Mosey on over to, select your operating system, and download the client. Pretty obvious, yes, but you’ll need to download the newest version of the Fightcade 2 beta client in order to play any of the games. Here’s how to get started with Fightcade 2.
If you never used the original, now’s a great time to test out the platform for yourself. Recently, the creators of the original Fightcade released Fightcade 2, a more user-friendly, streamlined approach to the original client. Obviously, the hope here is that the game is correct more often than not so the games will play out smoothly, rather than have players deal with the jittery lagfest matches we’ve all experienced. If the player doesn’t input what the system predicted, the game “rolls back” to the point of error and plays out with the correct inputs. Rather than slow down the experience, GGPO would predict the player’s next input and runs the game as if they did so. According to its website, Fightcade “is a new online arcade gaming platform heavily based on GGPO.” For you cubs to the fighting game scene, GGPO was an old-school online gaming platform that used a revolutionary (at the time) mechanic called “rollback” to handle lag. For fans of retro fighting games, the best place to play them outside of offline events is on Fightcade.
