New tunneling software for PS2, Xbox and GC

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 22, 2004 8:44 am

"Kai is a flexible piece of (100% free) software, based on portable code, which allows you to play your XBox, Gamecube and Playstation 2 LAN compatible games online.

Based on the tremendously sucessful XLink Messenger concept, Kai is a ground up rewrite of the best gaming tunnel ever created - bringing you awesome new features such as integrated Speex.org codec based group chatting, multi-console support, separated engine / UI logic, high performance distributed Orbital server technology, 'deep' network support, an open UI API specification, dynamic component updates, a super-clean, super-styling UI, and so, so much more. Ignore what anyone else tells you to use - if you aren't using Kai, you're not even in the game."

It claims support for every single network play game for each console, plus dozens of special "rooms" for specific games - this is supposed to be as close to Xbox Live as you can get.

http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:28 am

no thanks, i'll stick with xbox connect for my online Halo needs

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:33 am

Seems interesting.
Especially since I never really used Warp Pipe

If this can actually search for games to play etc... it'll be really sweet.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:37 am

Wow! It even supports Quake 2X

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I wonder if emulators will follow?

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat May 22, 2004 5:39 pm

Does look pretty good. Whens it released ?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 22, 2004 6:59 pm

I don't know my timezones that well, but it should be around about now.

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:02 pm

Thanks Az.

News on the site says they're uploading it now

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:05 pm

When I first heard of these tunneling apps, I was really excited. But when I actually tried out XBC a while ago I realised what having eMule and BitTorrent going constantly does to your upload speed. Bugger

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The OK Pope · Post by **The OK Pope** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:20 pm

This sounds nice, for all you other PS2 Timesplitters 2 owners, we're going to need to get a game going.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:27 pm

I wonder if the PAL/NTSC thing will be an issue for TimeSplitters 2?

perry · Post by **perry** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:47 pm

Unfortunately, there's gonna be some delay with tonights release. We found, to our horror, that not *one* of the external file mirrors we had been given actually works - and there's absolutely no way we can host the binaries off this machine. We're working as fast as possible to resolve this, but at the moment, it's impossible for me to tell you how long it's gonna take. I just thought I'd post this for the benefit of the good people who've been sat here waiting all night - we're really sorry guys, but rest assured that nobody here is gonna sleep until everything is up and running.

Posted by TheDaddy on Saturday 22 May, 2004

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:02 pm

I downloaded it, just waiting for my confirmation email for my account

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Sat May 22, 2004 10:12 pm

Ok i got it working. There's a bunch of people in the Halo NTSC arena saying they can't join any servers whatsoever, and those who do are complaining of major lag that makes the game unplayable. Hopefully they can get this worked out, i like the software so far

az_bont wrote:I wonder if the PAL/NTSC thing will be an issue for TimeSplitters 2?

There's seperate arenas for NTSC and PAL versions of the games. I don't know if its a compatibility thing or just so people play with others in their region, i haven't tried it yet

ShadowofBob · Post by **ShadowofBob** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:04 pm

Sounds cool. I used to use WarpPipe, but stopped using it a while ago. What games on PS2 acutally support LAN games that are over ethernet and not firewire?

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:23 pm

I would imagine the lag would be terrible from the us to europe.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:07 am

ShadowofBob wrote:Sounds cool. I used to use WarpPipe, but stopped using it a while ago. What games on PS2 acutally support LAN games that are over ethernet and not firewire?

There are three, listed on their website:
- Midnight Club 2
- SOCOM II: US Navy Seals
- TimeSplitters 2

Their should be more on their way soon, however.

It pissed me off that Sony removed the regular link port again, even though plenty of great games support it

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MKE · Post by **MKE** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:48 am

Random_Troll wrote:I would imagine the lag would be terrible from the us to europe.

using xbconnect it wasnt bad, actually i didnt notice it. playin in someones room from the uk my highest ping was 72... and lowest was like 24.

i was playin rainbow 6 3, splintercell:PT, and MTX

perry · Post by **perry** » Sun May 23, 2004 11:07 am

I never had any problems playing from UK to US either, as long as there wasn't somebody on a real bad connection..

mkjones · Post by **mkjones** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:40 pm

Yeh, Kai seems like a nice app, I signed up when the Beta was running a few months ago, but becuase my PC is wirelessly connected to my broadband router it wouldnt work

They told me maybe one day the system would work with wireless but for now, dont bother

shame eh..

As for xbconnect, thats no longer free, so why pay?

If you have a wired PC, get this!

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:06 pm

XBConnect is not pay software. You can pay if you want and get a fewnon-essential features, but you can do all the basics with the free version.

XBC doesn't support as many titles, though.