One thing is for certain, the Neo Geo stick works again! Hurrah! That should mean all third party sticks will work.

As for the Netcode… two connections with friends got worse, while another seemed better than XBL, and we switched hosts and compared on our wired connections with both consoles to check.

Patched psn users can still connect to non patched users which could mean that this patch has nothing to do with netcode.  At the same time, users are reporting improvements. Is it psychological?  It’s certainly brought more players back onto psn…

Can’t confirm anything right now. More testing to come.