The Hamachi gaming Network

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:33 am

Hamachi is a small program that "gives you LAN over the Internet" thus allowing gamers to play old games over the Internet even if they

Have a game that does not support internet multyplayer other than modem calls but does support LAN multyplayer (So just this does not include Serial)
Have a game that for *ahem*obvious reasons*ahem* does not allow Internet play

Using Hamachi is very easy. You just need to download the client, install it and you're 3 clicks away of a multyplayer head-to-head/deatmatch/co-op or whichever suits you best

A list of games that can be played over Hamachi can be found here but I will add some games other than those(since this is about old games)

However, Hamachi has a setback... A network can host 273 users, however they are counted as

16 Free members
256 Premium members
1 Host

When you install Hamachi you have the option to test the Premium account for 30 days. This means that after one month you'll be back to a free user.

However, if I see that this thing catches on... I(or other DGF members)will set up more networks so that people could join and play despite the free account status.

Anybody that wants to join the brand new network... PM me for the network name and password.

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:45 am

3) With a friend we wanted to play a very old game over the Internet, the game is Dungeon Keeper 1. When I go in multiplayer, I have tree choices: Serial Cable, Modem and IPX. I guess that to play that game using the Hamachi Network I created I need to choose IPX. Well when I choose this, the game says that "the initialization of IPX is impossible" Sad. Why? How can I fix it?

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So this is for games that need an IPX Network:
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You need to add IPX protocol to Hamachi connection. Go to Network
Connection folder, right-click on Hamachi, select Properties, select
Install, select Protocol, select Microsoft, select NWLink..., click OK

Then restart Hamachi and try your game setup again. Whether it will
work right away I don't know, every game's different. If it doesn't
you will need to ask here again for exact advice (or try figuring this
out yourself Smile).

Edit: This example assumes you've got the dungeon keeper ipx patch from bullfrog installed, but IPX is needed for a lot of games, so the small guide should be sufficient.

Post by **CPT Worm** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:41 pm

What are some of the games that you want to use Hamachi on?

I took the liberty of making the UG. Larry, I decided to make you group owner, so you have full power of accepting people to the group. It should be private, so only members of the DGF Hamachi Guild (if you want me to change the name on anything, just tell me >_>), as I've called it, will be able to see the board.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:55 pm

PLEASE NOTE, hamachi indeed allows you to play games using there network over the internet... HOWEVER only TCP/IP protocol will work... start hamachi, start game, enjoy like a crazy bum fart on fire.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:07 am

Santa Worm wrote:What are some of the games that you want to use Hamachi on?

Well, besides the ones shown in the Hamachi official forum

I see that the following work:
Atomic Bomberman
Liero Xtreme(I'm in the mood of an ol' fashioned Liero game)
MS Soccer(If you're a sports addict)
Doom Legacy(I know why I was lagging yesterday

)
Starcraft(On UDP I believe, not IPX)--- If any of you dares to deny a SC game... oh...
Blood2

For now these are all that I could think of(despite the fact that Abuse should work). But that's why I said that any help would be apreciated, so if any of you guys has enough spare time to go to The HOTU Multyplay area(preferably from the second page on) we could sort these games out a lot faster.

Santa Worm wrote:I took the liberty of making the UG. Larry, I decided to make you group owner, so you have full power of accepting people to the group. It should be private, so only members of the DGF Hamachi Guild (if you want me to change the name on anything, just tell me >_>), as I've called it, will be able to see the board.

Nah it's good just as is

And Franpa... for some strange reason, the Liero Xtreme and Atomic Bomberman LAN Multyplay works just fine via IPX

abyss · Post by **abyss** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:40 am

That is sweet Is this program virus free. Is it legal and will the program cost me money to use it.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:52 am

It's virus-free, as legal as it gets(otherwise I wouldn't of posted about it here) and it depends. Although there is a Premium account(paid) there is always a free account which you can use for as long as you wish. The good thing is that you can "test" the premium account for one month, free of charge.

So yes, go ahead and try it

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 3:11 am

tcp/ip is the internet protocol... UDP uses tcp/ip... and yea ok some games will work with ipx i guess... depends souly on how the games coded.

Mr.Guimo · Post by **Mr.Guimo** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:48 pm

HAMACHI

THE ONE AND ONLY WHEN YOU WANN'A PLAY THE GREATEST GAME EVER:

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franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:50 am

im after a fellow aussie doom player to play against

anyone up for co-op or death match? youl need a registered copy of doom, doom 2, doom tnt, doom plutonia to play me... and you will need doom legacy 1.42 windows.

the reason for an aussie person is because people too far away lag like crap... and the reason for doom legacy over doom95 is because doom95 lags worse then doom legacy... so anyone out there?

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:37 am

Franpa is right! Doom in general has an awful distance lag! I played with a romanian buddy of mine the day before yesterday and it worked just fine... then I tried joining an internet server... well I'm not gonna try that again, that's for sure!

johngUK · Post by **johngUK** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:55 pm

I don't get it......how do you find the servers??

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:58 pm

johngUK wrote:I don't get it......how do you find the servers??

You don't, you need to join a network with someone who is also going to play that game. Such, it requires planning. And friends.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:04 pm

Gamer_V is right, using Hamachi is just as playing a game over a Local Area Network, despite the fact that you're using the internet!

johngUK · Post by **johngUK** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:07 pm

Gamer_V wrote:You don't, you need to join a network with someone who is also going to play that game. Such, it requires planning. And friends.

Alrighty then. I better go get some.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:13 pm

the main doom legacy server is donw and has been for ages... and the latest public stable version will just sit there saying searching the server when it isnt -.-

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:22 am

Franpa, if you want to play DOOM on a random internet server, I suggest you try Skulltag!

Ok, now onto the new games proven to work over Hamachi list:

Warcraft 2-Tides of Darkness
Red Alert 2
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe(in case I haven't mentioned it before)

abyss · Post by **abyss** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:37 am

I will be using it next week and would like to know if NFS 2 SE or nfs High Stakes would work as i would like to play them against other people but their not on the list of games to work on hamachi.

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:11 am

I don't own the original copys of either(heck! I don't even have HS) so I can't tell you for sure if they will work or not... so, you can't know till you try it

But, I repeat myself, you can't play NFS over Hamachi alone, you need to set up the game with somebody else!

abyss · Post by **abyss** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:13 am

How would i do that.