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the heck why i do this as well...

i remember the first day i found this.
it was mid september. i was at school (professional one for computers) the first half yeatr was so dull and boring, we all had our own computer in the class. we were dozens to be so advanced on others that we started to play LAN siteS during class, until our teacher forbidden us to play sites on the computer and locked our hard drives. but we had a cool teacher, he said we'll play a site together, you break thru my security and i'll update it everytimes ! which meant that he didn't cared if we passed thru his security. he wouldn't get mad at us either.

so myself and some others knew about shockwaves sites and JAVA ones, so we started to look for sites over the net ! i showed some friends a site called FREEARCADES.com or something like that, un believely i found XMEN in the site and on the net searching google.com

i said myself, what the heck is XMEN VS STREET FIGHTER ?
i was playing the site itself by using an emulator, but since i couldn't play it anymore cause of the hard drive security. i said whatr the heck, i'll try it just for fun !

so i clicked the site...
first problem i had, th esite wouldn't install SHOCKWAVE cause of the damn HDD security. so i found an alternate and sent my downloads to my ZIP DRIVE. which made me play. first thing i did once i saw the intro was to create a name for myself. back then i was called Rummy19. but i found it not mush for a fighting fan, so i decided to go with my personnal DBZ char i had made with a friend for a fanfic.

once logged i got to the options and then after configuring i loaded up the TRAINING to see what i could do, i was sure like hell to find a very poor sites like the rest of what was found on the net. poor enough, i found out that i couldn't choose anyone except ryu. he was the only playable char back then. i also found out that the training mode was all about BARNEY the TRAINING DUMMY that do not do #### but stay still in the screen !

after practicing the moves and finding that they were most likely almost not possible cause of key detection problems. i got to the servers and challenged some opponent. the site till now didn't appealed to my eyes. i got owned by everyone i fough. they were all saying GG which i didn't even knew what it was all about. so i asked them ! i was disgusted byt the ####### damn lag we had, i never had a chance to be at my best.

the opponent was disappearing and reappearing the other side, i didn't even had a second for seeing it, alweays teleporting everywhere on the screen ! it was the most horrible lag i had ever seen ! i was so shocked that i didn't kept the address and didn't even wanted to try it home on my 33,6 which i still have !

so i stopped playing for a whole of time, still i was wondering how could that site be so fluid while all other sites made in shockwave were all choppy as hell !

about a month later, it was october 2001. i had played th esite here and then but never really paying attentions to it. playing updates by updates ! i joined the forum to see what it was really, never have had saw a forum before in whole life. it was time to learn about it. i found a big community that was around 300 people big ! it wasn't much and i thought the hell how many times have this thing been online ? never knew it was that new to the world !

and so my FORUM life started, i first read what people wrote, didn't even bothered to answer cause i didn't want to interfere in peoples discussion. but after a week of reading, i finally decided to test out those buttons i had at the bottom of the pages. first topic i wrote was in STRATEGY section. there no CHALLENGE section yet, yet the forum wasn't very popular at all back then. can't remember what TOPIC it was, but they were talking about a certain TARKANX being th ebest around, so i decided to show off what i was made off !

what a fool i was, my objectif was to at least old until the 70 seconds limit ! to my surprise he accepted the challenge and the next day i found him in the chat rooms, so i challenged him and we played. i lost both matches so damn easily that i couldn't even say how good i was. but one thing surprised me to the maximum, lag was a lot less with him then others. because he was playing fair and square with punches and kicks. he was always never shooting hadokens !

some days after the new version came out with wolverine at the top, stargely enough the TOP PLAYERS int he RANKS were all wolvie users back then ! there was so much bugs in wolverine that you could just do berserker barage all day and ryu users couldn't do anything ! that bug was called the CORNER TRAP BUG ! that bug folllowed us for a long time. and there was that X BUTTON SMASHING that HEALS YOUR CHAR bug also ! it was the most horrible charcater ever full of bugs !

