u/Loomeh — reddlx

Coordinating the fighting game players in Plymouth (UK)

After doing some research and talking to people, I've noticed that there are quite a few fighting game people in Plymouth, but none are coordinated/active. (According to a friend of mine there used to be a pretty active scene in Plymouth about 10 years ago)

So this is my formal attempt to try and coordinate the FGC in Plymouth. Either to start our own local (I already have the necessary equipment to do this, would just need a venue and the people), or to visit a nearby local.

If you're a fighting game player in Plymouth and would be interested in starting a local/group (or just coordinating in some form), please let me know!

If you also know anyone that would be interested, please tell them! Even if we just got a few people, it would be enough to get something started.

(Just for clarity, I'm referring to traditional fighters here (like Tekken 8/Street Fighter 6). There already seems to be a pretty decent scene for Smash Bros./platform fighters here).

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u/Loomeh — 1 day ago

▲ 2 r/fightsticks

Hori RAP V3-SA - How easy is replacing the PCB?

I recently ordered a Hori RAP V3-SA on ebay for £35. I've been looking into replacing the PCB with a Brook Gen 5/ Gen 5X fighting board once it arrives. However, I haven't really done this sort of thing before and I can't find many images of the V3-SA's internals online.

Is it a relatively easy job of cutting the wires and screwing them into the terminals? Do I have to deal with any annoying daughterboards? Do I have to solder anything?

Any tips or info would be appreciated.

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u/Loomeh — 19 days ago

▲ 66 r/mirrorsedge

[Beat Revival] Public test starts today!

Hello, runners!

Today, we're starting a public testing phase for our Mirror's Edge Catalyst private server project "Beat Revival".

Information on how to join the public test is available on our website: https://beatrevival.me

We will be providing support on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/FGftmuRrrG

(We hope this makes a good 10th anniversary present!)

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u/Loomeh — 28 days ago

▲ 87 r/Fighters

I built a cheap DIY Steam Machine/SFF PC for locals and it's great!

Around the start of the year I decided to take a stab at building a PC console and it's been absolutely great for locals.

Inside the case is an ASRock BC-250. It's a crypto mining board that ASRock and AMD produced back in 2021 and it's powered by a cut-down version of the PlayStation 5 APU. You can get them for relatively cheap on AliExpress (although they have been going up in price lately because of they attention they're getting). I managed to get mine for £136.

After buying accessories like the case and the fan, it came out to about £230

It fits nicely in my backpack, gives access to every fighting game in my Steam library (meaning I don't have to rebuy them for console), allows us to run games that aren't on modern consoles via emulators (Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection sets via RPCS3 on this thing have been awesome) and provides a flawless console-like experience with the Steam Big Picture environment (the same one that the Steam Deck uses).

The performance on this thing is also pretty good for the price and form factor. It can run Tekken 8 at 1080p native on high settings and Guilty Gear -Strive- at 1440p native on max settings (all locked at 60FPS of course)

The only pain points are that it took quite a lot of manual configuration and tweaking on the OS side and 2XKO can't run on it because the BC-250 can only run Linux and 2XKO doesn't run on Linux.

For me personally, I consider this to be the ultimate casuals setup :)

Here's the full spec sheet

GPU: Cyan Skillfish RDNA2 GPU@2000MHz OC

CPU: Zen 2 CPU (6 cores@3500MHz)

Memory: 16GB GDDR6 (Unified)

OS: CachyOS (Handheld Mode)

Case: NexGen3D air cooling case

Fan: Arctic P12 Pro

u/Loomeh — 1 month ago