I'm surprised at how easy it was to set up thanks to you guys making it that easy. VF4FT is a blast.

From the VF Discord: gonna be hosting some VF4 casuals and I want to gauge interest through the times people are able to get on. If you are at all interested in playing with us, fill out the form here. You will need to sign into your Google Account (so that people can’t answer more than once and skew the poll). https://forms.gle/aiSdAam5fAcisqKk9

And yes, FT isn’t the only game with rollback. Vanilla and Evo get it too. Just don’t get a automatically downloaded savestate.

VF4 Final Tuned! Sick!
Thanks for the info.

Awesome news!
So, how is rollback netcode in VF4TF?
Could you compare it with delay based VF5US PS4-PS5 netcode on practice?

flyinghead, the guy who develops Flycast, has made performance optimizations to the emulator which does help Rollback performance.

Delay is worse than this by a large margin. Rollback may not be a end-all solution to the woes of online play, but the ability to set a specific delay helps tremendously with the consistency of a match, something that Delay netcode doesn't often do for you.

From what I've played, you will need two things to ensure great play: A decent PC and a rock-solid internet connection. I fear with how intensive NAOMI 2 can be on lower-end systems that this will shut out a significant portion of players wanting to jump in, however the only API currently available for use with NAOMI 2 emulation is OpenGL which is notorious for not being as kind as DX11 or Vulkan, which are coming soon. After that, the performance is great. Playing on the VF Discord the only times I really noticed slowdown were on more intensive stages and with a certain Griffybones I experienced basically no issues at all. It was like playing offline nearly with a tiny bit of lag (which does suck for VF I'll admit).

In short, it's pretty damn good. American play will get a huge boost from this and cross-continental play is actually bearable.

Could you test the connection in rollback Final tuned with _the same person_ who you play in VF5US on PS4-PS5 for clear direct comparison plz and post your results?

I get a Frozen SEGA logo. Any idea of what I did wrong?

Your files are set up wrong if this happens. This should only appear on Dreamcast games.

Below are thumbnails as to how your file structure should be in the ROMs folder.

This dispells the excuse that "games have to be built with rollback in mind". I'm interested in trying this.

Thanks for that insight. I expect companies to not ve completely forthcoming about the "why" something can or cannot be done.

So glad Flyinghead implemented this, I'm definitely going to try this soon. Wanted to implement some kind of rollback myself. I still wanna look into it for the console versions and other PS2 games!

Yes, It would be very interesting to have more feedbacks and videos testing.

https://twitter.com/Fightcade/status/1530158557496508416
Naomi 2 officially added to Fightcade which means VF4, Evo, and FT are now available with rollback from within the application.

Works pretty well all things considered, but of course it doesn't make cross-country play feasible. I played some matches against Rodney tonight and although it's definitely better than playing US with delay-based netcode against someone on 150 ping, it's not really representative of the game.

Still had fun scrubbing it up. FT is such a better game than VF:FS it's not even funny. Thanks Rod!

While rollback isn't a panacea, I think once the emulation gets better and the stuttering is ironed out, the experience should feel a lot closer to offline play.

Since this game is probably going to get some real play from now on, I don't suppose anybody would care to list combos for characters in the wiki? Getting tiresome to scour the VF4 board. Most of the evo stuff should still work in FT.