this has become a tradition for me at this point since i’ve graduated high school.
each year, i rent out my local movie theatre and we end up playing co-op games on the big screen.
you can see my posts that i did in the r/SteamDeck reddit that i did with other games like Minecraft, Call of Duty, Halo, and so on.
as i digress, at the end of each movie theatre party, we end it in a big smash bros tournament!
this year i used the Switch 2!
totally unplanned as i didn’t even know the switch 2 was releasing this week and i managed to get a Day 1 model on launch night on wednesday (and the token too! albeit, i stayed outside of bestbuy for hours, was unplanned as i was told that it was releasing so i figured screw it ill buy it hahaha)
so, you might be wondering “how is this done?”
from the projector room, there is a hole inside of the theatre where i squeezed a 100ft hdmi cable from the projector, through the hole, and all the way down to near front of the theatre where i had a TV cart set up.
from there, i had a splitter connected to the switch and outputted to the TV cart and projector so people in the audience can watch on the big screen and the players will play on the cart to not have any input lag.
from the last few years, we’ve always done the smash tournament on the projector which the input lag has kinda always been bad because well, its a projector not a monitor LOL
so, this makes things a lot nicer and keeps it competitive
it was fun and i almost won my own tournament, i was in 2nd place. we did a duos double elimination bracket!
by Visual_Performer1665
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What a fun memory for you and your friends.
How expensive is it to rent out the theatre?
Just curious, is the smash experience / graphics any better or different on switch 2?
An annual tradition has been born! Now that’s a tradition I can get behind
When I was at the US Air Force Academy, we frequently booked a lecture hall with a projector to play various social Nintendo games. Was great fun.
Wait till Nintendo finds out lol
Be careful with Nintendo they enforce strict processes to be able to host events with Nintendo related games, if this ever grows or you collect money from people to make this happen don’t post it online, Nintendo hates fun from time to time
Lemme guess, the battery died after 2 hours? 👀.
Were you able to be close to the console? I find interference and input lag pretty common when a bit far or something is between the controllers and the console for switch1
Living the dream!
Missed opportunity for 8 player smash on the large screen.
Now play fnaf
Really hope Sal Vulcano did good in bracket.
I worked at a movie theater and we would do this whenever we could after closing! I miss it.
How was the input latency?
It’s good to be Rich. I hate you
the one thing im excited about is that maybe Fountain of Dreams becomes a legal stage in tournaments once everyone gets a switch 2. The only reason it isnt right now is because its laggy and sometimes straight up crashes your game lol
That’s really awesome!
Who was playing Sal from impractical jokers lmao
That must have been a fun party
Thats awesome!
Back in college, we used to use a big ole barn painted white on one side and some borrowed projectors back in the early 2000’s for PC and OG Xbox lan parties, along with bigass stereos.
We’d cut power to other lights and it was still dim as hell, blurry and not ideal, but SOO MUCH FUN!
4 projectors going split 4 ways for 16 player on 4 Xboxes, or 9 projectors for PC. Our college let us borrow the projectors on weekends, and my friends’ grandparents let us use power and the barn and bathrooms. Lining up and focusing the projectors semi-properly was always a NIGHTMARE.
Usually PC was all laptops playing AOE2 on portable tables, or other RTS games on our screens, then 9 player on barn for FPS.
We’d camp out, have a fire and sometimes a cookout, drink a bit, play all night, it was AWESOME. All we had to do was clean up and some misc work/maintenance around the farm the next day; the girls almost always stayed to clean up move stuff etc, a lot of the other dudes had ‘excuses’ why they had to book it home 🤨 especially the moocher types who didnt being food/beer or even own a system/game.
I remember once, the 2nd night everybody else left as it was close to graduation and we had just 4 of us playing Halo, Halo 2, Smash Bros, and Goldeneye with one laat projector, the player characters were literally larger than life but my god blurry and dim. Then we decided to all play the Sims or Sims 2 and find new ways to get everyone killed (grandpa and the kids playing with fireworks indoors ftw), and drank until dawn washed out the image.
I havent had times like that in 2 decades now; local big lan stuff seems to have died, all of us moved away, and it seems like almost every game is 1 player per screen and kids dont want to play locally, sadly.
It was magic.
Good for you keeping the spirit alive!
Yall getting too much money