A reference for netplay, or using the netplay pack.

Here is a Google map of the approximate location of all netplay servers, for your convenience.

If you can't connect to one of these servers or think it might have been shut down, contact me on Discord Yuri Bacon#0423. If you have a server you'd like to add to the list, also contact me.

Holy word salad, Batman!

As of Stable 3.0, the netplay pack now automatically starts recording a replay every time you join netplay, and saves the replay when you leave netplay or close the emulator (just don't close your Command Prompt/terminal window directly! Close the mednafen window). These replays are automatically moved to the replays folder, for easy access to archive and share them online. If you want to watch them, you can double click on Watch Replay. A Command Prompt/terminal window will appear asking you for what version you want to watch a replay from (3.0 or 3.1, then US or JP), then from what day & time / folder name you'd like to watch a replay from. Those replays will then be moved back into the emulator folder, and the game will be opened for you. To watch a replay, press Shift + #, where # is 0-9 at the top of your keyboard (not the number pad) to pick a replay slot. The first time you joined netplay will be in slot 0, and every time after you joined netplay without closing the emulator will be in slot 1, then 2, and so on. If you joined netplay more than 10 times without closing the game, your replay *did* get saved, but mednafen only can select up to the first 10, so you will sadly have to rename some files yourself to access them. Once you have selected a slot, you can then press Shift + F7 to start watching. Sadly, you cannot skip past anything or rewind, and the replay will include time spent on the Character Select, but you can press the ` key to speed up your emulator past these sections.

If you want to do some basic labbing or combo practice, but either can't or don't want to set up the training mode lua script, then here are a few pointers:

• You can remap functions like saving and loading states, emulator speedup, frame step, and other stuff to where ever you would like them, including on the controller. Just press F2, then the default button for what you'd like to remap. You can them remap it like you would for your controller bindings. Pro tip: You can actually press one button, then press another to bind anything to 2 or more buttons! Just repeat the last key you press to finish mapping.
• By default, you can use 0-9 keys at the top of the keyboard to select save state slots, and use F5 to save state, and F7 to load state.
• By default, you can use Alt + A to pause the emulator, and then advance the game one "frame" at a time. "Frame" is in quotes, as mednafen will advance 1/60th of a second (60Hz), when the game runs at a frame rate of 30fps (30Hz), so you will have to press Alt + A twice to advance one frame in the game.
• You can use Alt + Shift + 2 to map the P2 controls to test opponent actions. Mapping to the keyboard is always a good choice if you don't have a second controller.