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Introducing Fightcade's Rank Decay
Starting in October 2022 we are adding rank decay to Fightcade's ranking system. Decay will only affect players in S, A and B ranks, lower ranks won't have to worry about it.Rank decay will be useful to prevent Camping (get a high rank, then never play ranked again) and Farming (play only versus low level players and avoid games with similar rank or higher), and will help balance the points inflation in the Elo pool, caused by alts and smurf accounts.Players that stay too many days without playing qualifying ranked matches, will have de...
Fightcade v2.1.33
Fightcade v2.1.33 has been released today, it is mostly a bugfix release which adds a few new games on both Flycast and FBNeo, and includes some new functionalities:Account registration is now available inside the app itself, with improved error messages when something fails.Connection between players has been improved for people who had CGNAT issues before, this should fix the "black screen" issue for most connection types and ISPs, unless you are behind a very restrictive NAT router.We also revamped the SOCD cleaner, now available and...
Fightcade v2.1.32
Fightcade v2.1.32 has just been released! 🕹🎮As always, existing installs should auto-update on launch, but if something fails just re-download and re-install over the same location (no settings will be lost).Here is the list of changes on this release:FcadeFBNeo v0.2.97.44-51- New games: captre fatfury3bh ffightaemgc kof2001ru kof96rss kof98bc2nd magdrop3te md_fightveng md_fightvengt md_punisor md_rnrracinh md_sonic3kbrc md_sor2cc md_sor2em md_sor2ffc20 md_sor2tncha md_sor2tnwoa md_sor2tww md_sor2wof1k md_tmnttsorp nes_ducktales2tp nes_ha...
Fightcade v2.1.30
We have recently released 2 new updates, v2.1.29 which came out last Friday (May 27) and v2.1.30 just released, which is mostly a small bugfix release. The new version comes with many game additions and fixes, new search page, better SteamDeck compatibility, a new Hitbox Style SOCD cleaner on Fightcade's FBNeo, new ranked game lobbies, improved training mode (now supports UMK3 too!), support for NAOMI 2 on Flycast-Dojo (yes, Virtual Fighter 4!!) and many more! As always, existing installs should auto-update, but if something fails just re-d...
Fightcade v2.1.26
Fightcade v2.1.26 is out! 🥳Existing installs should auto-update, but if something fails just re-download and re-install.Here is the list of changes in this new release:FcadeFBNeo v0.2.97.44-47 Games added: kof2000otc kof97inv kof99rp2f kof99sr sfa2uhc sfiiibh sfiii2bh sfiii3bh sfz2adl sfz3mix (v0.8) Games fixed: umk3p2 renamed to umk3p and forced 54fps New detectors: sfz3mix New savestates: cleopatr sfz3mix Updated savestates: aof2 Fixed a bug that allowed a spectator to crash a live match (thanks bvoo for the bug report) Training mode: fixe...
Fightcade v2.1.24
Fightcade v2.1.24 is out! 🥳Existing installs should auto-update, but if something fails just re-download and re-install.Here is the list of changes in this new release:Frontend Lobbies with training mode support now have a [TRAINING] button in the top right corner Fix training mode not launching in some supported gamesFcadeFBNeo v0.2.97.44-46 Toggle for enable/disable keypad volume shortcuts (in Options -> Keypad Volume) Added alt+1/9 lua shortcuts back Games fixed: sf2mix v1.2 Games added: cybotsam umk3pb2(replaces umk3pb1) New detectors: k...
Fightcade v2.1.22
Fightcade v2.1.22 is live! 🎉Existing installs should auto-update, but if something fails just re-download and re-install.Here is the massive list of changes coming in this new release:Frontend Added new command: /training to launch peon2 fbneo-training-mode on supported games:aliencha aof aof2 aof3 asurabld asurabus avengrgs breakrev cyberbots dankuga daraku dbz2 dinorex doubledr fatfursp fatfury1 fatfury3 galaxyfg garou gowcaizr gundamex hsf2 jchan2 jojos jojov kabukikl karnovr kf2k5uni kizuna kof2000 kof2001 kof2002 kof2003 kof94 kof95 kof...
Flycast Beta Testing: +150 Games Added
With the recent addition of Flycast emulator to the Fightcade family we have included 16 games which are publicly available, but Flycast supports way more than that.Those with the Hardcore Gamer perk or higher, will see available +150 games for Flycast that you can beta-test, just search for "flycast" in the game list. Those games have not been tested and we don't know if they work or not, some might work perfectly, others might have desync issues.We're still working on the integration of Flycast into Fightcade, trying to resolv...
How Fightcade's Ranking System Works
Fightcade uses a ranking system to rate the player's skill for every ranked game. In this post we try to explain the inner quirks of the ranking system as well as answer some of the Frequently Asked Questions we usually get about ranks.To implement Fightcade's rankings we use the Elo rating system, which is very popular amongst chess players, however we have tweaked the original Elo algorithm a little bit to satisfy Fightcade's singularities. If you are curious about the exact technical implementation details, we have made available...
