Pez man - surely you'll have better access to kof online over there...

well I guess there's always sf4

My sparring buddy is from Oz, Pez. I think he's from Melbourne, unfortunately, so I'm not sure if he'll know anything about fighters in Adelaide.

Will ask him anyhow.

There is nothing I enjoy more in street fighter (maybe any) than doing a clutch wake up mp dragon with ken to kill fuertes splash spam. Good times.

Localssss tomorrow woop.

I wish I had the patience to learn Mak. She looks like so much fun. *Sigh*

Last time was about 13 years ago now I think. Got different flights now, one change in Kuala Lumpur instead of two, should take off Saturday at 22:00 and arrive in Oz 08:50 Monday morning. Dat time zone life steal. 10 mins before I'm due to start my first day, natch. I intend to watch every film in the on flight entertainment menu and see how far I last. Watched 5 back to back to make it from Bangkok to London after the Honeymoon. This will be a bit more of an effort! 

Got AE on to my Laptop which I'm taking, it managed to squeeze out an A Rank when I put it through the in game test so that's promising. Just need a good net connection in whatever flat I end up living in and a stick. Then just need to find some folks to play, get dem locals. Shame it has to be AE though. May well have to nick a 360 in March once VSAV drops.

Well I jumped on Ranked last night for 3 games after messing about with Mak in training. Used Rose though obviously. Beat a mediocre Hakan then lost to an Oni. He was solid, but I was on the verge of winning the second bout and evening it all up with a kinky Ultra 2 Orbed up cross up in to a st.mk, cr.mp, spiral (while the orbs were doing their thing to boot). Mid way through this I must have dropped some link or the internet must have smiled at me and given me the finger; but suddenly up came Oni, glowing yellow, full of Dragon Punch. Counter hitting me for good measure and knocking me out. I went straight to replay and stuck his inputs on, the SECOND my first orb hit on the cross up alllll through the 5 hits I successfully landed, his inputs went bat shit. Downs, and forwards and down-forwards and more downs and lp and mp and lp, and mp. Sure enough, got him his win. 97th best Oni on Live to boot. Utter, utter pap. Gone are parries and alpha counters in with the "Hey in a pinch mash dat shit under pressure cos ya never know. Here have 2 bar to make it safe if it doesn't work out".  And that is what I am mostly tired of. That and the fucking endless Option Select, Double Option Select yer safe jump blah blah blah. Game just feels morose now.

I still hold it high in the pantheon of my fav games, but for me Super was it. Yeah it had lots of broken shit, Seth was ridiculous and Cammy too. But fuck man I dunno, I still adored it. AE just put a hole in everything which I haven't really ever come back from. 2012 is nicely balanced but it's the game itself that I'm tired of. Who knows, my Antipodean adventure and the folks down there might rekindle the love, but I doubt it. Still hoping DS4 is fantastic! And that SFV has Alpha Counters!

I only just watched it last week. It was utter gash. 

Hobbit was alright tonight. Overly long though.

Yup, thing is now a days I'd rather play Vampire Savior, MSH, KoF or Tekken instead. SFIV has just ground me down, not bored of Fighters at all, but very weary of this one. But who knows, maybe an excursion down under with nothing else will do the trick. Plus none of these flats I'm looking at appear to mention wifi or any sort of internets so finding a local scene of any sort will have to be on the cards.

Cherry_Pez wrote:

Cheers Tiger, been having a look and there seems to be a tiny scene out there, will do some investigating once I'm settled in.

My buddy just got back to me. He doesn't know of anything out that way...

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I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist haha. Unless it's Tekken... SF4 is limited to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Perth pretty sure. Never heard of any Adelaide players at the last nationals

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Hopefully you can find some guys to play with... it only takes a couple, after all. 

I've been thinking about the JAG. Gonna try and nail a few BnBs and see how it goes for an extended session with him, but I might try a few other characters too. It's nice to be able to use a few different characters to an ok standard, even if just for variety.

EDIT: Grrr, stupid formatting.

Yeah I know his is one of the better ones for it. Still a blight on the game in general that I despise though, hit buttanz through dat pressure, profit. 

Cheers Tiger, yeah I have had a look and it will be bare bones, but so be it! Hopefully meet some sound guys and have a laugh. Work paid accommodation runs out on Christmas Eve... Could be interesting.

One of my sticks imploded, thing just fell into the box and now is crunchy as fook, like.

Need to raid your box of bits (OIOI) but haven't the foggiest how to replace a stick.

Is this the same stick i looked at last time Nick? it seemed that the JLF is fine, i think the mounting plate has separated form the rest of the top plate and is floating inside the stick. not an easy fix unless you have welding capabilities....

ah man you missed the madcatz sale  

not sure if you can get new plates for TE's... regardless someone still needs to open it up and have a look.

i think you need a fix-job before you mod it!

i know art sells plexi replacements (http://www.tek-innovations.com/arthobbies/?loc=products&cat=11&subcat=&item=114) but technically those would be weaker than the metal ones.

see the white part around the JLF in this pic?  



on regular TE's those are metal and welded tot he top plate, and i think yours has become separated from the top.