Did you change the shortcut to SWBF recently?  I had this problem a few weeks ago.  I had the shortcut going to "LaunchBF.exe", instead of directly to battlefront.exe.  If the problem persists, just reinstall it, and you should be okay.

This doesn't mean bad news necessarily, the quote says they will shift from internal development to licensing outside sources.  The big question is will we ever get a SWBF3, and could we get it faster with this new move?

Has anyone played this game?  I Bought this a like 3 years ago or so, and I remember I played it online once, and then they took the servers offline a week later.

It has a similar style to SWBF, which is why I bought it, but since the company decided to kill the servers while the game was still new, I uninstalled the game and never bothered with it again.  Now that we have tunngle I am going to try it again.

BTW, I never seen any of the Lord of the Rings films, just thought it was an interesting game.

I think the servers are up for PS2 BF1 & II, but I know XBOX 1 servers are down for all games, as I believe all net gaming goes through the xbox network.

Who knows how much longer they will support SWBF at all for PS2.

Hey I came across something today I have never seen.  There is a tunggle-like software for LAN emulation to enable people to play ps2/ps3 xbox/xbox360 games via LAN mode.  The only thing that is absolutely necessary is the game must support LAN play already.

Here are some related links :
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
http://www.ps2onlinegaming.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=31

This guy has made a patch for Halo trial to substitute for the gamespy servers.  Basically it subs another master server in place of the gamespy servers. http://www.freewebs.com/broomish/haloserverlistfix.htm

So this means there may be other options for SWBF in the future.  At the moment, Tunggle is still seems the best option.

My SWBF2 worked fine for a long time, then it started overloading all my cores, until it was choppy and unplayable, even at 800x600.  I have this problem on XP, but have tried Win2000, and even when running the game in a virtual machine.  All temps are good, so it is very strange.

Months after selling my original Xbox1 system and games, I bought an Xbox360 (years ago) when they were fairly new, and mine was dead, so I returned it and got a used PS2, and picked up used copies of SWBF1 & 2 along with NFL 2k series and NCAA 2k3, all to next for nothing.

The only games I really have/had an interest in these new generation consoles are SWBF and Football 2k series, so PS2 was fine for me. 

I think PS3 is a good choice, Bluray, even if it is slower than DVD, holds much more than a single DVD.

Component cable will give you the nice picture, and that is optional and cheap.

Kit Fisto assuming you have an HD TV, plan on buying a component cable so you will enjoy it more.  No matter what, you can most likely play the PS2 on your television with the standard cheap cable that comes with it, you just want the best quality, and for a 10 bucks, thats a no brainer (component cable).

CRT's are old technology, but they have nice pictures.  The old 8 and 16 bit systems look great on CRT's, but lack on LCD's when you hook them up with coaxial and composite cables.  You can get some of the classic systems modded to RGB, and then they look great on LCD's, but this usually requires a small investment.

I believe all HD tv's have component inputs.  You should see 3 RCA jacks, colored red/blue/green, somewhere on it.  In later years even all old fashioned CRT televisions had these. 

The difference in picture is amazing.  For example if you have ever seen a NES or SNES hooked up to an LCD television via regular composite or coaxial cable, it looks sort of faded and dull.  But if you play NES or SNES on an emulator via a computer hooked up to the LCD televison or monitor, it has bright colors and perfect picture.  The component cable will give you nearly the same crisp picture.

Go ahead and link your television if you want, lets see exactly what you are working with.

What kind of TV will u be playing it on?  If you have a old CRT television, standard composite cable is okay (yellow video cable), red and white for audio.  If you have an LCD television, composite cable will make it look faded and washed out.

For an LCD television, the best picture is with a component cable, which has a red, blue, and green cable for (for each basic color), plus audio out.  Component cables probably run from 5 to 10 dollars on ebay, maybe a little more from a store.

Component cable picture is very close to VGA clearness and quality.  I have my PS2 hooked up to my LCD tv with a component cable, and my Dreamcast hooked up to the LCD via the VGA port, and the PS2 picture is nearly as good as the dreamcast, but not quite.

On my old xbox I played mostly SWBF I & II, with a little bit of NFL/NCAA 2k series.  I ended up selling it, and have had a PS2 last few years, and only play the same games once in a while.  Xbox SWBF is better, but it is not bad on PS2. 

It will look better on a CRT television, however everything these days is LCD or Plasma, so I would suggest whatever system you get, invest in a component video cable, you will get the best picture possible with these. 

As far as the gamepad goes, Xbox controls seem a little better than PS2 controls.  I prefer gamepads to mouse control, and I even use a gamepad on the PC SWBF I & II.

The actual frame lock FPS is 30 I believe, so this issue on gameranger is to turn off the frame lock.  Game Ranger is good for many games because you don't have to install vpn software and it works around router-firewalls.

I never played via direct connect before, I looked at it today, and if you host via direct connect, you can only have maximum 4 players.

Is it possible to use direct connect to join a regular SWBF server, if you have the IP address, to play with 12 or 16 players??