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Kohaku's Magical Garage / How to reversal backdash like a pro

« on: March 06, 2007, 10:55:22 PM »

This is one of those things that every player should know but I am willing to bet less than five players in America actually know this. Most people know that reversals in MB are very difficult to time correctly. They have the standard one frame window, while not having negative edge and multiple button inputs to make your life easier like in most 2D fighters. However, there is an exception that applies to stick-only commands, of which backdash is probably the most useful in said situtation.

How do you do it? 4[4]. Ya rly, it's that simple. The technical data is as follows: You must be holding 4 as you come out of blockstun, and the previous 4 input must have occurred less than 12 frames before you come out of blockstun. Fulfill these conditions and you will backdash on the reversal frame. Fail and you get punched in the face.

Master this and you will backdash on the reversal frame on wakeup (or coming out of blockstun or whatever) 100% of the time. Use it to piss your friends off.

For anyone that cares, this is the same reason why bara superjumps are so easy to time.

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Kohaku's Magical Garage / Re: What is the button setup on stick?

« on: March 04, 2007, 03:39:19 PM »

O snap!

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Regional Community / Re: NY/NJ/PA/CT/MA

« on: March 04, 2007, 10:47:15 AM »

Apparently a bunch of GG players from NE went up to TGA today and were looking to play MB on the side.

Of course I can not go because it's an all-day event for me to get to TGA and back in the first place. :\

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Regional Community / Re: NY/NJ/PA/CT/MA

« on: March 02, 2007, 09:05:03 AM »

Can't you ever go to TGA? How far is that from Boston?

The comp. up there for fighting games in general is shaky; if you aren't going when you know people are going, you're highly likely to find no one at all.

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Regional Community / Re: NY/NJ/PA/CT/MA

« on: March 01, 2007, 10:40:37 PM »

lol CT Melty Blood never existed.

Fixed.

We all know that if you want comp. you got to travel down to NYC. Which sucks for me, since I live in Boston. -_-;;

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: Site Feedback & Suggestions Thread

« on: March 01, 2007, 10:21:22 AM »

Also hoooooly crap you should install a module that allows users to change the posts per page that they see. Reading forums at 15 pages a post makes me sad.

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Kohaku's Video Room / Re: MWC Tourney Vids ~ 02-18-2007

« on: February 28, 2007, 10:15:55 PM »

1) Your links are broken.

2) Wow orka sucks at life.

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Kohaku's Magical Garage / Re: The Bara Cancel (Bunker Cancel) Thread

« on: February 27, 2007, 01:35:20 PM »

Nanaya's 214B is useful for baras but don't use it in situations where you need a move with invincibility -- it's fairly fast but if you get hit out of it that's SCH/CH2 stun and you'll have a sad Nanaya. Useful for characters that can spam long-range projectiles that are normally +frames on block (R.Arc, Ciel, M-Hisui).

I really don't see why the Japanese don't use Satsuki's 214C out of bara more. It does ~2400 damage which is a very good return on meter used (unless you're looking to land anti-air 623Cs).

Personally, I find bara AD to be my personal limit, and since my execution is the suck I figure a trained Japanese player could do most specials out of blockstun (now doing that on a live opponent is another problem). And I guess bara SJ is the easiest one, just being 214+D78[9] (yes, you can hold 9 and get the SJ).

Technically you can bara into any normal, but only characters with dashes that have no startup and can be canceled on the first frame can do it.

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Tournaments and Events / Tokyo Game Action's Ranking Battle 2-2 (MA, 3/24/2007)

« on: February 25, 2007, 10:40:56 AM »

Address:
"Tokyo Game Action"
5 Summer Dr.
Winchendon, Massachusetts 01475

Date & Time:
Saturday, March 24, 2007

$15 dollar cover
$2 to enter most tournaments (3S is $5)

(next ranbat after this one: Saturday, April 14th)

Melty Blood is part of the lineup here, starting at 7 PM. The tournament is run on ver.B arcade cabinets, whoop whoop.

Other games being run:

Capcom vs SNK 2
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Hyper Street Fighter II: Anniversary Edition
King of Fighters XI or SF Zero 3?
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Marvel vs Capcom 2

Rules:

-DOUBLE ELIMINATION! Best 2 out of 3.
-Winners and Losers Finals will be best 3 out of 5.
-Grand Finals will still be 3/5 (only game like this ).
-You are not obliged to stick with the same character throughout the ENTIRE tournament. You may switch up at anytime except when you win a match. If you lost a match or your about to face a new opponent, you may choose to stick with the same character you've been using or another character.
-If you lose, you can change your team/character. Winner must stick with the same character until he loses.
-There are to be NO GAME FREEZING GLITCHES IN ANY GAME. If you do i'm going to kick your ass! Plain and simple.

