Virtua tennis...can cabinets be linked for 4 players?

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:20 pm

Well, title says it all.

Can I link two Naomi cabinets and get four players? Like I

think PowerStone can do(or not

)

Thanks,

Nicholas

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:22 pm

I'm not sure yet, but this is what I think. Please correct me if I'm wrong this is all just guestimation going here

Virtua Tennis 1 has a Tournament option.

And you can set it to 4 players.

I think what this does is start 2X 1vs1 player tournament on 2 machines.

p1 vs p2

p3 vs p4

If p2 wins from p1 and p3 wins from p4. the final will be p2 vs p3.

No info in the manual whatsoever. :smt006

If there is an actual 4 player double mode on Naomi, I'm getting another uni real soon :smt008

request for stickies or faqs on linking cabinets, multiplayer >2 person games. Even tournament modes.

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:36 pm

Bump!

I want to know too.

The funny thing is that I was wondering the exact same thing and then I saw this thread!

What...nobody ever linked 2 naomi's? lies!

4 player simultaneous on one screen naomi games:

-.........

4 player tournament naomi games (2 players per screen):

-Virtua Tennis (please confirm this)

-........

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:26 am

d wrote:What...nobody ever linked 2 naomi's? lies!

Actually, what needs to be known is that Virtua Tennis is not considered a 'linkable' game. Linkable games actually require extra communication hardware and multiple Naomis to link 2 or more cabinets into network play. Games such as Initial D, Biohazard and Heavy Metal are true linkable games and have additional configuration menus to setup link play. Games like Virtua Fighter, Virtua Tennis and Beach Spikers are not true linkable games. When you see 2 cabinets on these types of games, the video is split between 2 monitors and player 2 controls are wired to the player 1's system; no extra Naomi required.

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:31 am

I would doubt Virtua Tennis 1 supports daisy chained JVS I/O boards need for cabinet linking

I believe cabinet linking was done in G Bios where you can do 2 players on 2 cabinets, by each cabinet having there own JVS I/O.

In competion mode on VT, I'd expect it to be a take turns things on a single cabinet.

HTH

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:44 am

aha! Thanks guys for the info. makes alot of sense!

And also pretty cool! Now I can have a tournament on one machine! joy!

EDIT: actually I dunno what tournament does. you input your name and ony one player can play.......