Quote from: Led on May 31, 2014, 02:07:23 AM
Hi Mike,
I think you found the information you need to try things out.  The developers are a German group at www.swbf3.de.  A player name Kalle has been helpful.

I think I have it, but I'm not sure. I will try to contact Kalle directly on that site to get some more info, thanks.

Quote from: Led on May 31, 2014, 02:07:23 AMI have to note that we went through this all one year ago with something called OpenSpy, but it never really worked very well for us.  So far, this seems better.

Yea this looks like a similar thing hopefully, but better. Currently OpenSpy is out of date. The last update was May 1st I believe. As of that update, hosting 4-man servers from a Playstation 2 was possible on SWBF1 and 2, but they only functioned properly on SWBF1. I believe they are in need of a new C++ coder for another update. Currently OpenSpy is not properly configured to send the Server List to PS2s or PCs. GameMaster looks like it should effectively do the same thing, but better since they have more active people working on it.

Quote from: Led on May 31, 2014, 02:07:23 AMDo you play PS2 SWBF2?  If so, you may want to contact someone called "PyroJockey" .  He has some experience getting these things figured out, and has an account here you can contact him with.  Tirpider may also be able to help you.

I do indeed play, and I would hate to see GameSpy take the game away from us. I help the PS2 competitive ladder site over at: http://theswbfc.forumotion.com
I've pretty much been playing the game every day for the past 2 months. We squeezed in 1 more season before the 31st. I'm trying to keep everyone over there informed on if we'll be able to play after the shutdown. I just wish I had a testable solution sooner for everyone. I wanted to spread the word before people started to leave the community.

And yes, I know Pyro and I talk to him about this stuff  . We're working on testing this but we've hit a roadblock for now because I'm not certain that I have the right DNS address.

Thank you for all the helpful information. I think you put me on the right track for who to ask.

Quote from: Led on May 28, 2014, 05:27:20 PM
You need to either replace your Battlefront.exe file:

Led, are you one of the developers of GameMaster, and if not are you in close contact with the developers? I ask because this seems like the best work-around option currently and I need to know some more specific information from it.

Currently the PS2 community will have no method to play the game after it shuts down because none of the other work-around options like Tunngle or Gameranger would function because these are separate applications with downloads required. This, on the other hand, seems like a simple modification which changes the .exe and tells it to get the server list from a different address.

If it works like I think it does, then it would also would function on PS2, because we have the capability built in to change what DNS address we connect to. This method was used previously play SWBF1 on OpenSpy, and GameMaster sounds exactly like OpenSpy, but much better.

I just need to know what DNS address I should use to test out GameMaster. Any information would be appreciated.

EDIT: is it 5.230.233.61   ?

Quote from: Anyder on May 26, 2014, 07:50:19 AMThere were three choices: Tunngle, Gameranger and Gamemaster, a Gamespy-alternate masterserver created and hosted by Game-Share. The answer is: Gamemaster.

Thank you for the detailed information on Gamemaster. It sounds like a great workaround that just pretends to be GameSpy once the modifications are in place, and it connects you to a different server list. If this is the case, I need one more piece of information, what would be the DNS address to connect to for Gamemaster? I ask because I am from the PS2 community, and none of the other work-around options like Tunngle or Gameranger would work for us as they are separate applications with downloads required. While we can't do that, we do have the ability to change our DNS address to connect to a different list. This method was used to play SWBF1 on OpenSpy. This seems like a similar method to that. What would be the DNS address to connect to if I wanted to test something like this out?

EIDT: I think I figured it out. It looks like its 5.230.233.61