THE OFFICIAL MULTIPLAYER TOPIC. SERIOUSLY PLAY SOME GAMES TOGETHER.

Let's Play Some Games.

What is this? This is RMN Multiplayer, where we get together and game. What kind of games?

-Any online console game. Halo, Super Smash, Call of Duty, etc...
-Any online PC game. World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, MMORPGs
-Anything Steam has to offer. Team Fortress 2/Counter Strike are the obvious ones that comes to mind.
-Arcade games on programs such as MAME and Neo Final Burn. Do you play fighting games? Here's what you want.

Here's Some Resources and Links You May Want.

STEAM

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php

What is Steam? Steam is an application that's used to distribute digital media. Neophyte put it best in a previous topic, so I'm going to quote him.

It's a little more than just digital distribution. If you wanted, all of your games could be tied into Steam, as it does allow games that aren't on their list to be added manually through shortcuts. The more popular games have groups you can join, making multiplayer games much better since you're not just playing with random people all the time. You can even schedule those group events, and check a players stats for multiplayer games on it. They also take things from their community and add it into Steam(such as user made mods).

Basically, you can either be a "lite" user of Steam, or more of a "regular" user of Steam. It will get the job done for what you want(buy games, play them), but you can get even deeper into it if you choose to do so.

Basically, if you have any intentions of ever playing most games online and hopping in online games with us, you should get Steam. Best part; it's free!

Also, here's the RMN Steam Group. Feel free to join.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/rmnet

BTW if you're gangster and you're down with Steam and RMN put this in your sig.




MAME and NEO FINAL BURN ALPHA

http://www.mamedev.org/

What is MAME and Neo Final Burn?

From Wikipedia

MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered as "a nice side effect" . The name is an acronym for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

Basically, with the proper ROMS (find 'em yourself) you can play most of the arcade games that's ever been released, and yes, there's online capability as well. So yeah, you can play 2 Player Co-Op mode of the Simpsons with your friend in Hong Kong if you're so inclined.

However, while you can use it for whatever you want, I personally plan to have a lot of fighting gaming come out of it. If there's enough interest, I'll host various Street Fighter, King of Fighter, or whatever you want tournaments. Some may even have prizes, so WATCH OUT.

Neo Final Burn is the exact same thing as MAME but better and more and more people are flocking to it so you might want to get this over MAME.

http://fba.emuunlim.com/


More in next post...

By the way, if I actually get a substantial user base for our Steam group, I'm actually considering purchasing a server for RMN to use. Given that possibly, the turnout would be huge, and RMN would undoubtedly gain great exposure from it as a result.

But I can only do this with more people on my side here, and so far the RMN Steam group only has 6 people, so we need a lot more than that.

Yeah, Steam is so good at promotions and deals they literally give games away at times.

This is what this topic is for.