Brackets are seeded based on prior performance. The current rankings:

1) Zar
2) FecalPenance
3) Dipstick
4) Master Chibi
t5) Tinshi
t5) Jjuice

Unrakned players (or anyone out of the top 4? 8?) will be randomly seeded.

Directions:

From 95 North, take EXIT 6B towards 495 North.

- From 495 N, take EXIT 29B, then that'll be Rt.2 WEST. (20-30 min drive)

- From Rt. 2 W, take EXIT 24B, then tha'll be Rt.140 NORTH. (10-15 min drive)

- From Rt. 140 N, keep going straight down for about 15 min.

- Eventually you are going to run on a little bridge with a pond on your right, from there take a RIGHT onto Beech Street.

- At the end of Beech St., take a right onto 5 Summer Dr. and you'll see our beloved Tokyo Game Action.

Now for some sadness -- I probably will not be able to make this tournament, and the same is true for a lot of the NYC players.

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Tournaments and Events / The Return of Slammin' Saturday Night at web2zone (NYC, 4/28/2007)

« on: February 25, 2007, 10:29:59 AM »

The odds of DSP posting this here are roughly zero, so I'll do it myself.

The Date: Saturday April 28th
The Time: 12 Noon-Midnight
The Price: $10 cover
The place: web2zone (Internet Cafe & Video Game Center)
54 Cooper Sq (Cafe Area)
New York , NY 10003
212-614-7300

Melty Blood will be there, even though DSP hates the game so much he won't list it in the official list. Never mind that last time this game had a bigger pot than 3S, but whatever. 2/3 rounds, 2/3 games, 3/5 for winners, losers, and grand finals. Games will be recorded and put on the Internets; become an Internet celebrity! Come see Sp00ky and Zar play their 3565643th match in the finals, XAQ throw out maid rush after maid rush, Dippy luckbox more last arcs, Chibi being Chibi, lasers being charged, and who the hell knows what else.

Other tournament games:

-SF3: Third Strike
-CvS2
-Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
-Marvel vs. Capcom 2
-Guilty Gear XX Slash

VF5 and T5:DR will also be there, but I don't know if they're running tournaments for that.

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Akiha's Tea Room / Re: There needs to be a Site Feedback & Suggestions board.

« on: February 25, 2007, 10:14:46 AM »

You should add the more common emotes from Something Awful. I need my .

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Kohaku's Video Room / Footage from Slammin' Saturday Night at web2zone (2/10/2007)

« on: February 23, 2007, 10:05:09 PM »

lol American MB:AC match videos lol

As the title states, from the last NYC MB:AC tournament, held in early February. 18 people played overall.

tinshi vs. RabiteCake (1st round)
FecalPenance vs. Zaeler (1st round) (officially the worst MB:AC match ever played)
FecalPenance vs. Sp00ky (Quarterfinals, winners)
Dipstick vs. Zar (Quarterfinals, winners) (now with 100% more WTF)
Master Chibi vs. XAQshinor (Quarterfinals, winners) (You can't stop the Cole Train, baby... err, maid train.)
XAQshinor vs. Zar (Semifinals, winners) (no really, you can't stop the maid train)
Sp00ky vs. RabiteCake (Semifinals, winners) (All I do here is run forward and press buttons and people just somehow end up dead. -Sp00ky)
Sp00ky vs. XAQshinor (Final, winners)

Master Chibi vs. tinshi (3rd round, losers)
RabiteCake vs. Plural (3rd round, losers)
Dipstick vs. Zaeler (3rd round, losers)
Dipstick vs. Master Chibi (4th round, losers) (It's now 2-1 Chibi for those of you scoring at home. I have no idea what to make of that.)
Plural vs. FecalPenance (4th round, losers)
Master Chibi vs. RabiteCake (Quarterfinals, losers)
Zar vs. FecalPenance (Quarterfinals, losers)
Zar vs. RabiteCake (Semifinals, losers)
XAQshinor vs. Zar (Finals, losers) (lol doublejeporadyaments)

Zar vs. Sp00ky (Grand Finals)

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Kohaku's Magical Garage / Re: The Bara Cancel (Bunker Cancel) Thread

« on: February 23, 2007, 02:59:43 PM »

Advice on practicing bara cancels:

In training mode, pick either V.Sion or Walachia and set them to Attack 1. They will perform their 5C (both of which hit three times, but at different rates), and you should then try to block and bara cancel out of the blockstun. While this is not perfect (as good players will vary their blockstrings and the timing thereof), this will let you learn the timing of the cancel -- how early you can buffer the motion, when you have to hit D, how quickly you have to hit the button after hitting D, etc..

Practice trying to bara cancel each hit of these normals.