Double Tap – A Podcast for the Fighting Game Community

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#239: Sora is Here, Heidern Trailer, Patches, Gladiators and Mods Oct 20, 2021

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StaticGorilla and Crashtag are back in a new episode of Double Tap. In the Fighter's Corner, KOF releases the trailer for Heidern and we do a deep dive into the Guilty Gear Strive patch that drastically changes the game. Over night, Smash Ultimate dropped their latest Patch which brought some character changes, including Sora, and Static brings his impressions. In the Randoms of the FGC, a tournament went under the radar, Red Bull Gladiators, which was featured in a special venue with theming including and a PSA for national gaming day in Mexico. In the Focus Attack, we cover what it would take to start an FGC scene in your neighborhood and community. Finally, we check out an impressive Bison mod in UMVC3.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2w7
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#238: News, Patches, Big Brain Marvel, Focus Attack and Merkava Oct 12, 2021

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In this new episode of Double Tap, Crashtag and Staticgorilla are back with some of the latest news in the FGC. In the Fighter's Corner, we check out the latest Developer Backyard for Guilty Gear Strive, regarding upcoming changes. Then, SFV releases breast cancer costumes for charity and Nickelodeon All Stars drops a patch fixing some of the characters issues. In the Randoms of the FGC, Crashtag goes to reddit to see Fighting Game Anniversaries, and UMVC3 Reflex V results are in and Winrich has a big brain moment. For today's Focus Attack, we look at the latest Twitter arguments about the possibility of online replacing offline sessions. Finally, we finish off with a Mod Highlight of Merkava in Project M.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2w0
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#237: Sora revealed, Isla and K for KOF, Melty and Nick Are Here Oct 06, 2021

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StaticGorilla finally found Crashtag and they're are back for another Simple and Clean episode of Double Tap. First, in the fighter's corner we cover the latest King of Fighter's XV trailers revealing Isla and K'Dash and Static also gives us his impressions on the release of Melty Blood: Type Lumina. Then, SFV released another costume from an old beloved Capcom game, Power Stone with Falcon for Ken and we round up some of our impressions of Nickelodeon All Star Brawl on it's release day as well as Avatar characters. Finally, Nintendo announced the final character for Smash Bros Ultimate is none other than Sora, and we dive deep on the announcement. In the randoms of the FGC, Guilty Gear: Strive sountrack has been released on digital platforms and the EVO invitational event has been cancelled.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2vz
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#236: Vlov in Melty, Ruby Heart is Rose, and Cyclops is in UMVC3? Sep 21, 2021

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StaticGorilla and Mezza are back for another episode of Double Tap, with some of trhe latest news and topics in the FGC. In the Fighter's Corner, Melty Blood shows off a new character, Vlov Arkhangel, gameplay and announces that there rollback but no cross play. Then, SFV brings a new Ruby Heart skin for Rose, Power Rangers Battle for the Grid announces 3 new characters, and Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl announce Ren and Stimpy and a new interview gives us a look into what to expect for the game. In the Randoms of the FGC, someone made a Tekken style character select screen for Smash, ArkRevo gets announced excusively for Strive and Rivals of Aether is getting Rollback support. Finally, Cyclops makes it into UMVC3 via a mod, that's very close to the original.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2vh
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#235: Melty Gameplay, Cyber Akuma, Spongebob OP, and an 0-2 cake Sep 14, 2021

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StaticGorilla and Mezza are back for another episode of Doubletap covering the topics in the FGC for this week. In the Fighter's Corner, Melty Blood releases another character trailer for Roa, including new gameplay footage and King Of Fighters posts news back stories about teams. Then we cover patch notes about GranBlue, Street Fighter V shows a Cyber Akuma costume, with more to come at the SF League this week and Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl show us gameplay mechanics and full gameplay. In the Randoms of the FGC, Mezza found an Among Us fighting game, Gogeta is in Xenoverse, Moist Esports exists, Gotenks is in DragonBall Z Kakarot and a Youtube series brings a new idea for content called Name that Rank. Finally we finish up with some things we saw from Riptide event including an 0 and 2 cake and the pop off of pop offs.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2vd
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#234: More Melty Blood, more KOF, Randoms and a Focus Attack on RNG Sep 07, 2021

