Maynes32 Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 New to TSB online play, but not to TSB. The guides on here have been fantastically helpful, but a friend and I have run into an issue we can’t find a solution to, and I was wondering if anyone could help. Years ago, my friend and I would play season after season of TSB - we’d choose 2 (or 4) teams each and play through the season with com skipping the games not involving our teams, as I’m sure tons of us did. The question is: is there a way, currently, to replicate that experience if we can’t play together in-person? We had a couple cute ideas of how to do it, but ran into snags with all: 1. Just set up man vs. man online play and start a season. This, I think, is one piece of functionality from working. As TSB only recognizes controller 1 for Man vs. Com games, it is only possible for one of the two players to play these. Since you can’t load states in online play (or I couldn’t), you can’t play your man vs. com game, both disconnect, reconnect, and have the other player be player 1 for their game by loading state. The inability to load state also runs into the problem of not being able to play a season in one sitting. 2. Playing man vs. com games offline. The problem of not getting to watch the other guy’s offline games can easily be solved by streaming. You could, then, just play your season game vs. com, save state and email to your buddy, who then plays his. The problem now comes to playing the man vs. man games, where you can’t load state. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance, and thanks for keeping Tecmo alive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruddog Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 There isn't currently a way to play your man vs man games as you figured out there is no way to load the save state Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maynes32 Posted October 21, 2019 Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 @bruddog Thanks, that’s what it seemed like. Wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing something obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BO FB Offtackle Left Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 You could play like leagues do, with multiple roms. I guess there would be no MAN vs COM games in that. You just create a league of however many teams you want, with each of you controlling multiple teams, and you play each other throughout a season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob sacamano Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 @Maynes32 couldn't you email the .STA to one another after the completion of each game/week etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff1979 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Being stuck inside, we thought it would be a good idea to do exactly what we used to do as kids, play a Tecmo season with multiple human players and pass the cartridge around to play each game. However, instead of a cartridge, we would have to pass (email, dropbox, whatever) the save file, yes? Anyone have any experience with doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knobbe Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 In theory you could mail around the save state from any emulator. The issue would be that when it was time to play each other I"m not sure this would work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruddog Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 4 hours ago, Knobbe said: In theory you could mail around the save state from any emulator. The issue would be that when it was time to play each other I"m not sure this would work. Correct thats the problem.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buchos Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 A couple buddies and I do this about once a year just to get a season in. We choose 3 or 4 teams that don't play one another to avoid having to set up online to play. I have the a few rooms set up for this somewhere so I could see what teams we used if you wanted to know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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