Private Lobbies have arrived to Fightcade!
We have added Private Lobbies to Fightcade, if you are a Streamer or Tournament Organizer you will find this feature very useful.Private lobbies can only be created by "Premium Fighter" tier Patreons, but anyone can join them. This is an experimental feature, and we're still working on improving some things, but here's a quick walkthrough of how it works now.In the "Search Game" section, you'll see a new button +LOBBY added when you hover the mouse over the available games:When you click on +LOBBY, a new private lobb...
The New Fightcade Website is Here (WIP)
We have rolled out the new Fightcade website today, to start transitioning all users to the new Fightcade. The old Fightcade website is gone and the old Fightcade1 server will be closing soon, so it's time to update Fightcade if you haven't done it already. You can still play old FC1 games from within the new Fightcade via legacy channels.Today's update includes many changes: Server balance and live reloading changes (means less disruptive deploys and hotfixes from now on). Elo/ranked tweaks. Private lobbies, a feature intended for ...
Linux build available for beta-testers
Today we're releasing the beta build of Fightcade2 for Linux for our Patreon beta testers. If you are a Linux user, you can now try Fightcade2 and provide feedback in the comments. The current build should work on most modern Linux distributions, it has been tested on Ubuntu versions 18.04LTS and 20.04 LTS.In order to run the emulator, you will need to have a 32bit Wine installed. For the best compatibility and performance, we recommend using the latest wine-stable from winehq.You can download the Linux installer here: https://web.fightcade...
MacOS X build available for beta-testers
Today we're releasing the beta build of Fightcade2 for OSX for our Patreon beta testers. If you are a Macintosh user, you can now try Fightcade2 and provide feedback in the comments. The current build should work on MacOS versions from 10.13+ up until the latest OSX Catalina. If you are on Catalina, make sure you're updated to 10.15.4+.So far only Final Burn channels are supported on OSX (no NullDC or SNES9x support yet).You can download the OSX installer here: https://web.fightcade.com/download/Fightcade-osx-latest.dmg
Pre-Release update: FBNeo Runahead support!
We have pushed a new auto-update for those trying out the new Fightcade pre-release version. This update includes a lot of improvements in the NullDC integration (more to come) and adds "run ahead" support to our custom version of FBNeo.Runahead is a feature that calculates frames in advance when you do an input, creating a predicted visual representation of the current game state, up to 2 frames, making the emulation as close as possible to real hardware in terms of input latency. This feature is quite CPU intensive and if your compute...
Pre release update
We just deployed a new pre-release version, P2 scores in 3rd Strike are finally fixed :) Emulator version is 0.2.97.44-15, make sure you check version when playing, in case someone hasn't reloaded yet (or autoupdate fails)+ Official NullDC support+ TAB to show/hide overlay+ Toggle to show scores in unranked matches (Video / Fightcade menu)+ Toggle to make overlays bigger, for streamers (Video / Fightcade menu)+ Toggle to save scores/names to filenames realtime, for streamers (Video / Fightcade menu)+ Display input delay in emulator ping (de...
Beta Test the Brand-New Fightcade!
Hello Patrons!It has been a long journey but the new Fightcade update is almost ready now. We want to share with you our final release candidate for the new Fightcade.This version includes many changes, but the one you'll probably like most is that we have updated the main emulator to FBNeo with super improved GGPO netcode optimizations, reworked the rendering engine for both audio and video, and now it runs at true 60fps, with no frameskips and butter smooth!Please beta-test and give us your feedback before we publish the final release, an...
We are alive!
Hello patrons! First, thank you for your continued support on Fightcade, even during our "hold" status. That helped cover some server expenses for a while, but recently we have had time to go over the project again and we are working very hard on the next release, which we think you will really like. This includes a new and refactored emulator (based on FBNeo), with an improved GGPO implementation and a new renderer code... making it better on every aspect compared to the old or current fightcade emulator. But there's much more :)We...
PSA: Fightcade 2 development now on hold.
Due to real life commitments taking more and more of our time, the Fightcade team has decided to put Fightcade 2 development on hold. This means that while the server will be kept on for the time being, there won't be new updates. If this changes in the future we'll let you know. Many thanks to all of you for your support.
New maximum concurrent channels limit
Hello there patrons! Just a quick note to let you know that we have increased the number of maximum concurrent channels to 6 for the "Supporter" tier, and 12 for the "Hardcore Gamer" and up tiers. Enjoy!
Fightcade 2.0.13
Hello patrons! First of all: It's thanks to you that we can cover server expenses at the time being, which is the main reason we opened our Patreon page. If we manage to keep you, our current patrons, we'll be able to break even at the end of the year and keep the server running. So, from the bottom of our hearts - thank you.As a "Hardcore Gamer" (or higher) patron you'll be the first to test our next release, Fightcade 2.0.13. This mainly brings 2 changes:- Fightcade now closes to the tray. This way you can idle in a game c...
