curious, do you remember who it was?

It's been so long, I can't remember. I think he lived in California though. I can remember seeing his avatar and name pop up and that feeling of dread immediatly afterwards. He had like less than a dozen loses and an obsured amount of wins.

How would you communicate on Xband? Was there any way of knowing who you were playing against?

They had xmail which let you type about a paragraph of text. That was out of game and in a different menu. When you wanted to play, xband would go out and look for someone for you to play. If it found someone, it would say connecting and then bring you to a VS screen. Your names were on top, then your avatar and then your quote/taunt under that. From there you would play the game. After the game you would be asked if you wanted to chat with the other person. If both said yes, you were brought to a chat room with just you and the other person. With practice you could type with the controller pretty fast. That's the only communication you had. If no one was found right away, you would wait until another person was looking for a game. Your phone would ring, xband would pick up and then connect you to each other.

Man, I just had some serious xband flashbacks. I can hear the music and see the color changing screen as you waited for a game. And then the rush when it did find someone. Those were the days.

[DirtySouth]

Being that Microsoft now owns Rare, is it possible we could see Killer Instinct on XBLA?

Because online, arcade perfect Killer Instinct would make me want a 360.

If I remember correctly, the KI games made use of a hard drive to display a lot of the CGI effects of the game. A lot of the 3D backgrounds were simply FMV moving in forward and reverse. Unless they re-tool the game (like substantially compressing the game, or maybe keeping the character models and make the CGI effects real-time; I'm sure the XB360 won' t come close to breaking a sweat) the game would end up being several hundred megs, breaking their 64mb limit or course.

[Rumpy]

I thought all the backgrounds were pre rendered images, just like the character models. And if they could make KI Gold for N64 (looked as good as the arcade, near launch no less) there won't be a problem getting it to XBL.

[Geen]

It's been so long, I can't remember. I think he lived in California though. I can remember seeing his avatar and name pop up and that feeling of dread immediatly afterwards. He had like less than a dozen loses and an obsured amount of wins.


They had xmail which let you type about a paragraph of text. That was out of game and in a different menu. When you wanted to play, xband would go out and look for someone for you to play. If it found someone, it would say connecting and then bring you to a VS screen. Your names were on top, then your avatar and then your quote/taunt under that. From there you would play the game. After the game you would be asked if you wanted to chat with the other person. If both said yes, you were brought to a chat room with just you and the other person. With practice you could type with the controller pretty fast. That's the only communication you had. If no one was found right away, you would wait until another person was looking for a game. Your phone would ring, xband would pick up and then connect you to each other.

Man, I just had some serious xband flashbacks. I can hear the music and see the color changing screen as you waited for a game. And then the rush when it did find someone. Those were the days.

Xband was completely awesome. I had the Xband Keyboard too, which was incredible even though no one else had it and most of the time people would just type, slowly, "please stop going so fast."

Ah, memories.
Even though nothing else is quite up to the level that xband was as far as presentation, at least Xbox Live on 360 looks to be getting close and games like Mario Kart are finally online again.

[EvilMog]

so when exactly are these games arriving? Hell, when is Street Fighter suppose to be up?

[Yoshi]

Hell, when is Street Fighter suppose to be up?

This is the only XBLA question that matters.

[tacosmith]

Check out this Xband Fighting Game Top 5 List from back in '96 (ganked from the Wikipedia article on Xband)

http://home.comcast.net/~used_submarine/Xbandscore.jpg

It looks like someone has purchased the Xband.com domain and is in the process of setting up forums for use.

A bunch of former XBers are up on MySpace at the following group:

http://groups.myspace.com/httpwwwseg...ture20Xbandhtm