What do you feel about all these years with Kaillera, like all the online matches with friends, about knowing the developer, and about how it has subsisted even after 20 years? Honestly though, it seems pretty popular around the world. What country do you know that has used Kaillera the most? (if you can answer) Have you ever been able to get in contact with the Kaillera creator again?Ī few times over the years, he’s in a Nullsoft Alumni Discord and we’re friends on Facebook, we’ve hung out in person a few times too. Have you ever used Kaillera in an netgame with more than 2 players? But you know, there are times when peer-to-peer is an advantage and there’s times when its better to have somebody that’s like kind of an half-waypoint between the clients. You know, I haven’t really tried it too much but, I did see on Wikipedia article for Kaillera that, someone bad-mouthed Kaillera in comparison to GGPO, which I think its kinda silly because, (you know) from what I understand, GGPO technology doesn’t really have any advantages over Kaillera.Īnd the reason I say that is, like GGPO, they want us to say “Oh, we use peer-to-peer technology”, or just check out the wiki article for Kaillera, you’ll see what I mean. What are your thoughts on GGPO/Fightcade? Probably Super Sprint from Atari, its an racing game. What is your favorite game that you ever played in Kaillera? I think that in fact there’s a part in Kaillera’s website or the forums where, there was an little “how-to” of using a shell account for hosting a Kaillera server. Oh yeah, I hosted my own, really easy to do. So I had nothing to do but to play Street Fighter, all time.ĭo you know or remember was the first emulator that Kaillera got added to?ĭid you ever host your own Kaillera server or met someone that did? Pretty much since the beginning, I think it was around 2000, got laid off of my job, then just played Kaillera. Since how long have you been part of Kaillera? I was one of them, you also had Kurgan, etaihugi, and other people, but we don’t actually maintain the site, we just were forum moderators, which kind of sucks because if I had access to the BBS I’d have the forum restructurated right now. He’s worked for Nullsoft, the makers of Winamp and, they kinda have this “rockstar” culture from their programmers like most companies don’t really give programmers credit and treat them like janitors, but in Nullsoft they pretty much gave credit to their programmers, and sort of gave them an “rockstar” status. I met the creator of Kaillera years ago because we both lived in San Francisco Bay Area, and so he kinda comes by, and I was a fan of his work. What kind of role you played in the creation of Kaillera? If you didn’t create it, how did you meet the creator?Īlright so, um, I didn’t actually create Kaillera at all. Most of the entire interview was presented here in the way it happened. This interview was made on April 15, 2020. Now, without any further ado, here is the interview! With the amount of time Kaillera has been around since, toqer was able toprovide valuable info about that went down during these first years. He had brought up efforts into reviving the original Kaillera community through creating an Discord channel (as the forums got quite broken), and I was able to contact him though that in order to conduct this interview (which will also take part from an upcoming “The History of Netplay in Emulation” article, with Kaillera being the earliest known middleware developed for this).ĭespite not being the developer itself of Kailera, he was an key member on its beginnings, and was able to recall experiences of him, as well as some of the most popular games on Kaillera, thoughts about the communities, and even about an reason behind Kaillera’s creation. Toqer is an man connected to Kaillera’s existence since its beginnings, being a forum moderator on Kaillera website since the first years and also a close acquaintance to Kaillera’s developer, Christophe Tibault. It was pretty popular for games like Tekken and Mortal Kombat, and even more so on the years from 2001 and on, as it was released quite a while ago (20 years to be exact). Hello everybody! Today I have brought up something interesting: You may have heard about Kaillera, an middleware for online multiplayer developed originally for MAME, spawning an derivated named “MAME32k”, that would later be integrated in many other emulators (either as plugins or as derivated builds), like Nestopia, Snes9k, Gens,Kawaks, Project64k, ePSXe, and even DEMUL (and at one point, Dolphin).
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