but things got better, i was playing a lot back then and i noticed how lag was part of the site and then i found out that the only ay to play was to not see your opponent coming, but throwing moves at random hoping to catch your opponent. then chunli appeared as well... she was the solution to many problems with her tripple jump ! cause many were displeased by ZING JUMP LOCK feature !

then i started to hear about a special thing... a special event, the very first one in XvsSF online history ! NOTS ! or Night Of The SENTINELS. a lot of suggestion came out in our little head, the forum got filled with idea's ! interesting enough what everyone had in mind was the FIRST AI to appear in this site. no more TRAINING DUMMY we were saying ! then boom, it came out, to all our surprises SENTINEL was a... PLAYABLE CHAR !!!!!!!!! he was the fourth one. we all knew that tmyapp was making CYCLOPS but never have we ever considered the new sentinel character ! now we knew why CYCLOPS was so much delayed ! he took almost 6 months to do !

the FIRST DWX came in afterward. it was cool and TMYAPP was saying that if we liked nots then we would veryly enjoyed DWX cause it was like 50x better then nots ! but we never saw it coming out, we had the DWX CHRONICLES and that password encrypted that we had to decrypt, it was cool but not super !

*outside note* i found out later why he used the ROT13 serial number for the sentinel in the message. ROT13 ius the encryption method used by many developper to hide simple codes !

anyway...
the 4player version came out afterward too, actually it camed out with cyclops, or so i believe ! cyclops brought back the story back and the light of the day as well if we had followed the story !

the SOF tournament had started as well...
first tourney i really stepped in, why ? cause the version we were using was the best for me, i could see my opponent coming and th ebuttons were now responding to every key pressed !

it got canned so fast...
i was disappointed...
i was known by then in th eforum, but in site i wa sjust a ghost that happenned to be heard sometimes !

a year later as a gift for the first anniversary of the site, we received a special present, was not big but still. it was to clebrate the first of the site ! can't remember what it is, i would say ONSLAUGHT and the story mode, but i'm not sure exactly. i think onslaught came in with spiderman ! oh well...

the vet tourney came in, and to my surprise i was accepted in it while others that were more known then me weren't invited to. i found out that they were known inthe battle and in the chat rooms but not in the forum which i was there for a long time !

no need to go on, you all know the next things...
UPDATES after UPDATES SPIDERMAN arrival, the arrival of the story mode and the likes.
by then, i was no more of a forum junky !
i needed my fix of the day and every since, each day of my life as had a little 1 hours at the least to give to this site !

for the last two years... i've dedicated about 1 or 2 sometimes 3 hours of each day to this forum.
i made friends.
i made great fights and holded my own at the end.
but the worst of it.
i liked all of it without exception.
that's mainly why i'm still here after almost two years !

that about sum it all up !
except that like many people, i tryed to do a lot to get attention.
mainly a WEB SITE as the fan i was, but there was already 10 of them.
a forum ? wouldn't be good there is already this one and there were now 4 or 5 of them.
a calendar of the events ?
why not... i did it. but none ever used it.
ANIMATED SERIES ! couldn't even do anything story wise, it would have been only fights, senseless fights !
SHOCKWAVE RPG site ? i just started doing SHOCKWAVE so what could have i done for it to be worth it !

i tryed my best...
but never could have i give anything to tmyapp !
except... my PRESENCE which i think he liked a lot.

oh and thinking of it...
there is only one idea that got thru and worked...
the whole ####IE HELP section.
i had given that idea cause new comers were invading the forum with questions like HOW DO YO DO RYU SPECIALS, HOW DO YOU PLAY WITH OTHER CHARS THEN THOSE 4 or 5 ! and the likes. surprising ly enought, every big shot of the forum said it was a good idea and 2 days later the section appeared.

that's all i did in this place, live with it...
it has became a part of my life you know.
its hard to say and i know most people will say its stupid.
but... if this place happens to fall down completely without leaving a simple trace of it.
i would lose a part of my life !

thanks to you TMYAPP, you gave me a way to keep my internet up for a good two years.
thanks to have made get those beautiful memories !
just stay up will you !