[XBOX] no system link burnout 3 and nfs underground 2
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eelco




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 14:20    Post subject: [XBOX] no system link burnout 3 and nfs underground 2
hi,

The new upcoming race games don't support system link, like burnout3 and nfs underground 2.
This means no more lan games and tunneling through the internet.
These games do support multiplayer online xbox live (maybe a marketing strategy from microsoft), so is it possible to emulate xbox-live on a pc so i can still host a game with my friends.
Can somebody tell me what more the xbox-live servers do than just pass the data on.I know if this was possible, everybody would already play halo with more then 16 people. But i just was waiting for months on burnout 3 to play in system link........ Sad Sad

thanx for any info and greetings,


eelco

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Evangeliz




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 15:05    Post subject:
Nobody is going to risk to emulate xbox live as you will get microsoft on your tail and that's something you really don't want.

But I guess it should be possible.
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Surray




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 15:17    Post subject:
nothing like that out there, but I suppose it would be possible to emulate it like battle.net is emulated.
you'd need a real xbox live account and then sniff the packets and check everything out which takes ages to do and yeah, as Evangeliz mentioned, if microsoft finds out, and they would find out you're done for. I don't think they'd let anyone do something like that.
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johnblack




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 17:53    Post subject:
you know you could buy the game and play online.
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Surray




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 19:20    Post subject:
johnblack wrote:
you know you could buy the game and play online.


yeah, IF he has a modchip that can be turned off and a locked HDD and all that, and he wants to play with his friends so they'd need a modchip that can be turned off as well and a copy of the game and an xbox live subscription and broadband internet.
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eelco




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 19:39    Post subject:
thanx surray,

We are with 13 people all with an modded xbox and we can turn it off.
We all need then a copy of nfs underground, 40$ dollars each, subscription xbox live times 13......you do the math.
i like bill alot, but not that much.

greetings,

eelco.
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Surray




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 19:55    Post subject:
lol ouch
probably time to switch to another game for lan play then
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iam




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 20:58    Post subject:
It sucks that more and more games do not support System Link...

That was one of the big marketing feature when XBOX was launched.... to be able to play over a LAN.

As said above, I'm sure the reason why its not in the majority of games anymore comes directly from Microsoft... They realised it was possible to play online without their LIVE service.

Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft would insist on developers not to code sys link in their games anymore.

Sad, and sucks... My favorite sports titles from SEGA do not support sys link, they did back in 2003 (2K3 serie).
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HarryB




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PostPosted: Tue, 31st Aug 2004 22:05    Post subject:
Evangeliz wrote:
Nobody is going to risk to emulate xbox live as you will get microsoft on your tail and that's something you really don't want.

But I guess it should be possible.


that uses LAN games... duh
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hahe




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PostPosted: Wed, 1st Sep 2004 01:36    Post subject:
iam wrote:

As said above, I'm sure the reason why its not in the majority of games anymore comes directly from Microsoft... They realised it was possible to play online without their LIVE service.

Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft would insist on developers not to code sys link in their games anymore.


Actually all my LIVE games I have support system link except one (NFL 2k5). Rainbow Six 3, Wolfenstein, and Midtown Madness 3 (Microsoft) support system link. Also most of the system link games out there are from MS. Upcomming Halo 2 is gonna have system link.
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