Just because I've been reading the discussion about
the 3,000 point MR2 tourney lately and I think that
a
PS3 tournament would be the easiest thing to
organise imaginable, I was just wondering how many
people play
on PS3? I guess the only downside is that as far as
I'm aware sending saves between PS3 files and
anything
else is impossible. :|

How would you plan on holding/broadcasting the tournament if theoretically it was possible?

Holding would be easy enough, just use a USB
memory stick to transfer the file/s to your
computer and then email them, then reverse the
process at the other side. I'm not certain how
EU/NA would work though, that might not be
possible. Broadcasting would be more of a problem,
I have a camera but you always get those black
lines flickering on a regular recording of a TV, I
could try using a DVD recorder, (no idea if this
is the general name or just what I call it) it's a
definite possibility.

Also, if anyone knows how to drag the box out to
full width on a tablet I'd appreciate it.

Could you get one of your save files onto your PS3 and tell me the file type please?

Sorry, from your PS3 onto your PC and tell me the file type =P

It's a PSV file, no idea if that's unique or not.

Okay I'll send you an email and we can try a few things to see if we can get this working, I have a few ideas.

Keep me posted on how this goes. I haven't played in a while but if there were regular tournies, I would totally change that.

I've got exams until the 28th currently but we'll
be trying out getting regular PS1 saves working
and the recording sometime over the next week
hopefully.

We know for a fact that PAL and NTSC saves are not compatible with each other for MR2, both by testing emailed saves and snail-mailed memory cards. (also, the Japanese NTSC version saves don't work with the North American ones, either.)

The game was re-coded for the EU zone, remember, it's not written for the PSX OS, it's written in machine code, so all of the hardware display differences are hard coded in the game. (MF2 was one of the games that would not play on the original PS2-JP because it wasn't written to run on the PSX-OS)

We will be posting an update this weekend.

To start:

3000 stat total, no other restrictions.

Monsters will have identical guts rate, so choose your desired mains/subs.

Start training!

"will have identical guts rate"

This means that the monsters will be manipulated, and that you're not using anything like real saves at all. You're trying to remake the game into something else. (something easier, with less strategy) We won't endorse such an event.

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I can't really agree with the reasoning behind that, we're simply trying to open up a wider range of
monsters so that people can pick their favourites, as things currently are a zilla will simply lose to a
ghost time and time again and I wouldn't regard "Pick monster with fast guts" as being complex strategy.
The battling's all computer controlled so there's no strategy there either; the only thing this would change
would be that certain monsters with damage efficient techs would be held in more regard, but selecting
these techs and having a monster know few enough undesirable ones to have a decent chance of using it is
something I feel would take more consideration than looking at regen rates.

I also don't understand the comment about not using real saves, the reason I opened this thread in the
first place was that sending files between PS3s would be far simpler than any other means as far as I'm
aware. This would allow me to easily verify that someone had actually raised a monster and then it could
be recreated identically except for a modified guts regen value. I wouldn't restrict the proof to just
this, I think any kind of picture evidence would be good enough for an entry, but that was my initial
idea anyway.

I can understand that the debate about sharking something in is entirely opinion based, between person to
person some may consider a Beaclon with a guts regen of 10 usable whilst another may think it simplifies
the game, but to be honest I think that raising interest for this can't do any harm. I respect that this
isn't your thing but this is why we came up with our own ideas rather than posting them in the
existing 3,000 composite tourney thread. Nothing we've done is outside the rules, and it's even precisely
what Fenrick recommended we do in the other thread, I've accepted host responsibility, and he clearly
stated "You can use the MRM forum and MRM facebook page to advertise and ask for ranchers to compete and
post your rules, competitors, brackets, wins/losses, etc. "

I'm not asking you to like our rules but in short, I don't see what harm letting us advertise here or at
least on the facebook page can do you.