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Mezza and StaticGorilla are back for another episode of DoubleTap! In the Fighter's Corner, Mely Blood's pre order is live and we get yet another character trailer for Noel. For King Of Fighters XV we get a full trailer for Ash Crimson and registration for the new Tekken Dojo events are live. In the Randoms of the FGC, the move lists for both Spongebob and Patrick are out for Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl, Mezza then covers The Kolosseum Rewind, Intel Scholarships, Pax Arena, GamerHERs awards and FlycastGGPO. Finally, we get into a question and focus attack asking, "Is RNG bad or good for fighting games.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2v6
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#233: Characters, Jack-O patch, April O'neil 3x and Summer Jam! Aug 31, 2021

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Welcome to another episode Double Tap, a podcast dedicated to the FGC. First, in the Fighters Corner, Melty Blood releases a new character trailer for Miyako Arima and SNK showcases their new trailer for King Of Fighters XV. Then, there was an update to GG+R and we go into detail about the patch notes for Strive. In the Randoms of the FGC, CatDog makes his appearance into Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl along side April O'Neil and she shows up in the New Shredder's Revenge game with some familiar Street Fighter moves. Nintendo then stops an event and Punk trash talks after a money match. In the return of the World Warrior, the three of us share our impressions of Summer Jam and Crashtag finds sick mods for Jack-O that confirms this is indeed the week of April O'Neil.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2v5
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#232: KOF Leaks, More freeMVC2, GG Flowchart, and Gamer Fatigue Aug 24, 2021

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Crashtag, Mezza and StaticGorilla are back for another packed episode of Double Tap! In the Fighter's Corner, King of Fighters XV gets a couple of leaks ahead of the convention where there will be a showcase, Baiken is live in Samurai Shodown and we share our impressions and CPT Central America for SFV results are in. In the Randoms of the FGC, Harada and Sakurai talk, in Harada's bar part 2, about life, Mezza shares his interest in Naraka Bladepoint and the free MVC2 movement is gaining more popularity. Then, we look at a Guilty Gear Strive flowchart meme as well as matchup data that a reddit user used to make an accurate tier list and a new 2D fighter is in development. In the Focus attack, we discuss Pattheflips article about sustainable grinding and taking a break. Finally, we enjoy some of our favorite mods of the week.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2uu
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#231: EVO Ends But Brings New Trailers, Patches, Results and More! Aug 17, 2021

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On the latest episode of Double Tap, Crashtag and StaticGorilla check out the latest news in the FGC post EVO online. In the Fighters Corner, Melty Blood reveals a gameplay trailer of Kohaku, KOF reveals a trailer for Antonov, Guilty Gear Strive reveals Jack-O trailer and Samurai Shodown reveals their special guest Baiken. Then, Street Fighter V finally drop Oro and Akira, but also reveal a patch for the game. In the Randoms of the FGC, EVO 2022 is announced, Harada's Bar has Sakurai as a special guest, TNS Chicago was a success and the Pokemon Cup Pokken Tournament DX event concludes. Next in the Focus Attack, we look at the results of EVO, but specifically within Guilty Gear Strive and the thoughts on the online aspect of the game in regards to competition. Finally, Crashtag brings in his favorite mods for this week's highlights.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2up
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc
Gabriel Medina
twitter.com/StaticGorilla

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

#230: Changing Up The Game Aug 10, 2021

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With no games releasing there has been nothing but new updates for the Fighting Game Community. The Double Tap team breaks down all the new updates from the new French Bread trailers for Melty Blood. Dragonball FighterZ becomes a brand new game with so many updates that even Crashtag is surprised with how deep the changes go from mechanics to character changes.
Street Fighter V gets an update to finish off the rounds of the final season to wrap up what just might be the end of Capcoms beloved Street Fighter V series. Guilty Gear developers even toss their hat in the pool as they speak on their future plans and possibilities to really change the game. In the Randoms of the FGC fighting game anniversaries, to a new fighting game review site picking up attraction and to finish off the randoms is #freemvc2 as the community is looking to band together to push for a FightCade accessible version for all to play.

Episode URL: https://mtb.gg/2uk
Show Twitter: twitter.com/doubletapfgc

Hosts:
Andres Mirandes
twitter.com/CrashtagVS
Jeremiah Ward
twitter.com/mezzafgc

Thank you for listening to a Mash Those Buttons podcast! You can keep up with all of our podcasts in the following locations.

Website: mashthosebuttons.com
Twitter: twitter.com/themashnetwork
Discord: mash.gg/discord

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